When I first learned how to crochet I made a million scarves. The next thing I made was a set of three pillows. The living room I had at the time was a grey and pink color scheme so that’s what I did for the pillows. I’ve had those same pillows in my current living room for the past two years (since I moved apartments) but they really don’t match the room anymore. Mais, the crochet pillows that looked so great at the time don’t look so good to me now that I’ve got more experience with crochet. So I decided it’s time to frog and re-purpose them.
I’ve started with this one:
I actually really liked this when I first made it. Over time, embora, I’ve gotten sick of the amateur look of the pink edging and buttons which also don’t match my current home’s color scheme anyway (which is light blue, black, grey and purple). Assim, I decided to frog it and use the basic grey again on two smaller pillows incorporating blue and black yarn in small bits.
I have some purple pillows I don’t like that came with my purple couch so this seemed like the perfect time to cover them up with crochet.
The funny thing about my crochet path is that I didn’t learn granny squares until I’d learned lots of other techniques. Many people learn these right away, in childhood even, but to me they were this mystery that later became revealed after I’d practiced many other stitches. I’ve kind of fallen in love with granny squares. Specifically, I like working on large grannies that use very few color changes. You’ve seen this before when I’ve shared my granny square blankets. So I decided what I wanted to do with the reclaimed yarn was make two large granny square pillows, one featuring blue and one featuring black, but both predominantly in the grey reclaimed yarn.
I did the blue one first. All I did here was made a large granny and then wrapped it envelope style around the pillow I had.
Then I used single crochet to stitch all of those sides together. Eu decidi adicionar uma flor de crochê azul de um lado para os momentos em que eu queria mostrar um travesseiro mais decorativo do que apenas a praça básicas sobre o outro lado.
Então, usei o fio cinza restante para adoptar uma abordagem semelhante para o travesseiro cinza e preto. Eu espaçadas as duas linhas pretas da praça diferente do que eu tinha feito com as linhas azuis, porque eu não queria um olhar completamente correspondência. Optei por não adicionar uma flor para a parte de trás do preto um.
Eu adoraria a sua opinião sobre a minha decisão em reaproveitamento meus travesseiros crochê.
