African Flower Mandala

End of May and the flowers are in full bloom! Flowers brighten up any room whether they are real flowers in a vase or items made with floral fabric or crafted with yarn. This week to celebrate May flowers, I created a mandala with one of the most popular flower patterns on the internet, the African Flower Motif. 

According to the information on Ravelry, the African Flower Motif was created by Lounette Fourie and Anita Rossouw and first published in Sarie a South African magazine in June 2009. It was originally written in Afrikaans and was translated to other languages such as German, Finnish, Portuguese, and English. (History teacher coming through!)

Here we go a skein, FOTH:

                                    African Flower Mandala

This bright and cheery mandala is great for crocheters of all skill level since it is done with basic crochet stitches and includes one special stitch a spike single crochet.

This bright mandala is done in Paintbox cotton dk yarn, the color used are, 424 mustard yellow, 401 paper white, 448 pansy purple, 473 jam, 430 grass green, 434 marine blue, and 452 lipstick pink.

The Blue and green mandala is done in Paintbox cotton dk yarn, the color used are, 401 paper white, 433 washed teal, 434 marine blue, 440 sailor blue, 430 grass green, 470 macaron green, and 427 slate green.

If you like this pattern check out our other free African Flower patterns, the African Flower Square and a Half and African Flower Drawstring Pouch.

I will be taking a break from writing patterns for the month of June, so I can work on some personal crochet projects.

Have a hooky day! Lynne

*All images are copyright by Lynne Samaan and D60 Crochet, please do not use without permission, Thank you!  

Crochet Trinket Bag

I can't believe it is almost the end of May, WOW, this month has gone by in a snap! I am going to visit my grandkids in a few weeks and was checking my travel kit and saw that there were some loose items that needed to be put in a small bag. Instead of using sandwich baggies, I decided to create a small bag that could store small personal items, such as hair accessories, nail clipper, mini tube of toothpaste, etc.. That is how the crochet trinket bag pattern came to life. Crochet trinket bags, are not just to hold travel items, they are great dice bags, make great party favors, work great as a mini gift bags and this small bag is big enough to hold a gift card!

Here we go a skein FOTH:

                                    Crochet Trinket Bag

These crochet bags are a great stash busting project and are done in basic crochet stitches, making them a great project for crocheters of all skill levels.

The pattern is written without color changes which allows for many different color combinations and leaves the creativity up to you. The two bags above were done with the same pattern but the color changes were done in different rounds.

Color changes are not the only way to make your trinket bag unique but how many colors you use gives each bag a distinctive look.

I just love how these little bags turned out and I can't wait to use them!

Have a hooky day! Lynne

*All images are copyright by Lynne Samaan and D60 Crochet, please do not use without permission, Thank you!