Aren’t they absolutely adorable? And who doesn’t need some extra luck from time to time?

These stunning little lucky charms were crocheted and colored by hand by talented Italian craftista Giuliana Primavera and can be found in her Etsy shop ThinkSpring.

Giuliana crocheted the shamrocks out of PaperPhine’s finest paper yarn and afterwards carefully colored each single leaf with water colors. The shamrocks are sold by Giuliana in mixed packs of 5 and make a wonderful addition to your stash of scrapbooking, crafting and gift wrapping supplies – or put them into a small frame and onto the wall for your daily dose of extra luck and a smile!

Even Giuliana’s packaging is adorable – “good things come in small packages” – we could not agree more!

Some weeks ago we shared the first two paper flowers made by Linda’s parents with you here and your feedback has been overwhelming. Thanks a lot for all the comments and emails – Linda’s parents experienced for the first time how many paper lovers can be found online!

Since then they’ve made many more paper twine flowers … it seems that the whole family is infected by the “paper twine – virus” by now (it’s very contagious, we have to warn you!). Today we want to show you three of the latest paper twine flowers and we would love to see your creations, too! So don’t be shy and send us a picture or two to office (at) paperphine (dot) com !

Crocheted Paper Yarn Flower Necklace Finest White Paper Yarn – the flowers dyed in blue hues after crocheting

This is the last entry on our small, blue Crocheted Paper Yarn Flowers for a while – but we promised to show you what would become of them and finally the necklace is finished. As you can see we opted for a asymetrical design. The single flowers were ironed so they were flatter and easier to work with (yes, you can iron paper yarn: “wool” temperature is fine, if your are careful you can also use “cotton”). Then we sew them together with a few small stitches and added a doubled-up fine crocheted paper yarn chain. Springtime may arrive any day now – we’re ready!

Elegant White Crocheted Paper Yarn Flower Brooch made out of Finest White Paper Yarn

… while the Blue-Gray Paper Yarn Flower Necklace is still a work in progress because there are too many possibilities how to arrange the flowers, the first all-white Paper Yarn Flower Brooches are already adorning little black dresses here in Vienna.

Two white Crocheted Paper Yarn Flowers (look at this blog entry for tips how to make them) are carefully stacked on top of each other, the smaller one on top. Sew them together with a couple of small stitches and then sew on a brooch-needle on the back. And if you don’t have brooch-needle then a simple, small safety pin will do the job as well. Et la voilà – simple, chic, stylish, paper!

White Crocheted Flower made out of Strong White Paper Twine

Spring is in the air and sometimes there are some even some rays of sun that make their way into the studio. But mostly winter hasn’t lost its grip yet here in Vienna – so to brighten up our days we were crocheting Paper Twine Flowers this week. The White Flowers catch the light beautifully, cheer up everybody and are a wonderful addition to our vintage-themed decor.

HOW TO…

There are a lot of instructions on how to make crocheted flowers on the internet. All the flowers we made are variations of free, found patterns.

- When you choose a flower pattern opt for one of the simpler ones. Working with Paper Twine means that single stitches will be seen and won’t “blend” into each other as they do when you use cotton yarns or wool.

- Your Paper Twine Flower will be bigger than when you use any other yarn. The “hole” in the middle will be bigger, too, and become a beautiful feature of the finished flower.

- Crochet stitches out of Paper Twine will need more space than other stitches. Therefore it’s better to plan your Paper Twine Flower with one petal less than the pattern says so you have enough space for the stitches to lie evenly in the round.

- For each a small flower you’ll need about 3-4 yards of Paper Twine, for a medium flower 5-6 yards and for a really big one up to 14 yards.

- Crochet hook: in Europe you’ll want to use a hook size 2 (2mm), in the US look for a B/1 and in Canada/UK a hook size 13. Depending on your way to crochet you’ll have to adjust the hook size.

- Finishing the flower: carefully draw the paper twine through some of the stitches on the backside with your hook (you can also use a needle but you’ll need a really big one with a huge needle eye). Either finish with a small knot before cutting the twine or use a tiny bit of glue to fix the cut end within one of the stitches/loops.

- Finished flowers can be joined together to form a garlande or you can easily make a brooch out of a single flower by attaching it with a small safety pin.

Of course you can also make Paper Twine Flowers with colored Paper Twines – e.g. in Soft Reds and Yellow – we’re already working on some of these to show to you. Stay tuned.

… and now: get hooked!

Medium Size Paper Twine Flower attached with a small safety pin to make a simple and cool brooch

More ideas to use the Paper Twine Flowers for:

- embellish your gifts (the smallest flower already found a new owner this way – wrapped in simple brown craft paper with the white flower and a little white twine)

- fix onto a hair tie with a stitch or two for a elegant grown-up-girly-style hair-do or onto a barrette with a drop of glue

- make the garland even longer and decorate your whole flat with it – also looking great in front of windows

- inviting people for a nice dinner? make nice rolls out of the napkins, wrap some white paper twine around it and fix the paper twine flower on top

- join a couple of paper twine flowers together petal-to-petal to make a spring-time necklace

Let us hear your ideas and leave a comment or send us a picture of your paper yarn projects to paperphine (at!) gmail.com

I’m always thrilled when I discover Paper Yarn jewelry by artists I haven’t seen (or met) before. This flowery Octavia Paper Yarn Necklace was made by Jill of Maisy and Alice who discovered the paper yarn on one of her hunting trips for vintage linen cord. Jill says that she fell in love with her new material what I understand completely. And her worries not to find more of the material are something I can help with, too. Judging by the look of the Octavia Paper Yarn Necklace the strong white paper yarn in my etsy store would be perfect for Jill’s work. I’m happy to wait and see more of those lovely Australian flowers!