Saturday, April 2, 2011

Knitting: Dishcloth, Tawashi and Scarfs

For the last couple of weeks I've been knitting a little,
specially at night time while watching TV.
At first it was all about dish cloths...
My sister-in-law kinda put me on the mood for it
(you might not believe it, but I had never made any dish cloth before!).
Anyway...
this was my first one, out of cotton.
It seems like it's the most common pattern around,
and I got mine here.
After knitting the first one
I've decided to used 2 strands of yarn knitted together
to make it sturdier
(tough afterwards I learned that only cotton is acceptable for a dish cloth).
By the time I finished the second one
I was done with this knitting pattern and searched the web for other ideas.
That's when I came upon the "tawashi",
the Japanese term for "dishcloth".
 I found it very interesting so I crocheted my first tawashi
out of cotton leftovers.

 The color composition is not great,
but with vibrant coordinating colors should look real good.
This is where I found the the pattern for the tawashi.
And those were my adventures on dishcloth land...

Still with the first pattern in mind
(that's right, the idiot's dishcloth pattern)
I decided to try a triangular scarf
with some of the cream cotton I had left.
And here it is,
  with a very Ali Baba, or middle eastern, look
(at least that's what it made me think of)
after applying the fringe.

Since I still had a lot of the same cream cotton yarn left,
I made this one,
and this is what mine looks like.

The next two scarves
are variations of the same kind of the drop stitch,
and are made with different textures and different types of yarn.
 They're different I think, and I like the way they look.

I'll see you all later!

Monday, March 28, 2011

A Very Nice Award!

Yesterday
I got a very nice award from Varragato blog!


Thank you so very much Moncsi, it was very nice of you!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Roll-out Crayons Case

Roll it in... roll it out...
... colors, colors, colors!

I thought it would be a good birthday gift
for a lovely young lady who happens to love to draw!
But shh!... don't tell her, it's a secret!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Yo-Yo dolls

Spring is definitely here,
and it does feel good.
The plum trees blossoms look astonishing, don't they?

In a effort to dig myself out from the hole I buried myself in,
I will try to post at least every couple of days... and I hope that might keep my days more energized.

I do have been doing something, the essential at least,
but in my own defense
I have to say that I've been fighting some kind of bug
or maybe even a respiratory infection for almost two weeks now.

Today it's all about yo-yo's.
In the past
I've made some clown dolls with fleece yo-yo's,
like this one here.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

T-Shirt Yarn Oval Rug

There is no excuse for the lack of posting!
Mea culpa, mea culpa!...
... What else can I say...?
Have been a little bit on the down side,
a little cabin fever,
a little depressed,
a little bit overwhelmed
about everything going on right now... but I'm still here.
 And today is the last day of Winter and Spring starts tomorrow!