Crochet and leather combination from Duplet and Zhurnal Mode

 Your crochet and knitting skills can be used wide not only for common pullovers, cardigans, tops, etc. but also for crocheted decoration elements and insertions to ready-made knit items.

Mysterious Dragons

Mysterious Dragon bead stitching, DIY beading on printed canvas kit

Soft toy dragon by UniversesSwirls from Etsy

There are so few dragons still living in this world :(
Please love them!

Learning Russian: colors

Crocheted dress from Duplet 148 close up

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The dress is published in Duplet 148
Don't try to find full pattern there
(as always for designer's dresses)

but the elements are easy to crochet, you can find them in any Duplet magazine

Beautiful and clever combination of chiffon and crochet

Designer: Svetlana Bekreneva

Little Owl small pouch

How to use yarn leftovers

Spring house cleaning may reveal lot of yarn ends.

You may use them to crochet granny squares and assemble them to bright pillowcases.

To make them look more professional you can choose pillowcase back color to be in shadows of your

furniture. Just take a look at great variety of colors clicking a link below. Now imagine what a beautiful pillowcase you can make instead of just throw out that yarn ends :)

Sounds reasonable? Then go ahead and have a lot of inspiration!

Pilowcase Backs

with sewn-in hidden zipper

They are made of the high quality upholstery fabric with overstitched borders.

You can use even old sweaters :)

Size - 15 3/4" x 15 3/4" (40 cm x 40 cm) 

Crochet with beads: Amber dress from Duplet 147 close-up

by Svetlana Bekreneva

Dress like this, made in complicated mixed crochet techniques,

can not have common patterns. 

This is a product of designer's experience, fantasy and skills.

But you can always find schematic patterns of motives used for dresses like this in Duplet magazine.

Duplet 147 crochet patterns magazine