Tapestry pillow cover - completed

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I successfully completed the tapestry pillow cover that was started last October to use up some of the yarns that I won't be using for anything else. I can't believe it took me only 3 months, I thought I started it ages ago. I used this chart from pinterest. Now I'm on the lookout for another pattern for my next tapestry project. 

I'm working on the edging of a baby blanket that I had abandoned for other projects. Hopefully this will be ready next week.

Mustard flowers from my balcony. Growing mustard plants in pots is my son's idea of gardening right from the time he was a small kid. 

Have a lovely week! 

Frilly striped pillow cover - free stitch pattern

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Finally I managed to make a tutorial for the frilly stitch pattern. You can use this pattern to make a pillow cover as I did, or a beautiful lacy afghan or a bag or whatever you fancy. I made a cover for a pillow measuring 14 x 14 inches using sport weight yarn and size E/3.50 mm hook.

Instruction

The pattern is written using American terms.
The pattern is worked top down.

Abbreviations:

ch - chain  

sc - single crochet (UK -double crochet)

dc - double crochet (UK - treble)
tr- treble crochet (UK - double treble)

st - stitch

To make a cover for a pillow measuring 14 x 14 inches use sport weight yarns of various colours and size E/3.50 mm hook. 

Start with making 80 chains. If you are making something else using the stitch pattern you will need to make chains in multiples of 13 and add 2 more chains to it. So it's multiples of 13+2. 

Row 1: For the pillow cover using colour A I made ch 80, sc in 2nd ch from hook, ch 3, skip 3 ch, sc in next ch, ch 5, skip 4 ch, sc in next ch, **[ch 3, skip 3 ch, sc in next ch] 2 times, ch 5, skip 4 ch, sc in next ch** Repeat from ** to ** 4 more times, ch 3, skip 3 ch and sc in last ch. Turn. 

Row 2: Ch 4, dc in same st, ch 1, skip the next ch-3 space, and **(2-dc cluster, picot, ch 1) 5 times in next ch-5 space, skip next ch-3 space, (dc, ch 1, dc - called V) in next sc, ch 1** Repeat from ** to ** across finishing the row with V worked in the last sc. Turn.

Note: 

• 2-dc cluster is dc 2 stitches worked together in same space.
• To make a picot, ch 3 and sc in dc cluster worked prior to ch 3, this will form a loop at the top of the cluster.

Row 3: Ch 4, dc in same st, ch 2, **dc in ch-1 space next to the 1st cluster, ch 5, dc in the ch-1 space before the 5th cluster, ch 2, V in next V, ch 2** Repeat from ** to ** across finishing with V worked in last V. Turn.

Row 4: Ch 4, dc in same st, ch 1, **(2-dc cluster, picot, ch 1) 5 times in next ch-5 space, ch 1, V in next V, ch 1** Repeat from ** to ** across finishing with a V worked into last V.

You will be changing to new colour at the end of row 4. For that, pull the new colour through the loop, tighten the loop and start working with the new colour. 

Row 5: Repeat row 3 using new colour.

Repeat rows 4 and 3 until you reach the desired length and finish with row 4. Change colour after every 4 rows.

You are not going to make a separate piece for the back part of the pillow cover, instead you will make one long piece, fold it into half and sew the sides. The back part consists of just treble stitches. Three rows of treble were equal to 4 rows of frilly pattern at the front. 

So when you have reached the length of pillow stop working the frilly pattern. Stop at row 4 repeat and continue the next row in the same colour that you are working with currently. My last colour was brown, so I continued with brown.

Row 1 (back): Ch 4 (counts as 1st treble), 3 tr in next space, **tr in next dc, 4 tr in next ch-5 space, tr in next dc, 2 tr in next ch-2 space, tr in next dc, tr in ch-1 space, tr in dc, 2 tr in next ch-2 space** Repeat from ** to ** across finishing with 3 tr worked into the last space and 1 tr in the turning ch of previous row (79 sts)

Row 2: Ch 4 (counts as 1st tr), tr in each tr across. Turn (79 sts).

Repeat row 2 changing colours after every 3 rows but this time you will be reversing the order of colours used in the front part. 

Weave in all the ends and fold it into half. Bring the wrong side out and sew/crochet the sides together. If you do not want the stitches to be visible through the sides of the lacy pillow use threads/yarns of similar colours which means you will have to change your thread colour every 4 rows. Sew buttons.

Please do let me know if there are any corrections to be made. 

Have a nice day! 

Frilly striped pillow cover

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A new pillow cover using scrap yarns. This will be a free pattern and I'll share the tutorial in another post.

A remade pillow cover

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Do you remember my rose tablecloth? I made it long time back. I think it was my first serious yarn project. I never actually used it. All these years it was safe in storage (except for the occasion when I took it out to photograph it) and I had almost forgotten about its existence. It is such a lovely piece of work and I wanted to display it. So I decided to remake it into pillow covers.

For the front I used the rose squares and for the back I used plain squares.

I used some matching pink buttons for closure and I am extremely happy with the results. I have a few more squares left, should think about something.

I had a couple of requests from my readers. There was a request to teach the basics of cross stitching from Jess. Though it is easy to do I don't consider myself good enough. So, Jess, click this link here to learn the basics of cross stitching.

Another was from Emily asking for the vibrant 3 pillow cover pattern.  It is the same granny ripple pattern, only the ripples are softer.

 In the tutorial I had made 3 sets of dc clusters between each peak and valley but for the pillow I made only 2 sets so that the ripples are not very deep. By decreasing or increasing the number of dc cluster sets between each peak and valley you can make the ripples soft or deep. I guess that helped.

This table rose is from my balcony garden. I am not always lucky with plants, especially flowering plants. Whatever few plants that we have are mostly nonflowering ones. I had planted this one a few months back and all these days there was not even a single bloom. Everyday I used to go to the balcony to see if there was any flower. There always seemed to be lots of buds but dunno why, they never bloomed. I got so frustrated after waiting so many days for a single bloom that I even thought of throwing it out. Then all of a sudden, without any warning, came this bright pink beauty and it really took my breath away. I am happy at least I will have one flowering plant to look at and enjoy everyday. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 

Vibrant Cushion 3

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Here is my third and final of the vibrant cushions. I used ripples for this. This one has more of multiple colours. This was not what I had planned. Like the other ones in the series I wanted to use one third of multiple colours and two thirds blue for this but half way through I realized that I did not have enough blue. If I wanted to buy more blue then I would have to buy in large quantities because that is how the place from where I usually buy yarns sell. They don't sell small quantities. As I didn't want to stock up on this dark shade of blue I decided to make use whatever little amount that I had. So I had to use more of other colours.

Of all the three this was the most difficult one for me. Doing the ripples was not a big deal but deciding the length was. Initially it appeared as though my work was larger than the size of the pillow. So I started all over again. Then I thought I was doing it right but again when half of the pillow was done I realized that it had become smaller than the size of the pillow. Oh no! I had to start all over again. I think it was because of the variation in the thickness of the yarns. The blue one was very thick but the coloured ones were slighter thinner. Finally I started again with smaller ripples and somehow managed to achieve the correct size. Phew! Of all the three this is my least favourite.

Have a look at all the three together.

Vibrant Cushion 2

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Here is my second cushion cover. As I said I used the same color sequence but did a granny square. You can click here to view my first one. 

 

I am extremely satisfied with how both the pillows have turned out.

Any guess what my third is going to be?

Vibrant Cushion 1

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The granny stripes that I showed you earlier has taken the form of a beautiful, bright-coloured pillow cover. I initially started to make a cover for another stool but then changed it to a pillow cover. I needed this cover very much because the set of three cushions that were without cover were starting to get dirty with my son throwing them all around the house. So the cushions were a priority and the stool could wait.

Instead of making the whole cover multicolored I chose to use multiple colous for one-third of the pillow and use a single colour for the rest of it. This gives an ethnic look to the pillow.

I have two more pillows from this set. I don't want all the three to look similar but at the same time I don't want them to look entirely different. So I am using the same color combinations for those two but going to change the pattern.

I have started working on my next pillow cover and hope to finish it soon.

Have a nice weekend.

Awesome flower pillow

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Awesome isn't it? I love this pillow. Four squares were sufficient for this 14" square pillow. For the few inches that were lacking I did four rows of granny stitches.

For the back I used a beige colored cloth and stitched buttons for closure.

You can click here for my previous post on flower square for the pattern.

Have a nice day.

Granny cushion cover

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The granny squares are done and joined together to form this beautiful throw pillow cover. Now this is my second pillow cover and I have got five more pillows to cover up and who knows, may be I will be buying more (pillows) or even making one or two. I want a round one so that I can make a round granny cover.

I crocheted only the front. For the back I used by husband's discarded white shirt.

You can click here to view my earlier post about the granny squares.

Have a nice weekend.

Flower square pillow cover

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It has been a while since my last post. I was forced to take this short break from blogland because of a problem in my computer. For over 10 days now I was totally unaware of what was going on in other blogs. So there is a lot of catching up to do. Also because of this computer problem I had to be off my regular job (I work from home) which gave me plenty of time to do other things. I finished a few things I had started and also have started a few more things.

One of them is this pillow cover. As I had mentioned earlier, when I started this I was not at all pleased with the way the squares turned out. I was not pleased with the choice of colors especially, but just carried on hoping that it would look better when joined. As I hoped the pillow cover has turned out very well. I absolutely love it now.

You can see that even my teddy feels so.

You can click here to view my earlier post regarding this.

Embroidered Cushion Covers

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These cushions were made from recycled material. I had some cotton stuffing left over from a stuffed toy that I made long ago. I had enough to make three pillows. I made the covers out of old dress material and did the embroidery.