Sewing Tutorial: Christmas Stocking

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!! May 2010 bring luck, joy and health to you and your loved ones!!!!

I am writing this on the day of Christmas Eve…. where has the days gone? It was like yesterday since I started making kanzashi Christmas Trees, then glittering some stars, wire wound some stars, followed by making holly berries, wreath, crochet Christmas Tree, plus some other crafts that I didn’t published here!!! A month passed by in just a blink of an eye, now, I am making my last Christmas craft for the year.

I made 2 Christmas Gift Stockings for my kids with their names on them and they are my last minute sewing projects. I thought I can never make it for the dead-line since I have to stay at home and take care of my son 24/7 whose nanny is on a 1-week emergency leave. With my determination and 4 “very” late-nights sewing, I made it!!! Yawn…. I really need a good rest after this Christmas, perhaps hibernate until 2010, lol… Just kidding, I will still continue making handicrafts but in slower pace. Don’t forget that I have another giveaway draw in early ….

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Crochet Pattern: Christmas Tree Ornaments

The closer it gets to Christmas the more tense I get… Just wish that I have 2 more hands and 1 more brain to help me out. I Still have a bundle of s that need to be done, including the Gift Socks for my daughter and son which I just put them into my to-do list. Anyway, I work well with tension, the more I get, the harder I work… but it is not good for my health, I have been weak recently, especially during weather change. For my 2010 new year’s resolution, guess I have to lower down my target to suits a normal human’s ability.

This is an amigurumi type of crochet  Christmas Tree. Quite simple to make.

It consists of 3 parts: ….

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How To Style With Crochet Hairband

I have been keeping long hair for many years. Due to the humid and warm climate here in Malaysia, I  sometimes think that it would be more comfortable to keep it short. Of course, I hold back this decision whenever that “short-hair-evil-thoughts” strike :p and just simply tie them up with anything I can grab of; a rubber band, a clip, sometimes even with a pen or a chop-stick if I couldn’t find any appropriate hair accessory in hand!!!!

For those out there with long hair like me who gets bored with monotonous hair style, now I have this to share with you!!!! How to style your long pretty hair into something fresh with your own handmade – Crochet hairband (click the link to get the pattern for ….

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Crochet Pattern: Simple Hairband

I was doing some house keeping in my craft room last few days, only to find out that I have so many left over yarns from my previous knitting and crocheting projects, oh dear!!! What am I going to do with them, I can’t just throw them away? They are neither enough to knit into garments, nor I can combine all of them to make one…. the colors are just “repulsive” when come together :p Since I am keeping long hair, why not make them into some hairbands!!!! You know, time is bad and I have to save a little when come to handicraft :p

I took some rubber hairbands and started to crochet, just a simple pattern. With combination of some yarns, I have made 8 hairbands in just an hour They are shown below, just click “Next” to see all of them. I also showed the yarns I used for each hairband I have made. ….

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Crochet Pattern: 5-Petal Flower

I created the crochet pattern for the blue 5-petal flower that I attached on “The Dazzles” after some requests from readers. And that was weeks ago, I have a tough time writing the crochet pattern as it involved 2 layers on the petals, front and rear, and they then join-up by single crochet the outer row along the petal. I want to make sure that my instruction is clear for you all to understand. So…. in order to make it easier to understand, I photographed and showed some of the easy-to-get-confuse instructions in pictures

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Free Pattern – Crochet Drawstring Bag

I am so glad that my blog’s migration is finally over, phew!!! After numerous sleepless nights fighting against broken links, fine tune the layout (still doing though), adding plugins, widgets, blah blah blah…. I am back to posting again, YAY!!!

As promised, here is my first free pattern for the drawstring bag made from T-shirt yarn, yup, another recycle project for the environment. You can click the image below to get the free pattern link in acrobat .pdf  format.

Before you jump into the free pattern, below are some of the tips on how to get it done. ….

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