Retro Skirt with Crocheted Accessory

I made this skirt for phnxreign99 in the January Birthday swap!

It has a crocheted flower that I made in layers to attatch to the wrap around. The wrap around is bias tape I made out of some quilting cotton.


The skirt is a basic full A-Line skirt with an elastic waist. It has a retro feel I think! :)



Edit: Here's a picture she took of her wearing the skirt!

Heeeeere Kitty Kitty!

I made Jessica a kitty cat hat for Christmas this year. She loved it! She was boudning around with a huge smile on her face when she opened it. We took some fun photos in the studio of it!

It was just a simple cap pattern with increasing and working in rounds. I just made up the ears as I went along and then I sewed on the pink parts and stuffed them with polyfil.



And just for fun to scare you...

Face Cloth

I made this really cute face cloth in basic double crochet with white scalloped edges.



The texture of bumps was done using a "front post, back post" technique. I alternated each stitch between doing back or front, instead of doing a full row of one and a full row of the other. It makes it look weaved! I saw a video tutorial and picked it up really quickly. This face cloth was my little experiment with the technique, and it scrubs the skin great. Not too rough, but really gets in to exfoliate! I bet the texture would be good as a dish cloth too.

Crocheted Bunny - IYP Swap

Well, I hope you enjoyed that little teaser! But I have received word from Perlabella that she has the package I sent her now!! So here are some pictures of the bunny I made her!



This was the longest crochet project I've ever done. It was also made difficult near the end because at work I chopped through part of my left thumb with a paper guillotine... that was horrid. Right through the nail. It has almost entirely grown out now though! yay!

The other reason this was hard was because the legs and arms get really skinny and I end up exerting a lot of pressure on my fingers to try and see the stitches. Constantly readjusting is the annoying part of working in the round.


All in all I think she came out gorgeous though!


Here she is all but wrapped up and ready to go! I added the potpourri to give a little country look when she opens it!


For anyone who wishes to attempt this, I got the pattern here: http://www.rheatheylia.com/index.php?page=patterns&id=3

My proportions didn't end up coming out the same as I do a really tight stitch, and I purposely didn't make the feet that fat. J'adore le petit pieds! ;o)

Shawl / Half Poncho

I made this last year, but never posted anything about it. I was going to teach my boyfriends mum how to crochet, but she wasn't into it after all and gave me the yarn she had bought. Later I taught her a bit on some brown yarn I had, but we frogged it as it was only a few rows of Single Crochet stitches.

This was made from just the one skein, I even had EXACTLY enough left over to make a small flower (seen bobby-pinned to my hair). The yarn I never would have picked for me turned out to be very stylish and transformed into an awesome shawl-y poncho... something. In any case it keeps me warm but not too warm. It's a happy middle.

I looked up a pattern somewhere, but I didn't follow it. Basically I just noted how it increased and just did it at points I thought were flattering. Then I looked up how to make scalloped edges in a book at chapters. So it's kinda free hand I guess. If I ever find a pattern that is similar, I'll post it.


Et voila!

Amigurumi Turtle

I made this little guy for my boyfriend at the end of the summer. I just love him! He took me a day or two, but it was well worth it. It came out awesome for my first ami! I think in future I will use a smaller hook though, just so there isn't so much space between stitches.