Some things old & some things new......

First the new.....

Remember the Filet crochet sampler

 I was doing long time back?

I had posted a little peek into it in this post....

I had it finished some time back,

it had been lying in my almirah for some time now.....

At last,

It is now part of a beautiful curtain

which I've put up on the window of my room.

Here is what it looks like....

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Here's a close up of the lace edge...

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And with the insertion....

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Now for the old....

oh, what nostalgia!

We've been cleaning up Mom's place

And look what I found....

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Small blanket done in crochet...

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With a set of sweater, booties and mittens

I made even before Vaasu was born.

(the heart motif was my own pattern

and so was that done on the blanket.)

He could wear these till he was 1.

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Another set also made for Vaasu

 when he was one...

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This is "TRELLIS" pattern

from Knitty .com

This was a pretty difficult pattern to do,

and it took me a fairly long time to make.....

Vaasu almost grew out of it before it was complete!

He wore it only a couple of times I guess!

But ,I love it so... much.

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It's so nice to find such pretty pretty little things

tucked away in a corner somewhere;

and remember how you made them.....

It wasn't so long ago, yes,

but I was teary eyed all the same......

Butterflies in flight....

I'm so in love with these blue beads......

Saw Teri's bookmark with butterflies

and that's where the inspiration came from.

She uses split rings to make the butterflies,

but

this bracelet I've made

using four shuttles

With two centre shuttles for the core of the butterflies

Didn't want a border on them,

so as to give an appearance of free wings,

as if in flight..

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That's what it looks like as a bracelet!

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The lock of the bracelet made with

seperate strands of thread

in square knots...

to give a sliding lock......

with beaded danglers.....

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so that it can be worn as a bracelet.....

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or

an anklet!

Luv.

First magic loop socks

Now that I've learnt the Magic loop method ,

naturally I wanted to knit up some socks.

Here's my first one.

The pattern is from

KNIT PICKS.

Custom fit toe up socks.

The pattern notes are for two socks at once,

but I knit them one at a time.

Also, the cast on is done with a turkish cast on instead of what described in the pattern.

Cause I'm getting a little crazy over knit lace patterns,

I've tried putting in one in the centre of the sock,

Nothing very great though!

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These are the two finished socks up my feet..

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Showing off the heels.

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My Hubby's Grandmom and Grandpa are visiting us

 and I gifted Biji these socks.

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Up her feet.

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And thats a Happy Biji!

my 1st cabochon

Hello again!

Continuing to bead.....

Had some large shiny round resin beads,

covered it up with

cherry red beads and some matt gold ones

with peyote stitch.....

My very first cabochon.....

Backed with stringed beads in a star pattern....

Now to make a chain to go with it......

Tatted bag

Remember the small tatted beginning
 I showed you sometime back,

Well,

At last

It's completed.

The pouch itself made in tatting

with white no.20 anchor mercer cotton thread,

basic ring and chain pattern,

with split rings and split chains to climb up.

The top beaded fringe done in tatting.

Lower beaded edge done in crochet,

with daisy chain dangles attatchet to it.

Embellished with a beaded butterfly

done in brick stitch.

Big enough to dress up my mobile!

Hi There!!!

Hello,

I've been away for almost a month this time!

Just did not get the time to post.

Got a little unwell in the past week,

and work has been a little hectic too....

But so has been my wandering soul...

jumping all around

from

 crocheting,

tatting,

beading,

to a new found passion of

 knitting!

Wow!

What a world out there!

Never looked at wool in the same way,

Never felt like this for knitting needles!

Right now I could knit 24x7

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Last few times I've posted,

 the post was long and I had a lot to show too.

I'd got lost myself writing them down.

This time I've decided to do smaller posts

on one thing at a time.

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I've posted my work of past three weeks

in 4/5

preceding posts.

Do scroll down on the home page,

take a look,

and tell me what you think.

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I noticed that The blog has crossed

10,000

Visitors!

Thank you all for your love and appreciation!

I LOVE YOU  ALL

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May God bless you,

Be Happy,

and

LEAVE COMMENTS!!!!

Smiley mittens

Hooked on to knitting,

absolutely...

for the time being!

Learning to knit on circular needles.

Learned the

MAGIC LOOP

watching videos on You-tube

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1st thing made...

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Smiley Fingerless Mittens

For Vaasu.

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He liked the Smiley but not it's hair!!!

Smiley's don't have hair!!!

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Modelled by Vaasu, my dear lovely baby!

(Thank You for keeping them on for 2 mins!!!)

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Could hardly keep up the tension of the yarn

and made big ladders at both sides!

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Second one came out so much better!

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Another sock and mitten addict in the making?

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Nightsongs.....

Ever since I joined Ravelry

I've got hooked on to knitting

and wanted to make something in knitted lace.

I've had this pattern faved since long.

The pattern can be found on Ravelry

 here.

I've made this shawl in 4 ply fingering weight pure wool.

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I've never done this kind of a pattern

 and didn't know I would end up

 having more than 250 stitches on my needles!

How can such a mess of wool

ever look like a shawl,

let alone lace.

When i couldn't handle it any longer

on the normal length needles I bound off

This is what I got...

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It's soooo pretty!!!

But instead of a shawl it's just scarf size.

Added a crochet rose on one end

and leaves on a long crochet double chain

for a tie.

Knitted up pretty fast though,

I'd cast on on Monday and bound off on Saturday.

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Details of the "Nightsong"

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Around my shoulders

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Wrapped as a head scarf.

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Love it!

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