tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36432270095650995772024-03-19T19:18:48.767-04:00Studio DesiLoopMy Ramblngs on Knitting, Crocheting, Wire & Beads, Fabrics & Sewing, FoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-73257292822376926192015-04-06T16:15:00.002-04:002015-04-06T16:15:51.321-04:00Recipe: Thrifty Bread PizzaThere are often days when I don't feel like cooking and when hunger strikes, its time for thrifty cooking. Here is one such thrifty preparation that I go to frequently.<br />
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6 slices of bread (your choice). I used garlic bread in this instance<br />
Half onion, cubed<br />
Half bell pepper, cubed<br />
Half tomoto, cubed<br />
Grated cheese, 1 cup<br />
The usual stuff that you put over pizza, I used oregano and chilli flakes<br />
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On a baking tray lay the slices of bread and layer your veggies one at a time, starting with onions, followed by bell pepper and ending with tomatoes</div>
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Next top with a handful of cheese. I used mozarella.<br />
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Bake for 15-18mins<br />
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Sprinkle the chilli flakes and oregano and enjoy!<br />
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© DESILOOP/ Shweta Shankar Khatri (SSK)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-54811478774613126442015-03-27T11:26:00.000-04:002015-03-27T11:27:18.687-04:00Coming Up...While I can't do much of anything else - reading, writing, knitting, crocheting, cooking, walking around etc except lying down between symptoms and watching / listening to podcasts, I have discovered Instagram!!! I know... where have I been. Honestly, I didn't have much use for it till now. But it is a life saver. Facebook and Twitter, still involve a bit of reading so I am steering clear. All I do is watch the pictures and videos posted by family and friends.<br />
The other thing I have discovered is a setting on my computer that reads out text from the screen. That works well for blogs, although, it does tend to read out everything including menus and tabs. Hey, I'll take what I get at this point. So here is my plan for the blog till I am better able...<br />
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<li>In addition, there will be <b>Spotlights</b> on books, products, Websites, videos, techniques, etc related to knitting, crochet, sewing, photography, cooking, and everything crafty....</li>
<li>Finished object pictures and information (when I have any) </li>
<li>I am building up a Help page with links to helpful videos and tutorials, this should be available sometime during the year</li>
<li>I am getting help to put up some links on the right bar of the blog. You can find links to my work on other sites here, my earlier work and new stuff (there won't be much new for a long time though as I recover)</li>
<li>Find me on <b><a href="https://instagram.com/desiloopbyssk/">Instagram</a></b></li>
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© DESILOOP/ Shweta Shankar Khatri (SSK)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-18938409840019652612015-02-26T10:44:00.003-05:002015-03-03T23:31:04.800-05:00Cake in a Cup!<div style="text-align: justify;">
So I have been pinning a lot of recipes on my Pinterest food board and I decided to try out on today. It's how to make a cake in a cup found here: <a href="https://thedailydigi.com/if-you-ever-crave-chocolate">https://thedailydigi.com/if-you-ever-crave-chocolate</a></div>
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What better to try than a chocolate cake, so off I went. And after 3 mins I had this...</div>
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I thought the coffe cup was too small to carry all the ingredients so I took out my ikea soup mug. Ingredients fit with no mess and the cake was ready in 3 mins.</div>
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As my kiddo says "yummy yummy in my tummy"!</div>
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Definitely delicious. Although, I would like to add, the ingredients you put in will govern the taste. I think I put in dark cocoa instead of regular, so there is a bit bitter taste. I also added a pinch of French vanilla coffee powder and 2 tsp of sugar extra. Love it. Next time I will try tweaking this a bit and post about that experiment.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-829430243823154242015-02-02T09:01:00.000-05:002015-03-25T19:33:37.566-04:00Spotlight - Photography: Polaroid 4-piece close up camera lens filter kit<div style="text-align: justify;">
It wasn't soon after getting my 50mm prime lens that I felt that I would like to take closeups of tiny things. For instance my son's tiny lego thingies... or flowers, insects etc. How do I do that? This lens wouldn't focus after a point. So after watching several related videos on macro and micro photography I started looking for extension tubes or other lens attachments which come in cheaper than getting a new lens altogther. I new lens would only make sense if I wanted to get into it professionally, which I don't as of now. I just want to get pretty pictures of life happening around me. So I got myself a<b> Polaroid 4-piece close up camera lens filter kit </b>from Amazon.</div>
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Although my estimated delivery was in 3-4 weeks, I received the package in the second week only. I was so thrilled that I had to try it immediately. The box (shown above) contains a wallet (shown below) with 4 filters. </div>
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Its been some time since the rights to Uljhan reverted back to me. Since then I have been working on putting together all comments, suggestions, and corrections in a pdf that follows my usual pattern template (although I have not fixed on a single one yet). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toddler version from three years ago is a bit small for my kid now. It is knit using Cascade 220 in Orange and Black</td></tr>
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For the re-release, I wanted to work on a single colour sample for the design so that I could show that the hat looks equally good worked up in single or double colours. </div>
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Getting the right pictures for the new version also took some time, long story... don't ask. In any case. It is finally here.</div>
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US 6 - 4.0 mm</div>
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75 - 150 yards (69 - 137 m)</div>
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Preemie (Newborn, Baby, Toddler, Child/Teen, Small Adult, Large Adult) shown in child/teen</div>
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You can <b>download it for free</b> from the following resources: <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/uljhan-beanie">Ravelry</a>, <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/knitting/accessory/uljhan-entanglement-beanie/129349">Craftsy</a>, <a href="https://www.kollabora.com/supplies/uljhan-entanglement-beanie">Kollabora</a>, <a href="http://www.loveknitting.com/us/catalogsearch/result/?q=desiloop&dir=desc&order=relevance">LoveKnitting.com</a> (search for DesiLoop). If you share your finished projects on Instagram and other social sites, please use the tag #Uljhan or #desiloopdesigns, for everyone to admire your version. Happy Knitting!</div>
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Last year I received a long desired gift... a DSLR. Since then I have been getting to know all its features and capabilities. I took some awesome pictures after the huge winter storm of last year. Here are a few.</div>
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These were all done with my kit lens 18-55mm VR. It is a great lens with excellent sharp results. However, when doing portraits, I was not getting that dreamy bokeh effect that I loved in some great portraits I have seen on the web. So it was time to add a prime lens to the arsenal. So this year, I got the Nikon 50mm 1.8g lens as a gift and was immediately thrilled with the resulting photographs. It was just what I wanted. Although I would need to move closer and farther to get the right focus and frame.<br />
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Here is a picture I took when submitting my design to <a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEdf14/index.php">Knitty.com</a><span id="goog_1590343467"></span><span id="goog_1590343468"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> two years ago. This uses the kit lens.<br />
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Here is one I took for the self-published version of the pattern with the 50mm lens.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-82398655998815085492015-01-19T12:30:00.001-05:002015-01-19T12:35:50.496-05:00New Year, New Me...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, at least I would like to think so.</div>
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Its been long... and the experiences have made me realize I have spent too much time worrying about everything and everyone around me. Its time now to look at myself and focus on things that make me happy. Things I have wanted to do for so long (and there are so many...) and I have been deferring all this while to wait for the right time. The right time, well I guess now, it is when you want it to be. So now I am trying to experience more of life.</div>
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<li>Spend more time with and for family</li>
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<li>Explore my DSLR and photography</li>
<li>Organize my house and life</li>
<li>Make time for creativity and DIY</li>
<li>Post to instagram at least once a day</li>
<li>Watch all Movies and Series on my list</li>
<li>Review most products I own including services I use and love</li>
<li>Change to a healthy lifestyle and recover</li>
<li>Loose weight</li>
<li>Communicate more with friends and family</li>
<li>Do, not just for the sake of it, but when it matters</li>
<li>Forgive</li>
<li>Hear and see reality</li>
<li>Rest adequately</li>
<li>Be happy</li>
<li>Find me...</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-10057119942416906442015-01-05T10:24:00.002-05:002015-01-05T10:24:44.056-05:00Happy New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01922405818735758294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-24935958878883340842014-12-08T13:51:00.001-05:002014-12-08T13:51:53.884-05:00More Lined HatsHere are two more freshly lined hats. One is for my son's winter festival. Both of these are crocheted using <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/my-little-minion">My Little Minion</a></b> pattern. You can easily see from my Olaf version (snowman), that you can easy customize the embroidery and appliqué on the hat to take on various personalities. There will definitely be more in the future at my end. :)<br />
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You can find the tutorials for how I do this on <b><a href="http://desiloop.blogspot.ca/2014/11/how-i-line-my-handmade-hats.html">my previous post here</a></b>.<br />
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Off late it seems that I cannot get enough of colorwork projects, especially earflap hats. Having <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/DesiLoopBySSK/cheery-scrap-cap">Cheery Scrap Hat</a></b>, left me wanting more. Little lad was quite happy with this one.<br />
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<b>Designer: </b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/designers/kate-oates" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Kate Oates</a><br />
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And we discovered that my head size is just half an inch more than his so we can practically share all our hats.</div>
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And then came the flurries. Yes its gone below zero where we live. So this beautiful hat just wouldn't cut it for us. IDEA.... let's line it with something warm mama.... that ways it will fit me better too. So off I went to my fabric stash to find some fleece.</div>
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Here is how I lined this hat.</div>
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Fold the fleece fabric in half such that the whole hat fits, with earflaps on the double fabric. </div>
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Fold the hat sideways so that the earflaps are on top of each other. Use fabric chalk/ marker to draw the outline of the hat, quarter inch out of the actual edges.</div>
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Now cut both layers along this outline.</div>
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Now we need to sew the two layers together. This can be done either with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine. I chose a sewing machine and a zig zag stitch. However, a longer straight stitch would also do. Also I did it in red thread so it would show up in the picture, but you would need to match your thread to your fabric. Sew along three sides of the head circumference, leaving the bottom edge and earflaps alone. If your fabric has one better looking side than another, keep that one facing the other layers side, sandwiched in between so that the less pretty side is outside for the seam.</div>
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Now we fold the lower edge inward toward the larger part of the hat and continue doing so along the earflaps and out the other end (one layer at a time, we do not want to sew the layers together.... our head needs to fit in). Sew along the folds as neatly as possible. This side won't show up so it doesn't really matter.</div>
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I am here to tell you that I am in the same boat with folks who either accidentally or purposely stray away from a pattern as it is written. And in my case I think it is really necessary to stray and experiment and then enjoy the results. Its all a part of the learning process for me and I learn about things that can or cannot be done to a pattern to make it work.</div>
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Take for instance my latest published pattern <b><a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEdf14/PATTulijhan.php">Uljhan</a></b> on <b><a href="http://www.knitty.com/">Knitty</a> <a href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEdf14/">Deep Fall 2014 issue</a></b>. Seeing the lovely projects creeping up in the <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/uljhan-beanie/people">ravelry projects</a></b>, I started craving my own. Most of my prototypes are sized for children in order to take pictures, since in my case, I haven't had the chance to get the right equipment to take my own pictures (I am getting there). </div>
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Here it is: (<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/uljhan-beanie/people">here on ravelry</a>)</div>
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Do you see any differences? Well, there are a couple actually, although it doesn't seem much different from the original pattern.</div>
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Firstly I am using the contrast yarn for the ribbing. Totally intentional since I didn't have enough of the magenta.</div>
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Second, I have one row less when compared to the original chart, missing the cross over cable of purple over purple. (An accident in the first one, and intentional in the second repeat since I had to be consistent)</div>
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It totally works and is quite cozy, as was intended. I think I am going to re-visit the decreases in the adult sizes at some point in future. But this is going to have to do for now. The tail is tucked inside the hat and not woven it, so I can easily unravel it when I am ready to revisit the decreases. Who knows, there might be a top-down version too. We will see. Until next time, happy knitting/ crocheting.</div>
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One more thing I wanted to add... Since I used left over contrast from another project for my ribbing, I had to join in a new skein. This time, instead of my usual <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSI1XObMUs">russian join</a></b> I used the <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nq_7EXTWHE">double knot technique</a></b> demonstrated by <b><a href="http://www.janerichmond.blogspot.ca/">Jane Richmond</a></b> in one of her videos. I was really surprised to see how well the thing stays together. I tugged and tugged and it won't come apart. I think this is now my new favourite join technique.</div>
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Here I have cut really close to the knot and tugged a lot, but it has not come apart.</div>
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Check some finished projects here on ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/uljhan-beanie/people<br />
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A few errors have been pointed out to me for which I am posting corrections below:<br />
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<strong>ULJHAN ERRATA</strong></div>
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Title is misspelt on Knitty as Ulijhan</div>
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There are some places where numbers for only six sizes are given instead of seven. Here are the corrections:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">- Under Cuff - Work Ribbing as set for 1(1, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1.75, 1.75) inches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">- Under Establish Body Pattern, work said number of rounds from chart until hat measures approximately 4(4, 5.5, 5.5, 6.5, 7.75, 8.75) inches from CO (Whole paragraph is repeated twice)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">- Rnd 2 of crown decrease ends with 30(36, 42, 46, 52, 58, 64)sts</span></div>
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What a year this has been... Phew!</div>
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Earlier on getting shocked by the news of brain tumor, then going through the ordeal of surgery worrying what next. Thanks to the amazing support and well wishes of my family and friends during this recovery, which still continues. This entire episode has rendered me unable to perform most normal tasks, due to balance issues, blurry visions and major headaches. But slowly and steadily with everyone's support, I hope to be back.</div>
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Later this year (yesterday afternoon), getting a great surprise from <b><a href="http://knitty.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Knitty.com</span></a></b> that my pattern <b><a href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEdf14/PATTulijhan.php"><span style="font-size: large;">Uljhan</span> </a></b>is now live as <b><a href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEdf14/"><span style="font-size: large;">Deep Fall 2014</span></a> </b>surprise.</div>
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OMG.... It has still not sunk in. I made this submission last year, well before I knew about the reason for my extreme headaches. A lot has happened between then and now, but I am glad, happy, dancing, jumping, squealing with joy, and still in the clouds to see one of my long time dreams come true. Thanks a lot Knitty for making my day!</div>
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I thoroughly enjoyed my test on this one since there were such subtle but clever design elements all along. Still love the collar bit and am planning to use the technique in one of my own future patterns. For now, here are some finished project pictures.</div>
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I contemplated on which kind of closure I want for this one since the pattern didn't offer a suggestion while test knitting. So even though I tool some great pictures with a DPN as a pin to close the fronts, I decided I needed a more permanent and practical option. So I have finally added an I-Cord closure to this sweater and it works really well.</div>
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Since my last post, I have rather enjoyed completing my test knit. I completed it on Dec 1 while knitting a few rows everyday since I began. It is difficult to get knitting time during weekdays whence juggling between full time work, taking care of son after school and then maintaining the house and cooking dinner for the night and lunch for next day for everyone. I admit I also skip my lunches most of the time. Anyways, I do try to get in a few minutes of knitting or crochet while watching TV most nights. </div>
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So I did do two gauge swatches for this project but none of them gave me the exact gauge as in pattern. (<a href="http://desiloop.blogspot.ca/2013/11/a-new-test-part-1.html">See previous post for details</a>) Gauge 2 was the closest with stitch gauge matching exactly and row gauge 2 rows short. i.e. pattern required 28rows per 4 inches but I got 26. This is generally the case with me. I do try to match stitch gauge exactly and then follow the directions for inches instead of exact number of rows in the pattern. Of course for me to be able to do that, the pattern needs to have the required inches information. And this one did. However, there was a confusion due to two different stitch gauges mentioned in the testing call and the actual patterns. After getting clarity on this, I would say, the rest of the knitting went on smoothly. Any errors/ confusions/ issues that I found, were already addressed or pointed out by other testers. Here are a few pictures of the project in progress.</div>
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I rather like that the front bands are completed with the body. Just wished there was some kind of closure added to the directions. Hoping that the final published pattern would have it.</div>
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As some may know, I have been knitting and crocheting forever. However, for most part of this period, this word was non-existent in my vocabulary. And yet, all my projects somehow ended up being great fits and useful. So far I had mostly knit and crocheted hats and sweaters, and, I like to think that my hands were intelligent enough to pick the right yarn for my project while my brain was functional enough to always come up with the right number of stitches to start my project with (based on my chosen yarn). The sweaters I made were drop shouldered, knit in pieces, to be sewn later on. The hats were always from the top down so that I could check the size while it was in progress. A few minutes of thought would lead to the right stitch pattern for the body of the sweater and I could whip everything I undertook, only in a couple of days. I tell you, those were the days… Taking another look at this phase, I have come to realize that I almost always worked with yarns in the Sport to Worsted weight range. For all of these the number of sts were set in my mind due to the large number of projects I had made. None of these projects were made as design samplers, but were mostly for my, family and friends.</div>
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After quite a few years it dawned on me that I should be offering my patterns so others might be able to make these projects if they so wished. In order to do this, I could go two ways… provide tutorials to create ones own pattern before starting the project - this would involve calculations to be done at the user's end; or, go the usual route by provided pre-calculated patterns for standard sizing. After much contemplation, it made more sense to choose the latter. Especially since I started with submissions to magazines and they do require pre-calculations based on standard sizing information. For this exercise, making a gauge swatch was one of the most essential steps.</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">Pattern PDF</span></b></i>: The pattern pdf has 5 pages including instructions, chart and schematics. It also contains pictures of each shawl shape worked in various yarn and needle sizes. For more information or questions please send me a message on ravelry or an email (given in pattern pdf).<br />
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'Jaali' is Hindi for 'mesh'. The word has various applications including architecture, textiles, utensils etc. The knitted version of Jaali was my first shawl design ever. At the time I had just started taking online classes. I decided to take these since I was not able to travel as much as I wanted for my crafty endeavours. Some famous designers had started giving online classes through their Ning networks and so it was the perfect opportunity for folks like me.</div>
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So at this time I had joined Design Your Own Shawl Class by Stefanie Japel. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and as a result, Jaali was born. From the get go, I wanted to give the knitter a choice of the shape of shawl they wanted to knit. As a result, the final pattern has details on how to knit the triangle, trapezoid and full-square versions. There is also a choice of the size of the shawl. One can knit the shawlette or full size. I ended up knitting both these versions for samples.</div>
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This is the full version of the shawl knit using Madelinetosh Tosh DK on fawn. This is such a great yarn to work with. The shawl was made as a wedding gift for my former director at my full-time job. She loved it a lot and even sent me pictures of her modelling it. I was so happy.</div>
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The second version I knit was a triangle shawlette using fingering weight yarn from Artist's Pallette yarns - Damsel Plus in DP1014 colorway. I completely fell in love with this yarn.</div>
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<b>Shawlette version</b> by ramblingroses (<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/ramblingroses/jaali-shawl">ravelry</a>). Don't you just love the photography on these?</div>
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The rescued money plant that almost died again. It's thriving now.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643227009565099577.post-89411281384976185492013-07-29T17:17:00.000-04:002013-11-25T09:36:12.829-05:00Dyeing UpdateThis is my third batch of dyeing yarn. I love them both.<br />
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Ginseng Bonsai from Ikea completely shed when I bought it home last year. I feared it had died, since there were no leaves for over 6 months. I guess patience pays. Now it lives near the kitchen window.</div>
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I used a vintage sheet, some cotton batting and some high loft batting to get some extra padding for my cover.<br />
<b>Step 1:</b> I measured the ironing board at the longest and widest point, added about (2 to 4 inches to both measurements to make the final cover more roomy. My original one kept slipping off the board.)<br />
With these measurements, I roughly cut rectangles from my fabric and both battings. Made a sandwich with the fabric on top, followed by cotton batting, followed by the high loft batting.<br />
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<b>Step 2: </b>Then I went ahead and quilted this sandwich with straight lines across top to bottom and left to write. Where I didn't have enough fabric to cover the batting, I added a patch (You will see it at the narrowest edge of the picture below.<br />
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<b>Step 3:</b> Then I put the original cover over this sandwich to check the size.<br />
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Checked it on the board skeleton to see if the cover will fit fine all around.<br />
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The quilting shifted the sandwich layers a bit so I went ahead and re cut the edges to have roughly 1.5 to 2 inches around.<br />
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<b>Step 4: </b>Next I needed a casing for the elastic/ tie that would make the cover fit snugly. I didn't want to use the nicer fabrics I have in stash cause I already have a plan for them. So I decided to use as much of the original cover as I could. Luckily for me, the original cover's pattern had solid lines going on, so I cut strips using those.<br />
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<b>Step 5:</b> Then I joined these strips in the same way as joining strips for bias binding… place two strips right sides together, perpendicular to each other, and then sew a diagonal from the left top edge of the crossover, to the right bottom. Opened the strip to check the straight line and then trimmed the excess off. I joined three long strips and had just enough to go all around the cover sandwich.<br />
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<b>Step 6: </b>Attached the casing by folding over at the edges, sewed all around. Then folded the raw edges under the cover and used a zig zag stitch to attach it all around.<br />
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<b>Step 7: </b>Measured elastic at the centre length of the ironing board, 3 inches short each side. Then put it through the casing with edges held together with safety pin temporarily. Put the cover on the board and then pulled the elastic taut. Knotted the ends. (This was me planning for a future where I would need to change the elastic. And voila… I had my new ironing board cover with extra padding!!!<br />
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Off late, I have been trying to start recycling fabric from old clothing and linens, that I have been gathering from family and friends over time, to make some useful items. One of my first trial was trying to transform my dear friend's infant daughter's dress into a ruffled tote. I did not want to loose all the great features that the dress already had and at the same time, get a good shape for a tote. I think I did succeed in making something quite useful. In the process I also learnt quite a few things that I would like to do in a similar future project. Unfortunately, no pictures were taken during the process of transformation but I will be sure to take some during the next one. Here is the final outcome…</div>
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I think this turned out quite a cutie, but then again, I might be a bit biased ;) Nevertheless, this is going to be a present for my niece since it was her dress I used in the first place, and also, since this was one of my first project for recycling old clothing. I used a vintage sheet for the lining in this one and the shoulder straps from the original dress as cute little handles. More to come on similar projects.</div>
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While all the creative juices were flowing on the crafty side, I was craving for some Chipotle burrito/ bowls. This was one of the first places we ate in when we moved to US back in the day and since then, it has remained one of our favorites. However, we do not have a Chipotle nearby, now that we have moved. So I decided to take a stab at making my own version of the bowl/ burrito. It turned out awesome, so much so that, I ended up eating it two days in a row. Even my husband loved it.</div>
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<li>Boiled 1 cup rice and black beans each</li>
<li>Cut a small tomato, onion, two avocados (we love 'em), coriander leaves/ cilantro, small to medium capsicum/ bell pepper</li>
<li>Put everything together in a serving bowl, seasoned with salt, freshly ground black pepper, and cajun salt. Added some lime juice and a dollop of sour cream (optional)</li>
<li>Mixed up everything to even out the seasoning and dived right in :)</li>
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