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Colourful Crochet

By Lin Newcombe

You do not have to be an expert at crochet to

make these cards and any card blanks or thread

can be used.

Start by hunting out any interesting type of

yarn – it may be standard crochet cotton in a

variety of colours, a lovely textured bobbly wool,

brightly coloured embroidery cotton or ribbon,

or even some shiny parcel ribbon. You will also

need a crochet hook, the size depends on the

wool or threads you are using and is not particu-

larly important.

An assortment of beads, sequins etc. and

some P.V.A. craft adhesive would be useful. Use

watercolour paints and coloured or metallic pens

to decorate the cards. Make the backgrounds

from papers such as, corrugated, mulberry or

metallic crepe paper or even from shiny fabric.

Crochet up a random shape, it can be totally

abstract using chains and single and double

stitches. All the better if the design has gaps or

holes, these can have either a bead or sequin

placed into them after mounting. Beads can be

threaded onto the wool as you go so they become

part of the design and why not add a plait in

matching wool to complement the design.

Green Card:

Crochet a random shape using multi coloured

cotton, fasten off by pulling the end through a

couple of stitches along the back of the work and

cut the ends. Look at the shape you have made

and decide which way up it would best suit the

card mount. Cut three 15cm lengths of multi

cotton for the plaits and fold in half. Choose a

gap between stitches at the lower edge of the

work and bring the crochet hook through, hook

the folded threads by the centre and pull the

loop (but not the ends) through, tuck the ends

into the loop and pull them to tighten the knot.

Divide the six threads into two groups of three

to make two plaits. Make each plait approx. 3cm

long and knot the end, trim the loose ends to

2cm beneath the knot.

For the background, choose mulberry paper

in colours that look good with the threads. Tear

the inner paper to roughly the shape of the

crochet, and the outer paper to a larger size. The

shape need not be too similar allowing varying

amounts of it to show beneath the top layer. Glue

both pieces of mulberry onto the card mount and

the crochet onto them. I have added a large gem

to the centre of the work and two flower gems at

the edges of the paper with a gold glittery line

around to finish.

Blue Card:

Cut the corrugated paper with shaped scissors

and mount it onto the card. Using small lines,

roughly outline the deckled edge with blue

watercolour and a fine paintbrush or a fine

tipped blue pen.

The design is freehand crochet in cream cot-

ton with star beads incorporated while working.

Fasten off and cut the ends. Cut approx. eighteen

15cm lengths of cream and blue thread, lay them

all together and fold in half. Bring the crochet

hook through the gap between any two stitches

round the edge of the circle, hook all the loose

threads by the centre where folded (you may

need a rather large crochet hook for this), pull the

loop (but not the ends) through the hole. Tuck

the ends into the loop and pull them to form a

knot. Trim the ends of the tassel to length and

mount onto the corrugated panel, arrange the

tassel ends to make a pleasing shape.

Yellow Card:

Crocheted in short lengths of bright warm

colours. The brown beads were added as I

crocheted, the gem was added after mounting.

The background is computer generated, but you

could use any suitable paper mounted onto the

card. Make a short plait from lengths of the same

threads and knot the end. Trim both ends of the

plait to equal lengths. Mount the work onto the

card and add some gold star sequins or stickers

to finish.

Purple Card:

I used silver fabric for this but metallic crepe

paper would look very similar. Mount the silver

background into the card and glue the card

closed. Crochet a random shape in two colours of

ribbon, fastening off and cutting the ends. Mount

this onto the card and add a bow made from one

of the colours. Decorate the background with a

few sequin doves.

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We hope you enjoy this free project. You may hand make copies of this project,

to give away or sell, as many times as you like. You may not use the pattern,

project, text or pictures for any other purpose nor make the project using

any automated process.

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