EASY
n CUTE RAKHI - 2
Raksha
bandhan is a festival celebrated in India to symbolize love among
siblings. The rakhi is a small tie that
the sister ties around her brother’s wrist.
I
made my first simple rakhi with a floral motif yesterday. Today let’s see what we can do with this
lovely motif.
Read
all about this lovely festival at https://www.fnp.com/article/raksha-bandhan
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Materials used : Today I’ve used some of our lovely
Indian kankri / kamal kadai yarn / polyester silk embroidery floss with a 2.5 mm crochet hook
This yarn is not specific for this pattern. Use any yarn with a suitable hook to make today's creation.
General yarn info : Today’s yarn is (probably) available
only in India, but it’s a regular knitting cotton. The finer the yarn, the thinner each petal,
and the cuter the end result – so go ahead and use any yarn with a suitable
hook to make this project to any size.
Abbreviations used :
sc : single crochet dc : Double crochet
ch : chain ch-sp : chain space
sp : space rep : Repeat
trc : Treble / triple crochet
dtrc : Double triple crochet
Stitches used :
Starting slip knot : Here’s how you start with a slip knot. https://youtu.be/lJcqsVcs8cw
Starting slip knot 1 or the Sloppy Slip knot : This is a neat new way to start your work without a slip knot. https://youtu.be/YfC7KmGpifs
Instructions using U.S terminology
Please note that I start all my rows with a ch 1, turning chain for ease.
Please check the top of this blog for easy video tutorials on all stitches used in today's pattern. For your convenience there video tutorials through the blog too
Please read through all my notes before you pick up your hook, so you know just where we're heading in our pattern.
In my patterns I work with the principle of stitch count and body measurement.
This means that you need to work the stitch count in pattern, till you get the measurement (length and/or width) that you need for your project.
For
this rakhi I have decided to work on a small heart.
There
are so many heart patterns and I’ve made a whole set of them too for the Peyton
hearts project. Today however, I’ve used
this pattern http://myrosevalley.blogspot.com/2013/04/sweet-heart-crochet-pattern.html
Do
note that this pattern uses U.K terminology so when it reads trc it
means dc in U.S terminology.
You
do not need to make this into a rakhi or a tie of any sort – you could just
make this cute heart and then attach it to a pin that can go onto your baby
girl dress or onto a headband as a cute extra.
As
I wanted to make two sets of hearts one on top of the other, I chose to work
one with ‘smaller’ stitches. I used
contrasting colours to show the two hearts off.
I
made my smaller red heart using hdc instead of dc and the gold heart with dc as
instructed. I then attached them using a small pearl bead to hold the centres
of the two motifs together.
For the ties :
Foundation Single Crochet : fsc : To refresh your skill on the fsc, please view this video https://youtu.be/mcT85fwh4mA
Double Crochet : dc : yo, insert hk into st ; yo (3 lps on hk);
[yo, draw through 2 lps] twice. One dc made.
Check out the video at https://youtu.be/xdnjB27zpYo
Chainless start for Double Crochet : I dislike the ch-2 / ch – 3 start, and this is what I do to start my row of dc.
Check out the video at https://youtu.be/wskv3iTjRx0
What is a chain stitch ? Here is an easy video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXx5ukBjKkY
I
re-attached my yarn to the bottom of my flower and worked a length of fsc chain
(about 50 fsc) per side.
At the end of
it, I made a small shell pattern.
So
once you reach the end, work (ch 3, 7 dc, ch 3 and sl-st into that last hdc).
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Neatly glue in your ends as well.
If
you can’t do the fsc, then just work about 50 chain, work the shell pattern at
the end, and then turn around and work a sc in each of the chain back to the
centre flower.
Work
a tie for the other side similarly.
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