Alisha's sun dress

This is a stuck 2 month old project. In the beginning i planned to crochet the bodice and knit the skirt but end up i became lazy and decided to sew the skirt.the plan turned out well at first , but i have to forgive my self for sewing it at thewrong side the skirt. I have put so much effort in making sure that right side looks right coz i crochet it in rows. so at the wrong side i just crochet the SC to make sure that The DC row is always at the right side... all the effort gone when i sew it using the wrong side... sob..sob.. its just to late when i notice it and i was just to lazy to open the seam back... so here it goes...hopefully it still looks ok..

burung hantu kiut

Gambar burung hantu yang kiut ni aku dapat dari satu magazine knitting edisi tahun 1982... bila pegang je pagenya terus berkecai.. hancur berderai... sebelum semuanya hancur menjadi debu aku sempat snap gambar ni...kiut kan? one fine day ( hmmmmm... one fine day? ) aku akan buat burung hantu ni... or sesapa nak try buat kalau dah siap nanti boleh share gambar ye...nampai macam senan je ni... nak kena disep piece per piece..

kait jarum dua : casting on dan casting off

casting on ialah antara langkah awal yang perlu dipelajari oleh pengait2 jarum dua ni... ( somehow term pengait ni mengingatkan aku pada satu cerita seram yang pernah aku dengar satu masa waktu kecik dulu)...:-) so sebelum pandai membuat baju... kasut atau apa2 yg kita nak buat ngan menggunakan jarum dua ni langkah pertama ialah casting on. terdapat beberapa cara casting on ni ..tapi antara yang popular ialah

1. kaeadah long tail. kaedah ni memang kemas dan akan menghasilkan bahagian bawah fabrik yang elastik... contohnya kalau nak buat stokin dan seumpamanya kaedah ni memang sesuai. cuma untuk kaedah longtail ni kena pastikan bahagian benang yang direserve tu akan menckupi untuk cast on sebanyak mana yang dikehendaki.

2. single cast on. ni cara cast yang paling basic.. paling senang tapi tak berapa kemas compare to longtail.

3. cable cast on - Thanks tu Sindar Ery from da'knit yang memperkenalkan aku ngan term ni... tak tahu pun selama ni kaedah ni namanya cam ni. But yang ni among cast on yang aku paling suka guna... very elastic... you tube kat bawah ni aku buat dlm keadaan tergesa2 sementara anak tido dan tak bising... sorry for the low quality video not so good sound... cikgunya pun tergagap2 ..maklum le tak pernah jadi cikgu..:-)

4. memula belajar knit dulu aku ni tak de guru... belajar sendiri je dari buku... maklum le masa tu youtube pun tak de lagi..so dalam terkehel2 sorang diri tu dapat jugak aku mengait beberapa item untuk baby first aku 12 tahun yang lalu. masa duk belek2 buku tu sampai sudah tak paham cammana caranya nak buat double cast on... so aku pun menggunakan kaeadh aku sendiri iaitu aku akan kait loosely rantai dengan jarum crochet , sepanjang mana yang aku kehendaki...kalau terlebih jng susah..bongkar aja..hehehe... pastu aku naikkan loop dari setiap lubang rantai tu dengan menggunakan knitting needles... tarraaaa... dah boleh mengait cam biasa dah...senang betul kaedah ni...banyak tahun jugakla ku mengamalkan kaedah hingga aku belajar kaeadh lain... mcam 2 benda jugak yang siap ngan kaedah ni.

untuk casting off pula ada pelbagai cara juga antaranya;

1. basic cast off

my yarn addiction is getting more severe

this is a common sickness among knitters and croheters... yarn addiction... we tend to buy yarns anytime we stumble with any promotion or discount and end up dunno what to do with that.. this afternoon i have spent RM 47 of my hard earn money to buy sale yarns...sad to say the yarn may exist before was know how to crochet...a very very old stock yarn that they need to let go... but the prices are not that cheap... but i still bought it...i also bought 2 cable needle 4mm and 3 mm just because i still dont have the size ... not because i want to use it... sob..sob.... so total spend out today is RM64... and still dont know what to do with all the item i just bought...

happy crafting peeps..

hi all... its weekend ... for those who are on the paid job over the weekdays.. this is the perfect timing for crafting...do you have any crafty idea today... i am thinking of getting my smallest baby a sun dress... a knitted sun dress... i have a picture in my mind and need to yarn it out...:-) so gals... if you need a good yarn to kick off your brilliant crafty idea... checkout this website : http://deenor.yarnshopping.com i am thinkng of hooking ( or needling) mysef up wth some good 100% cotton yarn... happy crafting dude...

i need a space...(for my yarns)

we are a nomad living between 2 places... the initial idea is we will stay in our apartment on penang island on weekdays as it will be near to everything...school..nursery, babysitter....my workplace ( except my hubby workplace). Then we will be going to our real house on the mainland over the weekend...but the plan doesnt work well.. we r lazy to go back... we went back for a while just to check the house (even its just 10 mins drive ) then come back to our aprtment...and now with the 4 kids in 900 sq ft apartment we are having the space crisis. in the other house 1 have 2 rooms for my stuffs... one is the small bibik room downstair near the kitchen and another one is my sewing room. my runaway bibik use to call it bilik menyulam ibu... and its quite big 15X 15 sqft i guess..... with rack like craft shop...i even have one rack in the storeroom under the stair case to accomodate my crafts thingssss...(its a lot... i have a habit of buying and not using...hehehe). some of it is the leftover stock from my craftstore that doesnt really work well last time... i guess i pick not proper location and not agood biz plan.. its more like a wrong decision i had made to help a dear lifelong-fren who is later not helping me back...**sign*** so i close the store and have tons of craftng items not sold... i pick some of it and bring back to my house. i just lost the zest to sell it online...+ my bz schedule stop me from doing so..my mum said you can sell it in bulk with the cheap price to any craftstore... but i feel sayang with all those thng so that's it.. i just keep it..hehehe in my mums store in my hometown....
i need and advise how to store yarns and crafting items in my small room in the apartment without making mess and disturb my roomate...:-). how you guys store it?

the sun hat...

i just so fell in love with this easy to do sun hat... this isjust a basic hat what was modified lil bit and looks cool... i cannot help my self makin the second of it... still using the same yarn..peaches and cream and no 8 tulip hook. this one i started will waiting for my car radiator to be fix... just imaging this is the result of 30 mins waiting... superfast...coz the yarn is thick.. and the hook is big...hehehe... now i has to deal with my laziness to pick t back and finish it...:-P . it's just a few round to finish.. Let me share the pattern. Alla Koval the famous crochet designer has done a great job to reincarnate the super duper easy pattern ( i did when i was 12 and first learn to crochet) into a very sophistcated creation.