Ais gets Crafty

I have been wanting to update for so long that I cant even remember how long! Okay here are some of the news that I wanted to share. Hopefully I'll come back to load the pics. I have been tatting, crocheting and baking. And I have some good news to share with you all too... We are expecting again! The baby is due in December and that is what keeps me offline. I have a very active toddler to run after and a very bad aching back that drains my energy.:) Anyway,...I hope, I can come back again to update you guys. :)

Posted in: Random on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1 Smiles  

I have been up to a lot of things the past week or so. Here is the list:
1. Hardager The new craze is hardager! I am teaching myself to embroider Hardanger. The progress is slow, dotted by lots of wrong moves... I keep cutting the wrong threads, I get entangled ... but I am determined.





2. I was on stichinfingers and Take stitch tuesday is really inspiring me to try making samplers. So far I have only tried the Half Cheveron stitch and Wow was it fun!

3. I almost blew up our building and killed myself and the residents of the 50 apartments of our building by my absent mindedness. My brother is a hero. I am not going to blog in detail about it 'cause I am trying hard to get on with my life.

4. I tatted a pattern from the antique pattern library. I am still working on it. It is from the DMC pattern library, I don't remember.


Ok...my 15minutes are up... I have loads to do... Gotta go... please remember me in your prayers... I am really goofing up and having things blowing up in my face!

Posted in: Embroidery, Hardanger, Lessons in tatting upside down, Take a Stitch Tuesday, TATTING on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 1 Smiles  

And... Finally I have something to post. I have done Iris' TIAS DAY 1-4. My intention was to complete all of it and include it as the 25th motif for the 25 motif challenge but alas! I run out of thread on the 5th day. The problem is that I had got the thread from india and I will have to hunting for it here. Anyway for now, this is it. This is how much i could do. This is the last motif for the 25 motif challenge unless i can think up and make something in the next 15 days.
I really enjoyed the TIAS and have already bookmarked it to remind myself to complete it someday.

TIAS day 1
TIAS DAY 2
TIAS day 3
TIAS day 4

Posted in: on Friday, March 13, 2009 at 3 Smiles  

I am so excited because we had a power failure. It was for an exact 5minutes and it was in broad daylight but... WOW a power failure! We never have power failures and it was so exciting for me. I wouldn't have even known if it wasn't for the fridge compressor becoming too quiet. It felt stupid to call up my friends and tell them ... so... I'll blog. That is the best part about blogging... you can talk nonsense.:D

Hmm... I am still thbinking about the last motif...

Posted in: on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 4 Smiles  

Okay...firstly, The rings I used in the previous motifs aren't curtain rings as was mentioned on the 25motif challenge post. They are metal craft rings. Atleast that was what the guy at the store said. :)
Secondly, I am stuck... I was working on another ring and I got bored of it... Now I need something really inspiring to make my last motif... so far I have prited out the antique books...searched almost all the patterns that I have downloaded from here and there and I am stilllooking. May be somethig will click sometime. :)

And...now for the best part. The reason I am blogging is because I have recently come across something that has really floored me. Have a look:
At first I thought it was painting but on closer look, I find that it is worked with beads! Look:

Aren't they beautiful. I am not sure as to what the work is called. I'll call it bead work for now but I am trying to contact the lady who did it and ask her about it...the only problem is... she doesn't speak English! :) Anyone know where I can learn more about this?

Posted in: 25motif challenge, hobbies, Random, TATTING on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 2 Smiles  

Look what I made.

Here it is up close. Recognise it?

Yep it is Jon's Rings Only Snowflake. (In a hurry now...will add links later) I made it size 40 Anchor thread... It is so tiny. I used super glue to seal in the ends...was thinking, I'd getaway with it... look closely ... and ...it shows. Next time I'll remember not to cheat!



And here is another motif I made with rings and beads. I didn't use a pattern this time. Just went as I wished and it came out pretty well.

Here is another look at it:
Isn't it really pretty? I wish there was a way to put a pic i the middle. For now it hangs as a tag formy cell phone and ...my son chews on it!

P.S: Just noticed that I fiished motif 23 and 24! Is it really that I have just one more to do?! I feel like I am panicking that I have just one more to do... I can't be finishing it already.. I was just beginning to enjoy. :(

Posted in: 25motif challenge, Inspired by Jon Yusoff, TATTING on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 2 Smiles  

How many times is it that I come online to blog and then forget, surf around, check, re-check and re- re- check my mails, shut off and then remember thereason formy coming online? Too many times. Really, I must put a reminder on my laptop that beeps every ten seconds to remind me the reason why I came online. On another thought I should have reminders,stick up notes and what-nots everywhere around the house to remind of so many things.

These days, as it has been for the past year and more, I come online when my son sleeps. The funny things is, the second he falls asleep, I am so excited that I have 'me'time that I forget everything that I have to do.The only thing that I do remember is that I have to go online. Once online, I forget why I am there... most of the time I have already checked and replied to my mail and most of the times I don't remember about blogging... then what do I do, you ask? I really don't know. It's like my mind clears the cookies, cache, web history and all online details just like my computer does, the minute I shut it down. Amazing, aren't I?

Okay, the reason I came online today is to tell you that, I have made more motifs. Motif no.21 is my first attempt with beads. Yeah I know I did try it before but it couldn't be called as a motif, could it? I really don't know what to do with it further but it looks so cute and I want to just tack it somewhere.


Motif no.22 was inspired by Jon Yusoff. She is an amazing tatting artist ad her work with rings and beads has really hooked me on. I am absolutely in love with the earings she made. Her tutorial where she shows how to make ds on a plastic ring gave me the start that I needed. I couldn't get the plastic rings here but I did manage to get some metal rings. I have been working since then.



Isn't it too cute? I don't know what I am going to use this for but I have some ideas. I am just crazy about rings now. The day I saw the tutorial on Jon's blog, I went out that very evening to get the rings and the beads. Hubby must have thought me crazy because we had so many problems finding the rings and the beads. There aren't any shops that cater to the needs of a tatter here and I have searched high and low.I had to get most of my supplies from India. I don't shop online either so it gets really difficult but once in awhile I do find something that can be considered useful. And that's when I feel the 'Aha'moment. :)

Posted in: 25motif challenge, Inspired by Jon Yusoff, TATTING on Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 2 Smiles