Attic 24 Mandala

Lucy from attic 24 has asked people the world over to crochet a mandala and send it to her so that she can create a breathtaking wall display of mandalas for yarndale.

Attic 24 mandala.

But this is a really easy fun little creative make and i hope you might be inspired to hook up a few to use as table mats or wall art to brighten up a small corner of your home. When choosing colours for your mandala i would suggest picking out a palette of 8 colours. A beautiful colourful mandala designed by blogger lucy from attic 24 for this year s yarndale festival. The key thing is not to make your mandala too big the best effect comes from being able to stretch the mandala out to fit the ring so that the pattern opens up and the surface of the crochet becomes quite taught.

When making a mandala to fit inside a hoop the important thing is to make it smaller than the finished hoop size. Choose 4 colours to use for the central flower and 4 to use for the surrounding mandala circle. This creates a neat taut finish baggy saggy mandala hoops are a no no. I like to used cotton yarn for my mandalas in a dk weight with a 4 mm or 4 5 mm crochet hook.

I ve found that you need around 2 to 2 5 cm all around so that the mandala can be gently pulled out and stretched when attached to the hoop. There are 12 rounds in total so there are twelve colour decisions that need to be made when making this mandala. Attic24 mandala wheel i ve designed this mandala wheel as part of a big creative project that i am co ordinating for yarndale the amazing yarn festival i help to organise. Attic 24 mandala what really got me started on all this mandala making was this post.