My New Awesome Knitted Bag

Sometime ago I decided that this blog will be only about glass painting. Today I should do an exclusion. I must show this wonderful knitted bag.

This bag was made by sister especially for me. It is one of a kind, fully handmade and totally unique. I love it!

Sister, thanks so much! 

My cute handmade knit dress

I love bright colors. I love extraordinary, weird things. I fell in love with this knit dress at first glance. I found it here: present-cama.livejournal.com. Isn't it just gorgeous?

I think I am pretty handy but knitting is not my favorite type of crafting. Moreover I don't like knitting at all. So despite of  I wanted this dress so much I was not going to knit it. It would be very sad if I had no sister who is really skilled in knitting! So I sent her the link with schema 

and ta da! 

 I have never had more beautiful dress. It just amazing.

And finally here I am - wearing the dress. Thanks, sister!

New Year Gift from my sister - Knitted Dragon

Chinese New Year 2012  is the Year of the Water Dragon. There are still about two weeks before New Year but I already got my first gift. This knitted dragon was made for me by my sister. Unfortunately I will not see her till the  next spring or even summer so she gave me this cutie earlier. 

This baby-dragon supposed to bring happiness and good luck in my life all next year and years after. 

 I really like it. Thanks, sister!

Knitted Furniture from Patricia Graf

Looks like knitting is an inexhaustible source for inspiration for designers and furniture makers. Earlier I have posted knitted chairs and knitted wallpaper. Today I found couple more unbelievable pieces of furniture related to knitting. These two amazing things were created by Patricia Yasmine Graf - young German designer. 
This crocheted stool has warm cozy looks and moreover it has integrated footwarmer. Great idea for cold winter evenings.

This crocheted easy chair is comfortable, beautiful and functional as well. It's tentacles can hold remote control, magazine or anything else you need to relax.

More cool furniture and creative accessories can be found on Patricia web-page www.pyg-design.de.

Knitted wallpaper

One more knitting idea for those  who love knitting more than anything else: knitted wallpaper. It looks really psychedelic but cozy. I am not sure that I can or/and want to live in such interior. This idea can be great for rooms where you don't spend a lot of time.

If you are real fan of knitting you can start making these wallpapers and in a one-five years you'll have a new look  for your room :) But if you just love these wallpaper you can by them here www.couturedeco.com. They look really realistic, nobody feels the difference before touching it.

Pictures source  www.couturedeco.com/

Knitted Chair

Yesterday I was looking for some crochet "how to" to create my post about marionettes and look what I found - knitted chair. Great idea and really nice and cozy look. Unfortunately I don't know who is the author, hope she (or he) does not mind that I put them to my blog.  

 Source  http://magic-thread.com/

Marionettes: where to buy, how to make

She came from Czech Republic, her name is Maria and she is a good witch. All who knows me personally knows that my nickname is a which name and also I have nickname flame_witch in LiveJournal, so witches are kinda my mascot.

Why I am posting it here? In my handmade blog? Because it's a handmade, at least I was told that :) And because I like it a lot.
Czech traditional marionettes are usually hand carved from lime wood. I have very simple one but there are marionettes that have movable mouth and ears and have much more than four strings. I found two shops with amazing puppets: www.djepeto.com and www.handmadepuppetdreams.com. Creating marionette is hard and delicate workmanship, but everything is possible and here is some tutorial how to make simple but cute marionette. 

To create this fluffy baby ostrich we need
1) fluffy knitting yarn;
2) crochet hook, size 12;
3) polyester batting; 
4) couple jersey patches;
5) 2 buttons for eyes;
6) threads for embroidery; 
7) 16 inches long wood rail;
8)  pressure sensitive paper;
9) scissors, threads, nails, hammer, needles, awl.
Step 1. Neck Kniting. Make 40 chain stitches, and than 3 rows of single snitches. Fix the thread and left thread around 7 inches long. We need this part of thread to attach head to the body later.
Make legs: make 80 chain stitches and 2 rows of single stitches. 

Make body: create 20 chain stitches and 10 rows of single stitches.  Do not cut the thread. Take your rectangle and fold in half.  Put edges together using slip stitches

Reverse, fill up with the polyester batting, attach edges to each other using slip stitches.
Make head. Create 5 chain stitches,  make circle with 1 single stitch. Make 1 row of single stitches. In second row add one more single stitch in each second stitch. In third add one more single stitch in each 3rd stitch; in 4th row put 2 single stitches in each 4th stitch, and in 5th row put 2 single stitches in each 5th stitch. Make 4 more rows, fill up head with the polyester batting and finish your crochet work.
Step 2. Cut  off jersey beak and paws parts. For beak we need a triangle with 3 inches long sides. Paws are almost oval, 3,5 inches long and 2,5 inches wide. Sew paws and beak. And fill them up with polyester batting.

Step 3. Put together all parts using thread and needle. Attach eyes.

Step 4. Take two threads 40 inches long and two threads 20 inches long. Attach these threads to the top of head, paws and tail using needle. It is better to fix needle in three points on paws or you can add some weight to the paws. It will be easer to control your puppet.

Step 5. Make the control bar. Take wooden rail and cut it to half (8 inches long each). Make cross using 2 nails, you can cover your control bur with pressure sensitive paper. Make holes using awl on the end of each end of cross. Run thread or fishing line through holes, fix it. You are done. 

I would like to say thanks to user ledenika. She created this tutorial and made pictures. If you like knitting, crochet, embroidery and a lot of others creative, cute and handmade things visit her blog http://ledenika.blogspot.com/.