Here is a pic of She-ra and He-man, while they sleep. I've always been a dog woman, but these little fellas are just too cute!
This is the most complicated piece of crochet I have ever made. Crocheting is easy, it's the instructions that make no sense, since they assume one understands how to construct garments and what-not, but these instructions were fairly logical. I am very happy with the result. I got this as a free pattern from FaveCraft.com. It's called Belle Fleure Scarf. I used less expensive acrylic and darker colors as I wanted more of fall look. I have made many flowers to decorate purses, sweater collars and all sorts of things. Just pin the flower using a safety pin and you can change the flower whenever you please. Here is the link to the scarf crochet instructions:
http://www.favecrafts.com/Crochet-Hats-Scarves-Gloves/Belle-Fleur-Scarf/ct/1
Janet, the proprietor of The Cross Stitch Station, in Doral, Florida introduced me to this quarterly publication "Spool". Each issue includes interviews with designers and creators, and provides patterns for needlepoint, crochet, knitting, cross stitch, felting, sewing and other needle arts. The current Winter Issue has mostly knit and crochet projects so I was bit disappointed, but the prior issues had a nice balance of projects. I was unable to procure the Fall Edition, unfortunately. I highly recommend this publication if you like to do different types of needle arts. It's modern and fresh! Check it out:
http://spoolmag.com/
This design was a shop freebie from Blue Ribbon Designs. I used Vicki's Hand-dyed Fibers, in Caribbean Reef. For a while, before the economy took a dive, I subscribed to Vicki's monthly floss club where she would send about 12 tags/spools of her silks. I built up quit a nice stash that way and now am able to use silk for virtually any graph I want.
This little guy is from Tams Creations, Autumn Variations Biscornu Pattern No.3. I substituted the DMC floss with Hand-dyed Fibers. I used
Beehived,
Old Maid of the Sea,
Marquie de Cercles and
Gandy Tango. The pattern did not call for any outlining but in hindsight, the acorns around the middle should have been outlined, especially the acorn caps (or whatever they are called).
This came from The Gift of Stitching, its the Assisi Pin Cushion but I turned it into a scissor fob. I also used Hand-dyed Fibers,
Garnet and
Magpie Warbles. Its on 18 count Aida and I used 2 threads for the cross stitches.
This is one of my favorite pieces. Its the Oriental Fish designed by Marie Barber and published by Just Cross Stitch in the May/June 2009 issue. It's stitched on Golden Sand, 32 count using DMC floss. Who stitches fishes? Me, that's who! I love oriental themes but was tired of the the geishas and vases with flowers and then I found this. POW! It reminded me of the Japanese paintings done on gilded wood panels. Lovely.
Well, that's if for now. I will be dyeing some fabric this weekend and will post results of that experiment next week. Thanks for visiting and have yourself a wonderful week end.
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