Special Kembang Sepatu - 26 August 2016

Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
(May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you)

The Special Kembang Sepatu

Kembang Sepatu is the name we call in Indonesian language for Hibiscus.

Why I call this crocheted Hibiscus "The Special Kembang Sepatu"?

It is because:
1. Today's date is the date when I was born 54 years ago. It used to be very special date to me, if no one remembered it, I was kind of sad and up set. Nowadays, not so special any more, well it is still the date of my birth, no one can change that, however I wouldn't be up set or sad anymore if no one remember. It is because, actually in Islam we don't celebrate a birthday

2. This kind of flower was the first time came out of my mind when I wanted to design a Tunisian Crochet pattern. It is rarely someone to make this flower in crochet, so I could make sure that the pattern was originally my own design. The pattern can be found  in Ravelry: Kembang Sepatu in Tunisian Crochet

3. Today is the first time I can make a crocheted flower complete pattern in a day including crochet the flower itself. I can make the diagram pattern fast using the Crochet Charts Application.

I am happy to share the pattern here.

Hibiscus flower pattern

Calyx Pattern

Leaf pattern

Pistil Pattern

Stitches Library

Finish size:
Diameter approximately 8 cm

Material:
- Any kind  of crochet cotton thread or polyester

Hook: 2/0

Note: I worked in continuous rounds for the base of petal

Lets get started....

First we make the flower, well actually there isn't any fixed rules which one first,  follow the Hibiscus diagram pattern above.

When you complete up to row 7, will be look like below image

This is when you finish row 8

After you complete row 9, the whole petals, 80% the flower complete

Next you can make the calyx, pistil and leaf

In below image, shows there are 2 pistils I made in 2 different way; 1 is as per diagram above and the other one I tried the technique to make robe that was shared by my friend, Iin Wibisono. She made the video how to make the crocheted robe. (sorry I don't have the link to her video to share)

After all part done, now can join all part.

You can use this Special Kembang Sepatu for anything, such as as brooch, or bad decoration, etc.

This time I made as it can be hanged anywhere.

First join the pistil inside the flower base, and then calyx at the bottom of flower, just on the center. And then make a simple robe, you can use the pistil pattern, which just make few amount of chains, in the middle part of robe make stalk (with the same technique) for the leaf, continue few chain and then  join at the bottom of calyx, last sl st all chains down to the 1st ch.

Here several images showing different angle:

Facing the flower

Showing from the bottom

The flower hanged

Isn't it beautiful????
#kembangsepatu ; #hibiscus ; #myowndesign ; #myownpattern ; #specialday ; #specialflower ; #august

Hope you like it .....
Happy crochet.....
Selamat Mencoba....
Let me know if you don't understand and please share if you succeed to make it.....

Peci Rumah Keong

Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
(May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you)

Few months ago I found Beautiful Wonderful Spiral motif designed by Femininity (the signature stated on the picture). I am not sure the name of the designer because the blog is in Arabic.

I had tried to make the motif as follow: 

For step by step of making this Beautiful Wonderful Spiral motif please click the name.

I love this motif and it remind me the Snail's shell. It gave me an idea to make a hat (peci in Indonesian).

I designed the hat really look like a Snail's shell at the top of hat, so I modified little bit the pattern.

Materials:

- Cotton yarn any colour

Hook size : 2.5 mm

Pattern abbreviation used:

ch - chain

bpdc - back post double crochet

bphdc - back post half double crochet

bpsc - back post single crochet

sl st - slip stitch

lp - loop , sp - space

Note:

• Adult size need 11 rows for the crown including the pointed shape.
• The hat is divided into 3 parts of making process such as;

1. Part 1 - making the top part
2. Part 2 - making the down part (the side of the hat)
3. Part 3 - ribbing

• Please follow the instruction in each pictures below for step by step to make Part I

PART I - POINTED SHAPE IN THE MIDDLE TOP

Total 20 sts (count from the bpdc that has marker)

Total 30 sts

Total 40 sts

Total 50 sts

Total 60 sts

Total 70 sts

Total 80 sts

Complete Part I with 80 sts on the last row (row 11).

PART II - The Beautiful Wonderful Spiral Square

Note:

• Make 8 squares of The Beautiful Wonderful Spiral - please refer to the link above for making the square
• The square consist of 5 rows
• Last row of the square consist of (11 sts, 2 ch sp) on each side
• Divided the Part I last row into 8 divisions consist of 10 sts each.
• Join each sts of the last row square; one side to Part I; two sides to each squares

How to join the sts: Please refer to Joining sts

Complete Part II and has been joined to Part I and each 2 side of Part II

PART III - Ribbing

Before making the ribbing, start from one st of below side square, and continue with the following row:

Row 1:  ch 2, bpdc 1 into next 10 sts, dc2tog (1 dc in 2 ch sp of the same square and 1 dc in 2 ch sp of next square), [ bpdc 1 into next 11 sts, dc2tog (1 dc in 2 ch sp of the same square and 1 dc in 2 ch sp of next square)] 7 times, sl st in 2nd ch of ch 2.

Row 2 & 3: ch 2, bpdc 1 into each sts all the way around to the last st, sl st in 2nd ch of ch 2.

Start the ribbing:

Row 4 - 6: ch 2, (bpdc 1 in next st, fpdc 1 in next st), repeat () all the way around to the last st, sl st in 2n of ch 2

Complete the hat, fasten off.

Peci  Rumah Keong

For the flat top hat, omit row 3 & 5 of Part I, Part II & III remain the same.

 PART I OF THE FLAT TOP HAT

9 rows with total 80 sts of the last row

Selamat mencoba...

Happy crochet......

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How to join two part of crochet work

Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
(May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you)

There are several way to join sts in crochet

Here is one way of joining sts in crochet

For example, I use a simple pattern as shown in following picture which is consist of the scheme patterns and outcomes after joined

STEP BY STEP

•  First crochet the green part follow the pattern. Then crochet the pink part follow the pattern up to the stage before the joining sts. See figure No. 1

•  Remove the hook from lp (see Figure 2), then insert the hook into st to be joined, in this example is st in the green part (as stated in the pattern), further insert the hook into the pink lp (see figure 3), and pull out the pink lp through st of green part that will joined (see figure 4). One st is already joined.

•  * Sc 1 in next st of pink part (see figure 5), remove the needle from lp (see figure 6).

• Insert hook into st to be joined, which is the next st on  green part (as stated on the pattern), further insert the hook into the pink lp (see figure 7 & 8), pull out the pink lp through st of green part that will joined (see figure 9) *. Another st is already joined.. For the stage in figure 10, 11 and 12, please repeats  * up * for amount of sts  that needs to be joined (as stated in the pattern). In this example, there are 6 sts should be joined.

How to make One Step Crocheted Rope

Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
(May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you)

Usually when I want to make a rope in crochet, I use 2 steps as follow:

1 - Make ch (chain) for a certain amount as needed.
2 - and then turn back to make sl st (slip stitches) into each of the ch, start from the 2nd ch from hook till the last ch.

The result is as follow:

A friend of mine shared a video showing how to make crocheted rope in one way step, as you can see at the following link : One Step Crocheted Rope

I  tried to make the One Step Crocheted Rope and had tried to translate the video into few pictures showing the step by step how to make it as I understood.

I tried to use 2 different color of yarns, to make it easier to understand.
The green one as the 1st yarn and the blue one as 2nd one.

Begin with crochet both yarns together as the base chain, and then:

- *Yarn Under (YU) the 1st yarn - take the yarn in front of hook and then wrap around the hook to the back of it (there are 2 loops on hook except at the 1st ch). Please refer to the following images:

 - Next,YO (Yarn Over) the 2nd yarn - the position of 2nd yarn is below the hook and then wrap around the hook to the front of it. Please refer to the follow image:

- Pull the 2nd yarn through out both loops*:

Repeat ** for amount of ch or length of rope needed.

Below showing the result:
On one side of rope -  produces chains from the 2nd yarn only, while on the other side produces half of 1st yarn and half of 2nd yarn. Interesting right?