As the seasons and holidays change, I like to be able to change the decor in my house to correlate. Of course, where to store all the seasonal decorations can become quite a problem. Even though this house is larger than our last, I still try to keep storage in mind. One of my ongoing seasonal projects is to make pillow covers for the pillows I already have in my living room. Today I’m sharing my Valentine’s Tapestry Crochet Love Pillow.
Tapestry Crochet
My grandma taught me to crochet at 5 years old. Unfortunately, she didn’t teach me to read patterns. Over the years I have taught myself.
Actually, maybe it was a good thing she didn’t teach me to read patterns. It forced me to learn to figure out how to make something just from looking at it.
Tapestry crochet is something I have wanted to do more of ever since I made the Dahlia pillow almost 2 years ago!
This time, I wanted to try designing my own pattern, in a graph. This turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated.
First I tried using a graphing program from an image I designed. I guess my lines were too thin because not everything showed up and I ended up drawing in the rest of the image on the graph.
Halfway through, I wasn’t thrilled with the look of my design. For my second attempt, I drew straight on the graph paper and made all my lines twice as thick.
This worked so much better!
I still don’t love the way the heart turned out. But I learned a lot in how to design tapestry crochet and I plan on designing a few other ideas I have floating around in my head.
Love Crochet Tapestry Pillow
I wish I had more pictures to share. Unfortunately, I did almost all of my crocheting while my daughter was sick. I didn’t have my camera with me and I thought I was taking pictures on my cell phone. If I was, I somehow didn’t save them!
Everything is crocheted in a single chain, each square of the graph paper equals one stitch.
Creative Crafter’s Link Pary
Welcome to the first Creative Crafter’s link party of the new year. This month’s theme is Valentine’s Day in preparation for February crafts. Check out crafts from our group and add your own Valentine’s themed crafts from January 17th-22nd.
