TINY ROSETTE TEA LIGHT HOLDERS
Navratri is a
festival of nine nights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navratri when we ladies get a chance to show off our
craft and decorative skills, have friends and family come home and enjoy some
different foods. This is closely
followed by Diwali, our festival of lights https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali.
During both these festivals, we decorate our
homes with lights. In the old days, we
used mud lamps – now with the advent of tea lights and candles, these are the
simpler, easier, and cleaner lamps that we use.
Do note though that fire is always a hazard, no
matter what container it is used in. So
do take a look at the LED and battery operated flameless tea light holders for
a further security measure – light without fear. J
If you’ve been following my blogs, you’ll know that I’ve already made a whole range of tea light holders, adapting several different patterns.
Materials used : Indian Polyester silk metallic yarn with a 4 mm crochet hook.
For Non-Indians : Polyester
silk metallic yarn is available only in India.
It is a 4-ply / sport thickness.
You can use any yarn with a suitable hook to make this project
Difficulty level : Intermediate
to advanced skill level
Stitches used : (Using U.S terminology)
Magic circle : To refresh your skill, please view
this easy video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLuSVyKvoUg
Chainless dc start : Instead
of the usual start with ch 2 or ch 3,I’d like to introduce a lovely way of
starting a double crochet row. Do take a
look at this self explanatory super video
In case you are unhappy with this start, or do
not like it, do continue with the usual ch-2 or ch-3 start. However, all instructions will be given
assuming that you are using this chainless dc start.
Instructions :
This is a pretty straight forward pattern and
I’ve used the pattern from
If you are just going to make this tiny little
rosette, then you just go on ahead to the pattern sheet now.
If however, you want to adapt it to make a tea
light candle holder, then here are some ideas.
a) Decide
what kind of tea light you want to use and check out the diameter of the tea
light.
b) We
start with a magic circle and the base of our little holder, and work till we
get a round base that we’re happy with… i.e the size of the tea light candle
holder we’re going to put inside.
c) Ensure
that the round we’re making here is a little larger than the tea light, to
prevent the flame from jumping out and creating a fire hazard.
Now before this before we jump into the pattern,
here are some other uses for this little pattern.
The first *obvious* one would be to use it as a
rosette and a button / embellishment for a cap or dress
If you are use cotton yarn, it can probably be a
really cute coaster.
Finally, you could use it for a floating
candle. If so, that first circle will
need to be the diameter of the glass that you will float the candle in.
This is a pretty straight forward pattern. There is a photo tutorial on the blog.
Like I said before, we start with a magic circle
and the base of our little holder, and work till we get a round base that we’re
happy with… i.e the size of the tea light candle holder we’re going to put inside.
So what I did was start with a magic circle and
8 dc in it.
In the 1st round, I worked 2 dc per
dc, and had a final count of 16 dc that 2nd round
For my next round, I worked a sc in each st all
around, once again ending with a stitch count of 16 sts.
I then followed the photo tutorial and worked
the ch-sps and the three rounds of flower petals.
The reason for breaking that first magic circle
round (designer has only one round of 16 dc), was to give a little base
diameter, where I can pop in my tea light holder.. Smart huh? J
In some of my earlier tea light holders, I
actually created a small little basket in the centre to hold the tea light –
but here I felt that I loved the way the first round of petals would curl up
around my tea light candle / protector and so have decided to work the way I
have.
Yes, fire hazard.. but you did read the top of
this blog – just use a LED battery operated tea light candle J
Easy enough, right? So let’s armed with all
these ideas – go on off to that blog and make your beautiful creation.
I’ve totally enjoyed my play with flowers and
their conversion into little tea light holders.
With Diwali just a day away, this is my last blog in this series.. for
now J
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