Crochet Crazee : Special Design - Rainbow Ball

This is the crochet that I design specially for this blog. It uses 11 different colours yarn and resembles the colours of the rainbow.

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Crochet Crazee : More 3D Crochet appliques

More and more designs for 3D crochet appliques and I had made them as handphone hanger/charm... There are only a few because I'm quite busy helping my mum organise our house in Baling, Kedah but will update with more design soon!!

apple

cherries

orange

owl

Sneaky Peek: My Work Station

This is how my work station where I put all my things for crochet looks like. I call it "work station" and not "work place" because I never have a specific place to do all the work. I always crochet in front of the TV, laptop or on the bed (comfortable and inspiring). Hehe...

Equipments :scissors, long nose pliers, needles, crochet needle, pin cushion

Colourful yarns

Hoyeah!!!

I would like to say....to my 1st customers who are the students from Taylor College and UPM (Special promotional price are given since they are my sisters' friends). They ordered a number of 3D crochet handphone charms. I will diligently try to complete all the orders as quickly as I could... and with the best handmade quality that will meet your satisfaction (chewah!!)

Crochet Crazee : 3D Crochet appliques

These are the 3D appliques that I had been crocheting for the past few days. Some are made into handphone hanger as requested by my sister.

PS: Sorry for the bad quality of the images..

Weekend Project : Handphone Cosy

I was trying to crochet handphone cosy for my sister and this is the result. Quite OK eh? It took me about the whole Saturday to crochet the cosy and 15 minutes to embellish it with a whale applique and blue button.

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Crochet Crazee : Crochet appliques

I'm still a beginner in crocheting and in the phase of trying different types of crochet. I tried to design and crochet some appliques based on my own idea. Luckily, they turned out to be OK and looked like what I had pictured in my mind. These appliques can be used to embellish bag, handphone cosy and many more.

Since now is the Ramadhan month, I always imagine about food and I thought that cupcake would be easy to crochet. Yummy!!

This whale was requested by my youngest sister because she thinks that whale would be cute and I managed to crochet a (cute?) whale.

This flowers supposed to be sakura or cherry blossom but it didn't look like one but fortunately, they still shape like flowers, have colours like flowers and I assumed people can recognise them as flowers.
I made this lion applique because I remember this particular riddle about lion given by my students: "Among all the animals in the jungle, which animal that wears tudung on its head?"

Sneaky Peek : Current Obsession

These are the things that make me busy lately. I'm back to my old hobby which is crocheting. I'm trying to design some cute cosies and appliques. Will update you guys with some photos in the future!!

Sharing is caring: Cheap yarns & buttons!!

I went to Sg Besi town this afternoon to send my sister's jeans for altering. While waiting for it to be done, we were walking and window shopping around the small town. Luckily, I found this shop that sell artificial flowers and stuffs for bunga telur and hantaran. I realised that it sells wide range of different colours acrylic yarn at RM2.80 each and irresistibly cute and colourful buttons (price varies according to size and style). After took about 7 different coloured yarns and a handful of buttons, I asked for discount from the friendly sale assistant. At the end, I paid only RM2 per yarn (normally RM2.80 - 3.20) and 10 cent for each button. Totally cheap and worth it!! But, please don't ask me the name of the shop because I really didn't remember it. Now, lookie here what I had spend my money and time choosing on:

Beautiful and bright coloured yarns. Bought them for my crochet project.

Too many buttons in the shop that made me so confused and ended up with some colours that I already had at home.

P/s: Don't expect the shop will be big and fancy because it is only in a small town. However, you can get almost everything about sewing, knitting, and decoration for hantaran there.

Weekend Project: Crocheted Heart

This was what I had been up to during the weekend. It took me almost 2 days to somplete this project minus watching TV, sleeping, eating and web surfing. I learned from this tutorial but the outcomes didn't look like it was supposed to be. It's time to sharpen my crocheting skill!! I decided to put some cute buttons and sew some blanket stiches around the heart and also make it into a handphone hanger.

DIY : Polka Dots Ribbon Flower

I first got the idea to make this polka dots ribbon flower when I was looking at a whole bunch of unused ribbons and buttons at my home. The ribbons are so colourful and fancy and made me feel guilty to throw them away. Therefore, I wanted to make something useful and cute out of the ribbons. This DIY flower is very easy to make and it took me 10 minutes only to make one. Dont worry about the sewing skill needed as it only requires the most basic skill in sewing. Happy sewing!!!

Things needed:

1. Ribbons
2. Threads and needle
3. Buttons or beads

Instructions:

1. Sew a few rough stitches along the end of the ribbon. The length of the ribbon depends on how big the flower you want. The longer the ribbon, the bigger your flower will be.

2. Then, pull the thread with one hand while the other hand holding the ribbon. The ribbon will gather like in the picture above.

3. Form the gathered ribbon into a circle and tack all the layers together with a few stitches. Decorate your flower by sewing a button or bead to the center of your flower.

Suggestion: You can make your flower as a brooch by sewing a small safety pin at the back of your flower. You can also stick your flower on your hair band or hair pin using hot glue or super glue. If you wanted a more challenging flower, you can learn from this tutorial.

Crafty Fun!!

I secretly kidnapped my sister's teddy bear and gave him a makeover by putting a cute polka dots flower on his left ear. He is now a she.. Yeay!! My sister finally found out about it later and blamed me for transgendering (is there such word?) her teddy. Hehe

DIY : Doodle Stickers

i really like the idea of making your own stickers using vinyl from One Pearl Button. i honestly dont know what vinyl or clear contact paper mentioned in the site is. So, i change it to the clear PVC sticker that we usually put on our laptop cover to protect it from scratches. It is easier to find rather than vinyl. Therefore, dont throw away the leftover of your PVC sticker after you cut it according to the size of your laptop because you can turn the scraps into something interesting. Moreover, this sticker is fun to make and you can reposition and take it off anytime you like and make a new one.

Things needed

1. clear PVC stickers or any kind of clear sticker will do
2. a bundle of colourful Sharpie markers or permanent markers
3. any doodle of pattern that you like ( i'm using this really cute pattern from RedVelvetart.com)

Instructions:

1. Cut the clear sticker according to the size or bigger than the pattern that you like.
2. Trace the pattern using permanent marker i.e Sharpie

3. Decorate your sticker using coloured markers
4. Cut out the sticker according to the shape of the pattern
5. Peel off the backing and use your handmade sticker on anything you like. i used mine on my broadband modem. Cute right?

i made one for my youngest sister since she loves plaid so much and wears plaid most of the time. i had fun designing the plaid pattern but did not fancy my work on the wordings. bad combination of colour. However, my sister loves it and keep it inside her purse. Yeay!!


Happy Trying!!!

DIY: Kusudama Ball

I came across this wonderful artsy website called Folding Trees and there are lotsa beautiful paper crafts that you can learn how to make them. I love to make origami or paper folding and even have a collection of craft books about origami. As i was exploring this website, I found out about how to make kusudama ball and really interested in making one to decorate my dull-and-boring Wish (my car).

How to make a Kusudama

1. Things needed:

• 60 pieces of origami papers (2.5 x 2.5 inch). i'm using double-sided colour origami papers because i want a very colourful kusudama
• glue
• beads
• ribbon

2. Instructions:

Since i'm too lazy to post the step-by-step pics, you can visit this links (part 1) and (part 2) for the tutorial part. Hehe

This was how my kusudama looked like before i glued them together. Each half must have 6 kusudama parts glued together.

I made some paper beads to add some wow factor to my kusudama. Click here to know how to make paper beads. I used a blue ribbon to string the paper beads and sparkly beads. Then, i glued the ribbon to the kusudama ball.

This is how your kusudama looks like after you glue all the parts together with the beads.


This is the home for my kusudama. Now, my Wish has a new cheerful and colourful friend!! Besides, my eyes are no longer feel boring while i'm driving my car. It is like a therapy when you feel tired looking at the road and cars while driving and you have something colourful to cheer you up. Why dont you try to make one yourself. It's time to get crafty!!!

why i started this blog

There are many reasons why i wanted to start this blog:-

1st: i always interested in art. So, this blog will be my place where i can share my knowledge and inspiration about art (especially handmade crafts since i crazy about them!!!)

2nd: i was so damn bored to death during my unemployed period so i decided to kill my time and find something to concentrate on and tadaa... i gave birth to this blog (literally)!!

3rd: OK. i lied! Actually, i dont have many reasons. i started this blog just because i have nothing to do besides watching tv, stalking other people's life online, eating and sleeping (note: i'm only doing these crappy stuffs mentioned above because i'm unemployed currently. i MIGHT change my routine when i will be posted)

You are welcome to visit this blog anytime you like and please leave some constructive comments or critics... it will be such an honour to me :)