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Imagical Seasons. Crocheted Silverlace & Topicana Blankets Pattern
| August 30, 2012 | Filled under 2012, Patterns |
Make the ultimate in fine lace for your child! Lace square motifs are worked in white sport weight yarn for the featured blanket; it will look equally stunning in colors of your choice. Rows of scallop edging add both style and depth, letting the piece drape beautifully any way it is worn. Trim it with soft green satin ribbon and matching ladybug accents, for a sweet spring touch.
IMAGINE THIS: Use the popcorn edging of the Tropicana Blanket for added texture. Opt for wool or mohair yarn to make a blanket suitable for colder weather. You can even add metallic or silvery threads to make this blanket the perfect holiday gift!
Skill Level
Intermediate
Finished Sizes
With Scallop Border: 41” (104 cm) square.
With Popcorn Border: 32” (81 cm) square.
Yarn
Sport weight (#2 Fine).
Shown: Omega Trigo (100% cotton; 295 yd [270 m]/3.5 oz [100 g]): 5 balls of #201 white.
Note: For Silverlace Blanket with Popcorn or Shell Borders you will need only 4 balls of yarn.
*** Win 5 balls of Omega Trigo yarn and find some other deals posted here: Imagical Seasons: New Patterns, Giveaway + MORE!
Welcome the summer with the coolest beach blanket ever! Each Kristal motif is worked in layers of soothing color, and joined to contrasting motifs for visual interest. Watch the central flower pop out of each motif! Made with worsted-weight yarn and a size H/8 (5 mm) hook, the blanket is soft and comfortable yet sturdy enough for beach and outdoor use. Sure to be a summer favorite, it is finished with a lively popcorn border to protect the edges from fraying!
MAGINE THIS: Use the scallop edging of the Silverlace Blanket to add to the overall size and more sophisticated look.
Finished Sizes
With Popcorn Border: 45” (114 cm) square.
With Scallop Border: 55” (140 cm) square.
Yarn
Worsted weight (#4 Medium).
Shown: Lily Sugar’n Cream Cotton (100% cotton; 200 yd [183 m]/4 oz [113 g]): 4 skeins each of #201712 hot green and #00010 yellow; 2 balls each of #01111 mod blue and #01223 mod green.
Note: For blanket with scallop border you will need 2 extra skeins of #201712 hot green.
* This pattern includes instructions for both: Silverlace and Tropicana blankets and involves crochet skills only.
19 pages, 4 pictures, 7 diagrams
Copyright: All rights reserved. Please be respectful of the designer’s rights to this pattern. No portion of this work may be photocopied or reproduced by any means without written authorization from My Little CityGirl. The purchaser of this pattern is granted permission to sell the finished product for profit on a limited basis. © 2012 Alla Koval Designs, Inc. http://mylittlecitygirl.com.
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Imagical Seasons: New Patterns, Giveaway + MORE!
| August 30, 2012 | Filled under Giveaway, My Book, Writing a book |
I’m so excited to share with you all a sneak peek of my very first book. Although it seems that the amount of work to be done is still endless and I still need to learn lots of new skills and things, I’m so glad that I started this book venture! I’m absolutely sure that I would do this again, especially if I will be teaming up again with incredible Tin Ambat and Annya Uslontseva! Tin’s brilliant descriptions and Anna’s fantastic book layout have made the book look great, even if it is still a draft version and only 1/3 of it is done…
So, let me introduce:
Imagical SeasonsTM: Crochet Couture for Kids 2-12 years
Imaginative and magical designs for little ones in your life.
… where Imagical is a portmanteau word – a combination of “imagine” and “magical”. It describes perfectly what I want to achieve: coming up with unique ideas and designs, and making them a reality through the application of basic crochet and knitting skills…
Want a sneak peek of book and pattern preview?
Well, this is not a final version – still need to do photos for book and polish a bit there and there, but it’s pretty close to what book will look like ;o)
What do you think? Any questions or advice about the book name, designs, layout, charts, or instructions? I would love to hear from you! Please leave your comments, suggestions and feedback here. All your input is appreciated!
*** Patterns release update: Silverlace and Tropicana Blanket patterns will be released this afternoon are released, and Petalline dress pattern – tomorrow will be released September, 4 (not sure what was in my mind when I offered two releases of such big patterns in 2 days, I still need to do the modeling and polish pattern a bit – my apologies for this delay) .
Both patterns are released and available now (click links below):
Silverlace and Tropicana Blanket
Of course, we will have our traditional little giveaway … the first 6 people who leave a comment on this post will get blankets or dress patterns (one pattern per person – fully for your choice) via email in PDF format, absolutely FREE right they will be released! *** This giveaway is closed and winners are: Donna, Mary Z, Mutant Supermodel, Natasha, Laurie and Rose. My CONGRATULATIONS!! Dear ladies, please email me with your pattern choice and I’ll email your patterns right away!
AND … to celebrate this milestone in the book’s development, let’s have a CONTEST on top of our giveaway! You can enter the contest in 3 ways:
Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment on this post. No other action is required!
Optional Entry # 2: Blog about this contest, linking to this post, and leave another comment to this post with a link to your blog post.
Optional Entry # 3: Share this post on your accounts at Google+, Facebook, Ravelry, Twitter, Yahoo, etc., and comment on this post with your link. You also can just share my original Google+ and Facebok posts. Share on more networks for more entries! (one entry per network only).
The winning commenter will receive a 50% coupon to my store, along with 5 balls (100g each) of Trigo yarn. The winner gets to choose what colors she/he would like! By the way, this is the same yarn I used for Silverlace Blanket and Petalline Dress (size 10/12).
Also, everyone who submits a mandatory entry plus one optional entry will receive a 50% coupon for a one-time purchase (valid on everything, including the new patterns!) The coupon has no expiration date but is only good for one use, so choose your pattern(s) wisely!
This contest starts today, August 30, 2012 and will end on September 6, 2012 at 11:59pm PST.
I’ll select the winner with random.org’s random number generator. Winner will be notified by email on Friday, September 7, 2012.
So, what are you waiting for? Post your entries now and good luck to everyone!
Alla Koval Designs
Yes, it’s official! :)
| August 27, 2012 | Filled under Creations, In The News, My Book, Writing a book |
First of all, many thanks for your patience and sorry for being away from my blog. Work on first book seems endless, but I’m pretty excited to see how it turned out and hope back to normal schedule somewhere in near future …or so ;o)
I’m so glad to letting you know that I’ve just got back edited Kristal collection, which is a part of my book, but we agreed that I’ll make it available as soon as possible ;o) Not to mention that you will see a sneak peek of book layout and find a book name on these pattern’s pages!
Kristal collection includes 5 designs, based on an idea to use same square motif in so many different ways—watch this lovely motif transform magically from a simple circle of stitches into an eight-petaled flower, then into a diamond, and finally into a gorgeous lace square! Work it in a single color for a pristine effect, or in combinations of different colors to highlight the changes in the pattern. Use different yarn weight and hook sizes to change the finished motif’s size. Even better, join it to other motifs as you go, and keep sewing to a minimum. As versatile as it is beautiful, the motif lends itself to several of the projects scheduled to be released this week:
1. Tropicana Blanket
2. Silverlace Blanket
3. Petalline Dress & Beach Cover
…. and hopefully the Dryad Scarf too—let me see.
Wish me luck and see you pretty soon ;o)
Trade Secrets à la Koval. Gauge Swatch
| August 20, 2012 | Filled under Trade Secrets à la Koval |
Making sure your stitches are consistently the right size is very important when crocheting. And even if I perfectly understand it, I always hated to do that boring part – checking the crochet gauge… until I found pretty comfy and easier for me (and not least—much faster!) way to do it: work 3 full rows of swatch to check number of stitches and then continue work only on first 6-8 stitches (leaving rem sts unworked) to check rows gauge.
A PDF version is available for download on the right >>>
| Download: | gauge_swatch |
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| Updated: | August 20, 2012 |
| Size: | 97.5 KiB |
You may already be familiar with some of these tricks and sure I may not be the first to employ or invest these techniques, but I will be glad if you find something new and useful here.
If you have how-to-questions about techniques I use in my patterns, please feel free to ask them here and I’ll do my best to create the tutorial or give helpful tips at least.
Happy Monday everyone!! Have a wonderful week, even if…
;o)
Over a Cup. Panda
| August 17, 2012 | Filled under In The News, Over a Cup |
My all time favorite animal. What a cutie :0)
Wonder what is new with your book and my schedule? By the moment I feel exhausted a bit, but happy – two projects for publication are done (and third, last one is on my schedule in the middle of September). On Monday I’ll start to work on next book collection, yay!! I bet – it will be your favorite one! ;o)
But first – a little break and on my schedule for next two days… well, whatever ;o)
A Wonderful and Lovely weekend everyone!!
Alla Koval Designs
Featured Yarn 39. Omega Trigo. Cotton
| August 13, 2012 | Filled under Yarn |
What a lovely mercerized cotton with such interesting texture! Mona sent me a skein of Trigo to try and I liked this yarn so much (and 2 designs for my book already made with this one ;o). The only thing, they had not enough colors of this yarn. But now some bright and lovely new colors added, yay! This yarn is great for delicate blankets and kids garments as well and for modern and fun projects.
Fiber Content: 100% mercerized cotton with a rustic look
Yardage: 3.52 oz (100 g)/295 yd (270 m)
Gauge: 27 sts = 4” (10 cm) with US #3 (3 mm) knitting needles; C/2 2.75 mm crochet hook
Weight: Sport weight (#2 Fine)
Care: machine washable
Available colors:
where to buy: creative yarn source
Thursday’s Moments. New Lens
| August 1, 2012 | Filled under In The News, Thursday's Moments |
Yes, I know – Thursday is tomorrow, but I can’t resist to introduce my new baby – very first “adult” lens: AF_S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR.
I bet, most of my friends-photographers will laugh that I call this lens “adult”, but it’s really a first one I own and so happy with!! ;o) Many Thanks Anatoliy for the tip and Sergey for the help to find this one!!
Above is one of very fist pictures, and taken without tripod and not edited in Ps (just cropped). Now, I’m off to find out where is my tripod and play with my baby, yay!!
BTW, this is also a sneak peek of Dryad vest & jacket, but in green shades. I like green version too. Made with such soft and smooth to the touch, Shine Sport Yarn by Knit Picks, this skirt pattern can be easily turned into scarf for lady of any age. The pattern is done, but unfortunately my tech editors are not available until middle of August, so there will be a little delay with release. My apologies. I’ll keep you updated!
And if you wonder what is my on my hook now – I’ve submitted two designs to one crochet magazine, and now working on patterns and samples to be timely… Looks as 2013 going to be exciting year with several exiting publications. So far I’ve done: a jacket design for one crochet book, 5 accessories designs for another crochet book, two designs for crochet magazine (well, in progress ;) and 1/3 of my own very first crochet book!! To be continue ;o)
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