10 PATTERN GIVE AWAY - Knot Sew Cute Design

10 Pattern Give Away

After joining Google+ I´ve found so many new profiles and blogs to follow, and one of them is CrochetAddictUK. Yesterday I saw this post, Giveaway - Knot Sew Cute Design - 10 Pattern Giveaway, and I just had to participate, because I just love the patterns and Knot Sew Cute Design´s style. One of the ways to entry was to share the giveaway on your blog, and that wasn´t hard to do at all, because these patterns deserves to be shared all over the place.

So go to CrochetAddictUK to give your entry and check out more of Knot Sew Cute Design`s patterns on Etsy.

I hope I win! (One can dream) :-P

Have a wonderful day!

xoxo,
Hege :)
www.HELdesign.com

ON MY HOOK WEDNESDAY - Week 1

Don´t you just love this color combo?

I just discovered the phenomenon called Link Parties a few days ago. Up until then I hadn´t even heard about it, but after a little research I must say I´m really excited.

Through the link parties you get the chance to share your own work with other bloggers, and you get to discover and find new bloggers of your own. A win-win situation!So I´m going to try to have a regular post each Wednesday called On My Hook Wednesday, where I post about my last week´s projects, and I´m going to link it up to Wednesday Link Parties. Who knows, maybe it´ll turn into my own link party one day where others can join :)

 The past week I´ve worked on several projects. I started with a black and white chevron pillow, but I put that on hold because I think I might change the colors.


Then I joined a Mini-CAL (Crochet-A-Long) on a group called Crochet Along on Google+, which resulted in this crochet headband. Click on the link if you want to see more photos.

The crochet headband was a little side project from the afghan I´m working on. I want a new afghan for my couch, and I found this nice pattern from Yarnspirations that I really liked. I love the colors and can´t wait for it to be done. 

So this is what was on my hook the last week. What have you been up to? :)

On My Hook Wednesday is linking up to these link parties:

 

WIP Wednesday´s with Tami´s Amis

xoxo,
Hege :) 
www.HELdesign.com

CROCHET HEADBAND - Crochet-A-Long (CAL) on Google+

Last night I made a crochet headband after being invited to a Crochet-A-Long (CAL). The other day I joined a group called Crochet Along on Google+ and this is where I got the invitation. I thought it would be a nice little project on the side, I could use a little break from my crochet afghan that I´m working on right now, so I found some leftover yarn and dived right in.

I didn´t make my crochet headband exactly like the headband in the CAL, I wanted it to look a little different. I also made another flower, a smaller one than the one they used in the CAL. I wrote down the pattern as I crocheted, and I will post it here on my blog next week. I´d like to do it earlier than that, but I´m going away for the weekend and I have a lot to do before that, so unfortunately there is no time. But early next week I´ll transcribe my notes (luckily I took some step-by-step photos of the process last night) and then you can make your own headband if you´d like. Or you can just go right ahead and make the one in the CAL :)

Here are some more photos, I will take better photos of the finished crochet headband when I post the pattern.

Crochet-A-Long´s are fun! I recently joined another one as well, I´ll tell you more about that some other time.

Have a great day!

xoxo,

Hege :) 

www.HELdesign.com

WORKING ON MY CROCHET BLOG

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! I´m sitting here working on my crochet blog before I have to go to work. I´m trying to organize my blogging a little bit by making a schedule for blog posts, write down ideas and so on. I´m going to do my best in order to post on a regular basis, and in order to do so it doesn´t hurt to plan ahead.

I joined a group on Google+ the other day, called Crochet Along on Google+, and one of this month´s CAL´s (Crochet A Long´s) was a cute headband. I will crochet the headband this afternoon, and make a post about it tonight. Hope you´ll stop by later to check it out :)
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Edit: Life got in the way, so I didn´t get the chance to finish the CAL Headband this evening after all, which means I´ll have to postpone the post until further notice.
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Time for work!

xoxo,
Hege :) 
www.HELdesign.com

WIP - CROCHET DRESS

A couple of years ago I started on a personal project, a crochet dress for my self. The plan was to use it in a wedding, but I constantly changed my mind about how I wanted it to look like, that´s an ongoing problem when you make your own designs, and I didn´t want to finish it just to finish it, since I´d spent so much time on it allready. I knew that if I rushed it to get it done for the wedding, I might end up regretting the choices I made. So I ended up using another dress that I made several years ago instead, and put this dress on hold.

And that´s where it has been since that, on hold. :-P

I´ve crocheted more than 100 different parts, but I´m not sure how many I´m going to use. So far the upper part is allmost done, I have sewed the bodice from an old top/dress that I never used, and then I crocheted on top of the sewn piece. It´s the skirt that I can´t decide on, I´m going back and forth between slim and flowy, or something in between. And I´m not sure if I´m going to fill the entire skirt with crochet, or just parts of it. Hopefully I´ll decide eventually :-P

More than 100 different pieces. Some are made from diagrams I found on the internet and some are from my imagination.

I would love some feedback on the skirt though. What do you think would look the best, flowy or a slim skirt?

xoxo,
Hege :) 
www.HELdesign.com

CROCHET GIRLS DRESS

I made this crochet girls dress a few years ago when a good friend of mine got her first daughter. I prefer to make my own designs, but now and then it´s fun to try out other people´s patterns too, especially when they look like this.

I ordered the pattern book from the US several years ago, if you want to check it out it´s called "Dresses to Crochet for Dolly and Me" by Delsie Rhoades.  

Here are some more photos, sorry about the quality, they were taken a long time ago with a bad cell phone camera.

Have a great weekend!

xoxo,
Hege :) 
www.HELdesign.com 

CROCHET BABY BLANKET - Purple & Gray

I designed this crochet baby blanket for some close friends of the family, when they had their first baby girl.
I didn´t want it to be too "girlish", so I chose purple and gray colors instead of pink.

I hope you like it!

xoxo,
Hege :) 
www.HELdesign.com