Addition to the dress

I have been out of action here for a while now. Its time to catch up all I have missed. I would like to share all my work here. Firstly is the continuation to the dress I last uploaded on April. Learning the sizes is very important and sizing chart is a must. Unfortunately, when I learnt this I came to know the yarn I was working with was out of stock and nobody knew when it will be back in stock. In India, the arrival of new yarns from various  is impressively increasing but we have to be first to grab it. Else, we will be left with disappointment. So, when I learnt I cannot continue with the yarn I'm using, I decided to finish it on a safe length and decided to add lace. I chose a 3 inch wide a equally matching design lace and attached it. This made me realize lace and crochet does go hand on hand. I found it did add an extra grace to the dress. Luckily my opinion and my friend's opinion who decided to purchase this dress was on compete sync. She too liked the idea. Happy me, I was all excited with the outcome and proud to flaunt it. Here is the end result.

For my other dress, I add a cute elephant applique and a satin ribbon belt.

Good or bad, it is always worth experimenting. By doing so, we will for sure learnt the many nuances in our field.

Baby dresses

I'm lucky enough to crochet these beauties. Each one of the dress is very unique in design and its absolute pleasure for a crocheter to try new things. The dress above is for a 1 year old and the dress below is for 6 months baby girl. Lace was the concept I chose for both the dresses. The picture below is my favorite Pineapple Lace Crochet dress. If anyone asks me to keep creating these kind of dresses, I'll be happy to create throughout till I say "Enough", which I think I will hesitate to say. :)

One Eye Minion Small Baby Pillow

 

Material Required: 

1. Yellow, Royal blue and black yarn.  4 Ply or 8 ply yarn depending your preference
2. White, black, grey 8 ply yarn for eyes

Pattern:

With yellow color yarn

Row 1: In a magic ring 6 SC, join in the first SC and ch 1 (6 SC)

Row 2: 2 SC in each chain, join in the first SC and ch 1  (12 SC)

Row 3:* 1 SC and 2 SC* in the next chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (18SC)

Row 4 : 1 SC 2 times and 2 SC in the next chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 

( 24SC)

Row 5: 1 SC 3 times and 2 SC in the following chains and repeat  * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (30SC)

Row 6: *1 SC 4 times and 2 SC* in the following chains and repeat * *all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (36SC)

Row 7: *1 SC 5 times and 2 SC* in the following chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (42 SC)

Row 8 -12 : SC in each chain

Row 13-15 : Change to black yarn, SC in each chain

For hair

Cut 5 inches of black yarn and fold it into half and crochet to the top of the head

Do this 5 times.

Row 16-29 : Change to yellow yarn , SC in each chain

Row 30: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 5 times* around - ( 36 SC)

Row 31: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 4 times* around - (30 SC)

Start filling with fiber fill

Row 32 : *1SC Dec, 1 SC 3 times* around - (24 SC)

Row 33: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 2 times* around - ( 18 SC)

Row 34 : *1SC Dec, 1 SC * around - ( 12 SC)

Fill it with enough fiber fill

Row 35 : SC Dec around - (6 SC) 

Fasten off and leave about 2 inches of tail and sew it inside.

For Eye:

With black yarn in a magic ring, 6 SC

Change to white yarn, 2 SC in each chains - 12 SC

Change to grey yarn . *2 SC, 1 SC* around - 18 SC

Fasten off and leave a long tail.

Attach it to the minion on the black yarn section.

Tadaaaaaaa

The small one eye minion pillow is ready

You can very well add the blue pants if you like. I wanted to stop with this.

Graph ghans

 Most of us wants to gift personalized gifts to our near and dear ones. Especially when its a gift to a new born its even more special. Afghans and lapghans are always very helpful to wrap the newborn to make them feel warm and cozy and when its a cold place, the use of lapghans and afghans are more.

I always wanted to make lapghans. I'm going to start this year with a try on that. I have a big list of images that I want to try. But I am yet to decide which one will be first and how far I am going to be successful in trying it the right way. So fingers crossed and keep watching for me to brag  all about my first try on these lapghans :D Hopefully its this year ;)

Making personalized image lapghans and afghans first need to be converted to graph charts. There are so many methods to do this. I'm going to list them here so that its helpful to me and you as well.

An example of  converting a picture to graph

Free websites

1.  Stitch board.  
2. Pic a pat 
3. How to make your own crochet pattern 
4. KnitPro 

 Paid websites

1. http://www.mckcreations.com/ 

Hope you try anyone of these methods  and crochet your own lapghans and afghans. Please share your views on the comments..

Jingle Bell Baby Rattle

I came across some beautiful hand crocheted amigurumi balls on Ergahandmade a few days back.
But all I could relate after seeing these beautiful crochet balls was baby rattles. . So I wrote my own design for a second time. :)

I feel very happy to write it down. I'm keeping my small steps in pattern writing and is a very good experience.

Pattern:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rattle

Thanks
 Apple of my Eye

Simple beanie and booties

My favorite pattern ever. A simple beanie and a Mary Jane inspired booties.I did not follow any particular  pattern for these and unfortunately I did not write down the pattern as I crocheted. :( These patterns are more of inspirational.These products will be always stay close to my heart as I tried something of my own. For the booties, I got my inspiration from the Mary Jane booties. To add some extra character I added a clown shape to the booties.

Floral sandals.

When I came across this pattern, I simply loved making one.

For more such cute sandals have a look at my Apple of my Eye.

Apple of my Eye

Finally, the stores is opened. I'm glad to inform that I have opened an online store for babies, toddlers and girls. https://www.facebook.com/Puruseyourhobby?ref=hl. People wishing to present the new member of their family or their loved ones something very special, you clicked the right page.

FOr products click my page APPLE OF MY EYE

 Wish you all like my page and encourage Apple of my Eye by buying our products.

A busy week

Masala bun

Plain White Bread

This week has been fantastically busy with new things to try. Its always make me stay positive when I do something new and it comes out decently or pretty awesome. Be it food or knitting or any other hobby of mine, I really feel positive when the result is good. Now, this week started with baking a bread and knitting a baby set for my dearest friend. The bread became a cake and the baby set came out pretty decently. Last night, I tried to bake the bread again. It was a huge success. I also baked a masala bun which also came out pretty yummy..Now I feel accomplished.

Baby sweater and cap

The Gift

So here is the finally set that is soon going to be shipped to India for the little one.  :)

You want one such set, email me. All happy to do it for you or your dear ones :)

For someone very special

A set is getting ready for a special person. He is going to join our family in August. All excited for my sister-in-law. :) . Its going to be shipped soon to her and she does not know about this. No probs, she is not going to read this for sure as she does not know about this. ;).. Its a surprise :).

P.S.: Patterns will be posted once I complete the entire set.

Bloomer

How can one forget their first project. Yes, this is my first project in Knitting.

Out of boredom and in search of pursuing a hobby seriously, I landed up here - Arcadia Knitting.  Sharon and Kathy were two amazing people who engaged my Saturday and Sunday afternoons so fruitfully, I learned Knitting with a great interest. If you are in Chicago and wanna learn Knitting, Arcadia Knitting is your place.

Well coming back to my first project, from the beginning baby category was my fav category. 

Flower-II

I happened to watch youtube video on how to make a flower and came up with a simple version of my own.
Chain 6 stitches
Join the loop and do 16 single crochet. Join the row with a slip stitch.
In the first chain, do 4 DC and slip stitch on the same chain.
Slip stitch the next two chains and do 4 DC on the next chain.
Keep doing until u get 5 petals. Now join to the first petal with a slip stitch
Chain 4stitches and join to the end of the petal. Continue this until you get 5 such loops at the back of the petal. Join with a slip stitch.
Now for each loop do two sets of 5 QC forming 2 petals for each loop with a total of 10 big petals.
Slip stitch at the end of the row and cut off the yarn.
The resultant will be 

Flower

Wanted to add a flower on the newly knitted baby cap. So wanted to make one and the videos below is a perfectly instructed procedure on how to make a flower.