Crochet Projects

  Crocodile Stitch Box It all starts from my mom’s request to teach her how to crochet a handbag with crocodile stitch.  I wanted to make a sample to show her my design but didn’t want to actually make a handbag because of my laziness.  So I decided to make a box to show her my crochet idea. The yarn for this box is Aunt Lydia’s crochet thread Classic 10.  The hook size is #6 (1.80mm).  The size of finished product is 13 cm in length, 8cm in width, and 5.5cm in height. You can use any kind of yarn and hook.  You can also change the size of the box, as long as you make sure the stitches for the crocodile stitches are correct. This is a multipurpose box.  It is made with continuous crochet from the bottom center. After finished with the bottom, I continue built upwards for the 4 sides.  Two opposite sides with same design.  The longer side is made with crocodile stitches; the shorter side is crocheted with simple double stitches. Each of the crocodile stitch of this box consists with a s

  This year, the pandemic scare is not fun.  I never thought I would get infected by Covid-19.  Even I work with patients who are cleared to enter the building; I wore the masks all the time and practiced good cleaning protocols.  With all the precautions I did, I thought I should be ok from getting that horrible thing.  Well, I hit the jack pot, and had to be in quarantine for a month. Staying in the confined room can really drive a person to drink.  So I decided to make my isolation time useful.  I always want to replace one of my picture frame content, but never made up my mind what to replace with.  These days I realize that I have learned so many different crochet techniques, but never made a picture out from crochet.  This is how the whole project idea was born. In this project, I used Irish crochet techniques to make different flowers, leaves and clones, and Romanian crochet techniques to make cords with different width.  I then use Brussels stitches to connect all the pieces to