beaded sofa

After 42 years did this small sofa using 3mm plastic beads. These are not available these days hence ripped my UFO and used the blue and read beads. now searching for more beads. It is ready for my navrathri golu need to create more items 

Green table mat

wow gifted this hand towel as back to school item. it is 8 x 15 inchess. it is knitted using size 6 /5 mm straight needles used the local yarn

Cable scarf

Viraja Bhandarkar Aruna Acharya  in the Fb page of https://www.facebook.com/groups/passionateabtfibrearts/ shared  a pattern of knitting a simple cabled scarf  from the blog http://knottoohard.blogspot.in/2010/11/simple-cable-scarf.html. Inspired from it I made some changes in the pattern and completed it. It is 7 inches wide n 30 inches in length. The original pattern has been done in st.stitch [ one row knit n one row purl] I used a basket weave st. I always add 2 sts at the beginning and the end as this will be my selvage sts

I always use some waste yarns as stitch markers to identify the stitches 

stitch markers help us when we have to alter the sts [pattern]

Take a cable needle and insert it on your LH needle and place it on the cable needle

second stitch on to the cable needle

third st on to the cable needle

hold the cable needle with sts in front of the work

now  the needles held will look like this

now insert the RH needle to the LH needle  and knit 3 sts from the LH needle

knit all the three sts from the LH needle and it will look like in the below pic

now insert the RH needle to the cable needle

knit the first st from the cable needle

knit the 2 nd st from the cable needle

when you knit the 3 rd stitch from the cable it will look like 

after knitting the 3 sts from cable needle place a marker and follow the pattern

now complete the pattern as per your desired length.

Feel free to ask your doubts

art Challenge 2

Today being the 2 nd day of the Art challenge - sharing some more of my creations. This is a change started by some good one in face book 

Art challenge 1

Today I will be participating on the Art challenge - for the 1 st day of my Art challenge. Thanks a lot to Suma Rg for nominating me and motivating me for this challenge You have inspired me to think out of the box. Basically I am a knitter but thanks to Supria Pillai I have learnt to do crocheting. Her encouraging various CAL's have pushed me to look beyond.Supria thanks for creating PAC - a wonderful platform . I will be nominating Rajeswari Sekar S to lead the chain further.This collage consists of my knitting and crocheted adorables

Danglers - crocheted

Did this for the ear ring dangler CAL . My first attempt in jewelry making .Back ground is yellow yarn with green beads

Cup cake crocheted

My creation for the PAC anniversary . This is a strawberry cupcake with pista cream n some decorations. A wonderful candle lit. I followed the pattern from y-tube.

Chocolate cup cake 

Green doily

wow created this green doily as a swap gift initiated by Supria Pillai for our PAC anniversary. it will reach my partner shortly. The doily is 23 cms wide across.