Lariath- Live a Little.

I made this Marvel Bracelet a while ago for a friend but forgot to put it on my blog. This took me a while to make but nowhere near as long as the  DIY Spiderman Bracelet  took. This is due to the much simpler pattern and less colours. Also the Marvel Bracelet has less strings therefore less knots. The pattern i found had to be adapted to make it small enough to be bracelet size. I have the adapted pattern for this somewhere.... I'll have to dig it out. 16 background strings were used (14 of which were white 2 of which were red) and a red skein for the main colour. The loop and tails of the buckle are made with macramé square knots as discussed in my  Spiderman Bracelet Blog . The pattern that I based the bracelet on can be found  Here The reason that this bracelet is not completely rectangle and is sort of wavy at the edges is because I accidentally used two different types of skein. If one string is slightly different in thickness to another then this ...

I have an Uncle who for some reason still loves his bears... So what better than make him a unique homemade crochet bear? This bear's limbs are attached with safety eyes which I think is a brilliant idea as it makes them easy to attach and when they are attached they move! It took me 2 days to make all the different parts and attach the legs. However I needed to get smaller safety eyes as I bought 10mm instead of 7.5mm and couldn't fit the 10mm eyes into the arms...so it took me a bit longer to finish the bear off. The pattern is just increases and skip stitches to decrease with 8ply yarn. The smaller parts are a little fiddly definitely worth it though. I'm not sure if I want to add any detail to the bear such as eyebrows, nose detail or a belly button, I'm not the best sewer so I may just ruin it. Here's where I got  the pattern for this great bear:  Little Teddy

Still on the subject of making necklaces. This one took me about 15minutes max to make. I Just needed cord a few small beads and to learn how to make adjustable knots. I like my necklaces pretty small so adjustable ones are ideal.  Here's what I made: This is at a longer length so I can fit it over my head... This is at a short length how I like it. And this is how it looks on. Obviously doesn't need to be so tight; the magic of adjustable knots.  I used this YouTube Video  to learn the knots. There are a variety of sliding knots out there but I think these ones look the best and they are quite easy to do.  The hardest part of making this for me wasn't the knots but getting the small beads onto the cord due to the ends fraying. Cutting a little off the cord does work but I hate wasting those bits of cord so I got a lighter and melted the ends... don't set it on fire though! Only use a lighter if you are an adult or an adult is present, you...

My Grandma bought me a pendant a while back I thought I'd try adding more detail to it by putting a small pendant on the front but then I came across a website and decided to have a go.  I already had some craft wire from making  Ear Cuffs Here's the finished pendant: It's very simple to do and many different variants can be made. Definitely something a beginner could easily make. Here's the website:  Pendant Tutorial

I had some yarn to use up that I bought for my Amigurumi Snake  however this yarn is a pretty unique colour and not really one I'd make anything with. So I spent ages wondering what to make with it that not many people would have to see. The answer: slippers! This is the first piece of clothing I've ever tried to make so it took me a while to get the sizing right for my feet. I think I had to pull it back twice and start again to get the right size, the first time it was MASSIVE I only have size 3 feet. Anyway here's the pattern that I loosely followed:  Simple Crochet Slippers The pattern suggests to use worsted weight yarn but I made my slippers with the DK yarn i wanted rid of so I had to do more rounds and work out how many stitches I needed to fit my feet. It still worked out fine though and they are sooooo comfy. The pattern is easy to follow its just getting the size right to fit that's the difficult bit but when you've worked out the first...

All my socks seem to be taken by the underwear gnomes, so I put the odd socks in a bag until their partners turn up. However I was using an old Ann Summers bag which wasn't the best idea when guests were around... Questions questions questions. So got my crocheting head on. I made a bag based on this pattern, I say 'based on' because silly my did it wrong.... American double crochet, NOT UK double crochet! This is an American pattern.  http://theadventuresofcassie.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/free-reusable-crocheted-grocery-bag.html The bag is pretty easy and quite quick to make even if done wrong... I realised i was doing it wrong but wasn't going to pull it all back as it's only being used for socks. So you can see where I changed from the UK double crochet to the American double crochet. I didn't really like being able to see the pointy corners so I'm using it inside-out for a more rounded bottom. Here's a picture of it full.  As I star...

I've recently got into growing my own herbs. I bought loads of seeds and then didn't have enough pots to plant them in. Instead of buying more I set about making my own using things I already had in the house. So I grabbed a plastic coleslaw pot before it disappeared off into the recycling bin. This pot had a lid which I could use as a 'dish' to place the pot on. Due to lots of plant preferring to be fed from the roots up I decided to put holes on the bottom of the pot. Holes also help drain excess water and prevent root rot. To add holes I used a screw as it was the first thing I found that was sharp; it was quite handy to get the holes to the size I wanted them. (Anything that's sharp enough to get through the plastic would work). To make the pot look less like a coleslaw pot I grabbed some parcel string and glue. Any sort of string or yarn can be used for this, whatever looks good. I put glue on the pot then wrapped the string around the pot in a spi...