Crochet bracelet - with a tutorial

I found this great tutorial from Karen klarbæks verden's blog, to make super cute crochet bracelets - it's just in danish so I'm not sure I got it all right (moreover that I'm no crochet expert)...but there were plenty of pictures to illustrate each steps

My humble attempt to translate both the danish to english and the crochet to nkitkat's crochet style..

- 39 chain stitches (=row 1)
- starting from second stitch from the hook, single crochet a row (= row 2)
- turn around by doing 3-4 single crochet in the space between row 1 and 2
- single crochet all along row 1
- at the end : 5 chain stitches to do the loop, then slip stitch to attach it to the bracelet.

Take another color, single crochet all around the bracelet, at the loop: single crochet taking the whole stitch so as to cover the chain stitches , do as many as necessary to completely cover the loop.
Then sew a button and you're done.

Any comments/changes are most welcomed ! :-)

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Edit pour Nat et les francophones en visite sur ce site (^-^)

39 mailles chainettes (mc) = rang 1
En commencant par la 2eme maille a partir du crochet, crocheter en maille simples (ms) = rang 2
A la fin du rang tourner le travail et faire 3-4 ms dans l'espace enre le 1er et le 2eme rang.
Puis crocheter en ms tout le rang 1.
5 mc, ce qui va creer la bride pour le bouton et la rattacher au bracelet par une maille coulee.

Choisir une autre couleur et crocheter tout autour du bracelet en ms
Crocheter la bride de sorte que les ms recouvrent toute la bride (cf. photo du tutoriel - la bride est consideree comme une maille et donc cela revient a crocheter 7-8 ms sur la meme maille)

Et finalement coudre un bouton pour la fermeture (^-^)

PS: J'ai appris le crochet a l'aide du site de Passion-crochet

Fimo buttons

Bobito painting

In the series I'm stuck at home with a sick child , I wanted to try the baby painting thing seen on Loraandlayton's youtubechannel, here is the vid and here is the result!

Soap bubbles

My son has been sick for the last week... so I was in desperate need of new activities to entertain him: I found this great webpage (from Bubbleblowers.com) referencing homemade soap bubble recipes, I chose this one that worked quite well:

"Stir together 6 parts water, 2 parts Joy dishwashing liquid (this brand works the best), and 3/4 part corn syrup. Store in a covered container"

Operation Påskeglad 2010

Wow, I just found today a danish "swap" related to Easter (¨^-^)
...exciting times...

To find out more about it click on the image

Hanging fabric hearts

I saw this very nice craft idea in the crafts beautiful magazine of this month - and in this issue there were more projects involving fabrics and sewing than scrappbooking.

I reproduced the hearts with a simpler pattern and added a button

Swap Fashion Victim part 2

Swap: fashion victim

Je viens d'apprendre que Mel a recu son paquet donc voila ce qui est parti chez elle

Un vetement customise avec un grand noeud bleu



Cote cosmeto: une creme pour proteger les ongles, un masque et des petites "?" pour les fards a paupieres



Accessoires: une echarpe bleu/turquoise et un collier



Des bidouilles: du tissu, un ruban, de la peinture acrylique et des petites perles turquoises

Swap Fashion victim part 1

Swap Fashion Victimes

Je viens de recevoir ce weekend mon colis pour le swap, merci beaucoup lillilalibellule !

C'etait son premier swap et c'est tres reussi, voila ce qu'il contenait:

Un vetement customise



Des accessoires: le sac qui va avec, un collier, des boucles d'oreilles et un chale tres fin avec des perles suspendues aux extremites, j'adore le style!






Cosmeto: un gel douche fait maison, je me rejouis de l'essayer

Et pour finir, pleins de bidouilles, un doudou pour mon fils (tres gentille attention, merci!) et du chocolat... je ne le repeterais jamais assez j'adooooore le chocolat






Un grand merci a toi lili la libellule, c'etait un tres joli swap :-)

Fastelavnstreats

Fastelavnskostume til baby

Here in Denmark, there is a carnival called "Fastelavn", it's lots of fun and all the children wear costumes on that occasion.

For my little baby I took the idea of thredbanger's last video: Monster hoodie project

and applied it to a handmade cape according to the following instructions from a doll artist named runo

Cape instructions

the measurements are for a 80 cm tall baby

Rawrrr!

My Babybag

Coming back to work but feeling like I still had to carry tons of things for baby... I needed a huge bag like the Elodie bag I used during my maternity leave but at the same time, it had to look a bit pro and not to mama like... so I copied the pattern of the Elodie detail bag on a black fabric:

as I didn't know how the bag was originally sewed together, I just sewed the ends at the shoulder and covered it with a white and black piece of fabric

Now the nice thing about this bag, is that my purse (a furla) fits very nicely, without drowning in the bag

A little pocket is handy to keep a little bottle of milk to soothe a tired baby when I have to pick him up from the daycare....

And worn, it looks like this

moreover it hangs on nicely to our umbrella stroller and as the bag and it's weight hang quite low, it doesn't imbalance the stroller

Doorhandle Protector no 2

Back to work, back to the dangerous world of bactery-sharing and having lost my old doorhandleprotector :-(

I made a new one enhanced with a closing feature: a button and an elastic to keep the bacterias trapped

Happy New Year - Bonne Année 2010 - Godt Nytår !

This is a very nice Christmas present we received from the person who takes care of our son: a little piece of art with his hand print.
Thank you very much!