A bit over a year ago we moved in to our house and since we're a bit slow we have barely started renovating eventhough we must fix the walls in nearly every room. (My man works shifts and we are not off work so often at the same time.) Finally I knew how to decorate the big wall in our livingroom. First put one-colored wallpaper up, and then fill the wall with huge mandalas... My man isn't really totally convinced yet...
Well, Yarn_house also wrote where she finds the pattern. The largest ones were bought on Etsy.com by the seller CAROcreated. (Lillabjorncrochet also have some beautful ones and Yarn_house have started designing her own.) I wanted mine to be large so I chose the largest one which was Mandala no. 7. The pattern is very instructive with photos, and suits everyone with basic crochetskills and is able to follow English instructions. Oh, and you need not to rush when reading the pattern.
The yarn I chose was Scheepjes Catona. A glossy cottonyarn, easy to work with (doesn't split very easily) and the most important of all: It comes in 81 colors, which will suit my wallproject perfectly! I bought it from the webshop: Favoritgarner.se (great service and quick delivery. Catona has a great price, just 26 kronor/ 50 g. ball.)
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| The start! |
It's also a cool coincidence that the yarn comes in 81 colors and this mandala consists of 81 rounds!
It's also amazing how the mandala looks completely different with every round!
When I made mistakes it was usually because I missed either "skip 1 st" or "skip no st", so my tip is to look carefully on this particular instruction if it doesn't add up!
The pattern calls for 6 colors but I used 7 and I totally went with feeling rather than followingt the yarnchanges the pattern said.
I used following yarnnumbers and amount: (you can see the color on the photo above)
114 1 ball of yarn
393 2 balls of yarn
106 2 balls of yarn
251 1 ball of yarn
222 2 balls of yarn
128 2 balls of yarn (exactly, would recommend 3 balls in case you crochet a bit looser than I do)
205 1 ball of yarn
I used the 50 grams balls, and I have leftovers from every color, except number 128.
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| The finished mandala! |
And here's my colororder in case you want to make the exact same. (But you have to buy the pattern yourself, well worth the money!)
Rounds Colornumber
1 106
2 222
3 106
4 106
5 222
6 114
7 222
8 106
9 128
10 205
11 205
12 128
13 106
14 114
15 106
16 128
17 222
18 106
19 128
20 393
21 222
22 106
23 939
24 114
25 205
26 393
27 114
28 205
29 393
30 106
31 393
32 128
33 251
34 106
35 222
36 128
37 251
38 106
39 128
40 222
41 114
42 106
43 128
44 205
45 393
46 205
47 128
48 106
49 222
50 114
51 128
52 106
53 222
54 114
55 128
56 106
57 222
58 114
59 128
60 106
61 222
62 114
63 128
64 251
65 106
66 393
67 222
68 128
69 393
70 128
71 205
72 393
73 128
74 205
75 393
76 251
77 106
78 251
79 393
80 222
81 251
I'm already planning my next mandala, no. 8 in different shades of green. Just have to wait for my new printer to be installed before I can buy the pattern. Also designed mini squares in the overlay technique, I'll post the pattern here when I assembled the first actual piece with them.
Happy crocheting!
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