Crafts for all

It is done.

And you know what? At the end it wasn’t so difficult to do. I think it is just me, and my rebellion for a new yarn that I didn’t knew anything about. Now let me make you a tour of the Sts that I made!
In the middle you can see some cables twisting everywhere, yes I’m joking. In this pattern I only used the purl st that is the easiest st to use, for me that I’m a Portuguese knitter. Yes I knit with the yarn around my neck; I’ve tried the other methods, and let me tell you I think this one is the best!
But that is a story for other post.

Now let’s go for some nostalgic moments.

All this work, and much more that I left in Portugal, The containers weren’t so cheap, and we had to select what to bring, is from my mother.
She had the ability of working with crochet, like no other. The yarn was always, I don’t know maybe nº 24 or something smaller, and I’m not going to talk about the needles, around that size also ( but the opposite number).

I’m trying to pick up her work and trying to do some things for my house with a modern look.
Let’s see what happens!

Like they say here, in Cape Town,
See you now, now

Is there bad yarn?

Yesterday i started a scarf for Nicole. The yarn is a kind of what you call 'fluffy'.
But it is not nice to work with it:(
it is so fluffy that i can't even see what I'm doing, and to work every st is a nightmare. I just have to count every st to know that i don't drop any during the row!
Well I've got 5 balls of it, Paulo bougth the yarn. So i will do the scarfs for my girls, and it will be it!
No more fluffy, cute, warm yarn.



Here you can see the detail of the string. I think it is too much hairy.

Cozy cups!
I just found this beautiful pattern on the net here, She calls it the Mug and French Press Jacket.



But you know me, i loved the pattern there, and i even started to do it, but then i just changed for one of my favourite. These pattern is from socks.
They are the 9 to 5 socks, and you can find them here, i just fell in love with the twist off the knitting with out doing that thing with an extra cable needle.

Today it is all.
Hope everybody has a nice Sunday.
See you now now

My round pillow

And here she is!
The round star of the moment in this house:)
One side....

And the other side.

I used round crochet to cover the hole in the middle, that you can see in detail in my previous post. And used a 'picot' crochet to close the pillow all around. I left also a little bit of extra string inside for the time that i will wash this one. The pillow is going to the girls room, so it may be necessary to wash her.


Nicole just couldn't take her hands out of the pillow when it was done. i think she is waiting for me to turn my back to go and slide on the floor:)

It is my daughter, i know what that face means:)

For now it is all.

I'm going to do some more crochet, outside in the sun.

Yes today is sun, and a little bit warm.

Bye, bye....

Guess

Guess where this round crochet goodies are going.....

The answer is coming tomorrow....

Stay tuned:)

My little wilds in action!

See you now, now.....

Not everything looks bad

Yes, after my little adventure that you can read in my last post.

I can say now that the new flip flops are very comfortable, and may i say, very pretty.

I just finished the pattern with K1,P1 for the cuff, for about 5 inches, and them i fold the cuff and seam at the beginning of the same. It worked very nice.

I still have to do some finishing things, like the cord around the sole, and cover some holes that you can see in the pictures. I think that if i use a double sting for the next ones those holes wont be there:)

Let's see.

This slippers, has I'm going to call them, are very good to use at home, and because of the sole, i can go outside even in raining days, witch is perfect.

I just join a new group of crochet (well my first craft things were in crochet, a long, long time ago) it is Crochetalong. I know how to do crochet, but reading patterns, it is just not for me, nothing makes sense! that's true i do every single thing in crochet by eye, not by reading:)

i hope that i will learn some more extra things.

That is all for today

Nice weekend to everyone!