Thread crochet

 

Thread crochet is one of my favorite types of crochet. I've made loads of doilies and table cloths,purses,stolls crocheted in thread and I think only a few of them are still in my possession. They make wonderful gifts! I've shown some of them before, here , here and here.

i crocheted this tablecloth last month it took me 2 months to complete it.

 I have had sewing thread spools for long time and my mission was to use them up . I used them in three fold and used 8 No crochet hook for the central part I crocheted granny squares and joined them with ridge stitch then I crochet several rounds in deferent colours,again I crocheted granny squares and for the edges I made fringes using the same thread they are looking like rok,waaah!

.i made two table clothes ,I still have many granny squares left I will make use of them in another project and will show you. Ok1

I will show another one in next blog. This makes my stock of sewing spools which were in polyester  finished. And I will now I will buy new stock of sewing threads.

Most of the thread crochet that I did is usually very big  and

 took lots of my time, but my mother seems to be attracted 

to Really smallthread crochet projects,like laces for her

 

peticot, picots for her suits,and chunnies etc..etc  I've 

shown 

you a few of them before, here and here.

Well, she just finished another one and sent me some

 pictures.

 All I can say is Wow! What do you say about this...?

 i will post them in another blogpost.

xoxo

My aarticle got published in Woman'S Era Magzine

Here is the full article 

Fabric yarn basket numero uno

Lots of beaten up weary clothing, bed-sheets, pillow covers, saris, lying around....to throw or not to throw? A real crafter...housewife... never throws away anything. Every bit can be used! That’s creativity!

Salwar-Suit basket:In previous life, this fabric was a salwar suit with matching chunni/dupatta, 100% cotton. Radha one of the crocheter in the slum had  transformed it by crocheting into a basket..tearing the textile into strips created a plethora of raw edges and texture, and gives this finely crochet work a coarse look. She  made a lid with a button cinch to handle it .Dimensions are 8-1/4 ×4-3/8 inch

I decided to post dedicated to show off her skills. But I don’t know if you can crochet with a fabric? But I myself going to try I’m thinking my solid colour, bed sheet to crochet a big basket.

 

Radha is a refugee from Pakistan. Several Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan immediately after Partition. It was the biggest migration ever of the world to which these people bear a raw witness.

Harman her husband says, he left his place in Sialkot (now in Pakistan) for India.”I came along with my mother. We took to whatever work we could lay our hands on(we were earth digger ST’s there), but did not compromise with honesty and integrity, “asserts Harman. Showing a sense of content the proud man says that they have shouldered all the responsibilities of a family and now content with their lives in India and completely forgotten Pakistan.

Radha learned to crochet and weaved while in a refugee camp in Hisar. Like so many refugees sojourning through life, Radha lived in the camp for 6 long years. As she recalls, she was about 20 years old when someone taught her how to crochet, and I imagine she crocheted through many a tough year of waiting and wondering, loss and heartache.

We find her four years back, during my research work, gracing us with her warm smile and talented hands, which I have come to appreciate more and more as her story unfolds. She is a woman whose life has been seared much loss and pain, yet today at our NGO she was dressed in an array of brilliant maroon from head to toe, a silent yet loud pronouncement of her living in the present...just as she chose to do many years ago in Hisar refugee camp when she took up that crochet needle and made a choice to learn and earn. Also, she taught s slum women to adopt earning skills to make their living at their home.

Radha asserts ....”now crochet is my life, I crochet clothing of all sorts. This is my passion, my livelihood and I love to make wonderful accessories for babies, kids, and the occasional adult.”

 

Her  recession experiments

Economic challenges led her to evolve some cheaper ways of yarn. Not able to afford yarn to work with, “I cut fabric into strips making fabric yarn from my fabric stash in the house and borrowed from the relatives. Lightweight cotton like salwar-suits, sheets worked best for my crochet work. The same concept and thicker fabric can be used to construct baskets. Previously her work was in hibernation; slowly it got into public and became popular as well.

Those old unused clothes, strips of fabric, unwanted apparel and such stuff can be made useful instead of being thrown away. Equipped with little skill of single crochet only, one can easily crochet, from the cloths that aren't good enough to wear any way, and would have been totally discarded.

Radha has so many great items worthy to display, but I chose to feature this Crocheted Basket for several reasons. First, this crocheted piece is unique. Second, I think it's fabulous that this fabric basket is made from up-cycled salwar-suit. Up-cycling is a great way to help save items that may not be usable for their intended purposes any more, or to give an older item a sort of makeover in to something beautiful and useful again. Third, this Crocheted Basket is gorgeous! The colors are beautiful and would create such a cheerful tone to any room you add this to.

Here's the how to of making a crocheted fabric basket.

1. Pick your fabric. This basket takes a lot of fabric to make so be sure to use a very large piece like an old sheet. This particular basket took about 2 or 3 yards of fabric.

2. Cut the fabric into strips 3/4" to 1" wide.

3. Tie the strips together to form a ball of fabric yarn.

4. Crochet a circle  for the base of the basket. Here, 5 mm crochet hook was used.  Stitch using the single crochet. 

5. Crochet the sides as per your fabric or your choice.

6.Crochet a circular like base of the basket for the lid.

7. Crochet a small button with thinner strips and attach in the center of the lid for knob.

8. Show off and impress your friends!

Do you have discarded cloth articles? May  be a salwar-suit a soiled table cloth, or hubby’s t-shirts, bed sheets, outdated curtains, the possibilities are endless! Start cutting them into ½ to 2 inches wide strips to make your stash of rag yarn, and crochet a basket to stack your tit-bits-now!! Yes its cool!!!.

at last 

My inspirational blog :pontinhos meus: fotos da semana 

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visit to my alma-matter at Hisar

 reblogged from my another blog

उस दिन on 5.26.2017 2:11 pm नेहरु लाईब्रेरीमें किताबों की प्रदर्शनी थी और हम उसमें गए थे, कुछ किताबें खरीदी घूमें, रेहाना ने खूब मस्ती की लाइब्रेरी की केंटीन गए, कुछ खाया पीया   ......

in front of vc office

Pond in front of VC office

in front of VC office

Palki in Museum at  Gandhi Bhawan,in the University

In museum, This is a milk cooking device with wooden door  at the back of my g-daughter

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my grocry bags

 

i crocheted these bags in december2020

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my front yard

this is my front yard retreat

this is the place where I listen to the birds singing,

where I watch the wind play with the green leaves of the majestic trees, if I take the name,papri ,neem ,shisham, bad, bakain, champa, (hindi names)they all are in our front parkand visible sitting in our  frpnt yard.

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International polybag free day

                 For International Poly bag free day

 I want to tell on the day of International Poly Bag Free Day that do not use poly bags, if there are old poly bags then how to use them

Poly bag  yarn mats

I experimented old craft with this new material........or you can say old craft adapted new material. I used the thrify way of my grandmaa’s generation to use rags. Likewise I  usedup the naughty poly bags that were used to pack, grout, white cement, putty, plaster of paris or the construction material used during my house renovationand reconstruction.

Here the concept of grandmaa’s braiding scraps still used, but the material is definitely modern and and really nuision for the environment. Plastic bags have taken their share of blame for landfill problems, recycling problems and other environmental concerns.it seems that once they’r made and in your possession you can’t just throw them out without some guilt. There’s a solution to that problem!

You can make Poly bag mat out of them write!

Did you know plastic bag yarn is termed as “plarn”!!

To make use of poly bags..i.e. any type of plastic bag may be hard, stiff, brisk...you can handle a stiff yarn by cutting very narrow  strips of stiff plastic bags and taking them two-three strips together for one strip of braid or for crocheting with them.

First step for making use of plastic is.....

Make your Plarn first.

Diagram

Diagram

 You can braid with as many strips you can handle. 

Three-strand is the simplest one, for best results consider the following steps.

• Take two strips of plarn for one strip of braid i.e. in total six strips.

• Start with eight or nine feet of strips at one time to avoid them to be tangled.

• Mentally number strips from one to three, from left to right, then begin braiding.

• Pass strips three over center strip two and under strip number one. Continue thissame procedure until three of four yards are braided, then begin making ball of the braid.  

The poly bag mat 

 

Close-up

Close up

 Here's how to go about it:

• Cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag.

• Cut straight across the bag, making a loop about an inch wide.

• Tie three loops together at one end, so that you can braid them together.

The round mat

•  Slip this over the spindle on your sewing machine or a chair rung or anything that will hold it steady. Try to even the ends of all three pieces.

• Start braiding these together firmly, but not so firmly that the braid twists or curls when released.

• When you have a braid of about three or four feet, start with a strip of 6 to 12 inches, then coil the rest of the braid around that.

•  Using a blunt needle (darning needle), tie a piece of sturdy string or fishing line (floss works well!) onto the beginning of the braid and begin to sew the coil together.

•  Use a lacing stitch, going back and forth between the inner coil and the one you're sewing it on to.

• Slip the finished part over the table and braid some more, then repeat the process.

• When your mat is  as big as you want it, begin tapering off by cutting narrower loops and braiding them into the mat. Take the last bit of braid and tuck it under the last coil, sewing it down firmly.

You're done. 

see the placemat

 

 The ovel mat is great for the bathroom, kitchen, garden, patio or as a doormat -

 wherever water is found. When it gets dirty, rinse it under running water.the round

 mat on table is placemat for tables,dinningtables, etc.. 

Plastic yarn wrapped plant pot

 I wrapped some braided yarn  around an old plastic paint box and made a 

plant  pot,where my coladium plant is smiling.

 

 For these items I used lots of plastic bags

I was cleaning up for my daughter  and wondering around with this art piece of mine

 in hand trying to find a place for it, when quite by accident I placed it under this up

 cycled  pot and voila, a great combination was born! So my friends, do save broken

 pitchers to use under plants, and do apply some mosaic skill  to them with tile

 pieces, or if you want to go the whole route, you can do something really

 permanent with plaster of paris. There really isn't anything much simpler  that can

 give you so much visual pleasure and add a little personal touch to your container

 garden! And you can trust me by now, right?

xoxo

Yarn shopping

 

बड़े दिनों से एंकर के धागे रखे हुए थे उन्हें छांट कर अलग-अलग कियाऔर  उसका कुछ बनाने की सोची अब हमारे शहर में तो दुकानों पर भी ये धागे नहीं मिलते। जब मैंने धागों की दूकान से कुछ और धागे लेने की सोची तो दुकानदार ने अपने पास रखी कुर्सी के पास एक कार्टन में कबाड़ की तरह उन्हें रखा हुआ था और उन्हें तीन रूपये प्रति गुच्छी के हिसाब से बेच रहा था.मैंने कुछ गुच्छियां खरीदी,और दसुति के कपड़े पर एक ना चती गुड़िया बनाई।   

These  Anchor threads were kept in a box for a long time, few days back  I sorted them out and thought of making something creative out of them, now these threads are not available even in shops in our city. When I thought of getting some more threads from the yarn shop, the shopkeeper kept them like junk in a carton near the chair he had sitted and was selling them at Rs.3 per bunch. I bought some bunches, and embroidered A doll on Dasut(adda) cloth.

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