New Year's crochet: charts and photo lessons for beginners
Communicate holiday decorations for the New Yearwith their own hands - it's not very difficult even for those who began to knit quite recently. However, remember that a couple of hours before the holiday, even the best of the masters will not have enough time. Prepare for the holiday in advance.
Christmas crochet snowflakes
Snowflakes can be knit separately and used as anapkin-decoration or even a rug (if you take a very thick yarn and make a very large snowflake as a result), or you can tie a candlestick or a ball-and-tree toy with a snowflake image. In the second case, it's easiest to fasten two identical snowflakes to each other in a circle (with threads or an additional chain), but you can also select a special circular scheme.
Some kind of ode to knitting snowflakes is notexists, everything depends on their form. Most used in such patterns are columns with a different number of capes and air loops. If you are knitting a very "airy", delicate snowflake with a large number of voids between the threads, some schemes are advised, even starting from the center, to reach the extremely symmetrically closed part and tie further individual elements (for example, far ahead beams) separately.
The threads are soft and do not hold shape, but you canto turn such a knitted snowflake into a fur-tree toy or a hanging ornament for a house - for this it is necessary to starch it very hot in a hot solution. Carefully press and spread your snowflake and leave it to dry; in a couple of hours it will hardly bend.
Christmas knitting crochet toys
When planning to tie a New Year's toy, rememberthat any "ordinary" knitted toy, a bear cub, for example, can look like a New Year's Eve - for example, if a Christmas cap is put on it, and there is a star in its paws, - if it's big, you can put it under a tree, and if you associate it with a small one, you can hang it on a branch.
As for toys for the Christmas tree, the simplest and most elegant options, in addition to snowflakes, are knitted balls and bells with the same "snowy" motifs.
When you unfasten the ball you will need a blank -or a simple ball of any material on which you will connect its two parts (and, in fact, it will simply be two separate snowflakes or two symmetrical patches of the pattern, as already mentioned above) and to starch the whole product, or - the balloon that then burst or blow off, and then you have to soak it along with knitting in the PVA glue.
Usually use the first method, dippingball-stick with yarn in starch. The bell is very similar: it is actually one of the halves of the ball, just its edges are slightly bent in the sides to give it the necessary shape; but the bell itself is denser than the snowflake, and its general pattern is usually relatively homogeneous, changing only to the bent ends. But this, of course, is not an obligatory condition, your bell can be anything.
Crocheted and dried toy can behang it and so, and you can decorate it in addition. Usually a ribbon (sometimes even of the same white color) is added to the thread near which the toy is hung, if you prefer minimalism, and paint from cans or watercolor, sprinkle with sequins and beads if you like the richness of colors.
A separate type of decoration - a knitted ball, insidewhich is something there. Decide what you put inside - it should be a very light thing, so that the starched threads do not stretch under it; for example, sequins of foil. When you soak the ball, do not fasten the halves of knitting; tie them in afterwards, having already put the sequins between them. For this toy crocheted, we must carefully select the scheme, calculating so that the thing does not fall through too wide gaps of the pattern.
Author: Masha Larina
