EASY IRISH CROCHET

This is the subject I like most: Irish crochet. Irish lace has always been an important part of the Irish needlework tradition. When times were hard, women had to find ways of supporting their family. This was particularly true during and after the great potato famine of the 1840s. During that time period, most women could do needlework, so it was only a short step to lace-making. Irish Crochet and Tatting traveled particularly well as equipment needed was simple, a ball of cotton and a shuttle for Tatting and simple crochet hook and cotton for Irish Crochet lace. The time passing, women improved this technique and simplified it a lot using it first for garments for the wedding dresses and then for casual dresses, tops, skirts and shawls. This is the most wonderful technique I ever tried and the results are more than marvelous. Glamour and elegance define this exquisite hand made piece of art.

You can read the short history of Irish crochet here: http://goo.gl/yoz0G where you can see the genuine technique. This is for advanced crochet. You can find and download the files of some antique Irish crochet patterns here: http://goo.gl/xP0Xq

I propose you a more easy way to crochet this in the following pictures. Hope to enjoy it.

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Some patterns:

 

CROCHET GRANNY SQUARE

This is a very simple granny square crochet. You can use this piece of crochet for blankets, shawls, pillows, curtains, bed covers, even table mats, and whatever you like. You can use wool yarns or any kind of colored yarns. You can also recycle your knitted pieces you do no longer wear. The combination of colors is at your hand.

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CROCHET PATTERN

I was wondering what can be done with some marvelous granny squares assembled in different forms. Your imagination, some beautiful yarns, some accessories, all can be concluded with a beautiful piece of crochet. It is not hard at all to crochet some granny squares and to put them together. You can obtain some tops, shawls, skirts or even begs. Depends on your own necessities. Here are some ideas of such granny squares. Please use Picasa Viewer to see larger images. You can have Picasa viewer by downloading Picasa software free from the Internet, then make this program default to open all images in your computer. Picasa Viewer can be downloaded from here: http://picasa.google.com/

CROCHET POT HOLDERS AND PLATE MATS

I give you here some ideas of pots from the beginning of the 20th century. This means that women liked this handcraft and had beautiful and interesting ideas since ancient times. Their inspiration and ideas are still available in old magazines of those times. Many women were aware of their role of mother, sister and wife in a family. As long as at the beginning of the last century women hardly had jobs , their only entertainment and utile thing to do were the handcrafts of all kind. Here are some of their works from the old magazine of those times.

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