Big sagex balls

Same concept as this post but on a bigger scale!

Fabric snake

Recently came across this post from "les pepites de lakshmi" and fell in love with her fabric snake, a baby gift.

Here is my version, with a domino color concept and several different ways to attach the body parts of the snake to each other... huge success with my son, so mommy very happy :-)



Kostum til fastelavn

Fastelavn again, this time the creche is making a little party for the kids, exciting! This year our little angel will be a pirate, until he can speak... it's mommy who decides :-D
 

For the hat I totally fell in love with threadbanger's episode on the pirate costume for girl tutorial,  I simplified the edges folding of the outer circle: folded three sides along the dotted lines and then stitched a little cross in the middle of the folded edge attaching it to the "inner hat"

I bought an oversized white buttoned shirt (size 12yrs old) on sale for 30 kr, cut the extra length of the sleeves and shirred the ends to give it this fluffy looks (two rows),  and also shirred (in red) the back of the shirt so that it would fit him better as it is so big (5-6 rows)
Threadbanger has a very good tutorial on how to shir fabric

I bought some black and white pants on sale and cut triangles out, to give it a worn out look

The vest is from H&M and was bought on sale, the good thing is that fastelavn comes rigth after the sales!

the sword is from filth wizardry's tutorial, a fantastic idea!

I also added a strip of red fabric across his chest to contrast with all this black and white and serve as a sword holder

En garde! 

Dinosaurs

Suttesnore a la Karen Klarbæk

Again, I am short of pacifier holders... these things disappear so fast! 

New crocheted ones are on their way, I add a button where the clip should go so that I can take it off when they go in the washine machine. In that way they last longer :-)

Cup of tea's friends

Cup of tea or cup of coffee ?

Found this super nice crocheted cup of coffee on Linsy's blog

tried to replicate it, here is what I think looks more like a cup of tea but still has this cuteness about it

the way I did it

I used this tutorial : "flat circle with single crochet " to make the bottom of the cup, ending with 18 sts.

Then crochet the first row inserting the hook only on the inside loop

For each row sc in each st, sl st in the last one , chain one
I do this about 10 times

Crochet the "yellow circle" representing the tea, the same way as the bottom of the cup

Fill the cup with filling material

I then attach the "tea cover" to the cup by crochetting bother of them together with the green yarn.
I finish off with a round of sc in each st.

Knit an I-cord for the handle and sew it on the cup

Granny square cube

I recently came across this book at the library: "Hæklede firkanter" from Bente Lavsen, where I found this idea of maknig a cube out of  crocheted granny squares

So I first tried to do a cube and stuffed it with the usual white stuffing I use for amigurumi, but it didn't look too good, although it doesn't really show on the picture.

Then I filled another cube with a fabric cube

Here is the final version

Melted fuse beads

Found this nice tutorial at Mette B , to create this very nice effect with fuse beads

Further to my previous post, I made another gift wrapping ribbon :-)

Gift wrapping ribbon

I found this really nice gift wrapping idea from Kirkesjov

iphone 4 cover pocket

For my new phone, a reversible pocket

Mini balloon

After the new year's party ended here is the mini balloon I made for my son :-)

This is a trick I learned from my mother to prolong the life of a balloon, using the remaining pieces, creating a vacuum with your mouth so as to shape a mini balloon, twist the end, tie a thread and voila

Godt Nytår 2011! - Bonne Annee! - Happy New Year!

Little house

on one of our sick days and while playing with modeling clay

Puzzle ball

From the book "Last minute patchwork + quilted gifts" from Joelle Hoverson

Christmassy breakfast

Every morning my son gets something called "grød" some kind of cereal boiled in water. This time I added some milk and funky pears cut in star shapes. 

I am really not into cooking but the bento wave is slowly catching up on me!  Little tutorial found here at obentotube.

And he loved it!

Mom's pillow covers

Oh wow, just received christmas presents from my parents, included in the package were two beautiful patchwork pillow covers that I need to show off - thank you mommy :-)

Pakkekalender II

This is what went toVisitsen for the Pakkekalender swap.

 She mentioned in her previous posts that the color of the moment was sth close to pink/pale purple, so I made some christmas tree decorations in these tones, wrapped in a handmade little pocket

I used a bag bought at "Søstrene Grene" and converted it into a pocket, so I had at hand a matching zipper and handles to make a matching bow 

The tutorial for the knitted balls is from "I like lemon"

These were the most challenging to do as I am not too good at knitting and moreover with two colors! I'm quite happy with the result :-)

Then I used an idea seen on the christmas issue of "Crafts Beautiful magazine" , a genius idea using wires of different dimensions !

And at last decorations made out of salt dough and covered with some paint I found in Panduro that imitates the effect of snow

Strikke Kurv

To continue with my recycling projects, I just made myself a knitting basket, to accomodate the knitting project of the moment, it also helps me keep some "order" on my messy desk :-)

I used some golden thick thread and painted the borders of the box with some golden paint