The Mini Basket...

I've wanted a mini basket for quite some time but I don't know which type I want. If I don't have any mini baskets, the hubby would surely use empty boxes to put stuff in. He's always recycling while I always wanted something new.

Finally, I found the basket that I wanted. Not the grocery basket, picnic basket or any fanciful Moroccan basket. I just wanted a simple mini basket and I've got what I wanted after a thorough search online. My watches have their own nest now if now they will be everywhere.

The T-Shirt Yarn Rug...

We've just moved house and the amount of old t-shirts are aplenty. If we want to give it away, nobody will want them. If we want to throw them away, we would have done so a long time ago. Mi madre thought of something. Mi madre started cutting the t-shirt all around the body and roll them into a ball. Using the size 10 crochet hook, mi madre started off to work. Mi madre complained that outside my room lacks of a rug, thus the rug was created. Yupz, mi madre was also into crochet but mi madre was too lazy to count stitches. Mi madre prefers the same count of stitches for every row so that it wouldn't go out of shape.

My First Crochet Project...

My first crochet project was taught by YouTube because no humans wanted to teach me. I have preferred learning from someone who is breathing and very much alive but since I asked the professionals but they turned me away, I had to crawl myself to the laptop connected to the television screen, and I asked YouTube to teach me. I just typed out Amigurumi Crochet on the search panel because I thought that to launch myself into crocheting a scarf using 5-6 skeins of yarns was just too much to handle. 

Something small should be good and the person who taught me was Happy Berry Crochet. She was really patient as she video-ed her own fingers, working around the hook and the yarn. I watched the YouTube video so many times that when I saw that there were two other parts of the video, I simply wanted to give up. In the end, as the last straw, I took a piece of paper and a mechanical pencil, and started writing down the steps, not realizing that I was actually doing the steps in written form, using all the abbreviations which I thought I coined up myself.

It was not easy but after some time, I got the hang of it and it became really enjoyable. I thought of selling my handiwork but then again, I might want to sell some other stuff. These bunnies were my babies, my first ever real project.

Well, I'm more of a paper-and-pencil person and I need everything to be written in details. I don't mind reading pages long of instructions but videos do really help especially when you know next to nothing. Thank you Happy Berry Crochet. You've been such a wonderful help. After I get started on crochet, cross-stitching seemed like kindergarten level. 

Dolphin In The Pool...

Started: 22nd November 2010

Mission accomplished: 14th December 2010

This is Juju's Christmas pressie~ She likes dolphin so do I...

Merry Christmas~

Started: 17th November 2010

Mission accomplished: 22nd November 2010

This is the season calling for celebration. As Christmas is just around the corner, I would like to wish everyone, a blessed Christmas ahead :o)

A Cupcake For Everyone...

Started: 4th November 2010

Mission accomplished: 16th November 2010

The smallest I've ever stitched. It's for mom's colleague as a birthday present. Hope Aunt Kay will like it.

Cute Present...

Started: 3rd July 2010

Mission accomplished: 3rd November 2010

The biggest and the longest masterpiece ever... truth be told, it looks ugly from near but after capturing the masterpiece using my digital camera, it looks fabulous...