Showing posts with label Knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knitting. Show all posts

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!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Bags, Totes, Pocketbooks, Purses, Backpacks...





Like so many others


I love bags!





Purses.





Totes.



Pocketbooks.





Backpacks.




As a matter of fact one could easily state



I am a little bit obsessed with it!...
:0)




Everything started

a few years ago...



Mercy of terrible life circumstances,


I found myself staying at the hospital with my husband
for long periods at a time...


For those of you who have ever been there

you'll know what I'm talking about...
when life as we know it changes
in a matter of seconds for ever.



Anyway,
getting my thoughts back together,


a few years ago, as I was saying,


I started knitting pocketbooks


while at my hospital stays.


I really felt like I needed to be doing something

just to be able to hold myself together,
and knitting seemed to be the most practical thing

I could do while waiting at the hospital.

And that's how really it all started.


My knitting got better and better,


everybody seem to love my bags

and
people started buying them.








These type are knitted, front and back separately,


and lined with matching fabric prints.


After they are all done the fun really begins


with all the embellishments,


and really it's only a matter of letting your imagination fly:


I mainly use buttons, charms, beads, whatever I can find and think it'll look god.


The furry yarn and the bag's shape (I think)


is what attracts people the most for this style of bags.





With the Tunisian crochet

we can also make some quite pretty...















Everything depends on your mood and your imagination.





This one tote was made with regular crochet and a ripple/wave stitch...

Just added a ladybug charm... et voila!



About a couple years ago I found out about needle felting...


Useless to say


I totally felt in love with the technique...


So,

after poking myself quite a few times

and watch some very interesting

YouTube tutorials

(once again, thank you all of you who post

these wonderful things

and share it with everybody else!),

I was able to make some impressive embellishments



on my my bags...







Needle felting also works really good
on the little pouches I make and use to keep
everything
and
anything.




I think I might come back to this bag subject later on
to talk about it a little bit more!
Bye for now!