Baby sheets for the little angel

Hello everyone,
How are you all doing? I was all determined after my last post to blog at least once in a week, but no,that did not happen.As I said before,either I dont have pics or  I dont like the pics taken. I think I am becoming lil lazy now(?). anyway  I ve been a good girl today doing all those pending things and I feel so happy about it.

 From last week my craft time is fully dedicated to make these baby sheets for my new born niece. Yes, another baby girl added to my bro's family. I promised her Mom, my SIL ,these sheets, but couldnt get it done when we went to see her last time.After coming back, these were given priority and happy that its done.She loves hand mades and I am sure the effort will be appreciated. I made a decision long ago to give my hand mades only those who value it.

I had fun choosing colours and trimming for these. The baby pink was my first choice and I totally love the colour, very very baby pink!!Edging for pink and lavender are from the Needle n thread Magazine and rest are my own patterns, not so fancy but simple ones.

I did embroidery on one of the corner. Pink was my favourite among these so gave a lavish flower motif for that.I like this motif very much and I'm saving this for another project.

.. I was all tired after that. So the rest were done in very simple patterns. Her initial 'R' and some flowers, a bow  snatched from this pattern and one sheet I kept it plain.

And this pair of pink booties is what I gave to her when we went home last time. I made this on the morning we reached home, all in a hurry , cos I desperately wanted to give her something made by myself.  This week we are going home again and I am ready with my gifts for her, but still not ready with "order" by her elder sister, the big monster, my God daughter. She wants a pillowcase, sorry 2 pillowcases, with a duckie and bunny embroidered on it. I am yet to start with it. And where did she get the idea from? I shall tell you later.

So until then

Take Care

Ninu

Colour Burst Bag

Hello everyone,

How you all doing? its been some time right? I dont know where time goes these days, really wanted to post  about my new crafty trials , but I  dont get time to take proper pictures now and I dont like posts without any pics, do you? :D There are a lot of things, small and big, to show you all, and nowI shall show you my colour  burst bag 

 The whole idea came while arranging my stash. The bag is hugely , heavily inspired from the crochet bag by Lucy and Spikes Strike by Sanhita, its a mix of these two and something from my head.When I saw all the colours these two bags came to my mind and next day itself I started working on it. The base and body were done in no time but stayed as UFO for many days to get straps and other things.

The straps and base are the only portion which is colour coordinated. I usually take time to choose colours for all my projects(I think that shows too) but here no, I didnt. I just took the colours randomly and was not happy with it ant first look. But looking at it many times,I think I started liking my bag.I can carry it off quite easily!

The straps were done with a long chain and dc on it, then 2 rounds of sc's . Then sewn onto the bag , put flowers to hide the stitching and I've lined the bag ( not came neatly,and thts why no pic of that, have to redo that).I really am not good with making bags and always scared of doing it, now I think after making this one I gained a bit confidence. 

Project Details

Base for the bag:  here

Body: double crochet all around
Flowers:  Flowers
Yarn: Laura Knitting Cotton
Hook: 4mm
Size : 13" x 11"


so thats it about the post, will come soon with another adventure of mine.
Till then
Take care
Ninu

Happy Easter

Wishing everyone a very happy n' blessed Easter! 

Easy peasy Table Runner

Happy Monday everyone!

How are you all doing? Hope you all had a great weekend, mine was really good, my best friend came to visit me and stayed with us, we went to see our good ol' college mates n friends together, Oh!! lovely time ..It was great to meet class mates,rewinding all those beautiful times..short but sweet!!

 Coming back to my crafty crochet world, I made a table runner for our coffee table last week.I loved the pattern, it cannot be simpler than this and I wanted to make with single colour. but there was not enough yarn.I've already decided not to order/buy anything unless I use half of my humongous stash!(atleast I think so).Last year, I stashed up a lot and I feel guilty when I see it. yes, I am always tempted to buy when I see a nice pattern, but nooo, I am determined.

So the runner has two colours, yellow and beige.The pattern is very simple and grows very fast. I am not super happy by the look, but just okay. It just fits the table. The critic at home did not like it, but hey!!I dont think its that bad. I already started dreaming about the same pattern in single colour.I think the colour will be red, so now you know when I am going to make that.

I used Laura knitting cotton for this, I think its good for dining/kitchen crochet, bags etc and we get good colours too. This runner was made as part of the 'Home decor-Along' running on Crafty Dozen group in Ravelry. I have some more plans for the 'along', which are also very easy things,mainly spring-Easter theme. Lets see whether I can make it on time.So much to do and so little time..

Project Details
Pattern: Table Runner
Size: 24 x 8.5 inches
Yarn: Laura Knitting Cotton
Hook: 4 mm

Have a blessed Holy Week!!

Till next time
Take Care
Ninu

I love..

.. the mere sight of these trees with pink blooms, this city looks its best this time, my favy time in Bangalore!Its such a happy feeling going for a drive/walk and seeing these flower laden trees everywhere,in all their glory!!

..And then I remembered these flowers, I love crocheting these with leftover thread in my own way, which is very simple.
Pattern:
Make ch5 and join to form a loop, or make a magic ring to avoid the hole in the middle.
Petal: In the loop, ch3,2 tr,ch3 and join the loop
6 Petals around.


I make them n save it for future use, So hows ur week going? Stay happy n crafty!

Till next time
Take care
Ninu

Lavender beauties..

...for my little miss beautiful. These are the first things I made for her,to keep her warm.There is a blanket, booties,mitten and beanie. 

I always scared to attempt on wearable/blanket/afghans n such big things, its the time taken for these  I feared the most. I wanted to make a blanket for the baby,time was no constraint then, there was plenty of it, so I decided to make one. Finalised with the snapdragon stitch pattern and bought hook n yarn, started immediately after the yarn was delivered. I expected a minimum of two months for the blanket, but to my surprise, it was done in 2 weeks. yes,all through day time I was crocheting, there was nothing else to do. Its the first chaining and first row, the most time consuming and boring, otherwise it ran smoothly.

I tried several edging for this but went to my favourite scallops finally, and also gave a provision for ribbon. There was plenty of yarn left, so I made booties, mitten and a beanie too. Booties and beanie are used quite often, but we've never used mittens. And I love the booties pattern very much, the name of this pattern is 'Best Ever booties' and I must say its an apt name. I made some more booties with other colours with this pattern, its super easy!

The blanket is quite big,it was my first time and I got my measurements a lil wrong somewhere, no probs, she can use it for a long time. I wanted to make another blanket after I was done with this, when I was ready with all supplies I was put on bed rest, but she got one as gift on the same pattern I wanted to make, that too in a lovely colour combination. Stop guessing!! its the Neat Ripple Pattern by Lucy. And now I am making that for a friend's baby and its almost done, all I need to do is a lil bit of steaming, all about tht in next post!

Project Details
Blanket Pattern: Snapdragon
Size : 34" x 32" inches
Booties Pattern:Best Ever Booties
Beanie and Mittens Pattern: Baby Ripple Hat
Yarn: Vardhman Babysoft 
Hook: 4mm

So till next time
Happy Days!
Take Care
Ninu