Felting and fulling by hand

That's it I wanted to try felting so long, and finally I did it. I don't have a washing machine so I tried by hand. At the end of the process my hands were way more ruined than the little purse I was trying to felt, or I should say full (see difference here), but in the end something happened. I'm not sure I should redo the process to shrink it more, but I guess I won't.

I used Cascade 220 yarn in pink (col 7805), Dawn dish soap, ultra hot water and a bowl of very cold water. Passing from one to the other for at least 15-20 mins. This was my rehearsal before starting the "booga bag" I'm planning to knit. What do you think? Should I re-felt it to have a more compact texture?

I've also progressed a little with my mom's poncho, I've finished the collar and now started the body. I hope I'll make it in time for Easter!!! Hopefully I can count on my cat's help... as usual ;-) This reminds me I have to finish my sister's Amigurumi dog!! I'm running so late in all the projects!!!

Finally, on e-Bay I bought the "Amigurumi Collection vol. 1" book, and to be sincere I was expecting something more. I mean all the amigurumi are made using the same technique (rounds increased 6 sts per row), so the book is kind of superfluous, anyway the pictures are cute and the animals in it definitely nice.

Crocheted Bikini Progress Icons

Bikini Icons by

Tote bag progress icons

I'm in the icon-loop, I'm making icons for every project that I have in mind... Subtracting precious time to actually making the projects... I know... But I'm in a Photoshop trip. Again feel free to use this icons if you want, just link me if you would :-)

Tote Bag Icons by


For this bag I want to use the lovely Booga Bag Pattern, look how cute is this web site, with all those booga bags pics!!!!



Coming up next... Bikini bars!

Poncho Knitting Bars

I've been trying to use the lovely Knitting Progress Tracker by Indigirl, but apparently Blogspot doesn't support JavaScript :-/
Anyway, I spent the last hour making my own poncho icons, feel free to use them if you can put a JavaScript in your Blog :-)

Here they are:

I've also made some "progress poncho icons". Feel free to download them to your blog. Please do not link directy those files, it would hurt my bandwidth. If you decide to use those icons, I would appreciate a link to this blog :-)

Poncho Bars by

Polar is Here!

It's here! It's here! I've just received it!!
What? But the 10 balls of Rowan Polar color Jaffa that I had ordered on e-Bay! I'm SO happy!!!!!!!!! :-D
The color is actually even better that I expected, and it's so soft and rich. O my goodness, I'm so excited, I can't wait to start the
Eleanor Poncho for my Mom!! Yuppeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Crochet Caddy - Double

Finally I managed to make a crochet hook caddy. I've used the amazing pattern by Crochet Cafe. But because I have been shopping online lately, I now have a big bunch of hooks, so I made the pattern double.

Basically I followed the instructions given in the Crochet Cafe pattern, but instead of making the front flap I started another crochet caddy, upside down.

And here it is! It's a bit bigger that I thought, and it's not something that you can carry with you. So I'm thinking of making a smaller version, single folded, to carry just 4 hooks. You know, for traveling. Anyway this caddy certainly brought a bit of order in my messy crochet stuff.

Needle Master, I Love You

Finally all my bidding on e-Bay gave some results. I've received the fantastic, marvelous, wonderful, outstanding Boyle Needle master. Yooohoooo! I LOOOVE it, and even if I'm a very bad knitter, I don't care I wanna knit the world with my needlemaster!!!

I already started to knit a pillow cover, and I already can see that the results will be very poor... But who cares!? My next step will be knitting a poncho from the lovely book "Viva Poncho", I've chosen this one, it's called ELEANOR. Isn't it lovely? I'll do it for my mom.


My only problem now is buying the Rowan Polar yarn necessary for the project, and apparently is not easy, not even on e-Bay. I thought I made it today, but at the very last 20 sec on the auction someone bided 1 dollar more than me and got the yarn :-(
I guess, I'll try again... or I'll go to Article Pract in Oakland and ask for a substitute yarn...

My buttons

Here they are! Feel free to use them if you want to link me ^___^




By the way. Today I've won my first e-Bay auction! Wow! I got myself some gorgeous Rowan Cotton Yarn, yuppie! :-)))

The irresistible appeal of yarn auctions...

I'm in the tunnel of e-Bay! Someone please help me! I didn't use e-Bay not even once in the last 5 years, and now, I can't stop... I make bids for thing that I don't even want, but I simply cannot resist beautiful yarn at low prices... And hooks, cable needles, everything that has to do with knitting and crocheting.
Hopefully I haven't won a single auction yet, but there still is time... ;-)

Crazy about squares

Yesterday I was in one of my missions at Barnes and Noble to have a sneaky look at a few crochet and knitting patterns from various (too expensive) books... In this wandering I bumped into "200 Crochet Blocks" by Jan Eaton. It was love at first sight! I LOVE this book and I bought it even if it costs a fortune, but, hey, it's totally worth!

I immediately started to use all my leftover yarns, finally. And I'll be making a pretty ton-sur-ton pillow. Look at this, I'm using all the blue yarns that I had in small amounts. I love this first two squares that I've made, aren't they nice?





I've also progressed a little with the Amigurumi bull terrier that I'm making for my sister. Since then I've made the head, the small body and one ear. Little by little I'll go on. Sure I've been distracted lately by the Olympic games, I'm so crazy about Figure Ice Skating that I spend a big part of my day looking for videos online. I've also worked a little (finally) so I'm running late on some projects.



Online I have also found a Gadget for you crochet-geek girlfriends. Look at these "felted icons" they are so cute you have to download it. This icons are perfect for my crochet folders!!!