Blogpost number 900!

Minimalism & geometry the crochet way!

Minimalism in black

Just a black crochet tube, no more no less.  Minimalistic & modern.

New work and a new header for my blog

Keeping it simple

picture jasper beads in shades of mauve, purple, grey, mustard, beige

6 mm tiny amazonite beads in pastel turqoise

 just using beautiful gemstones with a matte finish 

and pimping them with a crochet detail:

less is more

Just silk and leather

bracelets

necklaces

Remnants

Delicate material to work with, but so pretty in design and texture:

 sea urchins.

The 'expat' necklace

 

 Received a request to make a necklace for a Belgian woman living in Australia. I immediatly thought of making her something that would remind her of Belgium in a subtle way: so decided that our national flagcolors would be the inspiration for this necklace.

I call it the expat necklace!

Combed African vinyl discs, an old Ethiopian trade bead and some crochetwork to translate this into a necklace.

A multi culti mix!

Make-over

 Necklace made in 2012

Make-over with the crochet-twist!

Recycled & second hand

 

Recycled glass from Thailand

  Second hand silk yard from Oxfam thriftstore.

Melted recycled plastic into beads from Oeganda combined with wooden cubes.

Sizes

switching from 0.75 to a size 10

 switching from making jewerly into making a capelet

switching from crochet overday onto crochet in the evening

The Naturals: crochet, leather and a pebble

Custom orders

Two totally different styles, but both made with the same enthusiasm.

Variation

  

More ideas are popping up to make variations on the crochet tube necklaces.

An old box

 

 A while ago I received a nice surprise in my mailbox.  Dear Yael from PazzaPazza sended me this old cigarette box filled with old Gütermann silk sewingthread in bright colors. 

What a delight!

I did not use these bobins at the moment of receiving, due to lack of time and inspiration. 

Thank you Yael, for arousing my crochetpassion!

Minimalism

 Minimalism in materials: just a crochet needle, some real silk thread and a metal ring.

 Minimalism in implementation

Twins ... almost

 Beaded

Crocheted

Beaded with a crochet accent