Everything goes

The Elisa’s nest Bag is done.
And you can put almost everything inside!

Yarn

Apples

Books

And especially Toys

Nicole already took the bag for her, just to walk around the house like a model!

Notes about this bag: I think nest time I will not close the side bag until the top, I think it is better to leave maybe ½ inch, so that the opening will be more larger. And just finish with the same I-cord from the handles.

Only after the weekend I’ve got more news from The Fat Bottom Bag. I must go to the store to buy some fabric. The decoration is on, and I’m really enjoying what I see.

I'm so vain...

Yes this award is about me, I’m so vain…..

Thank you for giving me this award Jesse. I really like everything that you put in your blog, especially the cartons, are wonderful. And every single day I’m knocking on your blog for more adventures!

Now the deal is to give five more awards to other girl bloggers.
So here it goes:

Lynn- http://knotsinarow.blogspot.com/

Cindy- http://wwwlubbockarmadillo.blogspot.com/

Maria- http://creativepotpourri.blogspot.com/

Rebecca- http://heartknits.wordpress.com/

Lise- http://www.knittingrose.blogspot.com/

All these blogs inspire me. They all talk about the knitting, the crochet, and the way sometimes our lives don’t go according to plan….
I really enjoy reading these ones and more….

Thank you all:)

On the way...

Only a quick post about the bags that are on my needles at the moment!

This one is the Elisa's Nest Tote. It is a little bit smaller than the original pattern. I just made 20 inches, instead of the 24 inches that was asked. The stitches, I've got a problem sometimes with the patterns, i just do it my way, but at the end, everything turn out good. It called for a knitting stitch, that i didn't do, instead i made purl ones.



As you can see it as a lot of yo's, and it is very difficult for you to see where you are once you put your work down, and came back again, because you begin the pattern with a, in my case, purl one stitch and yo, and then purl one row, and on the next row you start with purl2tog.
so that is way is a little bit complicated to just leave and return again, at least for me.

So today I'm making the I-cord all around the bag, and the handles also.

I think that next I'm going to try to this but in crochet (yes, I'm returning to the crochet after all this years). For me is better to do crochet, just because i can grab the work and go after the kids when they start to cry. With knitting is a little complicated because I'm a Portuguese knitter, and that means always caring the yarn around my neck. I'm really thinking of getting some pictures from that. Later girls:)

And this the Fat Bottom Bag.

This is as far as i went. I'm starting also with the handles now. This yarn is my favourite. From Pure Gold, DK, In the color: Caviar!!

Yes, it is not black. Girls this is the most expensive bag that i ever made. In Caviar, really.

It looks like black, but it changes the color a little, like velvet, I see a little of blue there, But my MIL sees brown, And the Big boss says it is purple. It really depends how the light is.

Now this bag i can only work during the day, because it is very dark. So I've got a crochet work for the day, and a knitting work for the night :)

see you soon...

Can you believe it!

This is just a chop chop post to say that the bag that i was doing is going to the frog pond, Why?
Just because while i was doing dinner, my little girl decided to take the needles out of the yarn.
Why, oh why!
So now I'm starting again. I couldn't just put the needle, because the are too many yo's in the pattern.
Just a reminder for the parents with kids to came. PUT YOUR WORK ON THE TOPPER SHELF THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE!
Like that they can't go there, because you can't see either.

Ideias, yes. Work....

No photos today! Of what I’m doing, but…


Why? Just because I’ve been working on some projects, and then I just frog them because I don’t like the way that the yarn goes with it, and then moved to another project, and then, that wasn’t really what I wanted to do. I think I’m a little bit stuck here!


Well first I started the famous Fat bottom bag.

The photo was taken from this site, it is in Portuguese, she works a lot in crochet, and does a lot of pretty things, a lot of videos for you to learn how to work, it is in Portuguese but you can see what she is doing, and understand.

But the yarn that I was using, it is pretty, but it doesn’t work with that bag, I can’t see the beauty of that bag, so went to the frog pond, I’m still looking for some different yarn to do the bag again, I’m going to do, that is in my mind.

Then I thought that the yarn that I like so much may be ok with another bag, the Elisa's Nest tote bag. From this site.

It looks like a shopping bag, with some holes everywhere, yes; I think I’m happy now with the two together.

I’ve started already to make some Christmas presents this weekend. It was lovely, and I and the girls, and the big boos, went to Monkey town, to see our relatives :), from long, long time ago.
Little monkeys, running everywhere, and some other animals, too. Pigs, parrots, gorillas, etc. Nicole was very happy with looking at the animals without a TV, and Angelina, came out with all the sounds that the parrots made, the return home was like the little zoo had moved to inside my car. It is good that the trip is short.

Hope to put some photos of my work tomorrow
Came back again….

Updating August Projects

Hi there.
Today my post is only about my update projects for the august month.
There were only 3 projects that i din't finished, i ha time for them, but yarn, here where i live is a nigthmare. There is only 1 store locally. So what they have is what i get ;)

I know you saw the projects with Christmas presents. It is never to earlier to start, and they are hand made, so i must not fall a sleep on this one, because you never know what could happen (am i being paranoid).

So for now is bye,bye.