I just made and extra bag, with the rest of the yarn. So she can put them inside when she travels, or to put whatever she wants.

The pattern for the socks was from here, and the little bag is from here.

In the pattern for the little bag, that is to put some soap inside, I just double the stitches to make it wider.

And I had also to make her longer, so the socks won’t be outside, or too tight.

I also made 2 crochet chains, to the top of the little bag.

I really enjoyed doing this bag. It has a look of cetin.

This will be my first idea maybe for a Christmas present.

Since we are still in September almost October, you still have time to do a pair of socks, and a little cute bag to go with it!


Nice weekend everyone

I think she thougth that Santa Claus came earlier this year!

And now that's it!

Yes child labor, what can I say!

So here are some photos.

The big party is for the weekend, with some kids, and the big kids (mummy’s and daddy’s).

So see you now, now...

This is only the first sock that I’m still doing, let’s hope I don’t get to much bored to do the second one.

The boring continues.... with the square crochet pillow for the girl’s room.

Every now and then I pick up the work a little and then do little more rows, boring for now.

But I just wanted to show the detail that is going to allow the pillow to close.

Down you can see a giant granny square and on one top of the square I just made some plain rows on dc to go inside. More details later.

Not so boring.

Are the potholders that I’m doing now.

They are half citrus, they go to my kitchen, and I love them! I’m just doing the second one to be a pair. You can get the pattern from here.

But I really don’t like the way they look on the back.

I think I should put maybe some fabric just to cover those stitches and to give more thickness to the potholder.

So that is all.
For now….

Better news. I made the famous Jesse dolls that she sells on Etsy Handmade.

She has a pattern for the small one, and I gave a try. So cute, and the colors that I choose are simply sublime with this doll.

Now I have to give her a name… maybe Miss Buttons!

And another experience with Amigurumi.

This cute apple.

I just made a keyring with her. And I can see a lot of people getting a keyring at Christmas time as a present in a lot of shapes and sizes!

I’m still doing the 9 to 5 socks for MIL, and trying to design and make a crochet puppy, taking the inspiration from a photo that I’ve got. This will be my first crochet pattern.

Troliro

And this one is from last week.

I’ve already had a couple of ideas where to use all this embroideries that I’m doing…

I’m going also to open mine to the world.

This bag was originally taken from a collection of things for bath.
When open, you can see that this lady does a lot of different things, what a mess!
Now inside, taking everything to the outside there is:

A tape measure, very old, this one belonged to my mother;
2 scissors;
A bag full of handmade tags to be done;
A bag of stitch markers, also hand made by moi;
A support needle, to hold the stitches that you don’t want to work;
A ruler with measurements in cm and inches, and to know the sizes of needles;
1 DPN, their relatives are busy working in projects, and 1 crochet needle;
A needle crochet holder, yes it is almost a bag inside a bag, I just don’t know how it went there?;
And a little tiny sock, to put all the tapestry needles and pins, and everything that can sting you when you put your hand inside that bag looking for something.

And that’s it.
So are your bags as messy as mine?
Or looking better?

I just received my first mail box about knitting

I run in to pick up a scissor

I had an audience, expecting…

This one was not in the mood, she was probably thinking isn’t my bedtime now, mummy, please leave the box, and let’s go to bed…

And look at my face it looks like it was Christmas

More precise cotton everywhere!

These ones are for my MIL, she chose the color, and I chose the pattern.

Now since I join the Crochet Along for Amigurumi, I’ve been trying to understand how to work in spiral. To tell you the truth, the bird was worked with a slip st at the end. But from what I’ve been reading, almost all the amigurumi objects are worked with a crochet spiral. So last night I tried to work this cupcake like that.

The only part that is boring is that I must count every single st to know that I’m doing exactly like the pattern asks for. And I didn’t count the row, which is another thing that I must think, how am I going to count them. I think it goes with the practice. But you know me, always in a rush to do something new, and the faster the better. Maybe it is because I’m scorpion? Practice makes perfection, perfection can go fast!

My pincushion.

This is an old object that I made a long time ago. And today I would like to share with everyone.
I even put my handmade tags.

It is very handy when I’m doing my sewing, yes I also do something of that too, actually it was my previous job before I left Portugal. It is also very good to keep track of my needles when I’m doing my cross stitch and my other embroidery work.

By the way let me go and check if there is more homework to do.
Truliro