Easter egg project

hmmmm... A case of eggs .. Filled with chocolate ...

Maybe a girl with a crochet beanie would be cool ...

Easter without Minions would also be boring ...

Lonely cowboy....

The more the merrier!

Scarf in pastel shades

Spring is in the air and I needed something to do on our way back home from Lapland few weeks ago. So I started crocheting.... A scarf.

With my cat Rosa we were discussing how long it should be.

Done. Ready to wear!

The pattern.

Simple pullover that took 9 months to make

For some reason it takes me months to make crochet stuff for men. However, this guitarrist has a Blue pullover now. 9 months of double-crochet, double-crochet ...

... now I Focus on girly stuff again!

Pink flower wreath

It is Christmas time. So, of course, I felt like making yet another wreath. It is no that Christmas-like, but who cares.

 

It all got started with a heart. I crocheted a band that covers the heart

The color, baby pink felt too sissy, so I took my spray bottle out and did some spraying.

 

I also crocheted little flowers of equal size and sprayed them a little bit as well.

 

I sew all the flowers on the heart one by one

 

and hung the wreath on my door. Now Christmas may come. I'm all set up for the holiday season.

 

 

 

Easy-to-make Dracula cape

Everything starts with a great design... So my daughter made this sketch for her to-be Halloween disco outfit.

 

 

And off we went with the design to Eurokangas (a fabric store in the Helsinki area where they have great service!). We bought red cloth for the lining and black one for the top layer.

 

As I have never done a cape before, I consulted a more seasoned cosplay cape-maker on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBIa24-CPD0

 

I cut two half circles (the ones below are folded into quarters of a circle) out of both pieces of cloth and made a round neck line.

 

 

 

For the collar I used buckram ("kovikekangas"). The collar needs to match your neckline on the cape of course - measure. Otherwise you are in trouble.

Below is how I cut the collar and the three pieces I sew together.

 

 

 

In the design there is a white frill on the neck. For that piece I just gathered few layers of white lace and put an elastic band around the neck.

 

 

The outcome....

 

 

.. is Cool!

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween gear: Ear band for a werewolf

So it is Halloween period and my girls need outfits for their yearly Halloween disco. I started the job with ears for a little werewolf ("ihmissusi").

I took a normal hairband and covered it with a brown crochet ribbon

 

 

I crocheted ears and filled them with cotton wool.

 

 

 

And this is how it looks on me... the ears are not adult size, clearly.

 

Old jeans make a great bag

Past July I came across a pair of white jeans I never use. What could I do with them? I can not wear them anymore, but it is a shame to throw jeans like that away.
I also bought a few sprays, that you can use for colouring cloth. So, I started spraying on our balcony...

It became obvious pretty soon, that trousers like this, are just too hippy for someone of my age to wear (even in Käpylä, which is the hippiest neighbourhood in Helsinki).

Weeks passed... and while we were in Italy, on holidays, my daughter Sofia suddenly expressed that she needed a bigger bag for her ballet gear ... while we were in a Gucci store!!!. Looking around at these extravagant prices of bags ... I had a Heureka moment: I will make a bag for my daughter from the jeans I had sprayed.

So, finally today, after a few hours of cutting and sewing ... I finished a perfect training bag for my daughter. She's happy and my jeans have a new life :)