More Mandela's and the Give-away Winner

Here to show you three more Mandela's I made from the Attic24 pattern.

I used the same three colors, just in different order.

And now to the winner of my little Give-away.

And

the

winner

is:

Taadaa

Beca

from Summerhouse Cottage

Now if you please get in touch with me through email Beca

I would appreciate it.

For everyone else, I will have another give-away in a

couple of weeks and I hope you come back and

try again. thanks for participating.

Link Yourself Monday #28 and Mandela #10

Well my Friends, it is once again Monday and our next Link-up has arrived. Hope you can join us for this one with all the lovely things you have made of late. Every week I am astounded at all the wonderful crafts out there. But we are not limited to just crafts. You are welcome to post your link to anything you like.

This weeks top three most looked at posts:

1. Summerhouse Cottage

2. Lunamon Design

3. Jannies Hobbyhoek

As you can see my Mandelitiz problem has not ended. Here now to show of Mandela #10, designed by none other than our own Lucy at Attic24. Who can avoid trying something out that Lucy has made? Not me, that's for sure.

As you can see, I made 4, all in different colors.

This last one I decided to make in red, white and blue and is this one

that is on it's way to England and Attic24 .

For Yarndale!

Hope you enjoyed my newest Mandela's.

And now it's time for the Link-up.....

Go for it....

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link-Yourself Monday #26 & Mandela #9

Hello my lovely Friends!

Once again Monday has arrived and with it our next Link-Yourself Monday. Are you all ready to join the fun and show of your latest creations. As always I am looking forward to seeing what you all have been up to in the past week. So let's get this Party started.

Here are this weeks most viewed Link-ups:

1. Crochet Kari

It's a very pretty Mandela and is on my list to make.

2. Mascha's colorful freubels

This is just cowlious, don't you think?

3. The Lazy Hobbyhopper

Such pretty colors and the pompoms are a wonderful touch.

This last week has been a busy one for me. Had several Birthday Parties to attend, than work of course and the daily things don't want to wait either. But I did manage to squeeze in a few crafty minutes here and there. I crocheted one more Mandela. The pattern once again came from Zooty Owl . This Mandela is absolutely huge. As you can see I am still a little behind on sewing in all those strings, but I will get there.

I am going to call this one my pink Rose Garden.

I am working on writing out the Pattern for Mandela #8

and should be able to post it in the next few days.

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Mandela #9

Thanks for stopping by today. As you can see I am still on my Mandela kick. I just can't stop. And the more I want to stop, the more new patterns I see appearing and with that it is over for me. I am just plain hooked. Please come and help me get over this madness.

Here now is one I have designed myself. I hope you like it.

But first I thought I would share a little description of what the different colors stand for in a Mandela. Very interesting, don't you think?

The one thing that is crazy about a Mandela is allllll those strings.

You do have to do a lot of sewing in.

If you should be interested in the pattern please let me know and I will post it.

I should have written it down as I went along,

but sadly I didn't.

So now I am going back and doing just that, so I have it

as a future reference.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

Till next time.....

Mandela #6

Good Morning my lovely fellow bloggers. Hoping your weekend will be filled with lots of fun things!

Yes, I made another Mandela. Just can't quite stop yet. So addicting.

I found the pattern here: Lizzie Bella Blog

It's not as big as some of the other Mandela's

She made a few in different color combinations.

Go and check them out.

"Happy Hooking"

Link-Yourself Monday #23 & Mandela #5

Happy Monday everybody! Hope your weekend was filled with the things you enjoy. Personally I had another super busy one. Hoping that after Easter it slows down a bit, so I can catch up with myself.

It being Monday, another Link-Yourself day has come around and I hope as many as possible of you will come and join us and show of your lovely creations. You are also welcome to link-up if you don't craft and have something else to show us.

Sorry, when it comes to the link-up button to put on your blogs, I have not been able to get one that worked right. Hopefully by next week that will be remedied. 

Without further ado, here are out top three most viewed Linkers: 

1. Grammy Dirlam

2. Crochet Crazy

3. Lanas de Ana

Please kind and show your Love by checking out their pretty blogs and leave a comment so they will know you have been there.

Now, yes this crazy lady has another Mandela to share with you. Mandela #5

Pattern was found here: Cut, nela, cut

Here I am leaving you with a view of a few of the last daffodils 

And now I hope you will join or Link-Up:

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Mandela Crazy

Good Morning my lovely Friends!

You will all say "She has gone crazy". So many Mandela's. And I would have to say "Yep, very true". I just can't seem to get enough of them. It's like an addiction, you just can't stop. So many different patterns, so many different color combinations, so much fun. Once I got started with them, I don't seem to be able to put them down.

Remember the other day I showed you my Mandela #4. Well at the time I didn't just make one. Nope, I made three, in three color combinations of the same three basic colors, white, pink and red. When I showed it off, I had only sewn in the string of one and so only showed you that one. So now, without further ado, I shall show you the other two and than all three together.

After all that, do you think there is hope for me

to quit this addiction?

Do I need to go to the Mandela addiction clinic

for rehab?

Help!!!

On that note I will leave you all today.

Make your day Special!

Link-Yourself Monday & Mandela #4

Sadly the weekend is over and it is back to work for some of us. My weekend wasn't to bad, if busier than I thought it would be, but that's ok. I did get to do most of the things that I had planned. What more could a girl want?

Today it is Link-Yourself Monday. So please show of your beautiful works at the end of this post. Starting next Monday, I will tell you which three have been our top viewed blogs. So please be so kind and leave them a comment, so they will know you have visited. I should also have a link-up button for you to take to show where you are linking up to.

Now I would like to show you another Mandela I have finished for our Mand-A-Long. Have you joined yet? They are so much fun to make and can be made in so many different patterns.

The pattern you can find here

from Zooty Owl's Blog

Please check her out. She has many pretty things to share with us.

This time I chose some girlie colors.

Do you like them?

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Link-Yourself Monday & Mandela #3

Happy Monday my Friends! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

After quite a break I have decided it is time to go back to LINK-YOURSELF Monday. So I hope you will join me. You will find the Link-Up at the end of my post.

Today I will share a Granny Mandela Tutorial. Hope I write it in a way you can understand.

We will start by chaining 4 and joining them with sling stitch.

Chain 3 (counts as first dc), follow by 1 dc, chain 1,

repeat until you have 6 clusters.

Rd. 2 - sling stitch in between cluster and chain 3 (counts as first dc),

1 more dc, chain 1, 2 dc in same space, chain 1, repeat around in each space.

Fasten off.

With new color start in any space with a stand-up dc.

Continue by adding 2 more dc's in same space.

Chain 1.

Continue with 3 dc's in each space around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 4 

Once again 3 dc's in each space.

Fasten off.

Rd. 5

With new color crochet 2 dc's, chain 1, 2 dc's, chain 1

in each space around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 6

With new color, crochet 3 dc's, 1 chain in each space around, join with

sling stitch, fasten off.

Rd. 7

Repeat Rd. 6 all the way around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 8

With new color 2 dc's, chain 1, 2 dc's in same space, chain 1

all the way around .

Fasten off.

Rd 9 - Final

With new color crochet 5 dc's in center (chain) of each 4 dc cluster,

chain 1, repeat all the way around.

Fasten off and sew in strings.

Someone ask me where the Mandela came from and that is a question I had ask myself as well. When I googled it, it didn't give much information. Does any of you have an idea what it actually means and if the colors you use have a significance? If you do, please share with us. Thank you!

And now our Link-Up. Please be so kind to visit the other people linking here and leave them a comment to let them know you have visited. Enjoy!

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