Wollzeitmama: crocheted picture frame

Crochet, scrapbooking and other Handicrafts

Tuesday March 8, 2016

Crocheted picture frame

This idea had been in my head for a long time, now I’ve finally implemented it. Do you remember the photos I took of a friend’s baby bump in the summer? I always wanted to highlight one of them – with a crocheted picture frame. Now my girlfriend had a birthday and I have quickly swung the crochet hook. This is really very quick. Somewhere I had seen a photo of similar picture frames and found the shell pattern very nice. Unfortunately, there was no manual, but after precise "Photo study" and a small sample has opened up to me how it should work.

Here’s how I made the crocheted picture frame:

Häkelrahmen

yarn: Cotton yarn Sandy (from Online) in light green
Needle: 3.0
template: Shell pattern

Tip: It is best to try out the basic pattern with a short sample piece and determine how long your shell border will be. In this way it does not matter which thread and which needle size you use.

pattern:
Pick up chain stitch chain with 5 divisible number ch + 1 turning ch.
1st row: sc
2nd row: HStb
ROUND 3: (Mussels * pass 2 sts, 7 dc in the next st, pass 2 sts, repeat km * – from * to *

Using the test piece, you determine how many shells you need to crochet on each side and accordingly calculate how many stitches you need to take for the chain stitch chain.
For me this resulted in 6 shells (or 40 sc) per long side and 4 shells (or 25 sc) per short side for a photo in 13×18 format, making a total of 130 ch + 1 ch.

I started in the middle of a long page because I still didn’t know exactly how the corners would look.
1st row: 19 dc for the 1st half of the 1st long side, 3 dc in the next st for the 1st corner; 24 sc, 3 sc in the next st for the 2nd corner; 39 dc, 3 dc in the next st for the 3rd corner; 24 sc, 3 sc in the next st for the 4th corner, 20 sc; close with km
2nd row: htr (1 htr per st), in each corner 3 htr
ROW 3: Shell pattern: * pass 2 sts, 7 dc in the next st, pass 2 sts, repeat km * – from * to *; Crochet 10 tr in each corner (instead of 7)

Photo support

As a picture holder I made a cardboard frame, in the dimensions of the picture or something, that the cardboard is covered by the crochet frame. The frame is in two parts: a frame of approx. 1 cm width (i.e. the inner part is cut out) and a rear wall with the same external dimensions. Both parts are glued together on three sides with adhesive strips. The 4th page remains open so that you can slide in and change the image here.
When the cardboard frame is ready, just stick the crochet frame on it, insert the photo, done!