Baby Blanket - Bulky knitting pattern

I love knitting the bulky yarns, and I just discovered the Red Heart - Lisa Big (too bad they do not have too many colors available) Still, I bought them all :)

Here there are some of them :)

The baby blankets are knited in seed stitch.

From one 200g skein: will make aprox 40x40 cm 

I used a super bulky yarn from Red Heart: Lisa Big 

Needles: circular 8mm (they recommend 10mm needles)

Cast on 40 stitches.

Seed stitch: K1, P1 and repeat until the end

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This is it. As simple as that.

If you have any questions, please just ask

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ioana

PS if you would like a ready made blanket, you can find them in my shop:

the hand knit blankets section

Felt and lace headband tutorial

I love pinterest, so many great projects to sparkle your interest. For today, I chose this gorgeous headband super-easy to make: 

By the looks of it, you need; felt, mathching thread and a needle, cotton lace, and a piece of elastic.

Here it is the link to Pinterest

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I hope you will enjoy making it!

Love, 

Ioana

a.k.a.

kara

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Blue and gray baby blanket

Oh, boy I love the seed stitch! No curling ends, all looking bulky, like a bowl of rice.

The blue and gray blanket went to US to a cute little boy, and here it is again, remade, relisted :)

If you want to make one yourself, the seed stitch is pretty simple: purl one, knit one, then, on the next row switch.

And if you don't have the time, I"d love to knit one for you!

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Happy birthday, sweetheart!

Today is Andu's birthday!

She is 9 and becomming quite a little lady.

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Happy birthday, sweetheart!

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Mommy.

Photo props

So, finally I have decided to send my creations to photographers to have good quality images. I am so looking forward to see them, but it will take a while, but I am willing to wait :)

Thinking of spring European Moodboard

Oh....it is cold and dark outside. The snow covers the streets of the city, the trees and the big, big buildings. But in my heart it is spring, small little flowers bloom in the trees, grass is greener than green, I can hear the birds singing songs of love and rebirth.

Sharing beautiful creations from my fellow european artists on Etsy

Tea with a view

Derinmavi Bodrum

Evergreen Garden

Freja Toys

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With love, 

ioana

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Week 1

 Hi again, and a happy New Year in 2013!

I have been working on my baby bonnets to build up my store inventory, on Zucchini Island on etsy.com

 simple or....

.... with a felt flower, seem like another one :)

Our knitting mamas

I live in a country where life is not quite easy for most people, for those who work and for those who are retired it is even harder. My nana, my mother, my friend's mother, a very nice grandma I have met along the way; they all struggle, like most people to make sure the little money they have would last a whole month.

 With all this in mind, I asked my nana if she would like to knit baby blankets for my shop, and her reaction surprised me, because I didn't have the chance to tell her that it would be a payed job, while she watched TV, or on rainy days when she does not work in the garden (this is what she loves most: her flowers). 

She was so happy to do something, to "feel usefull" as she said.

The money she would make were a bonus ♥

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All our mothers know how to knit, in my country, well, the great majority, at least.

I think that I will make my Zucchini Island Shop a collective shop:
 me and the knitting mamas ♥

Giving them a chance, showing to the world their beautiful work, dreaming that the baby blankets they make, would keep warm a sweet little baby.

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Hugs and love, 

ioana a.k.a. kara

Home decor in black and white

I usually love all the colors, but latelly I am set on white, I just love everything white! It is so calm, so pure, so clean and bright!

Today I wanted to show you some throw pillows, dead gorgeous, you can decorate your home with, in black and white:

Just imagine

Do you like them? do you love them?

Find them here: Throw pillows

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ioana a.k.a. kara

Flowers for Claudia

Brown and golden put together in these sew on flowers, that are going to Claudia ♥

Thank you, hun!

The white baby blanket

Oh, my! The journey this baby blanket has traveled!

First, it was meant to be  made of 9 squares sewed together, but then, I did not like the outcome so, I decided to make it again.

Now I am happy with the result.

And it will soon be on my new shop

Zucchini Island

  

 It is incredibly soft, made of a 30% wool and 70% acrylic yarn.

I hope you like it...or love it

 

Hand knit baby blanket

Andu's blanket from when she was a baby, is still here with us; she still uses it from time to time, specialy when we travel, or when she takes a nap. It is made from knit squares that are sewed together.

It is so cute and cuddly (is this a word??) Hmmm....

Since then, and it's been 8 years, I hadthis thought on the back of my mind that i wanted to make another

and, I am happy to say, that it is almost finished (yeeeey! go me!) :)

The squares are bigger. So, my question is:

should it be 22.4x22.4 inch?

or 33.6x33.6 inch?

Please help!

Thanks so much for being here!

I♥ you!

ioana a.k.a kara

Let it stay for a while

As I was feeling so low, I started reading one blog post that caught my eyes, or my so undersized curiosity for anything  these days because nothing seemed interesting, nothing seemed to have the shine to draw me back from the lone, dark nest I have build around me.

It said:

"Who you are is incredible. Who you are is amazing. Full. Whole. Unbroken. Magnificent to your very core...which is made of stardust, love and the possibility of everything else in this amazing world. You are divine. There is nothing that you ever need to do to prove that you are worthy and deserving...worthy is your very nature." (from Kind Over Matter - The great remembering)

Words had no meaning. I did not feel at all incredible, I did not feel amazing, nor whole, not at all unbroken. The star dust flew away, love was nowhere to be found....worth of anything,  deserving nothing. I just read on. After the fist paragraph I did not get anything past the dark cloud floating around me.  

 I started again to read it from the beginning.

And again.

I was waiting for, hoping for a ray to break through 

......next day......

I understand that my eyes need to be closed at some point for them to open and see the world in all it's beauty 

I will open them soon. 

Now, I' ll just stay one more minute with my eyes closed and enjoy the silence of the darkness.

White Flower 

Feel the feelings of life

Have you read "The secret"? Or watched the moovie? I am sure many of you have, I did both and found it (at the moment) so illuminating in some ways, found the answers to many question, and had quite a few "Aha!" moments. 

This led me to the idea that happy thoughts bring happy life, the feeling of wealth bring actually the wealth, and everything good: if it lives in your mind and heart, it will eventually be in your life, too.

Illustration by Barbara Szepesi Szucs  

So I struggled.

I struggled to feel happy despite it all.

I struggled to feel rich, despite the fact that I am not.

I struggled not to feel the anger if I had reasons to be angry.

To be positive all the time.

It was a struggle because it did not came from inside; it was something that my mind was dictating to my heart: feel this!

All until one day when I let my heart decide what it wanted to feel. I let it feel the sadness and the happiness;  feel the anger and the joy; feel discouraged and feel uplifted. 

Such a healing discovery!

Feel all the feelings of life.

They were meant to be felt.

Taking a shower?

For the past few days it has been a real hot summer, well July isn't called for nothing "oven's month" in my country - it really deserves this nick name.

To the joy of everyone it seemed that a thunderstorme was comming, I mean, there were lightings and thunders and strong wind and dark clouds....

....for about five minutes...

and a few drops of rain....just a few.

When I looked at my window I saw two doves taking showers :))

really!

They were lifting their wings, for the drops of rain to fall under, on their, most certainly, hot little bodies.

I could not stop to smile and to photograph them :) ..for the whole five minutes the rain lasted

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one wing..

and the other one!

her, too!

..aaand the other wing!

I hope you enjoied my little doves ♥

Hugs,

Ioana aka Kara