Pattern & details later... !

There are so many of us who love Ingrid's Wood & Wool Stools. I've been wanting to make my version for quite some time now. So this past week I finally started to make a granny cover for an old table I painted black & white last year. I'm loving it!

I've collected some twigs and thinking of adorning them with some crocheted leaves & flowers, the idea which has also been floating around in the blogland for quite some time now. See them here & here.

If you have made something similar, share them with me. I would love to see your creations!

Atlast the sun has started coming out and I'm getting some beautiful sunlight in my room.

Playing with hook & yarn and sipping hot tea in glorious sunlight is one of the simple yet beautiful pleasure in life!

Did I ever tell you that I love, I seriously love stripes. They just make me feel *happy*.......you know that special happiness when your heart starts jumping, this exactly happens to me when I see stripes. This stripy crocheted mat is inspired from a plastic coaster I have sitting on my computer table (currently with lots of  stains of tea & coffee). I just felt like making something in colorful stripes and this mat is the result of that sudden thought.

Here I feel like *eating* it!

Its curved from one end (just because I couldn't manage to make it curved from the other end!)

This Beeeautiful vase belongs to my grandma and I so so love it.

So why the title of the post says Part 1? Because I want to show you the other stripy goodies I have which inspired me to make something stripy from my own hands!

If anyone of you like stripes and made or bought something stripy recently, you should defenitly tell me about it because I looooove stripes!

See you later!

Its quite unusual for me to feel lazy during the weekend. I'm mostly filled with lots of energy during my weekends. I usually work on my to-do-list on Friday night and then I'd just go crazy to chase down the tasks I had lain down for me.

But there are times when you need a break but that should also be planned otherwise you keep feeling guilty that you didn't do anything and I'm exactly in that kind of situation right now. This break was so unplanned and I couldn't even relaize it was a break & I'm supposed to feel relaxed !

I had finished some crochet & other projects during my blog break (which was also unplanned). So I thought I'd share them today.

Remember those cute granny squares I was working on way back in February ? Well they finally got turned into a cushion and I can proudly say I already have my first ever granny squares cushion!

My little cakey boy sitting with the granny!

I sewed up a envelope cushion and attached the granny bit on the front. This idea actually given to me by Alice (aka futuregirl, thanks Alice!). I machine sewed the granny part to the cushion cover as I didn't have any further patience to hand sew it. My machine was in a good mood that day and so did a nice job.

Oh and it just occurred to me I should have photographed the back of the cushion also!

Another project which really made me feel proud was rescuing this chair from our junk room. It was ready to be thrown away by my brother but I took hold of it. I painted it black & then reupholstered it with this cute cotton fabric.

I've recently added a support bar on the chair. I'm waiting for my new cushion to be ready and thats going to find home on this chair. Its my official sewing chair now!

I feel so proud about this chair. I feel so flattered when guests say "hey you painted it yourself and you also put the fabric ?"..... and I very proudly say yes I did it all!! You know it gives you such a nice sense of gain when you take something out of your junk room and make it pretty enough to give it place in your room..!

Oh I can't believe it I managed to write this whole post. I was feeling so deadfully lazy & tired. But I did it...!

Hopefully I will be back soon to share more things here...

I made a (almost) cushion !

Well well I can now join my sqaures as I go.. And I must say its quite enjoyable to join/make your squares this way. I've also noticed it workes up quite quickly.

Can you see that last square is missing ? oh yes one last square needs to be joined and then I will start convincing myself to sew up these tons of tails. I wish I had a little sister or friend around who could sew up these tails for me, provided they didn't hate to do it as much as I do. But I guess it would be easier for me to convince them than to convince myself for this boring, boring & boring task...!

I can't stop loving my new yarn colors, I almost want to eat them! During this heat around, they look like scoops of colorful ice-cream to me. Oh I love you soo much my sweet sweet new yarn! They make me happy all day when I see them, they keep me inspired during all day, they invite me to make something beautiful with them, they invite me to play with them... I think they are my new freinds..... hellow my new friends, thank you to make me feel so happy everyday !

I'm wondering what is making you happy these days to keep the heat away & to bring the joy around ????

How bad I'm here after two months. I know I know I'm not a good blogger! Life has been a strange roller coaster of responsibilities & emotions during the past 3 months. I did manage to contunue with my sewing & crochet but I just couldn't manage to blog about my projects. I had been active on Flickr and found some new freinds there during this time and I'm really excited about my new flickr contacts!

So..... I'm here just for a quick post to let my two precious subscribers know that I'm very much alive and around!

I have so much queued up to blog about and I hope to finally start showing you all the projects I had been upto so far.

Since a blog post without photographs is not a good idea so I'm leaving you with these two photos of my new cushion in progress. I'm feeling very peachy to see all the colors of my yarn & circles going so well with my new rug. Awwwww I'm just LOVIN' it !!!!!!!

I see you all soon.... (atleast I hope so !)