My Crafty Stuff

Honestly, I was going to make a little ball for practice.. but ended up shaped like a pear.. after I stuffed it, it shaped like an egg.. so I called it.. Mrs. Egg :)

One of my friends asked me whether I could teach her and her daughter how to crochet. I told her I only know the basic and I have to refresh my memory.. since it's been AGES since I crochet. Probably the last time I hold the crochet needle when I was in college... and believe me it's been years!!!!

So I watched some tutorial from youtube and this is what I made. Without counting... I'm so bad at counting and keep in track how many stitches I have made. Anyway.. here's the link to the youtube video.

Here's what I made :D

Today's sewing project is making oven mitts. We went to Joann to look for cute fabrics and we bought too much fabrics. Because the instructions that we got said we need 1/2 yard per oven mitt that we are going to make.. but ended up 1/2 yard can make 2 oven mitts.

Anyway we succeed!!!!

Ta-da....

From Destri's Sweat Shop

This is mine

From Destri's Sweat Shop

This is Vone's

From Destri's Sweat Shop

... and here's Ramona with her FIRST sewing project. Congratulations girls!! we made it!!!

Next project... probably a bag....

Today, my blog friend showed me a really cool sewing tutorial to make hooded towel. But after saw how tiny it was... I changed my mind.. It might looks neat for a baby shower gift, but not for toddler/kids size.

So.. I found another sewing tutorial out there on the web and found one that I was looking for.

Ughh couldn't find the links again... but anyway it's so easy.. you only need:

1 regular bath towel
1 hand towel
(and in my case I added blanket binding since my lil one loves pooh, and they have pooh binding).

How to make one:
1. Fold the hand towel into two (the wider part) then sew it together on 1 side and at the end make a lil arc.

2. you can cut up the excess fabric, or leave it... doesn't matter

3. sew the bottom wide part of the hand towel with the big bath towel. (make sure it's on the top center of your bath towel).

and that's it...

Here's the result:

Today Vone came over and asked me to teach her how to sew. So we actually went to Jo-Ann's Fabric store and got some fabrics! we got good deal too, we got about almost 2 yards of materials for only $3.66. We bought brown & pink fleece.

We got the pattern from here. But we kinda altered it since we don't really understand the direction. I don't think this tutorial is the best tutorial out there. But we managed to make 4 hats and 1 pair successful mitten.

Here are the pictures from fun sewing day.

From Hat & Mitten Project

From Hat & Mitten Project

From Hat & Mitten Project

From Hat & Mitten Project

I finally have an embroidery machine everyone!!! :) One of my friends is having a birthday this coming Friday and I work with her tonight, and probably won't be able to see her till Saturday. So I decided to make something for her and I googled "simple sewing gift idea".

And I found a check book cover pattern. So I decided to make 1 for her. It's not perfect at all since I was in hurry and so jittery from the caffeine that I took earlier today!! *sigh*

Anyway!! Hope she will like it :).

Here's the link to the pattern