Crochet Little Bags with Embroidered Names

Superpig’s colleague ordered these bags like back in the June and I was suppose to complete it within a month.

However, my time was taken away by the Z-monster once the school term started and work was delayed.

Then came the chinese characters… I cracked my head as to how to do them.

And finally I finished all the work yesterday night and am happy that I can hand it all over to her.

I hope they meet up to her expectation.

 

Thanks for dropping by and please let me know what do you think of them.

Goodbye Gifts

A particular colleague will be leaving by the end of this week.

She will be setting up her own school to pursue her dream form of education in another country.

So I decided to make some stuufs for her to thank her for these 5 months of friendship.

A hand carved name stamp… and I had stamped it at every page of a memo pad to give to her too.

She is also a piggy lover andso I made this handphone dangle.

I worked out the pattern myself and am darn proud of it.

Hope she will like them

Mini Pouchies

Sorry for the lousy naming … but I like to make it sound cute.

I tried my hands at the mini pouches again.

This time with a little embellishments so that it will not look so plain like before.

They measure approximately 5.5″ by 5″ and the ribbon by the side is long enough to slip it to your wrist.

I made two of them and hope that someone will like it enough to buy them and help contribute to my daughters’ university funds.

Mini Sweet Pouchie

Mini Sweet Pouchie (back)

Mini Flora Pouchie

Mini Flora Pouchie (back)

Please let me know if they need to be improved.

Thank you very much.

A new craft … cheap and cute

I have to apologise yet again for my no posts here.

I have been over at my main blog most of the time (when I have the time… that is.)

Crafting is rather limited at the moment… so this particular crafting blog is neglected.

When I do craft and has the time to blog, I just do that in my main personal blog. 

I still want to keep this craft blog alive so I will just have to try harder.

 

I got to learn a new craft… rubber stamps crafting.

I started on these four just to try whether I can do it or not.

I realised that it was not that difficult and so…

I have yet to do more as school has started and my body aches everyday so in the evenings I tend to laze on the couch and wait for sleep to dawn on me.

A new blouse for myself and also a cozie for an ugly transponder

I am so proud of myself.

I had to wear this ugly transponder round my neck while at work as it unlocks the doors.

I was kind of sick of looking at this black thing in front of my chest. 

Ugly Transponder

As I was making the crochet necklace for Ash, I thought of how I could crochet a cozie for this transponder and dress it up nicely.

So I thought of the design and how the pattern will work.

After two to three days of thinking through, I finally set work on it yesterday night.

I put in the finishing touch this morning… the button.

So here is my newly dressed up transponder. 

Cozied Transponder

Next, I had been sewing clothes for my princesses and also bags and never really dared to venture into clothes for myself.

I plucked up the courage and find a simple enough pattern and cut out the fabric last week.

I let the cut fabric sat for a whole week and finally managed to work on it this morning.

I must thank Superpig for bring Aver along with him and Ash to violin lesson so that I can sleep in and also sew.

I am very very very happy of my new blouse.

New blouse for Wen

I hope you will like them too.

Etsy Once More?

I want to ask readers of this blog or my friends out there… should I try to list a few of my items on etsy again?

I did the last time but there was no sale at all and I find that I pale in comparison to others.

I do not have much confindence that is why I am seeking advise from you.

Thanks.

Crochet Necklace

Finally, I am back on this crafting blog.

Crafting has been a challenge as time is rather limited.  Tired most of the time. Brain juice not working very much due to tiredness.

There are so many projects floating in my brains and I really hope that these projects will materialise into something substantial.  Well, time management had never been my forte.

Anyway, since I was sick away from work last Friday and then Aver fell sick too, I stayed home with her the whole weekend (and today and tomorrow too… she is still running a fever and a nasty cough.)  So I used the time in my hands to do something. 

I managed to cut out the fabric for a blouse for myself.  Sewing will come later.  I am hopeful that I can get it sewn by the end of this week.

Then I started to crochet… I had done the hearts earlier on before Valentine’s Day but I did not manage to complete the whole project.  So I crochet the purple balls and I saw this necklace in my head.  So I worked towards it.

 

 At the third purple ball I was jinxed… I was cursed!  I did the first two rows and all the stitches were in place.  When I did the third row, I would end up with a stitch less.  I undo that row, stitch by stitch, counting as I went.  I was one stitch less! When I undid to the second row, my second row was also short of a stitch!!!! That I could not understand. 

The situation happened for a total of three hours!  Three hours, I sat to crochet the third ball, counted the stitches, undid the stitches, counted again, crochet again and lot onee stitch again… cut the yarn and started again… the cycle went on for a total of 3 hours.

I gave up and told Superpig that it is an indication that I need to rest.  So I stopped and I refused to look at it till the sun went down and the sky turned dark.  The curse was lifted and then the rest was history.

I realised one thing… I had been doing the wrong thing with amigurumi… my original outside is actually the inside and vice versa… DUH!!! DUH!!! DUH!!!  Well, thanks to the many crocheter who posted video how-tos on youtube… I now know.

This necklace is a present for Ash to let her know that I love her.

Flower Rings

Had been saving my fabric scraps, I used to throw them away with a guilty heart.  So I started to put these little scraps aside and hope that I will be able to use them.

So I made these little flowers with the bigger  scraps and add in the buttons.  After which I attached them to the rings and Hey Presto… I have got three new rings.

What do you think of them?

More Felt Hair Clips

Still in the mood of working with felt and hair clips.

But no mood to say more than these few sentences.

Hope you will like them and forgive my rudeness.

Felt Hair Clips

I had brought quite a bit of felt for Ash to sew some christmas ornaments and now Ihave quite a bit left over.  So I started doing these felt hair clips.

 

I asked Superpig whether they are nice.  He said they are nice.  When I asked him again later in the night, his reply was,”Okay only…”

I am a little hurt as he never ever give me a true answer.  His answers change all the time and I really do not know whether the stuffs that I made are good or not.

I know I am still far from many of the crafters out there and to some extent I feel that all the over rated comments by friends about my crafts are only polite comments just to makeme feel good.

However, I so not feel good at all as I know my stuffs are far from nice now that Superpig had spoken his true words when he is most unguarded.