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8/01/2014

Framed July 2014

Holy Moly! This month was fun!

so in June I challenged myself to only take pictures related to yarn or amigurumi in July. And for the most part I did it ^__^
sometimes it was a real challenge on other days it was a blast. And I got to get to know some of you a little bit better too! How awesome is this? I want to thank you all for joining and commenting and sending hearts, it was so cool in July with you all on my instagram feed !!

and August? well I plan to mix from now on, I do like the diary thing that this challenge comes with, how at the end of a month I can look back and see my life in pictures again, and I also liked the fun I had with you and my yarny pictures. So I think I will just mix both as good as I can. It's another challenge I guess ^__^ and I love to see you join!

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Oh du meine Güte, Juli war mir eine Freude!

Im Juni hab ich mich ja selbst vor die Herrausforderung gestellet diesen Monat nur Bilder mit Wolle oder Amigurumi zu machen und die meiste Zeit hab ich es tatsächlich geschafft ^__^
Manchmal war es tatsächlich eine Herrausforderungen an anderen Tagen ein einziger Spass. Was ich auch super fand, dass ich einige von euch endlich ein bisschen besser kennengelernt hab, ich hab mir eure Profile angeguckt, eine ganze Menge Herzchen verteilt und mit euch getextet, das war toll mit euch meinen Juli bei instagram zu verbringen!

Und im August? ich werde mischen! ganz einfach. Ich finds so schön am Monatsende zurückzublicken und so ein bisschen Tagebuch zu spielen :) Umd den Spass den ich mit euch hatte lass ich mir auch nicht wieder entgehen, also mal so mal so :) ganz einfach! So ist's wohl wieder eine neue Herrausforderung und ich freu mich riesig euch dabei zu haben!


1. red + white right in the middle of summer this maybe is a bit missplaced but it fit the clue ---- mitten im Sommer vielleicht ein wenig fehl am Platz, aber passte zum Hinweis

2. something beginning with k: Krebs, the german word for crab ---- Krebs

3. match: key and keychain, a few days earlier I made one for my boyfriend and it was the first in a series of keychains I plan to make ---- Schlüssel und Anhänger, ein perfektes Paar. Ein paar Tage zuvor hab ich den ersten für meinen Freund gemacht und jetzt will ich noch mehr machen, auch andere, eine Schlüsselanhänger Kollektion sozusagen

4. stars: my first attempt at coasters, both pattern are my own, although I like the front one a lot better (hence the position in the pic) :) ---- mein erster Versuch an Untersetzern, eigentlich ganz gut, beide spontan und nach eigener Anleitung, wobei der vordere gefällt mir deutlich besser, deswegen ist er auch vorn im Bild :)

5. on the table: yarn hook and camera ---- Wolle Nadel und Kamera

6. view: perfect view, maybe squirrels like more wood though ---- perfekte Aussicht, naja Eichhörnchen hätten vielleicht gern etwas mehr Wald

7. first: the first pattern I ever wrote was on my turtle sheldon, soon his mother followed ---- die erste Anleitung die ich je schrieb war die für Sheldon meine Schildkröte, seine Mutter folgte bald

8. i’ve never… finished a project without frogging it a couple of times, never! you can ask any of my friends, I rip stuff as fast as I make it ---- ich hab noch nie ein Projekt beendet ohne es mindestens einmal aufzuribbeln, noch nie! fragt meine Freunde, ich bin gefürchtet für meine Rippelhand

9. alive: no matter how often I kiss one of my frogs, they won't come alive ---- egal wie oft ich einen meiner Frösche auch küsse, sie wachen einfach nicht auf

10. sharp: I wonder which shears are sharper? ---- na? wessen Scheren sind wohl schärfer?

11. gold: the border of ma dahlia blanket ---- im Rand meiner Dahlia Decke

14. old school: designing, with pen and paper and a test piece ---- alte Schule Designen mit Papier, Stift und Teststück

15. torn: I told you, I'm the ripper... ---- ich sag's ja, ich bin die Rippelkönigin

16. listening to… piano on my tablet, little mermaid Klara joined in too ---- Pianomusik auf dem Tablet hören, die kleine Meerjungfrau Klara war auch dabei

17. sunshine: early mornings in my windowsill ---- frühe Morgende in meinem Fenster

18. admire: I love how the waves on my blanket actually form waves too ---- ganz verliebt dreinschauen tue ich wenn ich die Wellen auf meiner neuen Decke sehe

19. curly: lion hair ---- Löwenmäne

20. moment: the only picture w/o yarn, but this moment was just tooooo cute, we made play doh cookies ---- das einzige Bild ohne Wolle, aber es war einfach zu schöööön, wir haben KnetKekse gemacht

21. basic: the two colors my baltic blanket is made of ---- the zwei Basisfarben meiner Ostseewellendecke

22. i wore this!: oh this one screamed for an outfit pic, but no! my fairies do have clothes too ---- oh hier hab ich echt mit mir gerungen, das Bild schrie einfach nach einem Outfitbild, aber nein meine Feen haben auch Klamotten an

23. macro: and they have beautiful eyes too! ---- und schöne Augen können sie auch machen

24. water: again my baltic blanket, it's been inspired by water, and looks like water ---- wieder meine Decke, wurde ja auch von Wasser inspiriert, sieht auch so aus

25. home: one of my couches, my favorite place to knit/crochet and with my warm dahlia granny blanket too ---- daheim, in meiner Sofaecke, da sitz ich am liebsten zum handarbeiten und meine Dahliadecke hält mich warm dabei

26. fun: with color and frog ---- Spass mit Frosch und Farbe

27. ten: a small collection of my hooks (i have so many, I don't know how I've accumulated so many ---- eine kleine Auswahl meiner Häkelnadeln, da haben sich ganz schön viele angesammelt

28. cool: what a stupid tag .. with a heatwave outside I just couldn't do this one ---- hab ich einfach nicht hinbekommen, es war einfach zu schwül und heiß

29. repeat: over and over I've made my seahorse Charly, and I still like it a lot ---- mein Seepferdchen, hab ich schon so oft gemacht, und trotzdem immer mal wieder gerne

30. lost: in time and space obviously ^__^ ---- in Raum und Zeit verloren, ganz klar ^__^

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that's it for July :) hope to see you in August too, have a wonderful weekend, hugs Diana

das war's für den Juli :) ich hoffe euch auch im August zu sehen, bis dahin ertmal ein schönes Wochenende, Diana

6/29/2014

DIY - paint your shirt

<< den deutschen Post findet ihr wieder weiter unten >>

Hey guys, today I want to share a very easy and quick DIY.

My friend Uli just got one year older and I wanted to make a special shirt for her. We challenge each other to do more sports each month and this shirt seemed perfect.
Also she allowed me to share her picture if she was looking good, which of course she does, so please leave a comment and tell her she looks like she just came home from vacation ^__^

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what do you need?
- a sports shirt (or any other t-shirt, depending on what you want to make)
- fabric paint (mine is washable up to 40°C, and ironing will fix it, take care to check on the fabric of your shirt to make sure they match)
- a paint brush
- a printer and paper to print your design, an iron to fix your paint later

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how does it work?
1 - create you design on your computer (I just opened word, entered the sentence 'gonna run til I don't jiggle, and sized the single rows til they matched each other in width
2 - print your design
3 - tape your design onto the wrong side of your shirt, e.g. place it inside your shirt and fix it with tape so it won't shift, taping it between the front and back layer also keeps paint from seeking through to the back
4 - for simplicity tape your shirt onto a window
5 - paint your design
6 - let it dry and iron it according your the description on your paint of choice
7 - wrap it up and wait for the smile when the recipient opens the package

that's it :) told you it was easy and quick - I hope you enjoyed this little DIY
hugs, Diana

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Hey Leute, heute gibt's mal ein ganz kleines DIY

meine Freundin Uli hatte grade Geburtstag und weil wir uns gegenseitig immer so schön zum Sport anspornen, gab's ein Shirt von mir
Sie hat mir nur erlaubt ihr Foto hier zu zeigen, wenn sie gut aussieht, was sie natürlich tut, und daher bitte ich euch einen kleinen Kommentar da zu lassen, wenn ihr das auch so seht. Sie sieht doch aus wie frisch aus dem Urlaub, oder?

was braucht ihr?
- ein Shirt, irgendeins
- Textilfarbe, meine hält bis zu 40°C und wird mit dem Bügeleisen fixiert
- einen Pinsel
- PC und Drucker und ein Bügeleisen

wie geht's?
1 - PC an und Drucker startbereit halten, ein Textprogramm öffnen und euren Text eingeben, ein bisschen an der Größe der Wörter drehen, bis alle etwa gleich breit sind
2 - drucken
3 - den Druck ins Innere eures Shirt kleben (mit Klebestreifen)
4 - und das ganze jetzt ab ans Fenster, ebenfalls mit Tesa
5 - euer Design durchpausen
6 - trocknen lassen und dann bügeln zum fixieren
7 - einpacken, verschenken und auf das freudige Lächeln warten

na, hatte ich zu viel versprochen? ging doch wirklich superschnell und einfach
und man hat immer eine tolle und individuelle Idee

habt eine schöne Woche, Diana

4/22/2014

Easter Bunny bun rolls

Okay so pinterest is my latest addiction and I was rummaging it for some Easter ideas when I found these bun rolls. I also found this fail, But honestly? I think some people just want to make things fail. Anyways I gave them a try.

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I didn't find these to be hard to do. I used my favorite bread bun recipe and let the dough rise. Then I formed six balls and started cutting ears. To find the right angle though is tricky. My first try was too flat, but hey it's only dough, I just reformed the ball and started over.

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Now looking at my cute buns I think they are more like cats but they're still cute and cheer the Easter mood.

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Googling before I started also made me find this video on YouTube which I found very helpful. Molding the ears and eyes is a must-do. I used a chopstick for this part.
Also thinking about my buns I think next time I wouldn't cut the dough all the way through for the ears, as the further rising made them shrink and also lift a little, which I needed to repair with the chopstick.

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I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend
Diana

11/28/2013

instead of WIP wedneday

today I want to share a finished object, yay!

Ginkgo is off the needles and blocked and already wearing super lovely.

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pattern: Ginkgo shoulderette shawl is written super lovely, worked up beautifully

started: October, 1st, this year

finished: November, 10th, also this year ^__^

yarn: 100% merino, bought from a local manufactory called Hamburger Wollfabrik. I've used a 4ply, which is my favorite. I've also tried 2, 3, 6, 8 and 12 ply (on other projects) as you can ask for any number of strands together you want. And the honey color is just beautiful, I find it really makes my eyes pop

modifications: quite a few actually. First I worked this into a cowl instead of the classic triangular shawl it comes. I will write up some detailed "instructions" in a separate post. I also elongated the lace part a few repeats and skipped the yo's in favor of increases made from the stitch below in the middle rip. I wouldn't like a lacy "bone" right in front of my neck. I'd be afraid of wind blowing in and making me freeze.

overall it came out a lot smaller than my first "shawl into cowl" transformation but it's still a very decent size and warms wonderfully.

knitting hugs - Sunday will be the first December and the start of my Advent Calendar - I'm already a little excited, Diana

9/08/2013

finished .. granny blanket

so I finally finished my first ever granny square blanket. I do admit I'm proud. My first ever granny square turned into a whole blanket. And the granny bug bit me. I can't stop and I won't. These squares are so perfect little in-between projects. Small, easy, fit every pocket, satisfying! just perfect.

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now let my share some details on this one. It's now 1,30 x 1,56 meter and therefore a little smaller than I calculated first hand, but nevertheless a handsome size.
I started on January 1st this year and finished September 1st (according to my ravelry, beacause when I took the little heavy thing outside this morning to take a few pictures I found two more yarn ends to sew in, but I won't count them, would you? I like to say that I made this whole babe in just eight month).

I used catania yarn all over. The colorways I used are: 249 (gold yellow), 254 (greyish brown) and 262 (minty green). Each ball is 50gramm and I used 41 balls in total. So this makes a little over two kilograms for the whole afghan. Exactly 30 of them were minty green, eight were yellow and of course three were brown. I needed to re-order about 12 balls to finish and only because of the border I used up the first brown ball plus two more. Borders eat yarn! Who knew...

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The patterns:
the big dahlia square and my notes
my smaller version
a tutorial on how I made my "classic" granny squares will follow (I've learned from the lot of tutorials that can be found already on the interwebs but I made a few changes on the way and want to keep these notes somewhere, what a perfect little place my own blog might be and maybe you will find them interesting as well
and last but not least the border

oh even one more, how I joined all my squares will follow in a separate post as well. you can see a close up below or here

granny blanket finished

granny blanket finished

granny blanket finished

♥ Diana




5/04/2013

finally a finished object - revival dress

so I finally managed to get some decent pictures of me wearing my first knitted dress. Last year I was knitting on and off on this dress from August 2011 till October 2012 - and only now I got to wear it, the weather is finally springy!

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Pattern: revival by Ankestrick .. the original pattern is for a pullover using the contiguous method. I enjoyed this new method very much. No sewing is always something that catches me. I would change a few little bits when using this yarn again with this method, like not making the arms as wide as I did here. The overall shape though is lovely. The yarn is gorgeous too! it's a cotton/linen/silk blend and I have more than enough to make another dress, so I think I will make a cardigan from the leftovers. The quality feels perfect on the skin with the warmer weather.

Changes to the original pattern: basically I followed the pattern. It's top down which made it a lot easier to turn it into a dress. I added some short rows to create more room for the boobs and I also added waist shaping. The waist shaping also was the base for the increases that I simply continued to create an A-line to the skirt. Turned out great!

I simply love this dress although a knitted garment doesn't hide any curve, if you know what I mean ;)

have a lovely knitting weekend,
Diana

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also big xoxo to the photographer

4/05/2013

Nemo

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so Nemo got finished and packed and shipped just in time to arrive at its new home. He is being loved very much already, I received a call yesterday telling me Nemo is being soaked up in saliva by its 6-month-old daddy now. So cute.

I didn't have the time to take proper pictures unfortunately but I'll share the crappy mobile pics I have ^__^

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In the end I enjoyed making him a lot, even though I still find working on order to be very very hard for me. I just can't find enough motivation finishing things.
Meanwhile I think about posting the pattern here, I hesitate because of copyright, which of course is not mine, even though I made the pattern from scratch the figure "Nemo" is owned by pixar. Well, a little more thinking on this side. In case any of you designers read my blog, do you have experience in such a case?

crochet hugs,
Diana

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lol, now that I read this again, saliva sounds very technical, so babys saliva isn't saliva right? I mean technical it is, but what do you say? spittle? drool?, just wondering

12/03/2012

December 3rd

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Happy December 3rd!

It's Monday, and Mondays this month mean ornament time ^__^

all patterns that will pop up during this years advent calendar will be posted on the blog first and when the month is over I will put them all together in one humongous pdf file to download easily. Yes there will be a whole holiday collection this year, I really hope you will enjoy it!

Let's start with tree ornaments.
these are a quick project, you can totally crochet one in an hour.

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Tree Ornament

abbreviations first:
sc - single crochet
m2 - increase: make two sc into one stitch
sc2tof - decrease:
hdc - half double crochet
dc - double crochet
slst - slip stitch

1__ make a double-ring with 4sc
2__ (m2, sc1) x2
3__ (sc2, m2) x2
4__ sc1, m2, sc3, m2, sc2
5__ (m2, sc4) x2
6__ sc4, m2, sc5, m2, sc1
7__ sc3, m2, sc6, m2, sc3
8__ front loop only: chain1, (hdc1, dc1, chain2, slst1 into 2nd st from hook, dc1 into same st as last dc, hdc1, slst1) x4; BO
attach new color (see picture 1 and 2 below for help)
9__ back loop only of previous row 7: sc16
10__ (m2, sc3) x4
11__ front loop only: chain1, (hdc1, dc1, chain2, slst1 into 2nd st from hook, dc1 into same st as last dc, hdc1, slst1) x5, BO
attach new color
12__ back loops only of previous row 10: sc20
13__ (m2, sc4) x4
14__ chain1, front loop only: (hdc1, dc1, chain2, slst1 into 2nd st from hook, dc1 into same st as last dc, hdc1, slst1) x6
attach new color
15__ back loop only of previous row 13: sc24
16__ (m2, sc5) x4
17__ chain1, front loop only: (hdc1, dc1, chain2, slst1 into 2nd st from hook, dc1 into same st as last dc, hdc1, slst1) x7
attach new color
18__ back loop only of previous row 16: sc28
19__ (m2, sc6) x4
20__ chain1, front loop only: (hdc1, dc1, chain2, slst1 into 2nd st from hook, dc1 into same st as last dc, hdc1, slst1) x8
21__ now continue with same color and use the back loops of the previuos row: (sc14, sc2tog) x2
22__ (sc3, sc2tog) x6
23__ sc1, (sc2tog, sc2) x5, sc2tog, sc1
24__ (sc2tog, sc1) x6
stuff properly
25__ (sc2tog, sc1) x4
attach new yarn (stem color)
26-27__ sc8
28__ (m2, sc1) x4
29__ sc12
30__ sc2tog x6
BO with a slip stitch and add a little stuffing to the stem if you wish
hide yarn ends

decorate if you want, use yarn ends in different colors or even glittery yarns; I preferred mine simple and neat.

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pic 1: binding off one color and attaching the new one: BO "old" color with a slip stitch, sew in end and pull end inside of tree; attach new color by pulling up a loop

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pic2: crochet in back loops and secure both yarn ends (old & new color) by tying a knot

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{little disclaimer: please be a nice boy or girl and don't copy this pattern or parts of it, you can make as many trees as you want for yourself and family and friends, but please always link to this page}