White Watch Cap tutorial

Westport, CT

Here is Michael modeling the snug little White Watch Cap knit with 1 ball Gedifra "Marokko." There is barely any yarn left, so you might want to buy 2 skeins of yarn to be safe.

Directions:

Using size 6 dpns, cast on 92 stitches. (Or if you prefer, use 2 sets of size 6 circular needles to knit in the round).

Knit in a K2P2 ribbing pattern in the round for 5 1/2 inches. This cap will NOT have a folded cuff. If you want one, be sure to purchase 2 skeins of yarn and add about 2 inches.

Mets Cable Baby Blanket tutorial

Westport, CT

We’re big New York Mets fans. So when BF’s friend and fellow Mets fan announced he and his wife were going to have a baby, I decided to make a baby blanket for the newest Mets fan. You can make this blanket in any color. The pennants at the top and bottom edges are optional. The best thing about this blanket is that it can be used as an afghan or lap blanket as the baby grows. It’s not strictly a baby blanket. In fact, you could make it for any age. Perhaps you’d like to make it in your favorite team’s colors.

MATERIALS

• US size 4 circular needle – 40”
• 15 skeins Filatura di Crosa 501 in main color
• Optional – if you’re going to add pennants in a team color, you’ll want to pick up 1 skein per additional color for the pennant embellishments
• Optional – if you’re going to add pennants – you’ll also need US size 2 needles (any type will do, straight, dpns, circular. It doesn’t really matter here. I used circular needles, because they were handy.
• Scissors, crochet hook and tapestry needle for finishing

GAUGE

2x2 inches = 12x12 stitches in the cable pattern

FINISHED SIZES

Finished blanket (without the pennants measures approximately 30 inches wide by 36 inches tall

PATTERN

The cable pattern is a simple P2, K4 repeat. If you alter the pattern to fit your needs, the repeat is a 6 +2

DIRECTIONS

Make a swatch of the cable (done in any multiple of 6 +2 extra stitches). Test gauge.

Cast on 216 sts as follows - Cast on 8 (for the left garter stitch border) 200 (198 stitches for cable pattern + 2 for extra P stitches) and a final 8 (for the right garter stitch border = 216 stitches. If you like a fatter or skinnier blanket, you might want to adjust the 200 stitches by adding or decreases in multiples of 6. According to the Filatura di Crosa label 216 would give you about 33 inches across.

ROWS 1-10 - K across (repeat this row for about 10 rows to make a garter stitch bottom border

ROW 11 - K8, place stitch marker as a visual reminder that you are at the border, P2, *(K4, P2) - repeat to final 8 stitches. Place stitch marker as a visual reminder that you are at the border. K8

ROW 12 - K8, K2, *(P4, K2), repeat across to stitch marker. K8

Pink Stash Buster Scarf tutorial

Westport, CT

MATERIALS

US size 15 circular needles (24 inches or longer)
Crochet hook for fringe

Use a variety of pink yarns in various weights, textures and shade of your chosen color. The concept here is to clean up your stash. I'm guilty of going out to purchase new yarn to make these "pseudo-stash buster scarves". In fact I bought the following yarns for these scarves.

YARN A - 1 skein Plymouth Yarn Galway Chunky (100 g) - pink
YARN B - 1 skein of ggh SOFT-KID (25 g) – light pink
YARN C - 1 skein (168 g) of cotton candy “Delight” a unique designer yarn by Debra Ann Miller – PO Box 464 – Westbrook, CT 06498 http://pages.cthome.net/DebbieMillerDesigns/yarnkits.html
YARN D - 1 skein (50 g) Berroco Quest - pink
YARN E - 1 skein of Filatura di Crosa Baby Zarella - pink

DIRECTIONS

This is a free form scarf. Alternate the rows as you see fit. Cut off the ends and leave about 6-8 inches. These will be knotted with the adjacent yarn to form some of the fringe. The above scarves were made as follows with the rows changing according to whim.

• Using the Knitting Cast-On Method, LOOSELY cast on 140 stitches in Yarn A. Knit in garter stitch (knit each row) for 2 rows.

FREE Newborn Baby Hat Pattern - Rolled Brim

I used Bernat's CottonTots yarn from my stash.  This one happens to be 91713 Koolade.  With US size 7 Turbo Addi's I cast on 56 sts and knit using the Magic Loop method until I had 6 inches.  Then I started the decreases for the crown.  This one is so easy, it practically knits itself.

ideas for accessories

Craative with fabric and wool

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Decortive

Classical decoring

Butterfly bead necklace

 
Bead jewelry

MORPHotel - floating hotel with a backbone

Nature often dictates the decision of the person or other problems. In recent years, designers have realized that knowledge of human anatomy or animal can be used to create different designs. For example, the car body Maserati Quattroporte or structure transforming the hotel MORPHotel .

New fashion handbags. Orishiki, they are the same bags, origami by Naoki Kawamoto

 

Fashionable origami. Bags Orishiki by Naoki Kawamoto

A woman without a purse, that a smoker without a cigarette lighter - it is possible, but difficult. Poorly matched handbag can spoil the first impression about a person, and mood, and sometimes even personal life or career.However, as can be said of any accessory, but today will be discussed is about purses, more precisely, a new collection of bags, origami called Orishiki , which the designer Naoki Kawamoto (Naoki Kawamoto) presented in Tokyo at the famous exhibition DesignTide 2010 .

Handbags Orishiki is something from the future with an eye on the past. Thus, the Japanese have been adopted to bring the bath a small piece of cloth "shiki" which was first mat, and then - something like a homemade bag to wrap the clothes after swimming, pereodevayas all clean and fresh. Today, the range of "furoshiki (furo - in Japanese" bath ") wide and diverse, and it is used both as a backpack or bag for food, and as a portfolio. There are also a "ceremonial" furoshiki, which is packed for the holiday gifts and souvenirs for those who came to Japan to visit.

Tropical Island in an old hangar in Germany

 

Can a tropical island located in the usual German village between Berlin and Dresden? Yes, easily! Moreover, this has really exists, and no one is not particularly surprising. Meet resort Tropical Islands, located in an old hangar at sixty kilometers from Berlin!

Style "vintage" in the interior

Renovated mansion, owned by Marie and Ben Nyulenderam Olsson (Olsson Nylander), decorated in the style

An elegant French word «vintage» translated means "wine of long-term endurance." That is why the style of"vintage" in the interior design includes all possible combinations of items, time-tested, which, moreover, may be "filed" in today's "glasses".

Smart Purse learn how to plan budget

 

Money has one nasty property: they are very easy to spend. Agree, do not exist in nature, such amount which would be impossible to "pull". Especially hard to refrain from spending (especially unscheduled), when to pay are using a bank card . It's so easy: no need to calculate anything, mess with "trifle." As a result, did not even notice how the amount in the account the lightest, and personal budget begins to bulge at the seams. If difficult to control costs on their own, then come to the aid smart purse, which respond to vibration reduction in the balance, resizing, or failure to open.

                                                          

E-wallets are designed specifically for a group of designers to help all shopaholic, fans of online stores and simple townsfolk to plan a personal budget and track their accounts. Since the transaction is seamless (and, hence, painless), the creators decided to make the process of spending "virtual money" tangible. Secret bank balance restive device "will return" as your smartphone : the purse maintains constant communication with him via Bluetooth . All information remains classified.
 

Paper, germinating flowers or seedlings in your mailbox

 

Over the past decade, paper letters have become rare, but the holiday cards do not hand over their positions. Multicolored cards with warm words accepted to give in an envelope, and if the cards themselves, as a rule, you want to save the fate of the envelope is not so obvious. Throw a pity to keep - no need to. However, for some envelopes (as, indeed, and greeting cards) is another unusual option - they can put ...!

Special "germination flowers" paper is a set of applications - but the envelope it may be, for example, business cards, invitations, bookmarks and even a wine label! And made ​​a miracle out of 100% recycled pulp. Thus, a product with the inclusion of the seeds makes it possible to reuse the paper and at the same time creating something new, in this case - greenery.

Fabrication process involves grinding of finished paper products with the addition of water to produce pulp, which domeshivayutsya and seeds of wild flowers . As a result, we get a very original hi-tech product, also made ​​by hand.

Home of the protein indicator. Winner of design competition to TIFF-2011

Home of protein from the pot

Pets proteins can bring you the benefit even if you do not suffer from an excess of gold with emerald nut kernels.Plastic squirrel sitting in a funny flower pots and holders for napkins and toilet paper from the studio Qualy Design , may be useful to everyone - maybe that's why they won design competition C , held during the exhibition TIFF-2011 in Thailand . What is the useful proteins? Now know.