of roses and ondori crochet patterns

It had been a sunny day last Thursday , my last day of the week in the office. I was really looking forward to my weekly TGIF plans which are my food shopping and the other things

chores I planned for the weekend. 

Friday had been a disaster (!)... surprisingly,  I couldn´t start the Xtrail... it was the battery I supposed and it really gave me the blues (!!!),  we also had a medical appointment that afternoon and for goodness sake who would schedule a doc´s appointment on a Friday when most if not all business offices close at 2 pm ...?

I called up the Touring Club and they sent us a technician to recharge the battery. We had a tight day, so many things to get done... so we rushed to the club´s premises and after waiting for more than an hour, we had the old one replaced by new maintenance-free battery. It cost us 130.-Euros which I think  was expensive :-(

Afterwards, I went food shopping and I treated myself to a freshly  cut bunch of pink roses to cheer up my day! I Put them in a flower vase and decorated the table using the tablecloth I crocheted myself some years back. I guess the rose vignette is pretty! 

The tablecloth featured here was crocheted when I was commuting by train to work in the 90´s.  It was a long ride for about 45 minutes.

I got the motif from one of two Ondori Crochet Books given to me by my japanese boss  when he and his family went home to Tokyo for a holiday.

The cloth can also be used as bedspread for a single bed. It has a total of 66 squares crocheted together and sort of framed by a border.

 I really can´t remember how long it took me to finish this, but I was crocheting this while on the train...

When the size of the cloth had been bigger, I stopped working on this in the train since I couldn´t handle it´s volume anymore... so I finished it at home... 

When I was finishing this at home, I was working on a new Ondori motif in the train and so my hands were not left idle on the way to work .. I will show you the other one next time...

These roses made my Friday and by just looking at them, my traffic stress on that afternoon to and from the doctor´s slowly drifted away..

HAPPY SATURDAY TO ALL !!!

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A Tablecloth For A Lifetime

Getting inspired by a tablecloth seen in a magazine is wonderful, but to make it yourself because you are inspired by it is a different thing....this requires patience, patience patience....



First thing I did was to get the materials and those are: the cotton fabric, the crochet thread, crochet hook and a white DMC thread  for stitching the center.



The technique I used to make the center lacing is a famous spanish craft called "Vainicas", this is a stitching method where the horizontal fibers of the fabric are being pulled-out to create a hole in the middle leaving the vertical fibers intact, then with the use of a white thread , stitch it to the vertical fibers based on a  repeated pattern forming the lace.

A closer look at the stitches, you will notice that they are actually a method similar to tying knots. The lace is created following a repeated pattern...

When I finished the crocheted lace for the edges of the tablecloth, I measured the inner square or the hole which later became the size of the cloth. It is of course, very important to crochet the lace first before cutting the fabric... thru the taken size, I´ve considered the seam allowance for the edges of the cloth whose inner edges as you see, also stitched.

Then, the last part is the most fun thing to do, and that is .... attaching the crocheted lace to the cloth by a simple stitch...





  

I sometimes use this tablecloth with a different background depending on my mood. Just  like the flower designed fabric above, it adds a feeling of Spring or Summer,  the table could enhance a fresh-looking-like feeling especially on a weary grey and grey winter...

I hope everyone´s enjoying a nice evening and wish you all a pleasant weekend coming up...

Thanks for being here and for reading me today!

Til next,

 Mercy

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