Fall inspired dream catcher

I did this project  for daycare where I work. Children helped me with gathering materials and in the process.
Materials:

Leaves coated with glue

1. elastic tree branches
2. jute rope
3. white glue
4. water
5. bruches
6. paint (acrylic or other) 
7. leaves
8. pine tree cones
9. string

1. We coated leaves with white glue that I mixed with water. This way leaves will be more resistant to breaking and it will be glossy and smooth.

2. We painted pine cones in different colors.7

3. I made tree wreath from branches.

4. Than we tied cones and leaves on string and than tied it on wreath.

5. I the end I wraped jute rope around the wreath.

6. I also added crocheted heart in the middle. I used jute rope as yarn. I attached heart with string.

Here is very simple white and pink crochet newborn blanket. The blanket has filled edges and edging with bobble stitch.The tutorial for filling edges is on this link here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KXVwGuV97U&t=16s

Chevron blanket

Chevron blanket with filled corners and bordure

Newborn crochet blanket

My lovely tiny Totoro crochet.

The only advice with this one is to look up basics of embroidery technique in order to do those Vs in the front.

Totoro Crochet

Totoro crochet

Giant Old Books

Giant Old Book Stage Prop

I spent hours and hours scrolling down on Pinterest to find ideas for school day prop. I came up with this idea: giant books. I found some good examples, I called my father, got some boxes and went into adventure. I must say that this project is rather demanding. It took me 15 hours of work to finish my two lovely books. The whole project is improvised, so I used different material on my books. 

I hope that this post can help you to have courage to make prop on your own, and you should know one thing: it WILL get messy. 

So here are some materials and tools that I used:

acrylic paint

hot glue (gun needed)

paper

cardboard

Styrofoam board

brushes

pencil

faux leather

cardboard box 

sandpaper

Here is my first book.

It is made from sturdy paper box. The nice slope that you can see is made by gluing sculpted  Styrofoam board with sandpaper on the longer  side on the  box, and than I covered it with cardboar that presents book covers. 

I glued regular paper sheets between covers and painted it with normal acrylic paint and I used also acrylic colored pencils to draw pages. It does not have to be  perfect. And finally I painted the covers with red acrylic paint. 

Here it is before I drew pages.

Giant Book Prop

Freshly painted book

Freshly painted

I even made candle out of Pringles container, I glued paper on it, painted it and put some hot glue on it. 

Big Book Stage Prop with Candle

For second book I used faux leather for covers. I glued it on the cardboard panels. Here is the result.

Big Boo

Since my brother in law is big fan of Nintendo games. He  asked me to make him a beanie with Link from The Legend from Zelda. He made a drawing with pixels. I think that pixels are easier to create with Tunisian crochet technique. It came out pretty neat, but only downside is that this technique uses a lot of yarn and it makes very thick surface. The hat came out to be very warm.  I did not have special hook, so I glued two regular crochet hooks to  create one long hook. I used tape to do this. I recommend using one bigger, and one smaller hook, so that yarn can slide easily.
Since It was the first time I used Tunisian crochet, I did a patch with the picture separately from the body of the beanie. Later on, sewed the patch and the hat.

Pixel art Tunisian crochet beanie

Black double crochet shrug

I have finally decided to crochet a shrug. Since it is already spring time I did not want it to be two warm. I used double crochet and for the lace effect I skipped every fifth loop. I didnt have any pattern so it is very random. I crocheted only in back loops. Very important thing about this shrug is that you have to iron it with steam to achieve flatness and lace look.The size of the yarn is 5, and that is the size of my hook. It is in millimeters. The shrug is pretty long but it can be converted to look short by folding the upper part.

When I finished the main form I did crocheted borders of the shrug with single crochet twice.

Black lace crochet shrug

Here is my newest baby blanket. It is done in single crochet but I added these cute waves and puff stitch around it. The tutorial for  waves can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeHMk75z50&t=539s
I also made a basket with the rest of the yarn. The bottom part of the basket is really thick because I doubled my yarn that is meant for the five size hook.
Size of the blanket is 100 x100 cm.

Mint baby blanket and basket

Nature inspired baby blanket

Mint Color Baby Blanket