Arts and Crafts Blog

This time, I´ll give you a complete tutorial to make a very nice sweater.

The first rows: double elastic stitch (10 rows).
After that rows: start the desing.

1st design row:

1 -Pass the first loop from left needle to right needle. (pic. a - b)

pic. a

pic. b
2 - Make one lace, as you can see in pic. c.
pic. c
3 - Pass another loop from left needle to right needle. (pic. d) (*)

pic. d
4 - Knit one stitch. (pic. e)
pic. e
5 - Pass the third loop (the one you made on step 3) over the las one you knit. (pic. f)
pic. f
6 - Knit three stitches (no pic)

7 - Knit two stitches together (pic. g)
pic. g
8 - Make a lace.

9 - Knit one. (*)
10 - Make a lace

11 - and start all over again since the first * to the last *.
Lace.

The last stitches of the row are: - Knit 2 stitches together - one lace - Knit one. (you have to finish like this if you want to follow this pattern)
2nd row: Purl all the row (including the lace loops - that way the little holes appears)
3rd row:

1 - Pass the first loop from left needle to right needle.
2 - Knit one
3 - One lace
4- Pass another loop from left needle to right needle. (*)
5 - Knit one
6 - Pass the fourth loop (the one you made on step 4) over the las one you knit.
7 - Knit one
8 - Knit two stitches together.
9 - Make a lace
10 - Knit three.
11 - Make a lace (*)

4th row:
Purl all the row.

5th row:

1 - Knit three.
2 - make a lace
3 - Pass one loop from left needle to right one (*)
4 - Knit two stitches together.
5 - Pass the third stitch over the two stitches you knt in step 4 - this way you close the upper angle of the triangle.
6 - Make a lace.
7 - Knit five stitches.
8 - Make a lace.
repeat from (*)

6 a 12 row : rice stitch

Start all over again from the first row of the design.

Here you can see a complete view of the pattern:

And here a closer view of the “Lace” design.

You have to use a thin yarn and thin needles to make this pattern.

Try it, it´s not so difficult and the outcome it´s great.

Kisses,

Fran

Visit this sites for more ideas: Knit n Purl Zen , Little Purl of the Orient.

I have two pretty and small bags I made last week to show you. I used “unuseful” pieces of felt (that were useful in this case). Using my sewing machine I made, in no more than ten minutes, two little bags.

The handles are made, as you can see, of crochet (just a simple chain with a combining color).

The eyelets are made of crochet too… I made both of them and sewed them with my needles and thread, that´s all!

Today I want to share with you two strange desings.

The first one is a very nice pair of earrings, made of wood beads (they´re beautiful). It seems they belongs to an indian, isn’t it?

The following desing it´s a spiral. I love spirals! I made the wire structure first and then embroider the beads.

See you next craft!

I made this earrings and the bracel for a firend´s doughter, Lucy. She loves animals, so I gave to the earrings a personal detail.

To make the earrings use rounded pliers to make chains with the wire. You can make yourself the part of wire that goes in your ear: put the wire arround a pencil or pen (or arround something cylindric) to give the wire that shape.

I made this earrings and the bracel below, embroidening the beeds in an elastic fishing line.

Here you can see both designs.

Hope you like them! Try handmaded jewerly, it’s an adicction!

Hi! I´ve been traveling all this months but now I´m back and I wish to share more ideas with you.

In this Holidays the kids are at home, so this time I´ll give you an easy and fun idea to share with the little ones. Anyway, you have to keep an eye on them because if they do the craft they´d have to manipulate sewing needles.

Materials: some felt (it can be from old piece of clothing), sewing needles (for wool), wool, wood pieces, aquarellas or something to paint or draw, glue.
First of all you have to cut the felt and sew it: it must cover a finger. Choose nice colors and combinations of wool and felt.

After that, choose a wood´s piece: it´s no necessary to have the animal´s shape, you can draw it on the wood´s piece or even choose other materials (Eve´s, plastics)

Glue the “head” to the body (finger cover) with the appropiate material (that depends on the material of the head).

DONE! You have a finger puppet to play!