As promised

Well, finally I've chosen to post both options (thanks to my crocheter friends) of the pattern of the vase I showed you last week.

Actually they differ in two rows so I will write the whole pattern and then explain why I altered the last two rows.

For the lazy hands, here is the edited post.

Today’s been a short post, or not.

Catch you next Sunday!

Inspiration- edited

You never know when or where you're going to find your inspiration. It may be a common object that's been around your house for ages, a pattern in a wall, an element of nature, a painting, architecture, maths, the possibilities are endless.

One thing I'm pretty sure of is that all of us- crocheters/knitters- have had Oh I can crochet/knit this moments.

T-shirt yarn clutch pattern for Mother's Day

As I told you here, last year we had several workshops with Little Romulan and his classmates using t-shirt yarn.

This year I'd like to teach them how to crochet useful things keeping it as simple as possible. We're going to use chains and single crochet- I hope they haven't forgotten how to make them- to work a clutch for Mother's Day. What a nice little present, don’t you think?

I think the pattern is easy enough for them to understand and follow.

So let's go:

Recycling T-Shirts- edited 15/07/14

T-shirt yarn handbag, almost finished.

I've always tried to recycle as much as I can. About three years ago t-shirt yarn and other related projects cached my eye immediately.

I plunged into the web and began to search frantically for howto's and ideas. 

Commercial bobins are ok (the ones that I'm currently using for crocheting the bag you can see in the pic, haha!) but I was trying to show Mrs. Soft Kitty and Little Romulan what can be done with the old clothes, especially with the old t-shirts: