Well, this weekend I finally did it… I was prompted by this months ‘Simply Crochet’ magazine as there was a pattern in there to “pretty up a pebble or two”. But I didn’t want to follow a pattern so I tentatively started to crochet round a pebble making it up as I went along. However, firstly I needed to collect some stones- this was surprisingly harder than I ever thought it would be- symmetrical round stones/ pebbles are not as common as you’d think!
Here are my first attempts…
And then I got a little braver…
And a little more confident…
And then I tried introducing different colours…
There was no stopping me… pebbles, yarn and crochet hook came with me wherever I went. I even tried a mustard version…
I ended up with 9 pebbles covered in crochet…
They look pretty but what to do with them? Well, some will just stay lying around looking pretty but a few have already been given as gifts. My daughter left primary school today (the end of an era…) and I gave a couple of teachers a ‘paper weight’!
I haven’t written the patterns up for these… if you feel inspired to try some then be brave and experiment! They are all worked in the round with different stitch combinations and lengths of chains until the size of the pebble is reached. I then began decreasing on each round stretching the cover over the pebble before weaving though the stitches on the back and pulling tight so it’s a snug fit.
Why not give it a go… 🙂 🙂