Hi there, I was quite quiet, don't you think? Yes I was, because I was very busy, with no time for writting a blog and crocheting as well. I am still busy, but I miss my beloved activities very much, so now the quiet is over! I miss a summer as well, the autumn is definitely coming - so I decided to make an autumn time a little bit nicer for me. I was thinking about autumn colors and created new collection. I smuggled rapsberry color there LOL - although the end of the summer is, we still have raspberries on our garden. So I could use raspberry color in autumn collection with permission of the nature :-)

So here it is - my new Autumn collection - part I 

The patterns for crochet owl coaster and crochet owl ornament are already ready :-)

Hi there ,

sometimes, you wrote me, that when you would like to open some of my free pdf crochet patterns - that it says to you, that the file could not be opened... well - I think that it is something what I can not able to know why it is happening... so I made a big decission :-) and I decided to write my free patterns directly on the blog and to pdf's files too :-).. What do you think about it?

And what about to begin right now? With hmmm ...... Flower Applique ?

OK, let's begin :-) Make a cup of coffee or tea, take a hook 3 mm and some rest of 100% cotton, 5 ply weight yarn, maybe you find some buttons and I know, that you find some beads in your sewing's suitcase too :-) 

I choosed the colors of chakras: 115 red, 281 orange, 208 yellow, 205 green, 165 light blue, 124 indigo blue, 113 violet and 114 cyklamen

Material I used: 100% cotton  - Catania Solids by Schachenmayr SMC


Double crochet (DC)

Round 3:  work in the circle and crochet continuously 1 CH, 9 SC, 5 times 2 SC in one stitch, 8 SC, 1 SlSt, end the work.



Center of the flower:
Use violet color yarn, work in the circle rounds

Beginning: 5 CH, join  with 1 SlSt and make a ring
Round 1: 3 CH as a first DC, 10 DC, join first DC with 1 SlSt  (11 DC)


Round 2: 3 CH as a first DC, 1 DC in next stitch, 2 DC in every other  stitch from previous round,  join first DC with 1 SlSt (20 DC), end the work.
Round 3: change the color, use bright pink color  and crochet (2 SC in one stitch, 1 SC in next stitch) - repeat it 10 times totally, join first SC with 1 SlSt (30 SC), end the work.



Then embellish the applique by the beads, spangles and button following your imagination.


 And your colorful flower appligue is finished :-) 

I felt a little bit nervous today so I took a hook and made some owls - just for calming down.... :-) These three small owl friends are looking  at me and I feel much better now :-) And what about you, helps you the crocheting to calming down too?

I used two threads of the yarn, gently colors ... I really enjoyed to made it :-) I know, I promised to write some patterns, I have already wrote them - only translating is waiting on me .... but you know, when you have luck and you have an idea - you just have to take a hook and make it right now, because sometimes...and it happens... the idea will disappear like a soap bubble.. :-)

... something to listen :-)

In my last post I shared some pictures from our holiday vacation in Croatia - Pag Island. It was our first vacation for 7 years and first with our little girls and I am so happy that we could go.. We had a wonderful time. I forget how I miss the travelling, discovering new places, meeting new people, tasting new food .. We like camping very much and we have new big family tent now and my husband's dream is have a camper van someday :-).. and until this date.... I just only make a crocheted one for him :-)...

Send you many greetings, my dear :-)

Do you know that feeling, that time is running so fast that you can not to perceive it ? I don't know, if you feel the same, but sometimes I have the feeling that I am still teen, but I am not yet..... It seems like my brain don't want to accept the reality and don't want to belive it!:-) ..... I am just wondering - what if inside that women, mum and wife .. what if is still hidden that little girl, who likes beads, buttons, pink color and all that glossy things. Who is fascinated of princess' dress and has own secret naive dreams.... and for that girl I designed this bag ... because I think that there will be no better time to wearing it, then now. To make it for yourself and just for a while enjoying that feeling only to be the little girl again :-)

The Nature - our true treasury. It is inspiring us in every moment. The red poppy flowers are so gently and fragile - so beautiful. But what is hidden behind the red color of this beautiful flower? As a nature says - I am fragile and gently, but don't underestimate me, when the leaves of my red skirt fall down, I will be stronger and dangerous, you would never be expecting... well - it was just a small reflection ...

As you know from some of my older post, I love the linden smell in the air :-) One of the other reason of my fascination of linden is my beloved grandmother. She made best linden tea I have ever drank :-) We sit opposite to each other, drank this tea and talked about everything... She coddled me... She left us one sunny July few years ago. She was an amazing women - I miss her smile, her kindness, her calm, her wisdom so much. She was an excellent piano player - soloist in the national theather. She was the real lady from old times - fragile outside but strong inside. I am just listening this great piece of Frederic Chopin while I am writting this post, remembering of this wonderful women.

                                     ... In memory of my beloved grandmother Stepanka