basket pattern

Hi everyone, this post born to show write pattern of a basket that I made a tutorial a lot time ago, a Lady asked me to have pattern of it, You know is not easy to add subtitles at videos, even if I want to add them, to make everyone understand what I say =)
Anyway this is basket I mean

 1 round
1^ round
in a magic ring we work 3 chains and 12 d.c (tot 13) close round by ss

2^ round
we makde an increase in each stitch till we have 26 stitch and close by a s.s

3^ round we have an increase and a dc, we have to make 13 increase, till we have 39 stitch but we need 40 stitches so in last stitches we increase twice near till we reach 40 stitches

4^ round 

we make only dc without increases but we have to work in back loop, always close by a s.s

5^ round

1 chain and skip one we go in next one and there we work 6 d.c than skip a ground stitch again and go in next making a s.c and repeat all for 10 time (we get 10 arches)

6^& 7^ round

1 chain and we to work a s.c in each one for all round, for 2 rounds

8^ round

we start to make base to make crocodile stitch: 5 chains and skip 3 stitch and we work a d.c and again a d.c, 2 chains and a d.c 2 chain and again 2 d.c  you should have something like this _ _!_ _ !!_ _ !_ _ !! till the end of round 

9^ round

Now in that 2 d.c we have from round before, we shall work 5 dc making them between 2 dc _ !!_  (sorry but to explain in english is not so easy, in video you can watch better), 5 dc, 2 chains than you turn work and work in other dc other 5 dc and close by a s.c and again till end of round

10^ round 

to make nicest effect work a full round of  crab stitch (I hope is the right way to call this stitch)

Your basket is almost ended, It miss sleeve that I worked creating a 3d romanian point lace cord  (I don't know if it's the right name) 

This is it, I hope this pattern can be useful, forgive my mistakes and I pray you to say me in comment names of these kind of stitches.

This post wants to be a help to my video, So I let you here video of this basket. Bye Betty

stairs bag pattern

Hi everyone English friends, To put subtitles to my video I need time and also to practice my english, because it's a bit "rusty" if I can say like this... So I hope you'll forgive my mistakes.
Today I will write you about a old video in youtube about a bag, a mini bag I called "stairs bag" because if you look right you can see a kind of stairs...

ok let's start here we are with pattern of this bag:

16 chains (15+1 this one is because we need to make a single crochet stitch high) (colour A)

1^ round.
make single crochet one in each ground stitch, when you are at the end of chains 15th chain we increase making 4 s.c in the same stitch, and the same on the other side and close round by a s.c (34 stitch)

2^ round
1 chain and 13 s.c increase 2 s.c, in the same stitch for 4 time, 13 s.c and again 4 time we increase and close by a s.c (now we have 46 stitch)

we can make another round but I made only 2 round so I changed colour...

3^ round
change colour (colour B)
1 chain and a s.c in each one but you must work in back look of the stitch and close round by a s.c

4^ round
Change colour (colour A)
1 chain, 4 s.c working in back loop and now we make a d.c in front loop of the next one but aiming crochet in chain of base of the bag. you skipt the one of round 3 we go in loop of chain of the 2nd round, in video you can see as well. than again 4 s.c and a d.c for all round. ending by a s.c

each time 5 s,c in back loop and a d.c in front loop of 2 round before stitch for all high of the bag, that's it ! To end our bag, I made a round of s.c and a round of d.c. but I made some spaces to add ribbon than, I made 3 dc, 1 chain skip a stitch and again 3 dc and a chain so |||_|||_|||_|||_ like this so than I added ribbon. for sleeves of the bag in video you'll find 2 links about 2 kind of sleeves,

So I hope this post can be helpful for all english friends. 

This is it.
Bye. To soon Betty

E amore fu! Acquistato nuovi stampi per la gomma crepla

Eccomi qua, vi avevo promesso un video veloce sugli acquisti di stampi, che man mano stanno diventando tanti... 

Ho preso delle braccia, ne ho un altro stampo con tutte le dita, le acquistai in quanto mi davano più l'effetto del fumetto, ed erano solo due misure e poi le manine e basta (il kit era così) stavolta ho preso queste di 3 misure il kit, poi i fiori, che vedete nella foto successiva, magari se vi può interessare posso fare un video per farvi vedere come si fanno, quando li ho ritagliati, era come se mancasse qualcosa, poi piccolo trucco e devo dire che ha cambiato aspetto totalmente, mi piacciono =) .

Poi ho preso lo stampo di Peppa Pig, questo è in ceramica, e non so se sarà così semplice usarlo, non l'ho provato ancora, ma vi farò sapere, non so la ceramica mi fa pensare che la crepla diventi fredda subito e che sarà più difficile termoformare... appena provo vi farò sapere...

Infine ho preso lo stampo, anzi gli stampi con un viso davvero puccioso, Lucia ha fatto i folletti per Natale, davvero carini, io ancora non so cosa farò, ma vi mostrerò tutti gli esperimenti...

Ora scappo, vedo di finire un lavoro iniziato, e ci sentiamo presto. Buon proseguimento a tutti e buona creatività.

A presto 

Betty