Happy Holiday Monday!
Joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for her wonderfully heartwarming ‘In a Vase on Monday’. Pop over and visit her post and in the comments you can click on links to visit vases from gardens all over the world – and bathe in a flurry of flower petals.
I’m playing with primroses, hebe leaves and hyacinth pips to create a couple of mandalas
I’m caught up in a meditation of mandalas at the moment
This is a paid for pattern: Illusion Mandala designed by Tatsiana of Lilla BjornCrochet.
It made my brain ache the first time I made it and it took me a week to make – but it is a fantastic pattern with very clear instructions and a photo tutorial.
So I started another
and another
All made with Stylecraft Special DK and a 4.5mm hook
I do hope you are having a bright and happy weekend wherever you are
Also joining Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Ravelry
Wild Daffodil 
I should make more mandalas as they are great for keeping the interest, but I didn’t really have a use for them….until I saw your finished blanket for Little Miss M! No wonder you’re keen to make more – beautiful, all of them!
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I know what you mean about making a use for them – I love making them so much, I’m going to be trying a few things – wall art, dreamcatchers, cushions, tablemats ………. maybe!
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Love them all! Especially the flowery ones. 🙂 Those mandalas are great!
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Thank you Cathy, they are fun to make.
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So pretty!
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Thank you Sue.
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I love your floral mandalas. (Note to self: you’ve got to try that one day!) I’m also impressed by your crocheted creations. The Illusion Mandala is fabulous.
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Thank you Kris. Yes, do have a go at a mandala – they are fun to make, all you need is time!! Mine were going to be bigger but …… you know, life!
The Illusion Mandala is an amazing pattern – I just had to have a go.
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Very pretty!
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Thank you.
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Oh your creativity is marvelous. I just smiled as I scrolled down your post. 😀
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Oh Cee! You have no idea how happy that makes me! ❤ 😀 Hugs!
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Gorgeous mandalas. I can see how creating these would be a meditative, and sometimes brain-ache causing, process. Just looking at/contemplating them is a visual treat which causes me to slow down, study, breathe. Thank you for sharing!
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That’s just lovely to know Peter. You are so very welcome! ❤ 🙂
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Wow this is stunning….both the flower mandalas and crochet work. Really first rate and so creative how you mixed the 2.
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Thank you Donna for your lovely comment. ❤
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Completely and utterly beautiful! I love them all!
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Oh Ali , thank you! ❤
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Very pretty!
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Thank you CC.
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I love your fresh flower mandala as well as your crochet pieces!
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Thank you Terri so glad to know you like them.
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a most delightful and creative contribution, love it! happy Monday 🙂
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Thank you Annette – they were fun to put together.
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Wow, all beautiful! But my favorite is the first one.
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Ah thank you Laurie – mine too!
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They are all so beautiful!
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Thank you.
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You are really clever coming up with the mandalas…paticularly with the hebe with their colour and shape.
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Thank you Noelle, the Hebe is very pretty with its magenta and cream variegation. It was a gift from a neighbour and sits happily under my fig tree.
Btw, the Red Dragon is sprouting new leaves and looks VERY happy! Thank you!! ❤
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Lovely and imaginative. Do you find the mandala helpful during meditation?
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Thank you Susie. I find making mandalas a meditation in itself, whether crochet or with natural materials. It slows me right down and I zone out to everything else – gives my scrambled brain some rest from the day to day whizziness of it all. 🙂
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These mandalas are so pretty, Daffy, both the crochet ones and the florals too. I am finally trying to teach myself to crochet. Thank God for You Tube and left-handed crocheters! 🙂
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Wow! Are you left-handed too! I didn’t know that …. did I?
Good luck with the tutorials – YouTube is just brilliant isn’t it. A whole new world is opening up! xx
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I don’t think I told you before I am left- handed. I am fighting my way through making a ‘granny square’ at the moment. Had to unpick it a few times as looks more like a rectangle! 🙂
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I don’t know how I missed replying to this one Eddie! You are left-handed too!!!!! Hurray!!! Absolutely no-one else in my family or extended family are left-handed, I’m always pleased to know of others in our gang! ❤
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Yes I am a lefty and so is Mr Grump! It is always good to find other members of the gang as there are still so few of us! 🙂
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Wow! Mr Grump as well. Fab! 😉 🙂 ❤ ❤
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Yes, a double whammy! 🙂
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Beautiful mandalas, both floral and crocheted. I love your paid for pattern, it is quite stunning and I imagine it could be quite addictive – with so many colour ways it could be worked up 🙂 I’ve just started work on the Persian Tiles blanket and the individual pieces are rather mandalish – but not quite. I’ve noticed that as soon as I ‘get’ the individual patterns it becomes exciting to do and so much fun to watch taking shape!
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Thank you Pauline. Oooo you’ve started the Persian Tiles! how exciting!! It is such a beautiful pattern, I’ll look forward to seeing your progress – and yes these mandala patterns are addictive! I think most crochet is because, as you say, we just want to see what the next bit looks like don’t we – now back to the hook!
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A wonderful collection of Mandalas. I can see why the crochet mandala might make your brain ache, it looks very tricky! I especially like the red and blue one with the primrose in the middle.
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Thank you Jane. How on earth do these clever designers create such patterns!!! Once I ‘got it’ I loved the mechanics of the design and watching it grow.
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