Yago Hortal's Abstract Paintings. This week’s CMYLK features Colourlovers palettes paired with abstract works by Yago Hortal. Hortal is a young artist who was born in Barcelona, studied in Seville, and currently lives and works in Berlin. His colors are vivid, verging on fluorescent, and the brushstrokes strong, with dynamic, hurled drips. Energetic, to say the least!
Hermes Robots. Poufs | MYK. A Foothill Home Companion: Winter Berries, A Tutorial. Well, it took me a month, but I finally got around to making another "Winter Berries" crochet covered stone and documenting the process to share with you. Supplies a smooth round rockwhite, brown and red or burgundy fine gauge crochet threadsmall gauge crochet hook (I used size 8 for this rock)tapestry needle and scissors Step 1 Using white crochet thread, make a chain and join to form circle with a slip stitch. The circle should fit inside your rock. I worked with multiples of 6 for this project, so my circle was a chain of 60. Round 1: Chain 2, dc (double crochet) in next five chains, chain 1. Round 2: dc in next four stitches, 2 dc in next stitch, chain 1. After two rows, I started decreasing to accommodate the curve of the rock.
Round 3: dc in next 5 stitches, chain 1. Round 4: dc in next 4 stitches, chain 1. You will now be crocheting around the rock, decreasing each row to fit the rock. Round 5: dc in next 3 stitches, chain 1. Round 6: dc in next 2 stitches, chain 1. Step 2 Step 3. Crocheted Stones. Ever since I entered the blogging world and saw crocheted stones, I have wanted to make one. I think they are gorgeous. The crochet skill required just seemed far beyond my crochet abilities however, which were pretty much limited to this potholder I blogged about long ago.
Seeing something so beautiful that I want to make made me anxious to put an end to the inequity. Then, I saw this tutorial by Margaret Oomen on Purl Bee. For the pattern on Purl Bee, she says you need only know how to chain, single crochet and double crochet–that’s it. I can do that, I thought. So I went out and got the crochet thread and the needle and they sat around for months. When my mother’s birthday popped up on the horizon, I thought–what a perfect opportunity to finally try to make these. Margaret’s photos and tutorial were helpful and after a few fits and starts and trying to understand how the pattern worked, I got it! Of course, I have this weird thing, where I can’t stop. I love the star pattern. Woven Finger-Knitting Hula-Hoop Rug DIY. Here we go! I’m so excited to kick off this series of finger-knitting projects. For the first project, B proffered his largest ball of finger-knitting for us all to try weaving a rug!
This project is super-fun and easy to do. The rug was made on a hula hoop loom, using an old t-shirt for the warp and a massively huge ball of finger knitting for the weft. I based this project on an incredible t-shirt hula hoop rug I saw on the Disney Family Fun site, where they used strips of t-shirts for the weft. My son’s ball started with four-finger finger-knitting(click here for a how-to) and switched mid-ball to single-finger finger-knitting. I have to say that although this project was easy for the kids to work on, I think the size of it was a bit overwhelming. My suggestion is to sit down and do a little bit of finger knitting, finish it off, ball it up and add it to a basket. I’ve been going nutty with finger-knitting. Here is the DIY for the hula hoop rug: Materials: Scissors Voila! Xo anne. Finger Knitting How-to. You know how I just wrote about how I like getting a handmade gift more than just about anything.
Well, this is anything. Sitting on the couch on a lazy Sunday, knitting with my kids . . . that beats gift-getting for sure. It is a gift itself. We just sat there side-by-side, for about an hour, feeling the warmth from each other’s bodies, listening to music from my computer and basking in each others company as the sun streamed through the windows.
Ahhh . . .the experience was so delightful, it was hard to peel myself away to take the photos. That blue pile is my spot in the middle. You can look for a fun collection of easy knits coming soon from me. The two kiddos are finger-knitting, which I’ve written about before and again, but it continues to be a favorite activity. You end up with a long coil of knitting like this, that curls itself into a sort of tube. My son is using a finer and less expensive yarn, here. They really do enjoy the process. Materials: Any yarn An eager kiddo.