Blog on cross stitching

I found great blog on cross stitch. A lot of pictures, charts, mostly in nice combination of red and white. List of freebies is here.
Some of those designs could be used for knitting too.
Btw. blog is written in French, but I donot think, that we need to understand language for this type of embroidery.

New website on cross stitching

Several days ago I made new web. Designs for cross stitch embroidery. I like to play with colours on grid paper or excel sheet and some of my ideas you can see on my new website Free cross stitch pattern

Crocheted heart - instruction

If you want/need pattern for crocheted heart, please look here.

Egyptian knitting and crocheting

I love to browse internet and to look what knit, sew, crochet... people in other parts of earth.
REcently I found interesting web of group of Egyptian designers with knitted and crocheted things. You can buy them or you can only browse and admire creativity of designers.

Cross stitched patchwork

Cross stitched patchwork
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

Patchwork design converted to embroidery.
Chart for embroidery you can find here: www.free-cross-stitch.howto.cz/1-20/11.HTM

Tif January - detail

Tif January - detail
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

Finaly I took picture of TIF January.
Colours are not precisely same as on Sharon´s colour scheme, because I wanted to use silk and I didnot found exact colours in my fabrics. Lines are created by knitting yarn sewn on fabric with machine.

Valentine hearts

I browse internet to find some heart motifs and I found:
Sample heart in cross stitch
Hearts in blue colour
Small cross stitch motifs, among them quilted heart.
Heart in two colours
Hearts with letters on this web.

Carneval inspiration

I just found this article in my reader: http://pingmag.jp/2008/02/07/carnival-costume-galore-in-sao-paulo/
I think you must be pretty good in sewing to make something like this :-)

I am at Ravelry

I joined Ravelry several days ago and I am happy there. So many wonderful projects and a lot of pictures.
It has only one disadvantage: you can spend hours admiring projects in Ravelry, while your own projects lie in box or bag untouched.
You can put your unfinished projects and show your progress.
It has connection to your blog on blogspot.com, what you write here, it will appear in ravelry.
You can make friends from all world.
You can put to favourites inspirational pictures of other crafters.
I am sure, that there is a lot of more great features, I look forward to diccover them.

BTW. my nick is rupr, if you want to meet me.

PF 2008

romantic wristwarmers

romantic wristwarmers
Originally uploaded by --ballee--

This is perfect idea for christmas present in last minute. I found them on flickr.com and instructions are on blog http://knittingajour.blogspot.com/

Take it Further challenge

Last year I joined in Take a Stitch Tuesday from SharonB. I started, I made my stitches more than 20 weeks, but then I went to hospital and I never came back. I am sorry about it.
For 2008 there is another challenge: Take it Further. I hesitated to join it, but now I decided YES. I want to be there. One topic for one month, it could be not so difficult for me.
Maybe I will go succesfully through all year, maybe I fail. But anyway it is chance to learn something, to see works from other people.

My modular pullovers

I finished two modular pullovers for competition organised by my favourite on-line yarn shop.
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More pictures of this pullover and some more models from other knitters you can see here.
Second pullover could be seen here, scroll the page down, because it is on same page with another competing models.

Knitted art

REcently I dicovered knitting art by Mafuyu Murakami, japan ilustrator, that use knitting needles and yarns to make real art.
Interview with Mafuyu you can read here.
I love knitting, but I still knit more functional things like pullovers or scarfs. And I admire people they can skip limitation of practical using and make something like Mafuyu.

I have not been here

I have not been here several weeks. I have more internet projects, most of them in Czech language and I wanted to concentrate to them. And I have been on holiday with my dear boyfriend, my sister and her twins. You can see pictures on my picasa-gallery.
We spent our holiday in west part of Czech republic. Nice pond, forest, some trips by train, we was on traditional festival in Domazlice.
Embroidery on my pictures is part of traditional clothing near Domazlice in previous centuries. I love it!

World Wide KNitting in Public Day has been celebrated in Czech republic

We meet in our capitol Prague on most fanous Wenceslav square. Only two knitters :-( , me and Liska. She wrote aboutit on her blog, I recommend to read it.

TAST - week 22 - satin stitch

TAST - week 22 - satin stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 21 and 22 - satin stitch and crossed buttonhole stitch

TAST - week 21 and 22 - satin stitch and crossed buttonhole stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 20 - Butterfly chain stitch

TAST - week 20 - Butterfly chain stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 19 - Basque stitch

TAST - week 19 - Basque stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1