Page 12 - Let's Get Crafting Knitting & Crochet - Issue 118 (January 2020)

ADD A TOUCH OF CROCHET WITH

LUCINDA GANDERTON’S

Wardrobe

PLUS
tapestry
needle, coat
hanger, 5cm x set
160cm
wadding, 15cm
x 100cm fabric,
matching
sewing thread, Your bedroom should be a sanctuary and this coordinated twosome will add a
two 10cm loral, feminine charm to your wardrobe, and a relaxing scent of lavender too.
squares of This is a fabulous upcycling project that will beautify an old coat hanger and
fabric, two use up oddments of fabric. We think this sweet set would make the perfect
10cm squares
of paper, git; you could even personalise the sachets with an embroidered initial.
sewing thread
and needle,
template
SIZE tr, 1fptr [see Great tog a few sts at a 1ch, 1tr, 1 picot (see facing oversew and sew sixth side.
Hanger length: Advice] in next tr) time, working out Great Advice), 1tr, hexagons tog Stitch Edging in
43cm 17 times, (2tr, 2ch, to end. Draw up 1tr, 1ch, 1tr, 1ch], around five sides. place with
Lavender
sachet width: 2tr) in third ch, join thread as you go, miss 1ch, one sl st Fill with lavender sewing thread
13cm with a sl st in third evening out in each of next
of 6ch gathers, until you four ch, [1dc, 2ch,
Fasten of reach outside 1dc] in next ch, one Love
corner. Fasten of sl st in each of
to make up securely and next four ch, miss
Wind wadding or cover other half of one ch) five times, T H I S P A T T E R N ?
tights evenly hanger in same join with a sl st in
around hanger. way. Sew Edging first st
Fold fabric in half along bottom Fasten of
Perfect for lengthways with edge. Weave in
beginners WS facing. Join all ends to make up
short edges with a Cut two fabric
1cm seam, then SACHET hexagons
turn RS out and edging following outside
CLOTHES press under a 1cm Make two line of template
HANGER turning seam Using 3.5mm hook and two paper
edging around top edge. and Soft Lilac hexagons
Using 3.5mm hook Mark centre of (Plush Pink) make following inside
and Golden Yellow top edge. Thread 75ch, join with a line. Tack fabric
make 111ch needle with sl st over papers and
Row 1 (WS): double length of Rnd 1: starting in press with iron.
starting in sixth ch matching sewing third ch from Take out papers FIND LOTS MORE PATTERNS
from hook, (1tr, thread and fasten hook, ([1tr, 1ch, 1tr, and with WS FOR THE HOME AT
miss 2ch, 2ch) to top centre. Sit TOPCROCHETPATTERNS.COM
to end hanger inside
Row 2: ([2tr, 2ch, cover and sew
2tr] in top of next two folded edges
“If you have a pair of old,
GREAT ADVICE clean tights, they make ideal
FRONT POST TREBLE (FPTR) zero-waste padding. Wind
Yoh, insert hook around post of st them tightly around the
from front right to front let, yoh,
pull through under st. Three loops hanger and sew the ends in
on hook. (Yoh and pull through
two loops) twice place with a few small stitches”
PICOT LUCINDA GANDERTON, DESIGNER
3ch, one sl st in irst ch

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