Irish crochet crochet: sketches for beginners, patterns and elements

No matter how expensive the thing that you bought in a boutique or in a brand store, it can not be compared with that made by your hands. Using the Irish crochet technique, you can learn how to create chic items for yourself, without making any special material costs. All you need is a bit of zeal, a rich imagination and materials for crocheting.

Irish lace is a relatively new type of handicraft compared to the previously existing types of lace. For example, Venetian lace was the most expensive and expensive in time. To make a small piece of such lace a needle took about two hundred hours. And with the advent of Irish crochet technology, this time was reduced to twenty hours, which made it popular and promoted rapid spread.

A little about the technique of knitting Irish lace

Of all types of crochet Irish technique is the most difficult, but even so, even beginners in this business can make progress. The time spent on your needlework will not be a pity when you see the result. You can play with colors and textures, create different motifs and elements that, when combined, form a unique pattern.

You need to build a pattern of the thing that you intend to do, just as if you were sewing it out of fabric. Having outlined darts, you can achieve a better fit to the silhouette. Then choose a simpler pattern and start knitting. It is better to choose two - three simple patterns and learn how to knit them perfectly. In the case where a volumetric element, for example a flower, is knit, its base must be flat.

What materials are needed for knitting in Irish?

So you decided to create your own creation, and now think about what you need to get started. This will require:

• A set of knitting hooks of different thickness;
• Threads - the average thickness for knitting patterns themselves, thick for the base of the pattern and thin to create a mesh;
• Pins of tailors( many);
• A dummy or something, where you can collect individual pieces;
• Small scissors and a needle for stitching.

Do not be afraid that you may not succeed. Now you can find many manuals and guides step-by-step explaining that yes how. Let's look at crochet Irish lace schemes for beginners. With these schemes, you can learn how to do simple patterns first, and then move on to more complex patterns. Here is a visual diagram for beginners, how to tie a petal.

And this is a simple scheme for making a flower.

Irish lace looks very beautiful in various garments, for example dresses from it will look on you just stunning!

From which elements can you build, for example, a dress?
Below are the individual elements of the Irish lace with patterns on which you can make them.

1. A leaf with an openwork window. Such an element is not difficult to perform, it is executed in three rows. Over the initial chain of air loops knit the first row, turn the work and knit the second row. Turn around again and tie the remaining third row.

2. Leaf with seven denticles and veins. It is performed mainly from the columns without the crochet, connected behind the back wall - this is how veins form.

3. A dense flower. It starts with a circular series of air loops, from which one row is knitted.2 row is similar, and the third is already with adding and decreasing loops, to create petals near the flower.

Having connected a sufficient number of elements, start to collect them by pinning them. In this case, they must be applied face down. In the places where darts are planned, it is necessary to collect the elements so that there are no unevennesses, applying the most successful method.

For a more illustrative example, we advise you to watch video lessons of knitting Irish lace. Finally, a very interesting video for beginners, how to connect floral motifs.