a work in progress November 11, 2009
My older sister, Jennifer, has been wanting me to make her one of my pretty pretty flower scarves for a while now. So i started going through whats left of my yarn (thanks, cats!) and found a bulky super soft dark brown that i won for having the cutest kitten picture in a group over at ravelry. She wants a scarf with blue or green flowers, but i reallllllllllllly wanted to use the brown and then it hit me: the brown can be the fence with the flowers running up it!!
So i am now in the middle of designing a new flower scarf, called ‘flowers on the fence’! I have a very strong dislike for sewing stuff in crochet only cause the stupid ends never stay hidden, so this will be another no-sew scarf~ the base is the brown fence, then there will be a green vine with leaves crocheted onto it, along with a flower ‘row’. I’ve already got the green vine with leaves figured out, i’m still working on how to make the flowers in one ‘row’.
Here is the brown that i have done so far:
I would already be done with it, but when i went to the kitchen to throw some chicken in the oven the cats had dragged most of it down the hallway and stairs! I picked all of it up and caught Boomer trying to grab it again. Here she is staring at it, waiting for me to look away for just one tiny second:
she wants it real bad!!!
Baby Carrot is doing wonderfully at our house~ still the most purr-iest kitten we’ve ever had! She loves sleeping next to me, and here she is on my spot:
And here she is again about half an hour after i moved her over a bit:
she even purrs while shes sleeping sometimes!
I couldn’t resist taking a close up pic of her:
what a sweetie!!!!
Later!!
nathalie
fingerless gloves in pics November 6, 2009
It’s always a struggle trying to find working batteries in my house so when i took some out of one of the kids toys, it had just enough charge left to take pictures~
Here is what i hope is a helpful tutorial on how to make my awesome fingerless gloves pattern!
The glove pattern uses back post double crochet (bpdc) to create the ridges on the glove. I am left handed, so if you’re right handed then just do an extra round 2 for the glove part~ that way the ridges stay on the outside of the glove!!
**so i just looked it up, and i guess the actual stitch i’m using is Front Post Double Crochet! Either way, whichever stitch you’re more comfortable using to create the ridges works either way!!**
Here is a link to a front & back post double crochet how-to:
http://www.crochetkitten.com/tutorials/fpdc.html
http://www.crochetkitten.com/tutorials/bpdc.html
Now for my gloves:
First start with chain 9, then double crochet in the 3rd chain from the hook and double crochet across, then chain 2 and turn.
For the next row, Back Post Double Crochet in the next post and in each post across
To do this stitch (BPDC) , yarn over, then stick your hook behind the double crochet stitch from the previous row
then yarn over and pull the yarn back through the post
then double crochet as usual
Here is what the other side of the stitch looks like:
And here is what the next BPDC in the same row looks like:
The last bpdc in the row is done in the very last dc-post, here is what it looks like:
(the rows will even out as you go along!)
You will continue crocheting one row double crochet, then one row bpdc until the cuff fits around your wrist/arm:
The next step is to fold the cuff in half with the ridges sides touching each other and then slip stitch across:
Then you will turn the cuff inside out and chain 1 and turn:
Now sc aound the edge of the cuff , about 27-30 sc as evenly spaced as possible:
then slip stitch into the first sc of the round, chain 2 and turn:
For the next round, you will dc in each sc around, then sl st into the beginning ch-2, chain 2 and turn:
(pic of sl st in beginning ch-2)
For the next round, bpdc in each dc post around:
For the rest of the glove pattern, you will alternate rounds of dc and bpdc (make sure the ridges are facing out!) When the glove is as long as you want it to be you will crochet the thumb round next. The thumb round is a double crochet round.
Chain 2, turn, dc into the first 4 dc, then chain 5:
then skip the next 4 stitches and dc into the 5th one:
then dc in each stitch the rest of the way around, sl st, chain 1 but do not turn. Then sc in each stitch around, sl st to join, fasten off and enjoy your gloves!!!
Have fun!
Nathalie
awesome fingerless gloves September 23, 2009
I actually designed this pattern a couple weeks ago and it’s taken this long to post it due to the fact that no matter how many times i went to the store i kept forgetting batteries. Even yesterday when my only mission was to go to Kroger and buy batteries ~ i only brought enough cash for batteries but what did i come home with? cat food and laundry detergant.
But never fear!! I achieved the impossible today (with the help of a grocery list!) and i bought batteries!!! My younger sister, Jessica, stopped by and i had her model the glove for me. I’ve made 7 of the gloves so far and Tasha likes to bring them to school and give them to her friends!
Here is the pic of the glove on my sisters hand:
and here is the free pdf download: awesome fingerless gloves
and from the pics that i downloaded today, here are the best kitty ones!!:
this is Rose sleeping all curled up in a pile of her own fur
and this is our all white cat, who we ended up naming ‘Scarface’ (he still has a spot under his eye that is discolored from the eye infection he had)
and i took this one last month, it’s one of the white/orange tip cats doing an impression of Bloom County’s Bill the Cat:
“Ack!”
Have fun!!
nathalie
quick response this time! June 29, 2009
i just found this in my email and i’m posting/showing it off now while the kids are watching tv (aka fighting over who gets to watch ‘their’ show!)
This is a pretty pretty flower scarf made by soulmessenger (http://soulmessenger.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/blue-flower-necklace/):
i’ve got to add beads to the next one i make~ looks great!!
Wonderful work!!!
Nathalie
Extra Credit June 10, 2009
so i finally figured out how to look up activity on my ravelry page and i am super excited to show off these projects by other ravelry users!! oh, and if you’ve made one of my patterns and haven’t seen it posted anywhere on this site, just paste a link in the comments and i’ll get it!
afternoon delight turtle (http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/afternoon-delight/)
by Christi
kiwi bird ( pdf here: My_Crochet_Kiwi )
by kikaa
by plentimawfish
evil minions/hostile bunni (pdfs: evil_minions hostile_bunni )
by babyfirelizard
by princessdelerium
silly blue whale (pdf: silly-blue-whale )
by safia
by widneywoman
NERDY BIRD!!!!!! (http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/nerdy-bird/)
by pinktoque
overboard (overboard)
by littlelora
flower scarf (pretty-pretty-flower-scarf)
by tingletangle
by cbagary
by frabuleuse
by hariotmagee
by knitnut
by pania
by suzyteacup
Thank you guys very much!
nathalie
my flower scarf rocks… June 8, 2009
…..and so do the people that made it!! (link to the pattern: http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/pretty-pretty-flower-scarf/)
Here is my flower scarf made by fishbonette over at ravelry:
LOVE the yarn!!
And here is one by Circe (? french blog so i’m not sure of the name!!)
BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!!
Thanks again to everyone who makes or even thinks about making one of my patterns!!!
EDIT: just found tingletangle’s scarf on ravelry ~ AND IT ROCKS!!!
Squiddly Cat Toy! June 8, 2009
Here is the new pattern for the cat toy i designed, semi-pic on the next post but i’ll post a good pic soon. It takes like half an hour or less to make and the cats and kitties have gone insane over them!!!
Good pic of the toy!!:
Click here for pdf:
Here is Chewy playing with the toy:
and this is Tasha tempting the cat with the toy:
And the whole time i’m typing the pattern this is in my lap:
He still doesn’t have a name yet, so any suggestions are welcome!!!
have fun!
Nathalie
chooooooocwat caaaaaaaaaaake! March 25, 2009
Maddie loves baking stuff without a recipie, and my god she worked wonders this time!!! We were out of baking soda and baking powder, but that didn’t stop her~ she made a delicious heart shaped shortbread thing with chocolate drizzled fruit on it!!
Mommy came over to pick up Tasha last weekend and brought me 2 bars of dark chocolate~ which Maddie used for the cake. All of it. And then true to form, her and Adrian decided to splash spoonfuls of melted chocolate at each other leaving me a giant mess on the floor. Without a mop. But you know what? I ate more than half of the cake~ that girl can mess up the kitchen all she wants if it means i get dessert!!!!!
I also finally got to start and finish a crochet project without getting drinks spilled on it by the cats~ i used this pattern
(http://www.suncatchereyes.net/rolypolybunnies.html) Super easy and fun to make, but the next one i make i’ll use actual google eyes instead of a sharpie!!
Adrian got a good picture of Twinkletoes sleeping:
(the stain on the floor is fingerpaints!)
Here is our beauty queen, Milkshake:
Here is what was under the pillow:
And here is sleepy Worry Wart:
Later!
Nathalie
i like pipe cleaners January 6, 2009
yup. i bought some pipe cleaners at walmart last week for the kids to mess around with. Tasha made a pile of pencil grippers while i printed up some pages of a McCalls craft book.
Patsy spent the night with Tasha while Madaleine spent the night up the street and we had so much fun sitting on the couch trying to figure out the instructions!! Cute book, but i swear there has got to be an easier way to make the dumb critters!! I think most of the glue ended up on the blankets!
Me and Patsy both made trees (without a pattern) and then i made a camel. What did Tasha have to say about it? “Mama the camel has 2 humps”!! (sung to the tune of ’sally the camel’ from Barney) What cracked me up was when she started singing ‘Tasha the camel has no humps’!
So, here is a group photo of our pipe cleaner creations:
Her stuff is on the right, mine on the left, with James’s flower tree in the middle.
What else have i made recently? Not much!! With the kids home and bored all i really get to do is referee fights and play ‘volunteer maid’! But i did make this adorable puppet~
the cats are getting used to it!
puppet extra loves Twinkletoes!
The kittens still prefer my lap over any other spot in the house:
Oh, wait, nevermind! They LOVE piling up next to the couch (don’t worry- if you step on one we’ve got 15 more!)
I also made a car for the cats, i used the free pattern from crochetville :
http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=91065
and this here is my favorite kitty pic of the week, it’s Hamster and Chicken Nugget sleeping:
i know it’s blurry, i had to zoom in from across the room!
later!
Nathalie
