with Cocktails?!

These linen squares with a little crochet detail will be good to accompany with cocktails?

Recently made these set of cocktail napkins and now waiting for an occasion to use them! On the soon approaching birthday may be?! 

Butterfly Paper Clips

Do you like pattern-full and colorful stationery? I love it! Like I have these colorful rubber bands and patterned binder clips. Found a box full of tatted butterfly paperclips yesterday. I made these about three years back and had forgotten completely. But now they are up on the blog :)

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Lace Love

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Ric-Rac Ric-Rac /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Four and half meter of lace! Whoaa!! Super colorful and super cool!

I'm using it on a cushion. Will get back as soon as I finish the work on the cushion :)

PS: Thank you Kate for this lovely tutorial. Found the ric-racking here..

crocheting..

I was in Kolhapur/Belgaum for last four days for a family get-together! A lot many interesting things I came across which are going to make few awesome posts... plus, I also did some work!
Regular design work + some reading + some fun work like like winding some fancy colored cord and crocheting it into a funky lace...
I spent all the time on my way to Kolhapur winding this colorful cord. It was in a hank form when I purchased and it really got all messed up in process!! But yea finally I could get three balls with no knots :)

PS: The lovely lace is coming up in the next post.

Macrame Bag

I love bags! And old bags; I love them even more!!
Recently found this macrame bag which my mom knotted 30 years ago, before her marriage. It has just faded color from bright green to a dull yellow. But its knots are still intact and firm.

Mom is expert in embroidery! She has beautifully embroidered many things,but all before her marriage! <"sigh"> I'm sure I have got my design and textile genes from her :) Moreover, my grand-mom was a super expert in embroidery, macrame, quilting, knitting, stitching and what not. And more importantly, she consistently continued it after her marriage! I have some textile pieces which she has made, will post them some day.

As of now, I'm going to flaunt this bag all around. And I like when people ask me when I carry some out-fashioned old bags, similarly when I carry the Solapur bag!!! :)

Color-Select

Weekend bit of work...
Dad is getting new t-shirts made for his office staff. He asked for a few texture samples and chose one.. this was pre Brown? Dark brown?? Light brown?? which brown?? Coffee?? Choosing color was the biggest confusion! and I had to settle down this confusion by selecting one proper color. I selected Sepia.. A nice brown! Neither too dark not to light! Just right!

Of course I asked the staffs choice... that was the easiest way indeed!! :)

Sunday Strawberries

sOmE mORe sTrAwBeRrIeS

Fruit Fun

Crochet! Crochet!

Oranges! Cherries! Strawberries!! Grapes!!!

These tiny little fruits are easy as well as fast to finish...
...thinking of what more can be done of them!

Acknowledgements: Amm maushi :)

My new Socks

Its Spring time!!
Time for lots of fresh colors!!








These are my latest stock of fresh colors 'n stripes!!!
... cant wait to wear one pair each day ;)

Some more patterned socks here.

3 idiots

Just crafted yesterday, these are my new knitting learning explorations. Initially I made one of them and was thinking a name for it!! Chiggi Wiggi!!!?? Is'nt it very chiggi-wiggi kinds!!?!!
Then I knitted two more with some leftover yarn and thought of '3 idiots' as a name for the group. It was fun!!

Acknowledgements: Julie Williams, Kappu maushi and the movie '3 idiots'