And I thought to myself ‘Now that<\/em> doesn’t look too tricky!’<\/p>\n So I gave it a go.<\/p>\n I wanted it to be something, so I carried on, and here we have my new glasses case:<\/p>\n And in case you fancy trying this yourself, here’s how I did it:<\/p>\n Tunisian Crochet Glasses Case<\/strong><\/p>\n Drops Andes 65% wool, 35% alpaca (about half a ball) Chain 12 stitches (you end up with 11 on the hook once you have begun) I did 22 rows of grey which I could rest my glasses on and fold about 1\/3 back over. Do not bind off, but fold the two colours together at the colour switch and single crochet back around the edge to create the case. I put a line of single crochet along the bottom as I went around, too, for aesthetic reasons. When you have joined the sides, continue up around the top of the case and when you reach the middle stitch put in one single crochet, chain 3 for the button hole and make another single crochet in the same stitch. Then carry on around.<\/p>\n If you’re clever (or is it lazy?) you’ll then cut the tail long enough to be able to weave it through the inside of the front and use it to secure your button before fastening it off and weaving in the ends.<\/p>\n Does this make sense?<\/p>\n If you try it and get stuck, please let me know where I have confused matters and I’ll try to clarify \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n In other news…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I made a bag over the weekend. That is, I found a ‘blanket’ (ahem) I had started and decided to give it a new destiny. So here it is:<\/p>\n Why yes, I am \ud83d\ude42 How’s this for a New Year’s Resolution not to fall off the face of the earth for a few months? Twice in one year – hurrah! \ud83d\ude09 So. What’s happening? Well, this morning I happened upon this video: [vimeo 6723357 w=500 h=375] DROPS Crochet Tutorial: How to do Tunisian crochet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[48,71,136,138,158,186,188,205,210,220,234,282,344,454,474,480],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patterns","tag-alice-in-knittingland","tag-bag","tag-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-drops-andes","tag-floral","tag-flowers","tag-glasses-case","tag-granny-squares","tag-handmade","tag-homemade","tag-knittingland","tag-pattern","tag-tunisian-crochet","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tunisian-crochet\"](\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/tunisian-crochet.jpg\")
<\/a>It’s hard to express how gorgeous this is. It’s thick, and springy, and sturdy and yet still incredibly soft.<\/p>\n![\"glasses-case2\"](\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/glasses-case2.jpg\")
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\n7mm crochet hook<\/p>\n
\nFollow the directions in the video for simple tunisian crochet<\/p>\n
\nI then changed the colour to chocolate brown and made another 16 rows.<\/p>\n![\"bag1\"](\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/bag1.jpg\")
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<\/a>And that’s my news for now, so toodle-pip till next time! <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"