Make your own Crocodile Stitch Flower Brooch! Plus a second Alpaca Shawl and tiny Flowers

Hello and welcome back at the beginning of 2015!!!!

Nice to see you visiting!

Thank you for your many good wishes and lovely comments which I value very much! It thrills me to see both loyal supporters and unexpected new faces leaving their messages!

The New Year has truly begun! I'm looking forward to sharing many more exciting projects with you all. As always, I am interested what you think, or if you got valuable suggestions to make.

So, without further ado, I want to tell you about a new pattern I came across (via Pinterest) only this morning! I liked it that much that I had to try it out immediately!


Make your own Crocodile Stitch Flower Brooch (or Applique)

You will find the link here - full instructions given.

Ta-Dah for 2015: My finished Crocodile Stitch Flower Brooch

These are my explanations so you can visualize how to proceed:

The pattern is worked in the round. There are only 3 steps/rounds:

First you make a chain which is closed into a loop.

Then you add 7 loops around the original (middle) loop which look like empty flower petals.

At the last round you 'fill in' each petal until all 7 are finished.

Once you made one, you will realize how easy this can be! I had fun, so I carried on making a few.

My first two flowers

Finished Crocodile Stitch Flower Appliques made with Bamboo yarn, Cotton and Acrylic

Finally you need to sew up the 2 ends. If you want, add a Vintage button that gives it some charm!

Now it is ready to be used as an applique, you could sew it to your bag or jumper, for example. You could even attach it to a Granny Square and call it a Doily or a Potholder!!!!

If you prefer, you can sew a brooch pin to the back. Voila! Your very own Crocodile Stitch Flower Brooch is ready!!!!

Crocodile Stitch Flower Brooch made with Fenna yarn

Please let me know if you have made one of these flowers, maybe even post about it, so that we all can see it on your blog/s.


Another Alpaca Triangle Shawl? you ask

On another note, my second oldest daughter has flown back to England yesterday and I let her have the Soft Black Triangle Alpaca Shawl because she was so cold!!! We went on a New Years Day walk around our village to the riverside (Schelde River) and back again. Here are the 2 landmarks of our village:

The Church in Schelle 01.01.15

The Wind Turbines in Schelle near the River Schelde 01.01.15

I was flattered that she wanted it, but at the same time I realized that not only would I miss my daughter, but also my Shawl (I only finished it in Mid December and had been wearing it daily!)

Luckily I got my Alpaca Cape (see my previous post) which is doing a great job keeping me warm! (After all it is made from the same Drops Alpaca Boucle yarn which I used for the Shawl).

But, I felt the need to cast on stitches yet again and so I began another Shawl last night! Unfortunately I only got one ball of wool left which is giving me a start, but I need to wait until my wool shop will get another delivery, I went there today and couldn't get any of the Black colour!!!!

Crochet WIP - Tiny Forget Me Not Flowers

Yesterday I crocheted a bunch of really tiny flowers with the wonderful Mille Colori Baby Wool by Lang (100% Merino). This is another of my favourite yarns, the colour combinations are amazing!!!

Mille Colori Baby - Crochet Forget Me Not Flowers

Closer look at the tiny flowers

Please feel free to leave me your comments, I love reading them! Thank you! :)

I made 2 more Flowers this afternoon - love these colours!!!