Plate Decor with Puff Flowers

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Hello friends,
In crochet, Puff flowers are so cute and have variety of uses. Here I have one more plate decor (meherap) see fig 1, I made with puff flowers. In India and particularly in Maharashtra there is a tradition of drawing rangoli about the lunch or dinner plate when some one special is invited. Now due to busy schedule it is not possible many times so these crochet plate decors will be very useful in that case.

For more designs of plate decor please read my posts,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=plate+decor

Some more uses of puff flowers are in for patch work on sweater, decorate photo frame, Hair clips and one more plate decor. For these photos please read my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=puff+flower
Puff flower pattern is already explained in above post, so here I shall only write the pattern of the green stem in the plate decor.

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Make chains for the required length, here I made 15" long.
Slip st 1 in 4 chs starting from second ch, ch 4, sl st on each ch starting from second (that is 3 sl sts), sl st in the starting st, centre, from where ch 4 are worked. Again ch 4 and 3 sl st, forth sl st at cnetre. See fig 2.
Now make sl sts on main stem (4-5, you can vary that as per

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your choice) and same leaf as above. 3 leaves made, Fig 3.
Then ch 9 to make another 3 leaves pattern, sl st 4 starting from second ch, ch 4 .....  Repeat as aboove. Fig 4. Three sets of three leaves made, fig 5.

Sl Sts 7/8 on main stem. Then repeat as you want the design.

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Delebrately we kept some space vaccent or we can say with less leaves because there we can place our puff flowers. See fig 6.
Then place 4-5 puff flowers, the beautiful plate decor is ready.

The following video may help you.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.

Bird House Wall Hanging

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Hi,
This is very new show piece I made recently, "A beautiful Bird House Wall Hanging".
You may wonder to hear that inspiration behind this design is my grand-daughter. While video chat with her she showed me the bird house of paper, she made. See fig 3, and it's WOW!!!! At once the idea click in my mind that let us make such crochet show piece. So this is the result.
It is 2 ft long and looks very pretty.
These crochet birds I have already made and I posted it here,

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https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=crochet+bird
Then for these birds I have also made a tree with round constructionaround it's base.
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=birds+on+tree
But now being a rainy season, I think that there should be one house for these birds same as my grand daughter made.
PATTERN: All yarns are Vardhamaan, 4 ply. Colours used Wooden colour, brown, red, green. Needle 3.5 mm
I took an old invitation card and cut it of 10"x5" size, fig 3. With dark brown yarn, make chains having length 10". I have to make 41+1 chs.

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R1: sc 1 in each st starting

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from second ch from hook.
R2: with wooden colour ch1 turn, sc 1 in each st
R3: same as R2.
R4: with dark brown, ch1 turn, sc 1, (sc 1 in the st corresponding to next st but from the lowest brown row, sc 1 in 3 next sts) rep.
After this work only 15 sts.

R5: R6: same as row 2 and 3.
R7: sc 1 in 3 sts, (sc 1 in the st corresponding to next st but from the lowest brown row, (this st should be the middle of previous three brown scs) sc 1 in 3 next sts) rep.
Repeat rows 2 to 7 only for these 15 sts,  till the height becomes 5". As in fig 4.
Now skip the 11 sts in 4th row and join yarn in next st. There are 15 sts to end. Work these 15 sts again in the same manner as right part. Fig 5.
With dark colour make dc 1 in each of the 15 sts then make 11 chs and again sc 1 on each st of other part.
Then with wooden colour make sc 1 in each of the 41 sts. See fig 6.
Make R3 and 4 in all 41 sts

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Cut the card board for making door, stepple it in round. See fig 7.
Wrap the piece we just made around it properly (considering the door gap) and sew it by tapestry needle.
Then make border on all 4 sides of door making round shape at upper corners as shown in fig 8.
Border: ch 2, hdc 1 in each st, at lower corner skip corner st at both ends. At the time of upper corners skip 2 sts on both sides of edge st and make 4 dcs in corner st.Now it will look as in fig 9.

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Then make base by simpleround as in fig 10. With fabric fevicol stik it to a cardboard round of same size.

Now for the roof make a cone with 4" height and covering the house part properly, stepple it.
Now we make a roof cover.
Make chs of length sufficien to cover the lowest part of cone. I made 59 chs and join them by sl st to form a ring as in fig 12.

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Always first dc means ch3. R1: Make more ch 3 and then dc 1 in each st from forth st, cl. (60 sts)
R2: (dc1in 4 sts, 2dctog next) rep, cl (50 sts)
R3: (dc1in 3 sts, 2dctog next) rep, cl (40 sts). Fig 13.
R4: dc 1 in each st, cl (40 sts)
R5: (dc1in 2 sts, 2dctog next) rep, cl (30 sts)
R6: (dc1in 1 st, 2dctog next) rep, cl (20 sts)

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R7: dc 1 in each st (20 sts)
R8: (2dctog) rep, cl (10 sts) as in fig 14.
R9: 10 dctog, BO.
Then make a border of bubble st with red yarn, as I have made it to the baby sweater with 3D leaves yoke, link,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=3D+leaves+yoke

Now take a plastic ring as in fig 16, wrap it by sc with brown colour as in fig 17.

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Now make chains with 3 or 4 threads at a time to tie this wall hanging. Keep it's length as much as you want. See fig 18.
Then make two puff fllowers with red colour as refereds in my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=flower+fever
Also the green tree part, I have already explained in my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=plate+decor+puff+flower
Lastly make a long, big tessal with red yarn.
Finally assemble it as to make like fig 1.
Wow!!! a beautiful wall hanging is here!!!!
The following video may help you.