The wrapped gifts

Ho ho ho !!!

At last I can show you what the wrapped gifts were hiding till yesterday night… 🙂

….. one more tote bag….

…. a cross stitched Audrey…. (I panted the frame too… I love to paint….) ….

….. and another Nurmilintu shawl….. I knitted the same for my Mum…. I love this pattern soooooooooo much!!! I will knit more of these goodies…..

…. and my friends gave me a beautiful bag, ten balls of chenille yarn ( ❤ ❤ ❤ ) and a delicious make-up diamond box…..

….. yeah,I feel goooooooooooooooooooooooood………………….. ❤ ❤ ❤

I made the last pressies this early morning…. in this colourful chaos….

….. I simply had to take a photo of my kitchen table…. I loved so much that mess…..

….. I crocheted two brooches for my hairdressers….

….. and the giving crafting is over…..

…..now I can spend my time in baking….

(Roma,you can’t imagine how I love the cook book cover you gave me ❤ ❤ ❤ ….)

….. and easy crocheting…..

…..oh,some restful hours are really welcome…..

Dear Claire, your parcel is on the way to you…. I sent it this morning…. ❤ ❤ ❤

Again,a happy merry Christmas to all of you, my dear friends out there!!!!!

Love

xxx

Tajana

The Christmas to do list summary

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La rose …. deuxième acte ….

Hello, my dear friends!

Do you remember my filet lace rose…. ?

Well….. here we are ….

…. it has become a nice yarny bag for Katia, the owner of my favourite yarn store here in Parma…. 🙂

….. 🙂 🙂 🙂 …….

….. yes,I’m so very pleased with how it turned out….. I really do hope that the nice woman will like it….

Off to craft more….

Love

xxx

Tajana

I need a break indeed…..

Hello,my fellow crafters and friends!

How are you?Are you in the middle of a crafting fever….? Me…. ? Sorry for being away for such a long while but…. well, this is how my kitchen table looks like lately……..

…..the appropriate word is CHAOS ……… and it is obvious that I need a small break before starting the second sock for my Big man’s uncle….. uhm,and some sleep too…… but in the middle of this mess I was able to craft and wrap my first gift….. Last week I was in Lucera, the town where my Big man is working and where I bought these two balls of Schachenmayr‘s yarn… (of course, one of the first things to do was to find a good haberdashery there…. 🙂 ) ….

….. and made a key ring for Katia….

….. some yarn for a yarnaholic is required ….

….. well,sorry ,I’m not good in wrapping….. 😛

So….. I’m not quite fresh right now to write about the time spent in Apulia (sorry,too much knitting….. ) but here are some nice shots I’d like to show you, just to say how beautiful Italy is…. well,this country surprises me so very often….

That’s it for now, my dears! I’ll be back as soon as my crafting fever will be over….. give me a few days…..

Happy and joyful crafting!!!!

Love

xxx

Tajana

Hardworking….

This morning on my kitchen table….

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Midnight craft

Hi,my dears!

Just a few words because I’m half-asleep but I wanted to show you my second crocheted heart key ring….

It’s for one of my SIL…. 🙂

And here is my second beanie progress…

…. well,I do hope that the colours I’m using will be liked by my brothers….

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig yawn!!!

Love

xxx

Tajana

Recently….

Hello,my dear friends!

My life is quite messy lately and I didn’t have much time to blog about my craft…. well,changes are occuring but my Christmas to do list is a bit shorter…. 🙂 and I have even found some time for me…. just because…. 🙂

First of all,a small sneak peek in my gift keeping box….

….then….

….working with some new colours….

…..looking like an alien….

…. all that to knit a beanie for one of my two brothers….. I’ll start to knit the beanie for the second one tomorrow in the morning….

….. I’ve started to knit the front side of my Big man’s rib stitch sweater…

…. and have tried out a crochet heart pattern found on this nice blog… and made of it a key ring for me….

The heart is not one of my best works and has to be improved but I like it…. and feel good wearing it….

That’s it for tonight!Sorry to be so quick but, except being tired,I’m off to watch one of my favourite TV series…. Wallander

….. yeah,I started to like Swedish crime stories sooooo much……

Wish you all a good night!

Love

xxx

Tajana

Stitching…

Hello,my dear friends!

How are you and what are you crafting lately? Hope that, whatever you are doing, it makes you happy and brightens your moments! 🙂 Autumn is a perfect time to take care about ourselves and our loved ones.. 🙂

I have to admit that I’m quite busy these days…. crafting gifts,making important decisions with my Big man, tidying up the hidden corners of our home… but I needed a break and had to try myself in some blanket stitching… just because I wanted to…

I crafted these two scottie dogs using a template found here and after some attempts turned out quite badly,I’m rather satisfied with the blue dog… It is not perfect but I’m on a good way…. I don’t like the pink one..

Happy about my learning the blanket stitch I decided to try myself on a slightly bigger project…. When I moved here in Parma, the very first home accessories were bought by my Mother and Sister in law under request of my Big man…. ahem….not exactly a situation I wanted to find myself in…. but you know….. sometimes one has to keep the mouth shut and just try to live in peace….. well,the shopping was done in IKEA store …. did I already tell you that I HATE IKEA STUFF…? …. so…. I spent all this time  “destroying” the stuff I had at mine but there are things that I couldn’t just throw away…. like an ugly and appalling and unpleasant to touch pile blanket…. because my companion thinks that it is useful…. (….and you know…..all the effort that his relatives … ahem….I have some cough problems tonight….)…..

So… since I had at home some yarn of similar quality I cut off it’s “decorative ” (…. ahem… ) edge and stitched all around….

Inspired by some photos found on Pinterest I crocheted a nice edging….

…. and applied on it a crocheted heart, always using the blanket stitch…..

The blanket is still unpleasant to touch but now my bed has a more personal look…. and I feel much better and more at mine… 🙂

To crochet the edging I followed this chart… quite a nice blog with so much sweet stuff….

So,please,tell me, what do you think about my blanket makeover? What would you have done if you were in my shoes?

Wish you all a great evening!

Love

xxx

Tajana

Long and dark evenings….

Hi again,my dear friends!

On Sunday in the early morning the clock change occured so now,unfortunately,we have to deal with a lot of sunless hours… and which is the best way to face this unhappy condition….. ? Playing with yarn,of course!!!!

…. so…… some time ago I’ve found a nice afghan pattern on Raverly…. This is going to be my personal afghan so,since it was and still is a restful day today, I crocheted the two first squares, just to understand its dimentions and to test the yarn quality…. well, here follows the result….

….well,I’ll be in a full crochet immersion only after finishing all my Christmas to do list,but I can already tell that this is going to be a nice romantic project…. I really do like the hard contrast between the dark grey and the pink and think that my solitary evenings will be more pleasant while crocheting my new afghan! 🙂 The one I made a year ago and wich was usually the background of my photos is with my Big man now …. 🙂 ❤

….I’ve started to knit the first of the two cup cozies for a friend of mine….

…. and I made a purchase…. today I bought the above acrylic yarn for my afghan from Katia (and ordered her the rest, something about 60 balls….. my Big man will kill me….. for sure….)  and I saw this on her stand…..

….just three balls of Red Heart’s acrylic yarn, a job lot… I do not know what I will knit with that but I’m sure that, at the right moment, an idea will come up to my mind….. I’ve already at mine a remanant of a sock yarn ball with the same shades and the socks I’ve knitted myself turned out rather good so…..

….I’ve made my evening more colourful despite the dark outside and the sore throat! Ecco!!!!

Love

xxx

Tajana

PS:almost forgotten,I’ve ordered the second and the third book of the Millenium trilogy…. in few days they will be at mine…..

The rose…

Hello,my friends!

Here’s the photo of my last filet lace taken on the fabric meant as its background…..

…..that’s it for now…..I’ll take no more photos of this filet until the whole project wouldn’t be finished off…. 😉

Love

xxx

Tajana