Item: Yellow crocheted cushion
Yarn: Heilo from Dale
Grams: 70 g
A cushion for the nursery, as yellow as can be. Is it a New York taxi? Or is it a submarine? Or perhaps a solar explosion?
Crocheted on a needle size 4 mm, it is made entirely out of single crochets, starting with simple chain stitches, as many as you need to cover one length of the cushion (not the circumference, just one length). Then you start with the single crochet stitches, one stitch in each chain stitch. When you reach the end of the chain stitches, you continue stitching a single crochet in each chain stitch from the other side, adding some extra stitches in each of the two corners. Doing this means you can crochet round and round rather than back and forth, and still not have to sew together the bottom of the cushion, only the top. You'll actually make something that looks a bit like a bag, which you'll sew together at the top.
The nice thing about crocheting cushions is that you don't have to fasten any loose threads, I simply just tie a knot when joining two threads, hiding the knot on what will be the inside of the cushion. It will never show! So I only have to fasten the final thread used to sew together the opening on the top of the cushion :)
A cushion for the nursery, as yellow as can be. Is it a New York taxi? Or is it a submarine? Or perhaps a solar explosion?
Crocheted on a needle size 4 mm, it is made entirely out of single crochets, starting with simple chain stitches, as many as you need to cover one length of the cushion (not the circumference, just one length). Then you start with the single crochet stitches, one stitch in each chain stitch. When you reach the end of the chain stitches, you continue stitching a single crochet in each chain stitch from the other side, adding some extra stitches in each of the two corners. Doing this means you can crochet round and round rather than back and forth, and still not have to sew together the bottom of the cushion, only the top. You'll actually make something that looks a bit like a bag, which you'll sew together at the top.
The nice thing about crocheting cushions is that you don't have to fasten any loose threads, I simply just tie a knot when joining two threads, hiding the knot on what will be the inside of the cushion. It will never show! So I only have to fasten the final thread used to sew together the opening on the top of the cushion :)
