These shoes were crocheted in between the bulk of orders i have to deliver before Christmas. My friends who like the red riding hood bolero expected theirs be made just in time for the holiday season. And since yours truly is not a full time crocheter, i have to do these boleros in between bus & mrt rides, office breaks, before sleeping, just after i woke up and every free time i could ever muster.

This is the first shoes i made. For my niece, Andrei Karla Dazo. The sole of the shoes are made from red soft cotton yarn (4 ply) using 2.10mm hook. The foundation stitch consists of 15 chains. And around are alternating single and treble crochet with (3 stitches for each corner to make the oval shape). Resulting to a spiked sole common to snow boots. I used red mohair yarn for the body of the shoes. Just single crochet around shaping the body. The shoe laces are made using two yarns – red and pink soft cotton yarn. Yarns are bought from indonesia.

Red Snow Boots with spiked sole

The second shoes are green moccasins for mike’s niece, baby Aeisha Isabelle Defensor. The body of the shoes are made using tape yarn bought from Dreams at Glorietta 5. The stitches are just single stitches (from the back loop) and shaped to form the body of the shoes. I used green mohair yarn for the ‘flaps’ around the ankle. And two green buttons to accentuate. Coz mike thinks these shoes look like frog, so the buttons are there to serve as their eyes.

Green 'Frog' Moccasins

The third shoes are for my friend Peach’s new born child. Its a yellow ballet shoes. Or doll shoes. Or, i don’t actually know what to call it as i crocheted these shoes from just trying out and i did not actually know how these shoes will turn out. I just know when i finish them

Peach likes yellow and so i decided that i use my yellow yarns from baguio. (She has my yellow soft cotton yarn already so i have no yellow yarns left except from my baguio yarns) The whole shoes are crocheted using single crochet. I accentuated the shoes with dragonfly metal findings.

Yellow ballet shoes for PM

And i still have another pair  to make for the newly born baby of my colleague and father-like friend surly. His baby is a ‘he’ so this will be another challenge for me. (will post pictures when done.) (update. here’s the link for surly’s baby’s shoes.)

All together now.

She is one of my beneficiaries of my crocheted anything.

And I think she always loves them:

Here they are

New Baguio Yarns

I will update the store so please check again later
For those whou can’t weight kindly post a comment in this post:

A: BLUE -(3 strands)

hook size 2.0mm  to 3.0mm

(destashed yarn) weight is 80G [48.00Php]

B: PINK – (3strands)

hook size 2.0mm – 2.1mm

(destashed yarn) weight is 80G [48.00Php]

C: ORANGE – (2strands)

hook size 1.5mm to 1.6mm to

(destashed yarn) weight is 100G [60.00Php]

D: RED-

-(3 strands)

hook size 2.0mm  to 3.0mm

(destashed yarn) weight is 120G [72.00Php]

E: LIGHT BLUE -

-(2 strands)

hook size 1.7.0mm  to 2.0mm

(new yarn)

weight is 80G [48.00Php]

(2 balls available – other ball is at 100G)

F: BLACK -

-(2 strands)

hook size 1.7.0mm  to 2.0mm

(new yarn) weight is 120G [72.00Php]

5 balls available

G: WHITE-

(new yarn) weight is 120G [72.00Php]

5 balls available

H: YELLOW-

(new yarn) weight is 160G [96.00Php]

5 balls available

I:MINT GREEN

- (new yarn) weight is 160G [96.00Php]

5 balls available

- get 20% discount off destashed yarns

Violet Wrist Band with Buttons

NOTE: If you want to order a blouse of the same kind, kindly leave a comment below

Materials:

Materials Used for making crocheted wrist band

• 8 metal links
• 1 wire with loop at end
• buttons
• Chrochet Thread (texture is like the DMC Thread used for cross stitch).
• 2 metal bars
• 1.6 mm crochet hook
• needle (big)

I bought the metal links, bars, and wires at Quiapo. The metal bars costs around 20Php/pack (contains 10), the links and wires are around the same price.

The buttons I used came from stashed buttons given to me by a local wholesale store of threads and other tailoring needs. (I’ll post a blog later)

Choose Buttons with this kind of back:

Buttons used

The purpose of this is the button will serve as the lock of the band.

The yarn’s frm Rosario Pasig. It was given to me free by the manong. Because I bought two kilos of yarns from him.

All in all, the materials came cheap. It took me less than 30 minutes to create this accessory.

Instructions:

Make a knot

Tighten the knot

Make a knot around one metal bar. And tighten it.This will serve as your first sc.

Make 8 sc around the chain like this:

First row of single crochet

Turn around. Chain 3 (serve as 1 dc). 8 DC into each next sc.

Second row of 9 dc

Create 9 rows with 9 DC.

Cut the yarn with a scissor, We will have to sew the yarn into the second metal bar with a needle.

Sewing the other end

The crocheted wrist band

Attach 3 metal links on each side of the metal bars. Then connect the 3rd links from both sides with the loop of the our wire.

Putting the links and improvised hook

Form the wire into a hook.

Improvised Hook

Attach three links in each side on the other metal bar. COnnect the 3rd links with another metal link. Connect the fourth link and the button using another metal link.

With Buttons Attached

This is the first crocheted clothing I made from baguio yarns. Stitch-wise, this clothing is easy to do. But if you are not as patient, this would be too tiring, too repetitive and boring. I barely managed to finish it, not because I wanted to, but felt compelled to. It’s because if i left this unfinished, it would forever be. And so, to make full use of the newly purchased yarns by michael, I finished this clothing and felt proud.

You could increase the length of the blouse by adding another row. This project is made from the sleeves down. It is convenient to wear even without a tube underneath since the stitches are kinda thick, you wouldn’t feel so anxious.

Read the inspiration/background for this in related posts: Part I & Part II

Finished Product

Pyschedelic Shell

Pyschedelic shell worn by momoink

About the Stitches:

As i said, the stitches are pretty simple, I used ch, dc, tc, dc shell and tc shell.

Gauge:

5ch ~ 1 in

1dc ~ 1/2 in.

Materials:

• 3.0mm crochet hook
• 6strands(ply) Soft Cotton Yarn from Baguio (I think each strand is comparable in thickness to any sewing thread)
• 12 strands(ply) Soft Cotton Yarn from Baguio color black. Same thickness as the 6-ply yellow yarn
• 1ply White Popcorn Yarn from Baguio

Stitch Diagram

Stitch Diagram for Pyschedelic Shell

Instructions:

Take out your tape measure, measure the width of your upper body and your shoulder height.

The length of your foundation chain should be:

Length of foundation chain = Body width +4 x shoulder height.

Note that in this project, 5 ch is approximately 1in.

(Note that this blouse is made from shoulders down.)

Using yellow and black yarn, together:

Crochet chain with length calculated from above. Slip st to first row to make a circle.

1st row: ch 3 (counts as 1 dc), *(ch 5, skip 5 ch sp dc on next 3 st)*

Repeat from * until there are only 7 ch remaining. ch 5, skip 5 ch sp. dc on next 2ch sp. Slip st on 3rd ch of the row.

2nd row – 4th row: slip st on 3rd chain of previous row. * Create a 6dc 3ch open shell on the 5 ch sp.

Skip the next 3 stitches. * Repeat *

On the fifth row, you are going to make spaces for your arms. These will serve as the sleeves of your blouse.

How does this work?

My shoulder height is around 7.5in. So the space i ought to allot for a sleeve is around 15in.

That would probably take 75 ch. and one open shell needs about 9 ch. So in a sleeve there should be 8 shells.

Just divide your crocheted article now into half. Count the number of shells you have. In my project i have 35 shells. I skipped 8 shells for a sleeve in both sides, leaving me with 10 shells for the front part and 9 for the back part.

For the 5th row, I crochet 6 dc 3ch open shells 10 times. skipped 8 shells, then crocheted 6dc 3ch open shells on the next ’9 shells’ from previous row. Skip 8 shells and slip stitch on 3rd ch.

At this point you should have 2 open arm holes.

row 6: crochet 6dc 3ch open shell around.

Fasten off yarn, attach the popcorn yarn.

Using the popcorn yarn:

The following is the stitch diagram for rows 7-10.

(Fasten off yarn and change color)

Using two of the yellow yarn (to compensate for the weight):

The following is the stitch diagram for rows 11-16

Fasten off yarn, attach the popcorn yarn

Using the popcorn yarn:

The following is the stitch diagrams for rows 17 – 22

Fasten off yarn, attach the (yellow + black yarn)

Using the yellow and black yarn together:

The following is the stitch diagrams for rows 23 – 28