Retro crochet coaster pattern for free

Thrifting sometimes brings me little treasures. Like these cotton coasters in colors that are so seventies. I love the pattern and I was planning to figure it out some day. Last night I did and today I've written my first ever crochet pattern.

Here you see the whole retro set with my new one swimming towards them. Besides the written pattern I made a chart picturing the stitches. I had to get a new math compass to be able to do this and hope you don't mind my drawing.

Would you like to make these coasters too? Look in the upper right hand corner under free patterns. Have fun and show me your coasters if you like.

Knit and purl treasures in Vogue stitchionary

I love what you can do by just knitting and purling, as you can see from some of my patterns. To find out more I bought Volume one of the Vogue knitting stitchionary and I'm amazed.

It contains over 250 stitch patterns. My first project based on this stitchionary involves the heringbone linen stitch. I made this pencil pouch with less than one skein of vintage yarn.

The flower I got from freubelweb.nl. It's a free crochet pattern by Ellebel. I made it with five different bits of leftovers and I love how the multicolored yarns bring life to the flower.

 

A number of stitch patterns from this stitchionary are on vogueknitting.com. Some really pretty ones too. Me, I'm looking out for a new edition of Vogue knitting stitchionary 5: lace knitting.