First Shawl

They are calling it a side walk shawl, I'm calling it a pineapple shawl. Whatever be the name, its my first shawl and I'm super duper excited to start a very special project after a break of about a year. The most important and special part of this shawl is, all these years its usually the moms  who wants something special designed crochet goodie for their lovely kids. This shawl is a gift  by a daughter for her mom. This ain't special enough to celebrate! The design looks like this.

I'm trying this  design shawl for the first time. I chose a different yarn from the original design .

Material used : Anchor knitting cotton. ( 50 gms -  nos) 5 numbers
Crochet hook : 2.75 mm
Design by: Debbie Stoller

Here is the end result. I loved every bit the way the shawl has turned out. I'm waiting to see how my client will like this.

Tara - Indidoll

I first met Tara and Mani at last Sunday Soul Sante, a mecca for hand crafted goodies.. I was so impressed with her look and the dress. She was like a girl next door. Every little girl's imaginary friend. Like every little girl, I (grown up little girl) also wanted to share my little secrets to my imaginary friend. I bet she will not gossip my little secrets ;)

I really wanted to design something for her. So I contacted the Indidoll team. They were absolutely friendly and wanted to give a try. After 2 hectic weeks, I came up with a line of little patterns exclusively for her. (Patterns are shared only with Tara as of now.. ). Met the team yesterday and they liked few of my items I designed for Tara. Even more happy to share, she will be wearing few of these accessories this Sunday Soul Sante that is going to happen on Oct 27th.

Wishing the sweet little bond between Apple of my Eye and Tara continues :)

Christmas time

The minute I think about Christmas the two colors that come to my mind are RED and GREEN.

My friend was asking me to make something for her and she also sent me a package. It had various colors and the primary ones were green, yellow and red. I never knew it will have such a lovely coincidence. But this has happened. I crocheted her a scarf and was completely left with no time to make a cap that I planned for. Last minute, I started crocheting in the train and finally ended the night before I met her. Crocheted continuously for 5 hours and the lady sitting next to me appreciated that I have a lot of commitment ( blush blush).

The interesting story was, when I was crocheting my hat,  the lady who sat next to me ( she owns a documentation company) used to knit 20 years back and stopped due to professional commitments,  told me that she is for sure going to brush up her attic and get all those left over yarns and start knitting again. I was really happy hearing this.

Now for the pictures.

CAP

SCARF

Pattern: Both the patterns were simple.  The stitches were used completely according to my imagination following the rules for the regular patterns.
SCARF
Chain 22 stitches
Puff stitch next 22 rows.
DC  next 70 rows.
Puff stitch 22 rows.
Bind off.

CAP
Chain 4 stitches.
Join and chain 1
Row 1:SC 8 stitches.
Row 2: 2 SC on each stitch ( 16 stitches)
Row 3: *SC on the first chain and 2 SC on the next stitch* . Continue till the end of the row.
Row 4: *SC the first two chains and 2 SC on the third chain* continue till the end of the row.
Row 5:*SC the first three chains and 2 SC on the fourth chain*continue till the end of the row.
Row 6: * SC the first four chains and 2 SC on the fifth chain* continue till the end of the row.
Row7: DC
Row 8: Change color and Puff stitch
Row 9: 2 DC
Row 10: Change color and Puff stitch
Row 11 :Puff stitch
Row 12, 13 : Change color and Puff stitch
Row 14: Change color and DC
Row 15,16,17 : DC
Row 18: Reduce the chains by half. hold 2 chains together and DC.
Row 19,20 :DC
Row 21 : crocodile stitch.

shawl

This pattern is very simple and is for beginners. All it requires is time and energy. :)
Cast on 100stitches
Knit for about 3feet long and cast off