After 2 years.....

                                                                Writing a post after 2 years.... From a different country.. Started this blog before two years when i was at Abudhabi. I started this blog to kill my time and to keep myself diverted. But now i dont have time to think of this blog. Now the life has changed a lot...It took so much of unexpected twists and turns. Now i am a busy mom at Cochin. Totally held up with my kids, their schooling, family weddings, kid's school's pta activities etc.... Overall i should say that cochin had treated me well. 

                I never dreamt that i will start a business of my own. Its been 1 year and by the grace of almighty 

God it came out really well.  

                 Today accidently i went through my old posts and felt so good after reading it. I had a rewind of my abudhabi days. So i feel i should bring my blog back from  its hibernation.

Today onwards i will be posting atleast one post in a week!!

Cheers

Cissy.

candy table runner

This table runner is a combination of all the vibrant colors. It can add color and life to your dining table. It can also be used as a bed runner.

Irish crochet rose

                                                      Flat petal flower

                                         

                                                              Crochet rose

                                         

                                       Irish crochet rose on the top of flat petal flower

                                               

This motif is made for a chair back for my home.I need to make 3 more in different colors.

Crocheted booties

I love crocheting!! In crocheting i love to make booties!! This is an easy pattern which any beginner can attempt.

                             

Tweety baby towel!

Hey howzz my tweety?? Isnt she cute? Especially when its embroidered on a towel for your cute little new born? I stitched this during my nesting period. Have you heard of the nesting period?? Mother cats , dogs and birds have such a period. Same way human moms-to-be also have a nesting time. This is the period when you prepare the nest for your soon arriving baby!! The nesting instinct is different for different moms. I spend my time mostly for stitching and preparing new clothes for the baby. 

I loved the eyes and lips of the tweety.Very expressive!!

The edging is done with a double colored nylon yarn. Its a simple single crochet edging.

I adopted the pattern from the image below. Try it out!

Ripple pattern table runner

   
 Ripples!!! Dont you all love ripples?? I just  love to simply sit in the beach and enjoy the waves.In my childhood days,when boats passes through the river we used to run to the riverside to see the backwash hitting the riverbank.

Here is an attempt to create ripple effect with yarns.

I just loved the colour combination used in this project.
An aqua blue,lemony yellow and a peppy peach well merged with the snowy white color.

A closer view

The complete patent of this pattern belongs to this video. Please check it out here. It is so well explained that any beginner can attempt it.
Happy crocheting till we meet next time:)

Iranian table mat!!

           Since the UAE era of my life is gonna end, probably this might be my last visit to global village. This time i am so happy that i bargained and purchased at a pretty cheap rate.
                         Though these carpets are meant to be iranian i got this from the pakistan pavilion. At first the price was 60dhs.then 45..later 35..finally i got two tablemats for 30 dhs. Yipee!!!!

 When i got these carpets it was embellished with thick yarn,draped all over the sides. But it just made the overall look clumsy. So i removed it  and adorned it with a simple single crochet border with a beige color yarn. Here it goes!!

Teddy bear bed dolls.

 This is a super easy project. One big problem with the crocheting is that we have to buy one whole roll of yarn eventhough you need only a small quantity. Finally we will be left over with lots of yarn unused. Ofcourse you can use it in any other project. But you dont have to face such a scenario here. One big roll of your favourite color  yarn is enough for this.As the first step you have to find two supercute teddies. My son got the baby teddy as a return gift from a party. I happened to find an almost similar mommy teddy from carrefour.

Here is the free link for this pattern. As you can see i have omitted many rows from the original version. 

Dont they add life to your bed when you are not sleeping???     

Happy crocheting !!                                                

Cross stitch cherries.

Cherry!! cherry!! red cherry!! 

Cherries and strawberries are my favourite fruits. More than its taste i am in love with their bright colors.Cant imagine a fruit bowl being complete without the bright red color of cherry.

 Today i made an attempt to bring those colors to a hand towel through cross stitch.                    
           
             Though i have interest in embroidery and crochet, when it comes to sewing, i am  really bad. Literally i am an ignorant seamstress i would say. I have'nt learned the basics of sewing. So it feels very difficult for me to do a neat piping for the edges. .
But i enjoy the seam edgings done by efficient hands especially here. Dont know the owner of that blog personally. but i am a great fan of her. :)

       

Anyways here i  had given a try on the piping also with red and white cheque fabric.The cross stitching part was easy for me than to do the piping. This was the result.!!

                 
               
                 

cane basket liner!!

This is nothing great....but cute as it is...A fabric liner for an ikea cane basket!! 

Isnt that a better option to keep all the kids socks in  a basket like this rather than simply spreading it in your shelf? Your closet  looks more organised.

Panda tin makeover!!

                                         I am crocheting a  table runner now.Bought so many vibrant colors of yarn for that. But used only little for the runner. Left over with lots of colors of yarn.Was thinking wat to do with that. Thats when i read about the idea of covering pringles can with the yarn and converting it into a pen holder. But i dint have an empty pringles can in my kitchen. Had a  hello panda empty tin. So made it a "panda day"today!!.

Before

After
Dont you think this is a cozy place for your fabric clips when they are not used.also it add color to your laundry room!!

Tip for those who are trying this. I think its better to use crafts glue to stick the yarn to the can.I started working with the hot glue. but there's a bumped appearance at the palce where i used hot glue. So for a better  finish use craft's glue or fevicol. It can be messy and ends up with ten fingers full of  glue. But just think of the finished project. Its just a 1 hr task.!!

Carton makeover!!!

Sharing the pictures a beautiful project!! I am sure there are splendind of used cartons which we threw to garbage daily.You can change it to wonderful storage bins with a very small effort. All you need is used carton, any two fabrics, hot glue and a sewing machine.Here goes the pictures.

I came across this tutorial from pinterest and couldnt stop myself from making this. Thus i got a cute and handy home for my yarns:)

Check out this link for the elaborate tutorial.

This was a quick project and i fell in love with it. So tried out some more with left over fabrics.

From this...

To this...

 Three more i made...

Isnt that a cute storage idea for your utility items?

How will be that if its labelled?

Dont u agree that it adds beauty to ur closet?

Hope everyone will try it out!!

Handmade Bday Card...!!

February 28th!!! It was my niece's bday!! This is the bday card which i made for her bday. Since Annu is my son's dearest cousin i wanted him also to involve in the card making. So made him to color the mickey and minney pictures for the card. 

Bear with me... here are some more pics!!!

Crocheted Holy table runner !!

This was my 2012 xmas's project!! Usually i starts many projects together and never finishes any of them on time. But this time i took it as a challenge and finished this within a week. 

It looks better at night. so tried to create a night mood by switching off the lights and keeping the curtains closed. :)

This was found from red heart patterns.The link goes here. Hope it will be an encouragement to all lazy crochet lovers like me to start a big project. If i could accomplish it anyone else can do it.