tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65121577628235912782012-01-16T23:55:55.679+01:00I learned knitting almost at the same time as reading, when I was 6-7. Since then I cannot stop and there is so much to learn and to knit. You are mostly welcome to share your opinions, ideas, achievements with me! I looking forward to communicate with you who share the same interest!Helena Torkzadssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08498912064504653331noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512157762823591278.post-3409743030121984422012-01-16T23:55:00.000+01:002012-01-16T23:55:55.684+01:00

My little cutie was about to become one year old and I really needed something special for that day. I browsed dozens if not hundreds models, both crochet and knitted and finally chose a shorter variant of this dress for baptizing. The yarn is merino wool, extremely soft and cuddle. My daughter was not a big fan of dresses but did not mind this one. Now one year later she still uses it,

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Variant of Modest Cloche by Jennifer Hansen http://www.stitchdiva.com/modest-cloche-kit-classic-crochet-cloches-studio-silk I wanted to create a warmer variant of this very nice hat, so I used mohair yarn. Warm it became but it lost a bit in shape, so next time I'll try from a different yarn, as this hat is not only flattering to most faces but also timelessly elegant.  

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Among all the things that I created for my cutie I decided that’s it’s time to do something for myself. I did not have any long summer dress and the shops did not sell any that I liked. I first chose the model, it should have been simple a quick to sew. The one I liked was N122 from Burda Moden February 2009 magazine. It took me several nights, 2 meters beautiful Italian cotton (alas, no

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Time goes fast, babies grow even faster. My little 3.5 kg girl suddenly became almost 10 kg in just 10 months. So it became rather difficult to carry her around. While she insisted on being picked up and carried all the time. I decided to try to sew a baby carrier, a modified version of ergonomic carries from baby shops that are sold at 120 -150 Euros price. http://www.ergobabycarriers.com/

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We have bought a very nice stroller, a Baby Jogger City Mini and we are quite happy with it, however there were some things that asked for improvements. One of them was a padded insertion sit. Maybe they sell somewhere the original, but I did not have either time to look for it or extra money to buy it. Instead I’ve sewn my own. I just made a paper pattern directly in the stroller, and then

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To match the dress one month later I made baby bootees, same yarn just not unravelled. I cannot say there are very practical or we used them a lot, but it was definitely worth two evenings’ work for showing off later at family meetings. The pattern is inspired by some models at Osinka crafts homepage. http://club.osinka.ru/topic-48383   http://club.osinka.ru/topic-26616

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It has been a while since last posts. Really, no time over with a toddler! Now I’ll try to catch up and update. So, the next item I’d like to boast about is a Butterfly crochet baby dress. There are a lot of versions of it in different yarns and colours. Here there is one example of many. http://freevintagecrochet.com/baby/no106-baby-set-pattern.html I modified it to match my much thinner

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Last year we were blessed with a wonderful girl in our family and since then I mostly make baby projects. Among the first big ones were a sleeping bag and a hat for her. Winter 2009/2010 turned to be really cold and although Sweden is not directly a warm country it was a bit harsh for Stockholm area. That led to a fact that very quickly all the warmest (actually all other, too) sleeping bags for

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Very recently I discovered the world of hand made toys. Amigurimi are cute but I like a bit more sophisticated designs. Again at Osinka site I found on-line crochet-together project after the picture of a bunny by a Canadian designer Samantha Lutterotti. http://www.bearsandbuds.com/December%202007/Sammibears-Dec2007.asp My variant was a present for my little baby, so it was important to make

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Chandelier earrings “Ding-dong” Supplies: silver clay elements, silver beads, glass beads, fresh water pearls The idea of the necklace is taken from wonderful book "More Metal clay for Beaders" by Irina Miech, page 9, Textured Earrings. http://www.amazon.com/More-Metal-Clay-Beaders-Innovative/dp/0871162423/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280270596&sr=1-5

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Earrings “Metallic Shine” Supplies: metallic bead, rock crystal, silver findings Simple crystal earrings for summer and office, the idea is mine.

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Earrings “Amethyst Summer” Supplies: Circle earrings, glass beads, silver beads, cubic zirconia. The idea is taken from an Australian beading magazine “Creative Beading. Be inspired”, vol 2, N 4, p.36. I changed the small pendant in the center of the earring from a silver bead to a small zirconia (a part of some old earrings)

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Parure “Garnet Flower”, necklace and a pair of earrings Supplies: Garnet beads, silver beads, mother-of shell flower and ovals, silver clay elements. The idea is my own. First I made a silver clay leaf by applying the paste in a small leaf of some tropical plant and then just built up the rest around it. It became rather big piece of jewelry, type that my husband classifies as “gumba- gumba

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Parure “Crystal drops”, necklace and a pair of earrings Supplies: Rock crystal beads and a pendant, silver chain, silver findings Again my own ideas, but inspiration is taken from jewelry by Swedish “Snö of Sweden”. http://www.snoofsweden.se/

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Parure “Black rain”, necklace and a pair of earrings. Supplies: Hematite beads, silver beads, silver findings, silver clay leaf pendantThe idea is mine, the leaf is made by applying silver clay paste on a real leaf , sorry, do not know the name of this plant in English.    

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Parure “Pearl pendant”, necklace and a pair of earrings Supplies: silver findings, fresh water pearls, Swarovski crystals, silver clay elements with incorporated cubic zirconia stones. The idea is my own.

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Parure “Muse”, necklace and a pair of earrings Supplies: Silver findings, hematite, rock crystal, Swarovski crystals, glass beads, silver clay element. The idea is completely mine.

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Summer rain of jewelry. August-September 2009 I had a possibility to fulfill the projects from many months ago. I made several sets of silver jewelry with natural stones. I also incorporated silver clay elements in many of them. The first one is a parure “Blue heart”, a necklace and a pair of earrings. Supplies: silver chain, beads and findings, crystal beads, silver clay (syringe),

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And finally, my pride, knitted bag with beads. I did not plan to make one but after visiting many shops I could not find a nice bag of this crispy white color that matched my dress. I do not why but only off-white and creamy bags were available in abundance. So I bought nice white yarn and beautiful beads, used this chart as the basic for my knitting, yet I had to make my own calculations, of

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As a gift to my maids of honor as well as a present to my mom I made three sets of pearl jewelry. The ones for two maids of honor consisted of a pair of earrings and a bracelet, the one for my mom was a necklace and a pair of earrings. I did not take the pictures of all the three, but those for the girls are identical, just different color (blue and purple) Set “Blue ice”, sweet water pearls,

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This was probably most challenging of my wedding projects. I have previously received a colorful basket with chocolates and fruits and I had already plans to recycle it for the wedding. 1. First I painted it all with white all-around paint, 3 layers, from both inside and outside. 2. After that I glued hard carton base around it as the basket was too small. 3. Then I took a piece of white

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My bouquet and my fiancé’s buttonhole flower. They were made by my cousin, a maid of honor, while ideas and explanations were mine.

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I made two types, longer ones which placed two hand-made soaps (one white and one blue, both heart-shaped) and square ones for chocolate almonds.

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After having being together for some years with my boyfriend we decided to get married officially in the begining of 2009. Wedding is such a great opportunity for a person who likes to create although it is not always enough time for making all the ideas into reality. I limited myself to few following things. Invitation. The idea is taken from “Designa ditt bröllop” by Bella Hanson, p.54 and

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I have been always fascinated by the beauty of crystals. Yet a crystal chandelier costs a little fortune. We have had this nice and inexpensive chandelier from IKEA for many years and I thought it was time for its make-over. This chandelier has got actually two of them. The first one was made of glass beads and plastic prisms from Xmas decoration from Indiska, a local shop. The second was

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Another wreath (this time for the door) was taken from the Swedish book ”Den Stora Julboken 2007”/Bonnier Publications International AS yet again modified. Originally it was made of old books’ pages and a polystyrole ring as the base. I made it from the same white wrapping paper that I used fot the first wreath and old newspapers as the base. I cannot cut out flowers of book pages even if

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1. Christmas door/window wreath ”La caresse” For Xmas and New Year 2008/2009 I wanted to celebrate with some new pieces of decoration. My old wreath made of pine branches ( I painted it silver with the silver spray) started to loose its leaves so it was high time for a new one.Idea for this feather one I took from some magazine (do not remember which, unfortunately) but modified a bit. They

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Brooch Poisonous Flower A small but cute flower brooch was born out of a rose I found in one Asian magazine.I use d two types of yarn, a black and an orange, crochet 1.5.

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Paper folder Spider I am a rather organized person and like to have my magazines clips in separate folders. I have gathered some material for Halloween as well and needed a folder. So this competition was a good opportunity to fix one. I used a black folder, orange cardon paper, and self-adherent paper lace border I purchased in a hobby shop. I crocheted the spider following the diagram found

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Necklace Dame of SpadesHalloween is still not much known holiday in former Soviet republics so it was not very easy to carry out a competition for it on a Russian site. Yet I think the works became quite interesting and creative.One of my works was the necklace “Dame of Spades” (after the famous opera and Pushkin’s work)I used the cotton yarn (100 gr =ca 600m), crochet 1.5, a metal chain, old

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On my favorite craft site, http://www.hobbyportal.ru/ , we have competitions in different crafts every season.I usually participate in those in knitting and lace. It’s a great insensitive and a kick for creativity.Fall 2008 I took part in the lace competitions Golden autumn and Halloween.http://forum.hobbyportal.ru/viewtopic.php?t=9860Here come my works. Bag Autumn breeze It’s a canvas bag I got

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I had some leftovers of a very soft and nice to touch yarn (100 % polyester, appr. 100 grams, crochet size 3, also brown cotton for the edge) and decided to make a scarf of it. The original model was actually done in mohair yarn so it became rather different from it. And as the yarn did not want to finish I also made a pair of gloves.

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Once I bought a very funny furry yarn, mixture of white and black and was not sure of what I can do with it. Then I found this wonderful idea of a shawl/stole, very easy to make and at the same time looking just gorgeous.Mine is made of 100% polyester, 50 gr =90 m, needles 4, appr. 450 gr (300 gr mixed colours and 150 gr black).Later I crocheted a hat (no pattern, only measuring on my own head)

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This picture of Jennifer Lopes in a cute cap made many Osinka girls lose the head and so it was for me. As it is not a very detailed picture it became quite a puzzle and stimulated our own imagination and creativity. I chose rather thick 100 % wool yarn (Mark Kattens Tuva) as I wanted this cap for winter. Crochet size 4, needles size 5, needed appr. 150 gr.I re-made mine at least 10-15 times in

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I am a very curios person; the family calls me “Curios George” for reason as I always want to try something new. I have been making simple bead jewellery for quite a time and heard a lot about the polymer clay. Then I came across a completely new technique- silver clay, which is pure silver blended with some particles and has a consistency of clay. When burnt in high temperatures (in kiln or by

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Some time ago I spotted out a very beautiful bolero that girls from osinka were crocheting on-line. That actually means that there is only a picture and knitters are making their own versions by choosing similar patterns. Very often the things done this way are extremely different from the original photo and sometimes in my humble opinion are better than the original. Many thanks to the girls! In

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Every September millions of school children and students start their new academic year. At my favourite site we organized a lace competition “School start”. Works sent to this competition could be done in any of lace techniques, and should be connected to the world of studies/school.My choice was to make a book mark in tatting (frivolité) with beads. In Russian lace making there is a technique

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Wine red is one of my favourite colours. Not so sticking-in-the-eyes as scarlet or classic red yet nobody will pass unnoticed in this hue. And in combination with pink it really looks great.Since a long time I got as present two balls of violet cotton yarn of rather unknown origin and did not know what to do with it. Besides the very limited quantity I found out that it gives away colour easily

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At the same hobby site http://www.forum.hobbyporta.ru/ this time being myself the organizer of a lace competition I finally fulfilled the complete make-over of an old favourite t-shirt, which white parts faded with time.I saw a book in tatting in a book shop when I was 16 and was blown away by the stunning beauty of this lace. I bought the book, ordered a shuttle and after several days of hard

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On http://www.forum.hobbyportal.ru/ there is a good tradition of organizing different knitting competitions. It is a wonderful stimulant if you need to finish something quickly and I wanted to make something new for this summer 2008.I already bought very beautiful blue linen yarn and completted it with viscose/cotton. The pattern I found at Scandinavian on-line magazine DROPS. As usual, I do not

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Winter 2007/2008 Russian knitting society was hit by an urge of Chamonix. No, not the famous skiing resort in French Alpes but a sweater. First appeared at the runway its modifications were everywhere, all the repectable knitting magazines proposed their own versions.I could not ignore this very interesting model and also bought alpaca yarn specifically for it. I decided to go after the original

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Sometimes a sweater is born because you know what you want. Sometimes because you saw an intresting model in a magazine. Sometimes because you have some yarn you do not know what to do with ...This was the case with a beautiful designer cardigan by James Coviello published in Vogue Knitting magazine. I had some mohair yarn I did not what to do with and then I got an idea- why not to try crochet

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I always wanted to try to crochet something in so called "irish crochet" but was a bit scared by this very complicated technique that has no precise descriptions.One time while browsing different internet shops sites I came across a beautiful cardigan apparently in this very technique. It was not so minuscule as in traditional Irish crochet and plus to that I found an approximate descriprion of a

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Summer sales 2007, Karen Millen shop in the center of Stockholm, it became the love from the first sight. From the second sight it became ... a huge disappointment... it was far tooooo short than I wanted!Well, not being able to forget it I decided to create something of my own inspired by that little cardigan.I already had the yarn, 500 grams of beautiful golden viscose that I bought in Germany

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Well, that was a long, long pause. Many things happened in between, the major being a move to a new appartment and it is still not settled yet. During this time some new projects managed to get finished nevertheless. First I start with some works from 2007.Somewhere during spring 2007 I discovered the existance of a gorgeous, stunning white cache-coeur by fashion designer Carlos Miele. If I am

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While browsing the net I found a picture of a very sweet summer crochetted jacket and just fell in love with it. A bit later I think I saw somewhere that it was created by Narcisco? Rodriguez (not at all sure) and was sold at nordstrom.com. I had neither pattern nor graphic, just a picture. The dolly pattern was not so difficult to crack, but the irregular net that joins the motives was kind of

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Last year, just before my anniversary (let's not mention exact figures :) ) I wanted something quite special. I had a beautiful golden viscose garn with a metallic thread. And I found a gorgeous pattern. But it turned out to be quite a challenge to manage it, first while knitting, when it turned around itself thousands times making it very difficult to proceed (2 rubbers around the garn ball

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Happy New Year to everyone! Wish you guys many things like love, health, wealth, joy and happiness! Also a new break-thru in your creativity and great projects this year!Wow! Before Xmas I was so busy that could not find a moment to continue my blog. Not good. Try to correct it today.Xmas and NY are traditionally high season for parites and every girl wants a new outfit. Mine for two years ago

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Today I'd like to show a waist-coat that I made in a quite interesting tecnique. It combines crochetting and waving (if I can say so). You can see it on the small picture in the first column to the right.It was destined to my mom but I pulled the threads too tight and it became a nice Xmas present to a cousin of mine.

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10. In a cold climate it is very important to cover not only the body but also the head. I have usually a lot of problems in finding a nice hat; I think many of them make me look awful. So I took it in my hands and after a number of attempts I created this one. The only problem with it was the same as with the jacket- too soft yarn. After some weeks (and rains plus storng northen winds) it lost

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10. Well, autumn was finally there and I decided to knit something "mysig" or "cosy" as Swedish people call it. I have always been interested in making a "Chanel" kind of jacket. This is my attepmt. Unfortunately it did not turn to be very sucessful, the choice of a soft yarn that was difficult to shape was the major mistake. Now this jacket is lying in a special box for things to be reknitted

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9. Cache-couer(hide heart), the French name of a wrap sweater is one of my favorite models to knit. This one is cotton, pale yellow that does not copmete with my quite pale complection. I found some basic model in one of Sandra or Sabrina magazine from 2003 and used needles size 4.

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8. And here comes autumn. So unexpectedly, I have never enough of summer, especially recently, when I live in Sweden. But want it or not, one should do something about it. The first thing I did was a bouquet... of leaves. It is actually quite easy, first you pick up some beautiful leaves of different colours and shapes, clean them if you want and start making "roses", wrapping one leave after

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7. Ouph, it took me quite a while to locate a full size picture of my other summar top that I crocheted. It is white cotton, crochet number 2, the pattern is taken form..euh, some German magazin that I do not really remember the name. This top was travelling a lot, first to my native country, Belarus, then Spain for vacation, back to Sweden, then Australia. I think it should not complain it has

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Summer... Summer? Summer!!!6. A blue-white mélange acrylic top was made within several days if not hours. The pattern was from some German magazine, in German, which I do not speak at all, with mistakes in the schema, yet it could not really stop me.

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Wow it is apparently not so easy to maintain a blog, it demands time and even mood.5. Today I'd like to post a very brave project of mine, brave because of its bright crimson colour. I usually avoid strong shades in clothes as I am a typical "summer" according to the "seasonal classification" and the contrasts do not really flatter me. Yet I think this one is not too bad. It actually reminded me

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4. This dark blue-red mélange sweater was anoter attempt to knit without pattern. Although it did not become quite successful it gave me some idea how to make the calculations and generally prooved that it is not sooo dangerous to try something of your own. Yet with time I decided it was too short (no more yarn) so I gave it away.

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3. This blue top is knitted after a pattern from some "Sabina" in 2002 I think, it almost impossible now to recollect the exact time or name. As it was a bit too loose and folowed up my arms when I lifted them I attached a broad elactic rib to the bottom. The yarn is 50 %wool.

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2. The next one is made after no pattern, I just made it up myself, again the yarn is 50 % wool, there was not so much choice in Belarus in 1990s, unfortunately.

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Finally I got to my hard disk where I keep a file with my projects.I start first with some earlier ones.1. This is the oldest sweater I still have in my collection, it was made when I was 14 years old, the pattern is taken from a "Sabrina" or "Sandra" if I remember correctly. The yarn is half wool half synthetic.

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Well, this will be my first posting I guess. To start with, hi everybody! I have never had any blog so far so there is much to learn. Probably it was en example of a person that I respect a lot as well as some sad circumstances that pushed me, quite a lazy person to join the blog-mania. The major reason is that I would like to communicate with people who share the same passions, namely, knitting

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