Jan. 30: Crocheted Valentines

I have a couple of ideas for making Valentines this year. Today, I decided I better start trying out some of those plans since February will be here in a couple of days. Crocheting an edge on printed Valentines was the first idea I wanted to try.

This was my first attempt; I decided I didn't like this bird or the bright pink paper.

On the second attempt I crocheted too tightly and the edging did not lay flat.

I finally finished one on my third try. I used a size larger crochet hook and did 6 stitches between each hole, 2 single crochet, 2 double crochet, 2 single crochet.

I also finished one with just the casting stitches, I think I like it just as much with this little border.

Here are the links I used for the instructions, saying, and clip art.

I learned how to do the crochet edge at http://onesheepishgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/adding-crochet-edge-to-paper-valentines.html.

The cute little saying came from http://thelongthread.com/?p=2373.

The bird clip art came from http://www.birdclipart.com/bird_clipart_images/all_clipart_images.html.