I will be sharing with you some of my ideas, some of my Works In Progress, some being knitted, some being crochet. I thank you for allowing me to share my projects with you in your home. Stay t8une and thanks for stoping by.
I am hoping that this blog will help you and me experience the craft of crochet as well as knitting. During times of silence or turmoil, crochet and knitting continuously help me quiet my mind at my own pace, enabling me to find my center. I am also sharing my SECRET persona, Lt. DAX, my life in code while living in Bajor. Maybe fiction maybe not is up to you to decide. Peldor Joi!!!
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Gryffindor Quiddich Hat
Here is my finished project done in Aurora 8, Gryffindor Quiddich Hat. I finished the edge with a sigle crochet as it is always nice. It prevents the edge or border from rolling. ITis a reverse single crochet border edge. Thanks for stopping by.
Basic Tunisian Crochet Stitch, Color Change
This is a short You Tube Video in which you will be able to see a basic demo of a Basic Tunisian Crochet Stitch with some color changes. Thanks for stopping by!
Hogwart's Felted Knitting Case
Here you will see the knitted Felted Case. I am also testing Blogger's Video Uploading. So far it is working great. This is done with a home picture camera, so it is not the best of pictures, but it is meant for fun and to share. They say A movie is worth a thousand words and then I don't have to write lol! Thanks for stopping by!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Purl One, Single Crochet next 2 sts
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Tunisian Crochet Cast On
Remember to always count your stitches , because stitches have a way of vanishing, This is actually a demostration of the Knit Tunisian Stitch lol! Thanks for stopping by!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Color Stranding Knitting, A Yarn Guide
I am sharing with you a demostration of color stranding with the aid of a yarn guide. I am also modeling two of my latest hats. This goes for the requests from some people to model the hats. When you use one of the Clover Yarn Guides you avoid twisting the yarns as you do your Color Stranding. I hope you enjoy the Video and that you like the hats. Thanks for stopping By!
Sep 07 I've been tagged
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Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they've been tagged.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Order of the Phoenix Society of the Impala Hat
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Quidditch Gryffindor Hat
So here I am , it is a lazy Sunday , have been listening to some of the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Cd, don't worry I won't spoil your reading adventure. I am done with the first CD. The hat that I am working on in the video is a Gryffindor Style Hat great for watching the Qidditch game. The hat is made with Aurora 8 Karabella Merino wool Yarn and it is using the Tychus Hat Pattern, from Brooke Higgins at http://Knitty.com. The pattern is HERE . One thing is for sure, this is a very quickly knit hat. It calls for two strands of yarn, I am using one strand only and will be finishing it with a ribbing. Brooke T. Higgins is my heroine as I was searching the net for a vertical stripes hat and I found the greatest there is. I have made this hat before you can see my other samples here. Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by J. K. Rowling, found in the internationally bestselling Harry Potter novels and films. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. The game features in every Harry Potter book bar the seventh, as the series' title character, Harry Potter, plays an important position for his house team at Hogwarts. Regional and international competitions are also mentioned in the books. In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to football (soccer) as a globally popular sport.
This Pillow has the Sham I got today at Pottery Barn for $8.99 from a regular price of $45.00, it is just the cover for a 26 by 26 pillow, in Linen and the price was a steal , I got three. as I needed to get my pillows dressed up. Well thank you for stopping by!
Friday, September 14, 2007
A Hat, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows, Felting
Thursday, September 13, 2007
100 FIlms A MEME
100 FILMS
The AFI released its Top 100 American films; boldfaced in Red are the ones I’ve seen. What have you seen?
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler’s List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On the Waterfront
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter -
54. M*A*S*H
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan’s Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President’s Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie’s Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story
100.Ben-Hur
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Putting on the Fringe!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Felting a Case for Hogwarts Precious Items
Going back to the yarn It is Skye Tweed, It is in the motions of being felted and it does not felt like Lamb's Pride. Lamb's Pride felts very wonderfully I tell you is makes such a difference when you use a nice yarn that felts for a felting project right! lol! It came from a smoker's house, and please don''t get me wrong, I am grateful for the yarn, it is just that I think the nicotine alters the way the yarn responds to things and it took about a month of being outside to get the smell of cigarettes out. Tio think that I used to smoke and now I don't like the smell of it in things.
Lamb's Pride , there is a yarn that felts wonderfully. I am making this one a bit different than the pattern that I got from Berroco. You can find the pattern here Berroco Felted Kable Case. It is a very nice pattern, you need to be a member to have access to the pattern.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Sorting Hats and Golden Snitches, Markers, Needles
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Long Tail Cast On, My version
Personally I do not know of an advantage of this cast on over another kind of cast on, I am not a teacher, just a self taught knitter. I am just amazed at the different kinds of casting on methods that are out there. Here is my humble attempt at showing you how to do a Long Tail Cast on. Thanks to Calvin for his wonderful Idea, I will be testing his method and will be posting a Foot Note to this Casting on. Thanks for stopping by!
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Weaving the ends in Crochet a How to
If you ever wondered how to weave the ends in our piece of crochet work, here is a demostration of weaving the ends , my way. I hope you find it instructive and that you are able to share your opinion with me. I will be teaching you how to make a fringe and how to attach it. The following video is a footnote to the above instructional video
Thanks for stopping by!
Monday, September 03, 2007
Quilted Case for Hooks or Needles
This is the front with some of the needles that will go in here. It has a lot of compartments. I made this in different colors and different size compartments as you can see. The top two compartments have filling, the rest does not. I just wanted to see what it felt like and how easy or hard it was to sew these layers. It was tricky, but easy as pie.
This second picture shows you the folding top. I decided to put the stitch markers at the top instead. I think they will be better protected. One of the Alpacas Stitch Markers is kind of falling apart.
Well here it is all folded up and taking care of your precious needles, hooks, scissors et all. This will definitely be a great gift. I did not use any pattern, I created my own pattern. It is about 16.5 inches width and about 24 length, a very nice and respectable size.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
A Star Is Born WIP
Here is what I am actually making. I used some of the fabric from my exchange with Minky at Crochet Depot , because I wanted to use something new and something old.
Crocus Pocus A discloth in Focus
This photo shows you in great detail the stitch. This is made in Bellezza Collections Smania which is a yarn that is 65% Cotton and 35% Nylon. I think it will be nice for a dishcloth, or even to dry dishes as far as materials go. I have enough to make a crochet scrubby. I will be starting another dishcloth soon.
My works in progress, crochet and knit keep progressing. I may do some quilting today or tomorrow, let's see how it goes. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Holiday Weekend.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Crochet Depot Contest 07 Winners Are!
Our first contest was to guess how much yarn was in this box and Riohnna was the Winner
She won this book as the only winner.
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