Crochengy

I hope you liked my last post on my best friend's wedding gift and checked out the tutorial videos! For my second part of the wedding gift, I made barefoot sandals since they are the raving fashion in crochet nowadays. I found a lovely pattern on Ravelry  and decided to glam it up with beads. Check it out: This is also my first attempt at the barefoot sandals and adding beads to crochet work, it looks so precious, doesn't it? I feel like the more you experiment with different projects, the more diverse your experience will be. It doesn't matter if you have 10 years experience or 10 days, every time you try a different project, you are back to square one and you are a beginner. Have you started a new project lately?

Well as you might have read in my previous post, I have been extremely busy with my best friend's wedding. Since she was getting married, I thought of making her a bikini crochet set and barefoot sandals as her wedding first. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a written pattern of a design I like, so I browsed YouTube and found a great video for the bikini top and another for the bikini bottom . For the first time, I had to listen to a tutorial video in Portuguese and it wasn't hard to follow at all. That's the beauty of crochet ladies & gentlemen! doesn't matter what language is it in, any diagram/video would be easy for you to decipher and follow. I am sure I missed a couple of tips and tricks while the lady was talking in the video, but I ended up with a beautiful piece and my friend couldn't wait to wear it! I made sure to tie at the end of the strings wooden balls, so they don't get affected by water and rust. I also found a great article...

Wow! I just saw the date of my last blog post and its been more than a month since I lasted posted something!! 😮 Well, just so you know, I have been working a lot with my best friend to prepare for her wedding setups. I was in charge of making the corsages and making a fashionable headpiece for her. I learned how to make accessories, how to spray paint on fake plants and leaves, and finally I learned how to assemble the corsage pieces together all from Youtube. Check it out: Bridal Headpiece Before & After Spray Painting Baby Breaths The Corsages for the Mothers Bridesmaid Corsage Take I Bridesmaid Corsage Take II What a great fun I had making these DIYs and Everything looked amazing on the wedding day! 😍 I found the headpiece materials in al Satwa, the golden leaves were quite a challenge to find and I found them in one store only called Ribbons. The flowers, leaves, baby breathes and ribbons I found in Dragon Mart (and they are available in an A...

I haven't updated my blog in some time now. I have been running around the city for some fun events with my family and also a little sick. However, rest assured my hook wasn't idle 😉. Im excited to announce that the countdown has started for the giveaway with my fellow blogger Zahrah . Less that 24 hours to announce 2 lucky winners to win amazing handmade crochet gifts, so make sure you head to Instagram and fellow the steps on the post . Yesterday, I was thinking about the packaging for the giveaways and I decided to make origami gift boxes ( I just had to give it a personal touch and go on with the "all-handmade" bit  😀). I found a great tutorial video and it was so easy, I had so much fun making it! the boxes look even cuter than the gifts themselves. Happy Women's International Day! Also, I have been working on my sister's-in-law baby gift, we agreed to go for a snuggle blanket or a buddy blanket and I found a beautiful elephant snuggle with free ...

"Remember, Woman, your power and grace, the depth of your deep sea heart. Never forget you are Woman, divine, as you have been from the start." Woman's Day is coming around the corner and I've had the pleasure of meeting a fellow food/mum blogger, Zahrah Noor . We started talking about blogging and how much we like to share our experiences. Then we thought of showing how much we appreciate our followers by planning a special giveaway to 2 lucky winners! To celebrate Women's International Day with all the phenomenal women out there, I made these 2 beautiful sets with crochet: 1- A mug hugger for a cozy feel with a feather bookmark to go one the book you are reading. 2- A unisex baby sandal (0-3m) and a headband for a lucky baby princess that can be tied with any head size all made with 100% cotton yarn. Check it out! Women's Day Giveaway Make sure to like the post on Instagram  and check out the conditions to win one of these beautiful cr...

When I first started to learn crochet, my first project was a beanie hat. Little did I know, beanie hats are not really the kind of projects that you start with right after you learn how to do the foundation chain. And then I saw Granny Squares ! My reaction was " Why didn't I start with granny squares when I first started to learn?! " They are extremely easy, and you can do endless type of projects with only one pattern. You can do baby blankets, potholders, coasters, dishcloths, shrugs and even slippers with the same row repeats.  Plus, you can play with the colors as much as you can imagine.  If you saw my last post, I am attempting to come up with a design for my 5 gallon water bottle. What I am trying to do is combine mandela circles with granny squares. I wonder if this defies the laws of Geometry! 😅 I am also going to learn how to join the squares after they are done AND figure out how to join them to the mandela circle. Wish me luck! If you have ...

It has been a while since I posted anything and I miss writing. I have been sick for the last few days with the horrible common cold, so all my work has been put on hold. I am much better now, though not totally recovered. Crochet always makes me feel better, so I am back to working on my design for a water bottle cover. Living in Dubai, most of the houses depend on getting 5 gallon water bottle delivery to their place. Currently, I am using a simple plastic cover to make it look nice, but it keeps ripping every time we have to exchange the bottles. I went online to search for some nice designs and a new crochet project, but, surprisingly, found none! So I decided to design my own pattern for it for the first time in my life. Quite excited about my first attempt at designing, YAAAY!! Stay tuned!