Last week someone reminded me, I had planed to make some little doodads for Christmas. And guess what? I HAD forgotten! I was so busy with other things, that I don´t even remembered. But time flies and I needed the doodads. So the sewing machine had to run and the crochet hook had to fly! But I made it at least!
I had the idea with the Christmas-trees, when I saw some tree-shaped cookies. I made a simple pattern from cardboard and began to sew. I made lots of gift-bags for cookies and other small gifts, gift-tags and tree decoration from vintage and new fabrics and crocheted also a few collars and shawls.
The design for the little pineapple-collar isn´t mine. It belongs to Mayumi Kawai. You can find it in the book “Dentelles elegantes au crochet”. (Elegant crochet lace) Sadly, there is no english version. Only french and japanese, but the pictures and instructions are very good, so you can get along without foreign language competence.
And some of the projects in this book are so pretty, I will enjoy myself reworking them!
I had the idea to make a long version of the small collar and create a real scarf. You can see on the picture, what appeared…
Now I´m better prepared for Christmas and my rag-box is not overfull anymore.