No Needle Knitting

Bonsai and terrarium

crr29061 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:45:48 +0000

One of my other hobbies is growing house plants. I’m not very good with gardening but really have much more luck with indoor plants. Yesterday I found an old container that is now working as a terrarium. I grew this small African violet from a cutting and have just today placed it in this tiny pot. I grew the AV cutting in a different terrarium and now have it in this. You can see the scale of how small it is compared to my bonsai schefflera. The bonsai is about 15 years old now and grows over a large lava rock. It still seems very happy!

Filed under: plants Tagged: African violet, Bonsai, house, plants, schefflera, terrarium

Earrings for Valentine’s Day

crr29061 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:25:22 +0000

I’ve been working on these handmade earwires this weekend and posted these three sets of earrings to my Etsy shop. Enjoy!

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: buri, coral, ear, earrings, red, wires

Copper Earrings

crr29061 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:56:13 +0000

My first set of earrings that I made the ear wires for. I used 20 gauge copper wire and various beads. And yes, I used old library catalog cards to display them.

Filed under: jewelry Tagged: beads, Copper, ear, earrings, handmade, jewelry, wires

Pretty Mandy

crr29061 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:39:45 +0000

Mandy is looking like one beautiful bitch in the sweater I made her on a round knitting loom

Filed under: loom Tagged: Dog, homespun, knitting, loom, sweater, yarn

Lustra Feather and Fan Scarf

crr29061 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:56:36 +0000

For this scarf I used Berroco Lustra yarn which is 50% Peruvian Wool and 50% Tencel Lyocell. It’s a wonderful yarn to work with and the feather and fan stitch works great with it!

Filed under: crochet Tagged: berroco, blue, crochet, fan, feather, lustra, scarf, stitch, yarn

Countryside Ruffle Scarf

crr29061 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:51:03 +0000

For this scarf I used Sundance Countryside yarn which is Acrylic/Mohair/Wool and used a simple ruffle pattern. It’s a modified version of the LoDo scarf pattern on Ravelry.

Filed under: crochet Tagged: countryside, crochet, lodo, modified version, mohair, pattern, ruffle, scarf, scarf pattern, sundance, wool, yarn

2011 in review

crr29061 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:13:54 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

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Pink Ruffle Baby Blanket

crr29061 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:22:16 +0000

Delivered this commissioned pink ruffle baby blanket yesterday. I made up the pattern and used Caron Simply Soft yarn.

Filed under: crochet Tagged: baby blanket, caron, crochet, pink, ruffle, simply, soft

Earrings

crr29061 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:05:15 +0000

Finished making 8 sets of earrings today!

Filed under: jewelry Tagged: beading, beads, christmas, earrings, gifts

First batch for BellaDonnas

crr29061 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:18:44 +0000

I finally got around to taking 3 scarves, a wrap and a shawl to BellaDonnas to sell. Hoping they get sold!

Filed under: crochet Tagged: BellaDonnas, crochet, scarves