Nori knitting

Pattern: Nori shawl by Carissa Browning

Yarn: Unknown silk noil purchased eons ago

Lonely blog

Poor lonely blog.  I've been crafting but forgetting to take photos.  I'll see if I can't get the camera working over the next few days.

Here are a bunch of finger loop braid bracelets.  I learned how to make them from LoopBraiding.com and ended up going through a few spools of thread making every version I could manage.

Last temari

I've packed up my temari supplies.  The urge to make them has passed.  This is the last one I made before I put away the perle cotton.  It's the Dogwood design from Barbara Suess's Japanese Temari book.

On to other crafts.  Maybe I should break out that tatted doily again...

A finish with firsts

I've taken several stabs at quilt making, but this is the first quilt I've made that's sturdy enough to actually be used.  It's sitting on the little lady's bed, for use on chilly nights.  Unfortunately we're in the middle of a heatwave, so right now, it's mainly used as a play mat.

The pattern is Linda Franz's "Case of the Secret Garden".  It's hand pieced and machine quilted (the first time I've ever done free motion quilting).  I wish I'd chosen higher contrast fabrics (that blue is too strong), but on the whole, it came out better than I have a right to expect, considering how haphazardly I did everything.

Thomas Cup Temari

I've still got a few more temari I want to make before the threads get put away.  This one is the Empress design from Barbara B. Suess's Japanese Temari book.

Here's the latest one.  It's a minor variation of the Blue Arrows pattern from the same book.

I stitched on it while watching the Thomas Cup finals.  I'm not much interested in sports, but for some reason, I'm patriotic about badminton.  At the end of the final match, I almost didn't have the heart to finish this.  As a Malaysian, watching Japan win was just heartbreaking.

Granny dolls

My kids were doing a group reading activity that required a 'granny' prop.  I got bit ambitious and thought I'd try and make a granny amigurumi.  I started one but didn't finish on time, so we used these dolls instead.

The little lady made these with me a while back.  They are the Sleepover pals from Hillary Lang's Wee Wonderfuls book.  The little lady and I have very different tastes, so making things together is an interesting process.  I hope she looks back fondly on these as she gets older.

I finished the amigurumi granny a few days ago.  It's from the Little Red Riding Hood pattern by Irene Strange.

In the end, it's probably better that I didn't finish the doll in time.  If the kids had flipped the doll over, they would have seen this sinister character!

Weekend Temari

I got the urge to make temari this weekend.  This one is the Bellflower from Barbara Suess's Japanese Temari book.  I didn't pay attention to the instructions, so I mine looks more like an orange slice than a flower.

I got distracted while doing google searches for temari making instructions.  I found images of koma ornaments, then I found instructions, and made one of my own.

So that's my crafting haul for the weekend; two Japanese ornaments.