Christmas Decoration: Crochet Hearts

At times it feels good to make beautiful things, that are easy and quick to make. You can crotchet a heart like this in a couple of hours.

First, you just need a a piece of wire you can bend into the shape of a heart.

Then you take some left-over tricot and you crotchet a round of single crotchet ("kiinteä silmukka", not sure if the translation is correct, sorry if not).

Once the heart is covered, switch to a thin yarn and make a round of single crotchet (three loops in one tricot loop).

On the second round, make three chains and fix your chains with a single crotchet.

On the third round make one single crochet two chains and one single crotchet to each chain ring.

And - voilá - your heart is done... I got carried away and made a few.

May Christmas come - Draculaura's recycled wreath

I am a Christmas person. I start putting candles, lights and Christmas decoration early in November. My favourite task is to design a wreath ("ovikranssi") to our front door. This year I started the work by crocheting roses ...

... Then I thought I will melt and sew together some nice looking plastic bags (thank You Piia) and covered the wreath with them...

... Finally, I combined the two and added Draculaura in the middle. Now, Christmas and the snow can come!

Few weeks after I made another one for my god daughter and put Robecca in the middle.