A Teeny Tiny Crochet Heart

I love Pinterest. The other day I was searching hearts and found lots of inspiration. I have a design in my head and was looking for quick little hearts to crochet and I found many. One caught my eye that was perfect, so I gathered my supplies and made about ten of them. While I was making the little hearts another idea popped into my head and so I gathered up some more supplies. I started making them with thread, but they just did not turn out the way I wanted them to, so I tried changing stitches, but no the stitches given did give the right shape, so what could I do to make them better and be what is needed for my project! I thought of the ‘Magic Circle’ and sure enough it worked! A teeny tiny heart smaller than a dime. So many things you could find to put these adorable hearts on. I love them.

These are a little difficult to make because of their size, but the more you make the easier they get and the ‘Magic Circle’ really helps because you can loosen and tighten as needed. I will give one link to the Magic Circle but there are many out there, some call it the Magic Circle or Magic Ring.
Magic Circle
Click on the above link and it will take you to one tutorial
How I did it---------
Size 10 thread
Size 7 hook

Magic Circle 
Into the Magic Circle work-------
1 double crochet
1 treble crochet
1 double crochet
1 slip stitch
1 double crochet
1 treble crochet
1 double crochet
3 single crochet
1 treble crochet
3 single crochet
Join in 1st double crochet with a slip stitch, pull your magic circle string, now grab a needle that the thread will fit through and weave your threads back through the heart. If the top of the heart was not as indented as I would have liked, I ran the thread through the area of the slip stitch and back through the center, pulling tight and then finished off. Some hearts would be just fine. I guess it depends on if that slip stitch is tight or not, so maybe tighten up when making that stitch.

Crochet Headbands

I am making fun and funky headbands. I am going to add beads to the braided pieces that are hanging down to just add a little sparkle. I have always frosted my hair and my roots are a little too long and this is a great way to hide that fact. I took the pic down in scale so you would not see how much gray is mixed in those roots.lol I thought you might enjoy seeing the idea before it became reality.
The color of the ocean has just been amazing and so calm. I have enjoyed it so much this year.
I added this picture to the post so you could see how the studio is stacking up with stuff. See that table in the background it is already a mess and I'm not even finished getting things in order.

Crochet and Embroidery

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We finished up on the leftovers yesterday. I need to really get out of my zone and go shopping. I really am a hermit. I made this sweet little cuff a few days ago. It will be going in the store. It's been a long time since I have done any embroidery work and I must say it was fun. For those of you following the reconstruction, I had a little set back and need to do some seam ripping. I cut up the arms of the sleeves with the intent of inserting another part of a sleeve from another shirt. It was a flop, so I will be working on that today to fix it. I have also started a new blog called My Spirit Cloth Journal

Crochet Edging

I think I have found that something that will give my reconstruction some color and pattern that it so much needs. It is a scarf. Now I just have to figure out how to drape it, so it looks good. I really wish I had a good dress form. The kind you can adjust to your measurements. I was watching the DIY network and on one of the shows they made one by wrapping the person in duck tape and then stuffing the form. I can just hear my husband now as he tries to cut me out of the tape.LOL
Yesterday I decided to do a little crocheting around the collar. There was a part of me that wanted to go with bulky yarn, but the shirt is a gauze type material and I felt it might be too heavy
It seems these days I have a need to crochet. I have a lot of scraps, so a month ago I started cutting out 2 inch squares and stitching around the raw edges and then crocheting an edging around the square. The light weight quilt will be reversible

Freeform Crochet

There is just something about freeform crochet. My grandmother taught me to crochet around the age of seven. I remember it like it was yesterday. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to take a hook and string and the stitches would make a fabric. I would sit for hours playing with the yarn. My dolls were all dressed with my creations. I did not care that some stitches were lose and some too tight. I thought is was beautiful and Barbie never looked better. "LOL"


The basket in the background is getting a freeform makeover.