More candles

I have made more candles. Mostly with Marianne Design stamps and some with Lili of the valley ones. I used Promarkers for the colouring.

Christmas candles

I found instructions to stamp on candles, it looked really nice, so I decided to give it a try... These are my first tryouts.

The owls are Marianne Design stamps and the others are from lili of the valley. I used Promarker pens for the colouring.

Snowpixie

I found a pattern of a snowball with a hat and decided that should be amongst my decoration...

Gauntlets part three

A workfriend (she's a tad more meaningful then just 'colleague') asked me if I could make the gauntlets black-red as well. Since I already planned that, I could start them off almost immediately. This is the result...

Gauntlets part two

Some more gauntlets, this time with a lace border.

X for X-mas part two

The result of today's creations... Still not truly satisfied though... However I did enjoy it a lot

X for X-mas

Christmas is just around the corner, the fact that the night is falling sooner every day now proves it. I know there are still many other festivities coming up, but at the end of the day Christmas is the most special one of all. Last year it was an undecorative one, because I had mayor gallbladder issues that were undetected at that point, but caused me a lot of pain and sorrow. One Friday night, November 30th to be exact I wanted to start on it and finish it off on Saturday morning, but I went in labour and gave birth to Laura. Two weeks later I planned the exact same thing, but little Laura got ill and ended up in hospital.

Supersticious as I am, I figured I cursed Christmas and the other way around and decided to leave the decorating part for what it was. Christmas eve I regretted that bit so much that I have to make up for a lost one this year. First up; some cards... I've been working on some last night, but am not one bit impressed nor satisfied... Will need some more craft stuff to get it right. Nonetheless, here are yesterday nights cards...

Gauntlets

I was ill and my creativity kind of died on me, but I knew I needed to make something, anything to help me back on my feet, so ended up making gauntlets, easy to make and hardly any counting needed...

Grandma's birthday card

It was my grandma's 87th birthday and I didn't quite knew what kind of card to make her, so I ended up with this.

Penguin amigurumi

My friend asked me if I could make something based on his drawings... There is a challenge I can't ignore, so I went ahead, and this is the result.
Not quite satisfied with the result, so I'll give it another try and write out a pattern.

Crown

It's Raoul's birthday on Sunday, that deserves a crown. I decided to give it a crochet try, on the pic Laura is showing it off. Will need to make a bigger one for my big headed toddler, hope it'll turn out better than this one!

Birthday cards

And two more cards with Lili of the valley stamps.

Gift basket

It was my sisters birthday and she didn't want anything for the occasion, however, she's still my sister and I cannot let her birthday pass by unnoticed.

By coincidence I happen to know that she adores the scent of "le petit marseillais" (I do too as a matter of fact), so I decided to make her a gift basket with shower gels, a piece of soap, handcreme and bodylotion, as a finishing touch I added a sponge and a washpuff.

The basket I made of zpaghetti and a 10mm crochet hook. I also worked in continuous rounds.

The pattern is rather simple;
The only stiches used are single crochet ones (sc)

Round 1. 6sc in magic ring
Round 2. 2sc in each sc around (12sc)
Round 3. 2sc in each 2nd sc around (18sc)
Round 4. 2sc in each 3rd sc around (24 sc)
Round 5. 2sc in each 4th sc around (30 sc)
Round 6. 2sc in each 5th sc around (36 sc)
Round 7. 2sc in each 6th sc around (42 sc)
Round 8. 2sc in each 7th sc around (48 sc)
Round 9. 2sc in each 8th sc around (54 sc)
Round 10. 2sc in each 9th sc around (60 sc)
Round 11 to round 17. Sc in each sc around (60 sc)
Round 18. Sc, ch 5, skip 2 sc, sc in next sc, ch 5, skip 2, sc in next sc around, finish off and weave in ends.

You can use a contrasting colour in one of the rounds, or add a flower, plenty of possibilities and it takes about as much time to make as it does to leave the house and go looking for a suiting basket.