Minlon Vs Nona

semenjak bukak kedai benang ni soklan yang  paling common ditanya oleh customer yang baru nak berjinak2 mengait ialah apa bezanya benang bulu kambing ( nama kampung untuk acrylic yarn..:-)) jenama nona dengan minlon. sebenarnya ini adalah soalan yang sangat2 biasa. even tajuk yang sama ada saya chat dengan my macy salesman jugak.  ada pulak customer yang dulunya menggunakan benang minlon mula beralih arah kepada benang nona kerana katanya semenjak dua menjak ni benang minlon mula hilang kualitinya dan cepat berbulu berbanding dengan benang nona yang lebih firm teksturnya.menurut cerita my Nona supplier, dulunya Kanebo , kalau tak silap saya , sebuah kilang pengeluar benang di Malaysia ini supply benang kepada minlon, benag putih yang belum di warnakan . minlon akan die benang dan jual atas jenama minlon. namun beberapa tahun lepas kanebo telah dibeli oleh  pengilang nona menyebabkan minlon kehilangan sumber benang putih. jadi minlon mendapatkan sumber benang putih dari beberapa kilang dari china menyebabkan kualitinya menjadi tidak sama dan susah dikawal. saya  biasa membeli benang putih minlon kod 51 tetapi benangnya berwarna antara krim dan kelabu cair... memang out habis... mesti ada antara kita yang pernah beli benang minlon yang nampak seperti putus dan disambung2.. uh... memang sakit hati bila terjumpa kes sebegini.

 

hmm... pada saya kedua2  benang ada kelebihan dan kekurangannya. sehingga kini saya masih menggunakan kedua2 benang dalam projek2 saya bergantung kepada jenis projek tersebut. selalunya saya akan menggunakan benang nona untuk projek yang bukan wearable ( bukan untuk garment) seperti casing handphone, pencil case bag dan sebagainya. benang minlon pula saya akan gunakan bila mengait menggunakan jarum dua ( knitting) ini. kerana teksturnya lebih lembut dan selesa pada kulit.kekurangan nona pula ialah kerana kilangnya tidak sebesar macy yang menghasilkan minlon, kadang2 bekalannnya habis dan kerap warna nya yang kita mahukan tidak dapat dibekalkan oleh kilang.

 

berikut saya akan share kedua2 katalog dan kod warna benang minlon dan nona... harap2 dapat membantu anda merujuk warna untuk projek anda. klik diatas gambar untuk membesarkannya.

katalog nona

 

simple felt flowers

hi how are you doing... hopefully everyone is good  and in the pink of health.Now, with the rainy season around we need to  more cautios  with the change of weather ( sure there will be sick people around to take care of) . two out of four of my kids now down with flu...

today gonna share with you how to make a simple felt flowers. i capture this image when my shop assistant  create the flower. the picture might not be superb but i hope it will help to give some idea on how the flower was construct. have fun to try this at home..:-) .. bye...

1. cut the felt into strip depend on the size of the flower

2. fold the end into the triangle and cut it.

3. you will get the right triangle



4. pull the thread at the base of triangle using running stitch





5. gather 5 triangle using the same thread ( 5 will determine the number of petals. put more if you want more petals.





6. Pull the thread tightly and sew to make a loop





7. some application of the felt flowers



the cabbage pattern dress

hi all,

how r you gals.. hope everyone is doing fine.. i ve crochet and knit less this few weeks due to several reason. one of it is i injured my hand, ( felt down stupidly at my parents house ,  kids spilt the drink on the floor) on the forth Aidil fitri and  the pain is still there, eventhoug after  massage by a masseur , especially at the elbow join and wrist. having a 2 years old attached to me most  of the time like a koala bear make it worst, i have to use the painful hand  to carry her around when the tantrum started...another reason is i was busy sewing new clothes for my 4 daugthers  for raya and open house after raya..i ve started many project though... but none of them completed ( sounds familiar...:-P )

 

I ve crochet this dress  about a year ago...  to display it on my yarn shop wall.So many people attracted to this dress but i refuse to sell because i know once i sell it, i will never make another one... the yarn that i use is a high quality ice yarn and fr the dress alone it took 1.5 ball of 100g yarn. i use cotton summer mercerized  yarn for this project.

 

unfortunately i have lost the pattern i ve print out from the internet 12 years back. Still have the the dress with me , i will try my best to write the pattern and share with  you...

material use: Indonesian cotton
hook no 5 (3mm)

1. ch 110
2.dc in the 4th ch from the hook.

simply sunhat ( Again?)

Before Ramadhan someone has order storybook hoodie for her 8 months baby. she wanted the baby , name Ilham to wear it in the hospital after the heart operation. oooh... at first i want to reject the order as i always emphasize.. i am a leisure crafter who craft at my own sweet time. i hate taking orders and meeting dateline. But after heard the story about the baby, my heart goes with him and i decided to take the order... the operation was on the 9th of july i just had 1 week to finish it. unfortunately 4 out of  that 7 days i was down  due to fever and diarhea, so left me only 3 days to finish the order. i managed to finish the order and time and send it together with the car pillow ( my first experiment with shape pillow). I really hope the baby and the mother will treasure it. The last news i heard was the baby is still in ICU but stabilized.

so.. this is the leftover yarn. The Lion brand  pound of love yarn my dear darling bought me in US last year served me better that i expected. with just 1 skein of yarn i ve made 2 storybook hoodie sweater , 1 1 for my 2 years old toddler and another 1 for Ilham. I also made 3 big roses for my daughter's teachers day present and a sunhat. With leftover from Ilham sweater i crochet the sunhat. The leftover just enough to make one ( i throw away about 10 meters leftover after the sunhat as i get sick of looking at the yarn for more than 1 year)

 i must admit that i really love this sunhat pattern .. i had made more than 10 of them and still like it. before. I left it to my shop assistant, mira  to decorate the sunhat with any decoration of her choice , but it still look plainly the same after a week. last monday, on Nuzul Quran holiday,  i was at the shop as both of my assistant on leave, only then i had a chance to garnish ( sounds delicious eh..?) the sun hat. i use felt flowers that has been premade by Nurul, my assistant and sew some buttons on it. so tadddaaa.... here it goes the purple pinky sunhat...like it? its available for sale at my shop, very reasonable price.

am so addicted with the hexagon (baby) sweater

dear all...

how are you and how's your day..? with today is just  1 day away from Ramadhan ...i would like to wish all muslim friends RAMADHAN KAREEM and hopefully this Ramadhan will  be a turning point to make us to be a better muslim.

i found a very very easy sweater pattern just a few days ago. actually  i have came across many pictures of this type of sweater but  all this while i thought that it is constructed from many granny square.. hmm... i am quite allergic to grannies ( square..:-) ) as i hate  to assemble the pieces together. But who knows ... it was not made from a rectangle granny square but a hexagon granny that require minimal stitching... to view some of the picture that you can google for this type of sweater click here : many crochet hexagon sweater pattern .

the sweater was made from 2 hexagon ( segienam) . for this one  i make it into 10 rows( round). i use DMC sunto yarn ( exactly 2 balls) cost me RM34 and some cotton ICE yarn i bought many2 years ago for the edge , before my 2nd daughter was born , and now she is 9 years oledy..:-P.... hehe...at last i manage to use to for something...***sigh**. The size is for 3 to 6 months... can go up more than that if you have a "petite" baby.. 

what i did is, crochet a hexagon

then make another 1. Fold  both hexagon into 2 ( to form half of the sweater). stitch 2 halves at the center back and on top of the sleeves.crochet around  another 5 or 7 rounds to make a colar  and edging... sew a button and ... tadaaaaa... you are done...

This is the diagram of 2 identical hexagons use to construct the sweater 

 i am so addicted with this simple sweater that i keep making a few more... and it is damn fast  , almost like crocheting a hat only...

crochet hook size and conversion

Hi ,

for sharing, tulip crochet hook sizes

No. Size (mm) Type/material 1/0-2/0 1.80-2.00 Steel 2/0-3/0 2.00-2.20 Aluminium 3/0-4/0 2.20-2.50 Aluminium/Steel 3/0-5/0 2.20-3.00 Aluminium/Steel 4/0-6/0 2.50-3.50 Aluminium 5/0-6/0 3.00-3.50 Aluminium 5/0-7/0 3.00-4.00 Aluminium 7/0-8/0 4.00-5.00 Aluminium 7.5/0-9/0 4.50-5.50 Aluminium 8/0-10/0 5.00-6.00 Aluminium

Item No. Ｓｉｚｅ (mm) Quality 1/0 1.80 Aluminium/Steel 2/0 2.00 Aluminium/Steel 3/0 2.20 Aluminium/Steel 4/0 2.50 Aluminium 5/0 3.00 Aluminium 6/0 3.50 Aluminium 7/0 4.00 Aluminium 7.5/0 4.50 Aluminium 8/0 5.00 Aluminium 9/0 5.50 Aluminium 10/0 6.00 Aluminium

Bunga kain(cloth flower)

Hi...salam semua... sungguh lama rasanya tak menjenguk kesini... adala dekat dua bulan dah... many thing happened lately.. sekang ni baru ada masa sikit nak mengupdate blog yang tak seberapa ni.so hari ni aku nam ambik kesempatan ni untuk share ngan korang semua cara untuk membuat bunga kain atau cloth flower yang sungguh mudah ini... pejam mata pun boleh buat( pejam sebelah je la...hehehe)

so antara kelengkapan yang diperlukan untuk membuat bunga ini:

1. Mestila kena ada kain dah namanya bunga kain. Kain tak kisah apa kain pun boleh pakai tapi yang akan nampak lebih klas sikit bila jadi bunga ni ialah kain satin , organza atau velvet.

2. gunting kain yang tajam, jarum dan benang untuk menjahit

3. seterika untuk iron kain sebelum dipotong supaya neat sikit

4. apa apa benda yang boleh menghasilkan bentuk bulat. dalam kes aku ni aku gunakan gelas plastik. tapi ada member aku gunakan cookies cutter pastu dia stamp atas big stamp pad then cop je atas kain...ok jugak sebab boleh save masa lukis bulatan tu.

5. butang atau manik sebagai hiasan.

Langkah-langkah (steps)

1. First Iron kain tu untuk menghilangkan segala kedutan. kalau tak berkedut tak payah la iron

2. tekap bentuk bulat  atas kain

3. buat sebanyak mana yang dipelukan. FYI satu kuntum bunga biasa menggunakan 5 bulatan.

3. Lipat bulatan kepada 2 bahagian

4. Lipat lagi kepada 2 bahagian hingga jadi suku bulatan. Iron kalau rajin supaya bentuknya stay (aku suggestkan iron..) Kat sini depend pada korang. kalau rajin korang boleh jahit bahagian lengkungan itu menggunakan mesin jahit kalau tak biar je camtu...aku tak jahit pun.

5. stelah dapat cukup kelopak yang diperlukan kita boleh mula cantumkan kelopak ni.

6. cantumkan dengan jahitan jelujur satu demi satu kelopak tersebut

7. setelah cukup lima kelopak ( atau jumlah kelopak yg korang nak) tarik ketat2 supaya semua kelopak  bertemu

8. cantumkan kelopak pertama dengan yang terakhir dan jahit.

9. kat tengah tu untuk  menghilangkan kesan jahitan boleh letak butang atau manik. boleh gunakan gam atau jahit.

10. untuk kemaskan bahagian bawah aku gunakan felt. yang ni kalau nak jadikan kerongsang boleh terus jahit atau gam pin kerongsang gunakan gam lilin.

tadaaaaa....siappun. boleh le dijadikan hiasan baju, buat kerongsang, letak kat cekak rambut, sepit dan sebagainya.... mudahkan...okeh..sila pejam mata dan buat versi korang punya....

sample dari  organza yang aku gunakan sebagai button my dear daughter shrug...

versi dari black velvet