Yesterday my CraftKitchen project for the month of June came online. It’s a real fun recycle project with an old pair of jeans, and I’ll happily share a full Follow-up Friday post with you on it (plus the tutorial in English) next Friday.
In case you can’t wait – and don’t mind using Google Translate, since all CK-tutorials are in Dutch – you’re more than welcome of course to have a go at it already via this link on the CraftKitchen site.
I don’t know about you, but the busier my schedule, the more I seem to be right on top of things.
Believe it or not: I’ve already finished my CraftKitchen project for the month of August. No recycling this time: this one is all about……Tunisian Crochet!
My only tunisian crochet so far, was this cushion cover, made a couple of years ago.
Seeing more and more beautiful Tunisian Crochet pop up – for instance from the queen of Tunisian Crochet, the very talented Michelle/Poppy&Bliss – I felt like giving it another try.
To be honest with you: things did not go as smoothly as I had wanted/anticipated, grrr. For some reason I had the hardest time getting my stitch count right, and a lot (a lot!!) of frogging took place. Family members began to ask me why I was pulling things out ……AGAIN!!
Anyway, I’m not the kind of person to give up easily: I did get things straightened out eventually, and – sorry for the tease, can’t show yet – the August project’s looking rather lovely …..
The tunisian crochet-shenanigans did leave me with an extra piece of tunisian crochet, the size of a cushion cover….. It has some little mistakes, and was about to go on the reject-pile, but all of a sudden I thought: how about covering these little mishaps up with some cross stitch??
A rose pattern (what else 😉 was found quickly (link here), and I set to work.
It turned out to be the perfect weekend project to finish the cross stitch part (an old love …), and to crochet a fun border. Envelope style cushion cover was sewn in a jiffy (no matching zipper in the house, too impatient to wait), after which I hand stitched the crochet part on to that, and: ta-dah! One new and cute cushion cover that will perfectly fit in “Tuin11”-‘s decor – very happy me!
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Marianne xx
Wat is het kussen prachtig geworden!
Dankjewel, lieverd! Ben er ook blij mee! Marianne xx
En ik was nog even vergeten te zeggen hoe gaaf ik je tas vind! X
Dat vind ik echt heel tof om te horen, dankjewel! Marianne xx
Wauw, wat mooi! 🙂
Lieve-groetjes,
Verie
Dank! Heel lief van jou! Marianne xx
Heel gaaf, goed bedacht!
Dankjewel!! Marianne xx
Sweet Marianne you are too kind. Thank you for the lovely mention. I love your cushion cover – it’s absolutely beautiful xx
Thank you for the “Tunisian Rose” cushion-love, Michelle! I honestly feel like this about your marvellous work, always such an inspiration! Marianne xx
wat een prachtig kussen!!! zoooo mooi!!!
Ah…..dánkjewel, zo lief! Marianne xx