Here is the set (necklace was made from leather cord):
Friday, January 2, 2015
2014 Last Stuff
Actually this is not the last stuff, I made this before I made jewellery set for my in-laws. This one is for a good friend of mine, she saws the photo of what I made with polymer clay and she asked if she can have a necklace. As a surprise I decided to make her a jewellery set. She wanted to wear it for Christmas Eve. Unfortunately some postal problem got in the way (as always).
Here is the set (necklace was made from leather cord):
Here is the set (necklace was made from leather cord):
2014 Christmas Gift for My In-Laws
I was on the mood of making another stuff with polymer clay after two necklaces for my mom & my sister. This time I made something for my mother-in-law & my sister-in-law.
I didn't create asymmetrical beads as I did for my mom or round beads as for my sister. I did cubes for my mother-in-law (1st set of jewellery) and thin squares for my sister-in-law (2nd set of jewellery). The wire for 1st set was too soft to work with. Should've done better but time was on my side.
I recently started my PhD (since October) and got tired easily after 1 long day of article readings. Yeah I know, I keep on complaining... can't help it though. I was working on some projects at the same time & had to divide my time at home to the crafts and the work I brought home, so it was tiresome at some point.
Anyway here they are:
I didn't create asymmetrical beads as I did for my mom or round beads as for my sister. I did cubes for my mother-in-law (1st set of jewellery) and thin squares for my sister-in-law (2nd set of jewellery). The wire for 1st set was too soft to work with. Should've done better but time was on my side.
I recently started my PhD (since October) and got tired easily after 1 long day of article readings. Yeah I know, I keep on complaining... can't help it though. I was working on some projects at the same time & had to divide my time at home to the crafts and the work I brought home, so it was tiresome at some point.
Anyway here they are:
Supposed-to-be Prayer Beads
However with lack of skills on making jewellery, I found out the prayer beads for my mom looks more like a necklace. To avoid same problem with the prayer beads for my sister I tried different method. Luckily this time was successful. She told me that she didn't want her prayer beads to look like prayer beads, in other words she would want to wear them as necklace on daily basis if possible without looking like a religious person. This is to explain why the following pictures looks less like a "normal" praying beads. What is normal anyway? Normal would mean "banal" or "ordinary" so not normal would be special or extraordinary, right?
Here they are:
This one's for my sister (she likes something which is more playful, nothing with serious appearance). Both arrive at my mom's place after (about) 2 weeks. I hope they like it, I will have to wait a couple days more before they finish their pilgrimage tour.
Polymer Clay Jewellery: Necklace for a Bday Gift
After my experience with my pendant from polymer clay, I decided to make another one. Apparently this one has caught my friend's attention & she liked it very much. Since it was her birthday soon, I decided to granted her request to give her this necklace.
Again I worked with Cernit mostly & some faceted bead (bought about 2 years ago from Aliexpress).
Speaking of this website, despite numbers of choice of product & their competitive price I have decided to stop buying from them since 2 frauds happening to me but their value were too insignificant for my bank to claim for. If you do business with this website you should be very careful, there is no guarantee and their customer service has no service at all!!
Anyway, here is the necklace:
Happy crafting!
Again I worked with Cernit mostly & some faceted bead (bought about 2 years ago from Aliexpress).
Speaking of this website, despite numbers of choice of product & their competitive price I have decided to stop buying from them since 2 frauds happening to me but their value were too insignificant for my bank to claim for. If you do business with this website you should be very careful, there is no guarantee and their customer service has no service at all!!
Anyway, here is the necklace:
Polymer Clay Jewellery: First try out
I've been buying some discounted polymer clay from http://www.achat-creatif.com/
Not having idea for a couple of weeks on what to do with them or how exactly I can work with them until I watch some tutos in youtube. Some are great to look at but difficult to perform if you're not an experimented crafter (which is in my case).
One day I decided to try my luck, to make myself a pendant. I had no idea how much clay I should be working with etc so this is quite big (probably 5cm long & 3 to 4 cm wide). If my memory serves me right, I made this from Cernit clay only (I had some Cernit & Fimo).
This is how the pendant looks like:
It took me couple of days to decide how did I want the necklace to be. I tried to make the necklace out of wire with my french knitter but nothing came out satisfactory (unfortunately).
In the end I decided to make the necklace out of yarn as you can see here:
I'm quite happy with the result!
Not having idea for a couple of weeks on what to do with them or how exactly I can work with them until I watch some tutos in youtube. Some are great to look at but difficult to perform if you're not an experimented crafter (which is in my case).
One day I decided to try my luck, to make myself a pendant. I had no idea how much clay I should be working with etc so this is quite big (probably 5cm long & 3 to 4 cm wide). If my memory serves me right, I made this from Cernit clay only (I had some Cernit & Fimo).
This is how the pendant looks like:
In the end I decided to make the necklace out of yarn as you can see here:
I'm quite happy with the result!
Beaded Necklace by French Knitter
Did you ever heard of French Knitter? No, it's not a french lady who knits :) I heard this word somewhere in youtube, there are indeed some mysterious words that I don't even know why they are the way they are. In french it is called Tricotin (although some internet searching might direct you to different tool).
I haven't work a lot with this, but this is the first thing I created with my french knitter. This is a beaded necklace for my sister-in-law for her birthday.
I was referring to this video despite the difference between her knitter or mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_v54J9irTU
However the resolution was not good enough to see in detail but you'll get the idea on how to create this.
Happy crafting!
I haven't work a lot with this, but this is the first thing I created with my french knitter. This is a beaded necklace for my sister-in-law for her birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_v54J9irTU
However the resolution was not good enough to see in detail but you'll get the idea on how to create this.
Happy crafting!
Keychain for hubby
I was watching different types of video in youtube, hoping to find something I can do besides crocheting/knitting due to my problem with tendinitis.
I learn a new word "scoubidou" (not the funny dog who's afraid of the dark/ghost etc lol), I'm not sure why french call it this way though. Tried to ask my husband but of course he has no answer to this question since he's never interested in handicraft or stuff like this.
Anyway I found an explanation somewhere (I forgot to keep the link), but I did this keychain by using 3 scoubidous (lol, one is already hilarous, can you imagine 3??). Here is the result:
This keychain actually last until now (made this around January 2014 after we picked up our new car in Dijon). I must find another idea though to work with the rest of scoubidous.
Have fun crafting!
I learn a new word "scoubidou" (not the funny dog who's afraid of the dark/ghost etc lol), I'm not sure why french call it this way though. Tried to ask my husband but of course he has no answer to this question since he's never interested in handicraft or stuff like this.
Anyway I found an explanation somewhere (I forgot to keep the link), but I did this keychain by using 3 scoubidous (lol, one is already hilarous, can you imagine 3??). Here is the result:
This keychain actually last until now (made this around January 2014 after we picked up our new car in Dijon). I must find another idea though to work with the rest of scoubidous.
Have fun crafting!
Baby Blanket
A friend was having a baby sometime around September.. I didn't know what would be nice as a gift that won't take too much time to prepare so my husband suggested a simple square baby blanket. Considering we were approaching winter, I thought why not?
I forgot to take proper pictures of the blanket before I gave it to her, that's why I can only present some picture of it being folded. I only use double crochet to build it, nothing special. The size of this blanket is about 40 cm something large to 50 cm wide - almost a square..
I got the yarn from the same Buttinette's surprise package as the yarns for my hooded cowl.
No reference of youtube videos or pattern because this is very simple as mentioned above. The yarn itself is very smooth & warm.
Happy Crocheting!
I forgot to take proper pictures of the blanket before I gave it to her, that's why I can only present some picture of it being folded. I only use double crochet to build it, nothing special. The size of this blanket is about 40 cm something large to 50 cm wide - almost a square..
I got the yarn from the same Buttinette's surprise package as the yarns for my hooded cowl.
No reference of youtube videos or pattern because this is very simple as mentioned above. The yarn itself is very smooth & warm.
Happy Crocheting!
Hooded Cowl
Hi everyone,
I know it has been ages since my last article. I forgot completely to update here as I wrote often in Bahasa Indonesia in WordPress.. Anyway, here I am trying to make up for those lost times :)
First of all, I got myself tendinitis and it held me back from continuing crocheting/learning more about knitting. Doctor told me that I might have it from continuously crocheting. I used to crochet almost 8 hours a day and do it everyday for months. Now I'm incapable of crocheting more than 2 hours/day and sometime I can't even crochet 2 hours everyday, it should be every other day or less.
Despite of it, I try to continue crocheting something so I don't forget the basic (at least). This is what I came up with: Hooded Cowl (inspired from youtube's video which link you can find at the end of my article).
The video I was referring to is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iodG50LQfU
I don't think I follow exactly what she did in this video, I checked other videos as well but some of the methods used were complicated for me to follow so I made my hooded cowl based on this video more or less.
I used 3 types of yarn, white yarn was bought from Turkey probably more than a year ago. I already forgotten the website from which I bought it (including how much it cost with delivery). Sorry about that, that explains why I don't put the picture here.
2nd & 3rd yarn I bought from Buttinette, they call it "surprise package". Basically you pay for 500 grams of yarn and they might give you whatever.
Happy Crocheting!
I know it has been ages since my last article. I forgot completely to update here as I wrote often in Bahasa Indonesia in WordPress.. Anyway, here I am trying to make up for those lost times :)
First of all, I got myself tendinitis and it held me back from continuing crocheting/learning more about knitting. Doctor told me that I might have it from continuously crocheting. I used to crochet almost 8 hours a day and do it everyday for months. Now I'm incapable of crocheting more than 2 hours/day and sometime I can't even crochet 2 hours everyday, it should be every other day or less.
Despite of it, I try to continue crocheting something so I don't forget the basic (at least). This is what I came up with: Hooded Cowl (inspired from youtube's video which link you can find at the end of my article).
The yarn I'm using for my project are herewith:
The video I was referring to is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iodG50LQfU
I don't think I follow exactly what she did in this video, I checked other videos as well but some of the methods used were complicated for me to follow so I made my hooded cowl based on this video more or less.
I used 3 types of yarn, white yarn was bought from Turkey probably more than a year ago. I already forgotten the website from which I bought it (including how much it cost with delivery). Sorry about that, that explains why I don't put the picture here.
2nd & 3rd yarn I bought from Buttinette, they call it "surprise package". Basically you pay for 500 grams of yarn and they might give you whatever.
Happy Crocheting!
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