My IDEA BOARD

[Texas transplant]

Kitty, before Christmas I went looking for a new cover for an umbrellia. have the umbrellia of my grandmother's.

[Texas transplant]

kitty, before Christmas, I went looking for a cover for an umbrellia I have the metal Rods and the Handle And it all works. The umbrela belonged to my grandmother. It had been put in a trunk and left. She graduated from college in 1905. It had been covered in lace but most of it had rotted away. I found a crocheted pattern for a 5 ribbed cover on Michiel { Mikey] Selick. .and "The Crochet Crowd. " I never got back to it. He talked about buying a cheap Umbrellia at Walmart or Target, striping the cloth from it and Starting in the center and work out. I also went to Google, typed in umbrellia and found one but wasn'nt near as pretty. Hope you have good luck with your's. Margaret.







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[ooh-lalah]

Beautiful butterflies ... awesome crochet work. Thank you for sharing

[Kitty]

Hi Margaret, my umbrella has 8 ribs. I'm working on it now i'm almost half done and have added the pattern element- butterflies, again, a mini version (26blocks wide)of the other ones and I'm down to the heads of the butterflies( about 1/4 butterfly). Did you say your grandmothers umbrella had 5 ribs? Filet works for 5 ribs just do a number of stitches that is divisible by 5,( i think 30 would do it , then do a chain stitch every 6 stitches , and 2nd row do this , ch1, v-stitch, ch1 in every ch 1 space of the first round. This is where the increase is worked also. I started with 32 stitches, for my 8 rib.
Also saw a tutorial that said to take the cloth cover off first thing, i haven't , because it may come in handy i will just before i attach the new cover. Tutorial used an 8 sided doilly. I haven't seen any done in filet technique. Hope there isn't a reason for that , one i haven't encountered yet! I will post a pic when I'm done. ( i am taking notes on what i do all along the way, for future reference. )

[Theresa L]

First, how thrifty you are though I suppose today we would call you "green." Second, I love the idea of an idea board. The pieces you have posted in the picture are beautiful. They would certainly inspire me.

[WabashWoman]

Wow! Lovely work and they would make a lovely bedspread.

[Kitty]

I like them as curtains because depending on the time of day/nite the butterfly part is either dark or lighter than the light coming thru so they look different.

[Lynda Fey]

Kitty, the french curtains are gorgeous! You are so talented! Thank you for sharing.