Just a Quick Note

I just wanted to let you know that I am going away for a couple of days and I won’t have access to the Internet. I will come back Sunday evening and that’s when I will announce the winner of the doily giveaway!

Until then,
Olga

Doily of the Week #27

My doily post is late this week because my baby got sick last weekend. I couldn’t think of anything other than my poor child. He is better now though not completely recovered yet.

I got this doily from my mom. She doesn’t like it and was going to rip it, so she could use the thread to make something else. I didn’t want the doily to be ripped and asked her if I could have it. I have tons of my own doilies, but most of them are round ones and I liked the unusual shape of this one. Of course, my mom let me have it.



Here is what it looks like in the middle. I don’t know where the pattern came from. I suppose it’s from one of my mom’s Russian crochet magazines.

Hand Towels with Crochet Lace

Today I just want to share an idea how to embellish towels with crochet lace.

I added the lace to these hand towels last year. I remember I found a few patterns for crochet towel edgings on the Internet, but when I tried them I didn’t like any. So I just came up with my own pattern. Unfortunately, I don’t have it written down.

I crocheted two strips of lace and then used a sewing machine to sew them on the towels.

Here is the “before” picture.



I hope you are having a great week. And to those of you in the USA

Happy Independence Day!

Doily of the Week #26

I made this pineapple doily last year. Unfortunately, I didn’t bookmark the site with the pattern (back then I didn’t write my crocheting blog, so there was no need for it), and now I can’t find it.

And I don’t even have the doily anymore. I sold it on Etsy. What is left is just a photograph.