CROCHET FRIDGE HANDLE COVER

Today when i cleaned my fridge... the part that took time to clean is the handle... so i decided to crochet a handle cover and this is the outcome....

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MY FIRST CROCHETED HAT

This is my first crocheted hat... i want to finish it quickly... but i get only the normal woolen threads in my place... so i decided to work with two threads simultaneously... the outcome is like this.. i used size 13 hook... i started with some pattern... but finished with lots of changes as there is lot of difference with US hook sizes and ours... so the entire size changes.. Now i got new hooks from US which my brother in law family bought me from there.. so.. now i can try many things with these hooks..

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PONGALOOOOO PONGAL.........

Pongal is the harvest festival celebrated in Tamilnadu and now it’s also celebrated as the Tamil new year THAI. The farmer shows his gratitude to god for good rain and Sun by giving their newly harvested things to God. The festival starts with bogi where people clean their houses to get rid of old things.  The next day is the main festival PONGAL where people get up early in the morning before the sun rises …. Draw colorful kolams (now a days they draw kolams in night). Pongal paanai(earthen Pot) and sugarcane drawings get their own places in kolams. Then with the newly harvested rice pongal is cooked in the new pot while the sun is rising, at that time they say “pongalo pongal” to show their gratitude to sun (God).  Then the Padayal (Pooja) is done with the cooked rice (pongal) kept in banana leaves along with sugarcane, fresh Turmeric plant, banana, betel leaves.

                Then the next day is the maatu pongal… it’s the day for cattles.  They clean them and color their horns and do pooja for them. This day is also called as kaanum pongal where they spend happy time with their family anywhere outside.

     But this time we kept pongal in afternoon and also done pooja for kirthigai. Here are the pictures of our pongal celebration up in our terrace

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HAPPY PONGAL... HERE IS COLORFUL KOLAM

I Post my first post of this year with Festive celebration. Pongal is the Harvest festival of Tamil people. And also its our Tamil New Year..... the first day of Tamil month Thai... Its always a sweet and colorful festival..... As we have lots of villages around our town its a big festival too.... We enjoyed this pongal with Pongal and Sugarcane... and how it can  be complete without these colorful kolams... Here is our pongal kolams......... 

view from our terrace

This one is done by me...i'm not satisfied with the outer flower color.....

This is done by my sister in law and her daughter... 

Hows the pongal paanai????

this and the below are by my sister in law

My mother in law helped out in all the kolams.... Darwing these kolams in midnight is a painful work... yet.... its pongal... our own happy pongal...........................

I'll post some more  festive snaps soon................

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Crochet coin purse or cellphone stand

This is a African flower hexagon... this is a trial... so i joined these two hexagons as a purse and using it as a cellphone stand.... very much useful for me...

back side

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Recycled fridge top mat

This is my another recycled work. A Fridge top cover.
I made this out of a vinyl flex banner from our shop... and I made button hole stitch in borders with wool thread.
Then done embroidery with the stem stitch.... i got this pattern from http://www.french-knots.com/category/embroidery-transfers/food/... This blog has some nice patterns for embriodery

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crocheting

Hello dear ones... now i'm just crazy about crochet.. mixing colors... feeling happy.... i learnt to make granny squares.. but i cant post my trial squares... those are not as good to post here... but i've made my first handbag using these granny squares. Here i  made solid granny squares and sunflower granny squares...
thia site helped me to learn the basic grannysquare pattern http://www.knitting-n-crochet.com/index.html

Actual color is this one but not clear........

Closeup veiw.....

But this sunflower crochet i learnt from an u tube vedio... i forgot to copy the link..

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Unfinished mehendhi

I've drawn this design for my sister...but this design is unfinished.

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Trial on Satin and buttonhole stitch

This one i tried months back.. first attempt on satin stitch... but the long and short stitch became worst so i skipped on other leaves

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Karthigai Deepam

This is our Karthigai deepam kolam and deepams.... This year we made it very simple one...

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Embroided Silk Cellphone Pouches

These are the cellphone pouches stitched with the left over cloths from silk saree blouse
I gave these to my sisters

The mango design is in the back side. This is the metallic hand embroidery thread. At first it is very much difficult for me to stitch with this thread but now i learned to work with this thread.

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happy diwali

Hi Friends Wishing ypu all a very very happy diwali

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printed glass painting

This printed glass painting was done by my sweet sister before 3 years for my chithi....

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glass painting - peacock

Hi i did this glass painting before 5 years.. now this is in my chithi's home..
I did not use any glass colors except for the glass liner.. others are fabric paints ant the background blue color is the enamel paint (residue after painting some furnitures)... and aluminium foil at the backside.

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small hand bag from old pant

Hi i stitched this bag from my hubbys pant... for this i made my own pattern but while stitching the curves there was some problem.. i'll rectify this in future. and this is the first time i've attaced a zipper... this is an emblishment

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quilted handbag

Hi friends this is my first try to sew a hand bag. actually i googled a lot at last confused ... then took a tutorial from http://quiltsandcreativity.com/annabelle-purse-string-patterns/comment-page-1#comment-44865... i cant work the same pattern but i think it resembles this bag... thank you for the tutorial.. I'm sorry the stitches were not neat.
     Actually this is a waste cloth after stitching a chudi..( both main fabric and also the lining) I used sponge in between. I Like to stitch more hand bags and also cellphone pouches. I'll post soon the pictures of silk cellphone pouches

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saree blouse neck line embroidery

I used very simple stitches for this saree blouse... but it came out well. the first one os too dark.... sorry for the inconvenience.

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siddha medicine to prevent swine flu

Siddha Medicines

Prevents Swine Flu

1)Kaba Sura Kudineer

(Make kashayam & drink in empty stomach in morning)

2)Bhramaanandha Biravam Tablet

(1 Tablet in morning and Night before meals)

3)Amukkara Choornam Tablet

(2 Tablet in morning and Night before meals)

NO Side Effects

Reported by:

National Institute of Siddha

Thambaram sanatorium, Chennai

 

circulating  for the goodness of the public

Nalvazhi Medicals & Agencies

(Homeo, Siddha, Ayurvedha)

22-A, Sengunthar Street, Tirupattur, Tamilnadu – 635601

PH: 04179 - 229545

zardosi embroidery

This was a simple try of zardosi embroidery work on my pattu saree blouse

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