Well I'm back with a crafty post today. I admit I'm not very regular at posting, but I don't beat myself up over it. I'm glad I have a place of my own where I get to show and tell.
It was the first time when someone(apart from my mum and sister of course) had requested for something custom-made after seeing my crochet work. Well, my sister wants almost everything I make. :-P and I love her for that :-)
The elder daughter wanted it in Turquoise and the younger one likes yellow.
No turquoise yarn in my stash, some yellow yarn but chunky and would make really big motifs and wouldn't suit a child's top. Yarn shopping!!!
Well, sometimes my yarn stash leaves me a wee bit dissatisfied, but never mind its still growing, but at the same husbster is groaning. :-P It's only last week that he again asked me if I will ever stop buying yarn and use up the existing ones first. And I laughed!!! :-D Crocheters/knitters cannot answer this question, can we?? :-)
The room gets messy with yarn bits/skeins lying around sometimes(read mostly), but hey, what's wrong with a little creative clutter? ;-)
Anyway, back to the crocheted tops. So I headed to the
Mary Maxim (too bad its closed now :-( ) store near my place. I was lucky to find yarn in the shades and thickness I wanted :-)
With yarn in hand, I was ready to start the tops and this time I didn't find it hard while joining the motifs as I had the red one for reference. Gosh!!! I remember the first time. I must have made "no clue how many" attempts before getting those sleeves right.
But what will I do when I give away all the tops. Well, I'm not ready to rediscover the joining method from the image anymore. So I have made a reference for the sleeves part and plan to use it whenever I make this top again! ;-)
The girls seemed very happy when they got to wear these.
I added drawstrings with tassels, as it's a wide shoulder top and imagined the girls shoulders to be smaller. And I was right, it was indeed dropping off their shoulders. :-)
Making crocheted gifts for little girls gives so many options. You can make
accessories too. So to make it a bit special I made these flower hair
clips to match with their dresses. :-)
Oh I love 'em!!
After making these, I felt like making a few for myself (actually I made one and wore it at home :-P :-D )
Making handmade gifts for friends and family is so much fun. My next project is a colourful afghan/throw. A giant granny square it is!!! I plan to put it on the living room sofa.
So off I go to continue hooking the 'currently not so giant' square up.
Till I post again!!
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Ranjitha
xoxo
