Saturday, September 08, 2007

My best friend

Since everyone is showing a little bit of the bags that support all the knitting and the crochet stuff and let’s not forget other crafts.


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?

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Yeh, Mister Post Man!




Yesterday, it was a good day for ME.




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




Yarn everywhere.




More precise cotton everywhere!





And look and the size of this ball, uff




And I even got a book with knitting dishcloths patterns.
Not to mention that every label has also a pattern included.
Too excited to write more. I’ve got so many ideas in my head to use this cotton!
But for now I’m going to leave inside the box, and once in a wile check what is inside, just for fun!
Thank you, Cindy. You’re the best

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Knitting, Amigurumi, Felt...

And another 9 to 5 socks are on the way.



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

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Amigurumi Bird


Cute, isn’t it?
This was my first really serious amigurumi.
Please ignore the yes and the beak of the bird. I was in such a rush to finish, that I didn’t wanted to wait until go to the shop to buy the eyes. But I think it is ok. It is handmade, remember!
I just join a new crochetalong, where there are deadlines to finish something that they propose to do.
You can find it here
I’m going to try to do another one again; maybe will not look so alien.
I really need a day with 48 hours! Can anybody tell me where to find it?
Happy knitting, crochet, crafts, amigurumi, and whatever you’re doing at the moment…

Friday, August 31, 2007

Oh baby its cold outside!

Really, I don’t feel like putting my water bottle in bed, forget it. I really want to put him in my living room. To show everybody how cute it is. And frankly, I don’t think the water bottle wants to spend his life hiding under the sheets!


Description:


These are the two pieces separated…


Now already sew up, but the bottle was outside taking is walk…


When he got home,

he just went inside smoothly, so happy to be dressed, that he didn’t want to go out…


He just asked me from the inside; please make me an I-cord, so that I won’t be able to lose my coat never again!

About the color of the photos.
I didn’t make two, only one. But some photos have one color and others another color. The right color is the one from the finished project. The answer to that is what happens when you take photos during the night with the lights from the house, and the other color from the sunshine in the daylight. That is the reason for the different colors.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Almost

The Water Bottle Cozy is almost done.



Now I only need to do the other part that will close the cozy, and that’s it.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have an FO!


Do you remember my first experience with a site that gives lessons in embroidery? Well I send it the photo of the homework that was asked there and my photo is on lesson 3. I’m very happy, in fact I was jumping when I received a mail from Candace, and I’m still jumping just to see my photo in another site. Jumping, jumping, hehehehehe.


Thank you Candace for the time that you take to do those lessons.


See everybody tomorrow…