Great Finds! February 3, 2007

a new craft store— FOUND!

its actually a tailoring shop selling all sorts of ribbons, beads, sewing threads, fabrics and alas! crochet threads and yarns. although i saw a few regular acrylic yarns only.

they only have the 10 grams,  size 8 threads in colored and variegateds.uhmm yummy! they have the red heart brand with colors only of black and white. i cant believe that im standing in front front of this seems to be a big book shelf with all these threads in it in small boxes.

i cant decide on what color to choose…

there i am…choosing.. thinking… thinking… choosing.. thinking again

and finally i told myself “just buy something now and you can come back again” LOLZ!

so i went home with these:

found that metallic thread there also, its 25 grams only. it says 64% rayon and 34% metallic yarn. i wanted to try it with the black thread.

whats the weird part?

when i reached home and while admiring my newly owned threads … i remember that i need a RED thread.  and i didnt buy any RED thread!!!!

so i need to come back this week! its a MUST! lolz.

Not Once But Twice! February 3, 2007

i received my very first crochetville gifts called as RAOK last Feb. 1.  what a great way to start my February!

its Random Acts of Kindness.

im quite new at the ville and was soooo surprised to received gifts from somebody there…

and yeah! i have 2 gifts came at the same time! the fairy godmother visited me TWICE!

 im really…really…OVERWHELMED!

honestly, i had never seen such big skeins of yarns and Hooks!

to this very generous lady from from tennessee and an unknown fairy, thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Cross Stitch Floss January 30, 2007

in my every visit to the local shop where i find some threads, i will always wonder why not used cross stitch flosses, which will come in a vast variety of colors….so one day finally i bought some to try it out.

the color is fuschia pink but its metallic. first i thought of using one strand or few strands only to combine with another thread but since its soo long and it will be very difficult to separate each so i decided to use them as they are.

here is what i came up with, both with red heart navy blue thread size 8:

one is a scrunchy, i used it on the last row.  while trying to make the pic lighter the color of the metallic thread changed into red!  (sent to my exchange partner)

the other one in the mobile fone case, i held both together (with my mobile fone inside, coz its mine) lolz.

Blogging Accident! January 23, 2007

while trying to organize my 4 posts in this blog… i accidentally deleted my first post.

that says how serious i am now to crocheting and therefore i needed a blog to talk about it.

arrrghh! anyway on to the next post.

lesson learned: BE CAREFUL WHEN DELETING UNCATEGORIZED POST!!!

Drawstring Pouches January 23, 2007

Previous projects…

Made last December 2006

  

 Fuchsia Pouch measures 6″ by 5″.

Done in Omega 100% cotton mercerised by Coats with size 2.00mm hook.

i added transparent fuchsia spangles. no pattern.

Purple Shell Stitch Pouch measures 3″ diameter and 4″ in height

its done using size 10 anchor threads and size 7 hook. actually i got the the idea from here. that definetly look stylish but with a thicker thread. im still trying to come up with something to use to make the strap. so in the meantime i just put together white and purple thread. 

im having difficulties crocheting in rounds because i cant maintain the same size, it will always gets bigger… can’t understand why?

Puffies Received January 17, 2007

I am a member of a yahoo group called atmyhouse. this is the first crochet group that i joined in and from there i joined my first swap too. im on my 3rd month now.  and so far, i have been into 4 exchanges. all are wonderful.

Today i received 2 puffies from my exchange partners.

first from my scrunchy partner, Diane from Pennsylvania, she sent me 2 lovely scruchies. i love the yarns she used for both eventhough i dont know what are they, sorry, im all ignorant with yarns i wanted to thank her and also for the extra she put a mini scrapbook!

second, from Jorey, a towel topper. after a loooong wait, it finally came. i want to thank her for her effort in making this although i sent her a very poor towel topper since i havent done any like that before and plus i dont know how to read pattern so i only tried to come up with something with thread.