SnowWhite Bunny 2.0

Hello everyone, here is Karen from lovelovek.com. 

I just knitted another bunny for my loyal customer. I made her one Snowwhite Bunny and a Blue Elephant years ago. She is a lovely mother who wants her daughter and son having a handmade doll to grow up with. During their recent holiday trip, the little bunny was stolen including her daughter's backpack. What's a sad sad thing to happen!!! 😢

Don't worry! The SnowWhite Bunny 2.0 is here! 😁

For baby, I choose 100% organic cotton thread.

I found it is easier to knit in round instead of knitting flat & stitch up afterward. 

This is a tailor-made bunny, The back of the dress it has a name of my customer's daughter. 

Let's get dress! 

I gave her a little extra,.... a backpack! :P 

I hope this bunny will keep my customer's daughter happy and grow up with her! 

Have a nice day! 

love love k

Hand stitch with Applique & Embroidery - Part II

YEAH!  I finally have completed the whole piece, I cannot believe I really can finish it! 

However, my hand stitch skill is not good, and the final piece look Not Square At all......

It was really hard to place 3 layers correctly together... and I have measured again and again... The main problem was my top piece after did the applique, the fabric is not Square anymore... and I sprayed some water on top hope can help, .... of cos cannot....

So I give up the perfection and just try to do as good as I can for the binding and tried to fit all 4 corners. I could manage 3 corners look fit, just one corner is a bit off! :P

After handled the binding, do the hand stitches line around the square and the pattern. I don't know what this part call, but I made it! 

In conclusion, the first applique (the stems & leaves) my stitches were not quite right and you can see the green thread,... later on I was surfing on the Internet, then try another method. It works! 

Hand Quilting, hand stitches, Applique, Embroidery are really hard work and not easy to manage them right! 

I am envy so many ladies out there doing them so well! I should do more and make it better! 

Do you agree with me? 

Love, love k

Hand Stitch with Applique and Embroidery

I told you guys that I have been buying a lot of handcraft sets from Felissimo Japanese online shop.

Today, I am sharing with you my progress on one of the projects! This one involves hand stitch applique, embroider, and more and more hand stitches! 

1) Bear's School - the bear is just so cute

2) the design is just beautiful

3) Made a quick video to show you the first 2 parts of this project! 

Here we go!!!

I hope I would not ruin it during the next 2 parts! ahahah 

Stay Tune! :)

Love, love k

Homemade Pizza from scratch

Last week, I was watching FoodTube with my boyfriend, and watching Gennaro to teach how to make an easy pizza dough... then I said ok let's make it! 

Luckily, I bought the same yeast as he used at our local supermarket but I bought the plain flour is not white one is whole wheat one. I thought should be ok! 

Now I can remember the ingredients, here we go:

500g    Plain Flour

1 tsp   Salt

7g      Yeast

325ml   Water 

1) Mix well the Plain flour and salt first

2) Mix the Yeast into the water 

3) Make a well on (1), then add (2) in

4) mix well then start kneading 

5) Cut them into 4 smaller doughs

6) Cover with damp cloth or film for 2 hours

Of cos, please go to watch Gennaro's one on Foodtube! hehe

As I said I bought the whole wheat flour so the dough was a bit dried, not look like Gennaro's one, so we added a bit more water in.

I made the dough on Mon night and thought to prepare for our Tue night dinner, but my boyfriend could not wait,... so we baked our first pizza at 1:30AM.... we baked for 7 mins, but it should be better to bake maybe 10 mins....

On Tue night, we made 2 pizzas and each for 10 mins! YUMMY!!!!!!! 

I love Pizza, from now on I can make my own! YEAH! 

love, love k

First post in 2015 - Miniature Leather DIY

Hello my blog, I feel sorry that I was too busy and lazy not keeping up my blog! 

Last year I was busy for my aromatherapy study, exams and practice. Now I have finished the major classes and exams! 

I still have some paper need to write and practice my aromatherapy skills on 8 clients and 7 treatments each. I am working on it but it is slower than I expected! >.<

Since last year April, I have started to order handcrafts from a Japanese website, Felissimo. They have so so so many good stuffs (Handcrafts, home products and fashions).

I bought their handcraft catalog, Couturier, at convenient store for some times but I was afraid to buy as thought their system is difficult to understand, didn't want to spend money,... lot of excuses! hehe 

After a year, I have stocked up some amount of handcraft sets on hands!!! Recently and finally I finished all 12 miniature leather DIY. Felissimo has a lot of good ideas for beginners. Use the set I am going to show for an example. 

Each month they send you a set with pre-cut leather, thread, instruction, pattern and felt. The felt that can let you try to do all by yourself to pracitce. This is a One-year series, it means once you order the first one, from next month to 12th month, they will send to you automatically and deduct the cost per month, NOT in advance! They usually charge shipping fee as 10% of your total purchase but now if you buy over 10,000Yen, you get free shipment (at least to Hong Kong) :P

Here are the little items I made! They are so cute! ^_^ 

If anyone want to try, I highly recommend! ehehe 

PS: I am working on another new project from Felissimo but not in leather! Stay tune! 

Love, love k

TESTING

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Sewing a clutch bag

I have been busy with my aromatherapy study, but in between exams. I got a kind of free days during June after a heavy mid-term exam of Essential Oil Pharmacy! LOL 

After the last sewing class, I have been dig out my fabric, threads and tools etc I got years ago and also took out my mum's Singer "Vintage" sewing machine. Right after my EOP mid-term exam. I immediately started sewing. I picked this pattern:

Free Pattern & Tutorial from Charm Stitch

My good friend was coming to Hongkong from US for a week. So I wanted to make her something. So Let's begin! 

I have been Pinterest a lot, Youtube-ing a lot to see how people do sewing. So I set up my workplace, sewing machine, iron, fabric, cutting boards, roll cutter, etc........

1) Cut out the fabric & iron them

2) Opened the sewing machine and started to putting the thread in... BUT... everytime I used this sewing machine, I could not remember how to put the thread & the robbin in... I needed to ask my mum how to put them on. Now, I cannot ask my mum anymore (T_T), but luckily I found on youtube! Oh Thank you very much! 

So I started to sew,... another BUT... when I sew the right side together and the lining together I got a problem and I broke the sewing needles... luckily still have one more spare part!!!! @_@

Turned out it dose not look good at all and already 3am, so I gave it up for that night morning. 

Next morning, I search on Youtube to see if anyone would teach more clear how to sew when passing by the zipper. 

Found this one

So, I repeated to cut the fabric and iron them. Second time, I changed the lining fabric to a much lighter colour.

So, here is the comparison picture! LOL

Close-up on the good one:

The day I met her & her 2 kids we went to Ocean Park. 

What's a sunny day! 

I got some sun burn as I forgot to put on sunscreen on my arms and back! LOL

Share with you here - the Sleeping PANDA! They are so cute! 

Although I have been quiet on blog & Facebook, I bought some other handicraft to try! Stay tune for my next sharing! :)

love, love k

Sewing.... again

I went to a 2-hour sewing class yesterday at Cheung Sha Wan. I had some sewing experience but not well and I normally learn by watching online in the last few years! haha I found this class with a beautiful fabric and good price. so I give it a try! 

I am amazed by the new sewing machine that is so so so advanced comparing to mine (that is 30+years old Singer that my mom bought it because of me LOL)! The one I used at class was Brother QC-1000 (HKD21,900). From now on I NEED to sew more!!!!!!!!!

昨天去了長沙灣一間手工藝店上了2小時車縫小袋班! 之前上網看人家縫袋很多，其實自己也弄過(不太美)。見布好靚，而且不太貴，所以又去學吓! 

開始車時，才發現現在的衣車實在太先進(今日上網看，原來部衣車成$21,900)...... 我屋企那部是媽咪當年因知生我係女而買Singer衣車! 把手我車得不大好，因為跟我開車一樣，不可以車一直線! LOL 從今起，我要車多d!!!!!!!! 

love, love k

Pandaman

Panda is one of the cutest animal. 

I have been thinking to knit a panda for a long time. 

Recently I saw a Top-down Gingerbread Boy on Ravelry (*free pattern).

After I finished the bottom part, I felt like I am making a baby! 

So adorable already! 

I stitched the eyes and nose; and then crochet the ears! hehe

love, love k

Baby Elephant for Yu

Knitted Animal is BACK! 

This is an order that I received last year. Yes last year! The buyer said "NOT RUSH"... then I was really lazy and slow down...............

Finally I made it and passed it to her today. It was my pleasure to make 2 Organic toys for her 2 children. I made a white bunny for her baby Yui and this time made an elephant for her baby YU.

and...

this mother of 2 is a writer and recently she has a new book released and she gave me a signed one! YEAH!

love, love k

DIY: My own Blended Oil

My 18-months Diploma of Aromatherapy already passed 5 months now, we have learnt and tried some oil blending based on the systems we are learning.

This time I tried to blend some oil for my own use and let myself being my own white mouse. 

I blended one Face oil & one for Eczema oil. I have put on for few days now and not bad at all. YEAH! 

I am not confident and not qualified yet to share the recipes here yet! Wait for me until qualified! hohoho 

Stay tune! 

Love, love k

Year of Horse

I had a "FULL" Chinese New Year! We have been eating, sleeping, watching TV for the last 5-6 days!!! This year is Year of Horse and I am one of them!!! (In other words, I am turning 36 this year! Time is Definitely Flying like XXXX.... LOL)

Beside relax and enjoy the CNY with family, relatives and friends, I should have a ton of work to do! 

1. Homework: Oil Blending for Dermatology is done but will pass it to my friend to test on tomorrow!

2. Report on my Oil Blending

3. Knitting the Elephant for my client, her son is turning 1 on 19/2/2014! (this is TOP URGENT!)

4. Study Anatomy & Physiology (Exam in early March)and thousands, a millions of new words and things to learn & memorize. 

5. want to crochet that Red/white flower pad! 

   

By the way, I bought this crochet book yesterday! YEAH

Now going out to meet friends for dinner! Bye! 

Wish all of you have a wonderful Year of HORSE!

love, love k

Tailor-made crochet Amineko Cat

Remember I made my first Amineko Cat in September for Chinese Moon Cake Festival!? 

Well... my friend saw that one and asked me to make Amineko that look-a-like her cat~ um........... I thought how to make 2 tones with cat face/body pattern...Well, obviously I accepted this challenge... Then I clicked to her Facebook and checked out the cat. Immediately I sketched it down, the front and the back of the cat.

There are some concerns to stop me start immediately to crochet:

1) The "Gold" color hair of the Cat

2) The Amineko Cat has some pebbles inside the body for stability (but mine used dry green bean not green pea) but definitely I don't want to use this for her cat as I don't know if she would wash it or not!!!! LOL but I looked around my home no shop has small pebble for this purpose.

3) How I crochet the 2-tone on each row...with all those patterns on the cat.

4) My bf was back to HK in Oct and only stayed 3 weeks.

5) I started my Aromatherapy course in late Sept, so I have started to study and home revision....

...so based on above points and more (such as laziness & watching TV)... the project was delayed. 

Finally I think it is too bad if I couldn't finish it before Xmas for her. So I kicked my axx... I went to search yarn, beads,.........)I started and noticed my friend that I would give it to her by the end of last weekend [to give myself a push and let her know I am doing it! :P ]

So, the last week, I have been working hard on it every night..... but at the same time I was worry about my Chemistry exam as will be on 21/12..... what should I do!!!??! 

Well well well.... I finished the cat COMPLETELY on yesterday, 15 Dec, 2013. Including photo-shooting, labelling & packaging! HAHAHA

Today, my friend has a day off and she would come to my office to pick it up~ Yeah, save my time! So, I would go for my Chemistry study from today Mon to Fri, Exam on Sat! Then Xmas BBQ on Sat evening with my gals~~~~~~ YEAH~~~~~ 

I think as my Aromatherapy course has a LOT to learn. I should NOT take any order of knitting! LOL 

love, love k 

16/12/2013

YearLong Knit-a-Long 2013 (Continue to 2014)

Feel so bad that I could not complete my YearLong Afghan KAL 2013 in 2013.....11 squares were behind. 

So from the first day of 2014 I have started to continue knitting these squares. On 19/1/2014, I announced that I have completed all 30 squares. YAY!!!!! 

Now it is the time to block all the new squares & some blocked ones that still not in the right size!!!!! 

Here showing you my recent blocking patterns! They are beautiful, aren't they? :P

Hope the process of crochet them together NOT a lonnnnnnnng one! LOL

I have put my 30 square pattern list on my Ravelry. You can go & check it out~ 

love, love k

My 1st Toe Up Socks

Diagonal Lace Socks 
Feb 11, 2012: I started with Wendy's Diagonal Lace Socks but at that time i couldn’t figure out some steps……… so frogged…..

Around Oct 2, 2013
After another year of knitting and learning more stuffs… I wanted to try it again BUT I changed another pattern also from Wendy….Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks

I could handle most of the part. 
For Cast on method, I used Judy Magic Cast on because I can handle better this than Turkish cast on, but I have a problem on one side after knit the first round…. having a HOLE… :( Don’t know how to fix this….

Also, the Wrap & Turn I did not do well too... LOL

I will try more different technique socks for comparison~

After finished up this pair of sock, I went back to Craftsy.com a free short tutorial by Carol Feller about Short Rows method!!! Also I purchased another online knitting class on "Knit Original Toe-up Sock" with Donna Druchuans.

Chinese Moon Cake Festival 2013

Today is Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival aka Moon Cake Festival! 

Beside Moon Cake we can have, paper lantern is another popular item especially for kids.

In the last 2 years I wanted to knit a Bunny Lantern (one of the traditional one) but always too late to do so.... 

This year I thought let do something more funny is (1) make Amineko (2) make a bunny lantern for him. 

I MADE IT!!!!! YAY

Also, I am happy that I bought a mini moon cake with a cute miniature moon cake tin. 

This pattern on the tin is one of the oldest moon cake box pattern. In the very early stage, it was printed on a paper box with moon cake. Later on, printed on tin but usually held 4 normal sizes moon cake inside this tin! hehe

Tonight, we will go to our grandma's home for a family dinner, eating moon cake, playing lanterns and look up to the sky for the FULL Moon! 

Happy Moon Cake Festival

祝大家中秋節快樂! 

love love, k

My First Amineko Cat!

I have been seeing people posting their funny Amineko Cat for so long. Finally I also cannot resist this little fellow! XD!

Also, he is my first CROCHET doll. 

However I had problem when crocheting in round, sometime when keep on moving up... the number of stitches changed.... So when I making the 2nd arm (halfway) & I compared to the 1st one...er... why not look the same!?@@#@$#$%... look bigger... so undo...re-do.. 2 times, 3 times,.. or 4 times. I can't remember. Then for the legs happened the same! =.=

At the end, somehow look ok altogether! LOL

I will make more accessories for him to make more funny pictures!
 

Stay Tune! 

love love, k

Rose Teapot Cozy

My 1st crochet TEAPOT COZY is done!!!! 

The pattern I followed was a Japanese pattern book & the original one with RED roses. At the beginning I also thought to use red color but I realise that the teapot itself has pink & purple rose patterns. Last minute change! eheheh 

The body of the cozy is easy to make and took not too long BUT the sewing up for the roses & leaves, then attached the roses on the cozy... REALLY TAKE TIME!!!!! 

Another piece as "Labor of Love" XD!

I also found that the Doily Dishcloth I made earlier in August is  a perfect match for this. So let them being together! hehehe 

It is sent out today and hopefully it will be arrived on time!!!!! 

Wish me luck! 

love love, k

Crochet Roses on Sunday

How was your weekend?

I spent my whole Sunday to crochet leaves & rose petals....... and hand-sewing up all of them.

They are 7 Purple roses, 7 Pink roses & 2 extra leaves.

What are they making for? 

I am going to finish up today after work! 

Wish me luck to finish it by the end of today! :)

love love, k

Rose & Lace Doily

I wanted to crochet traditional-look doily for a while.

I made this and add a rose on the middle, that.... is... so... beautiful! I am sure I will crochet more! ahaha

love love, k