My Crafts Experiments

 I don't remember when and how exactly I found this type of quilt. It was a while ago though. I saw it made as a baby blanket and the technique and final result just drew me to it. The texture of this comes out even nicer than the pictures. It has soft and plus feel to it. I decided to make a throw out of this and the result was awesome. I miscalculated length though, so it is little shorter in height and better as lap blanket or blanket to be used when legs are folded :) We sent that one to India so that my in-laws could enjoy its warmth especially since they are a lot sensitive to cold. Much to our amusement, Ma has kept it in cupboard since she doesn't want it to get dirty :)   Given that the result was so good, I was looking forward to making more of these. This time I found the awesome lama print fabric in Joann and made this for friend's kid. Just couple of days ago we received message telling us about how much that kid is enjoying it.   Here is list of

Almost 3-4 months ago on my Facebook feed I saw a post about a scarf that is created using technique called planned pooling. At first I thought how hard it would be.. I just have to follow what people have mentioned. Start with 22 chains and it will turn up as expected. But soon I realized that it wasn't that simple. I did few more attempts without putting much thought into it and result was awful. The pattern wont be consistent or wont turn out the way it was suppose to at all. At that point I conveniently blamed yarn for all the mistakes and misfortune. ) So I gave up on the blue yarn that I was working on and started with this zebra yarn.. Just after couple more failed attempts I realized this is not something I can blindly follow. So I viewed multiple videos, read few articles. That's when the concept became clear to me and I finally understood what people meant by adjusting tension and needles for he work in all those Facebook post comments. Though I was reading