Scientific amigurumi

Hi there,

How are you? I hope very fine.

Today I want to share with you a nice pattern published in Ravelry. It is a crochet pattern of an Erlenmeyer flask. Here you are the link:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/earl-lenmeyer-the-flask

I am preparing a gift for a labmate who is about to defend her PhD thesis. And this amigurumi flask is just great. I crochetted it together with a test tube. The test tube it really easy to crochet, just make a magic ring of 5 single crochet stitches, make 2 sc in the next round and keep on crochetting as long as you want your tube to be. You can "fill in" your tube just using a colored yarn, and changing to white yarn for the empty part. When you think your tube is big enough, just stuff it, and decrease in each sc crocheting only in the back loop. The cap of the tube is also easy, make a magic ring with 6 sc, increase in the next round to 12 sc, and then crochet in the back loop in the next round. Make 2 or 3 more rounds and finish it. Your test tube is done!!

I hope you will like it.

Fingerless mittens

Hi!

I want to show you my new fingerless mittens. I always get cold hands while working on my laptop, so this is the final solution! I had a leftover skein of Drops Lima yarn and I crocheted them on a cold Saturday afternoon. I followed this pattern,

https://handmade-rukodelky.blogspot.com/2015/02/crocheted-simple-fingerless-gloves-sm.html?m=1

And here you have the result

Double side knitted scarf

Hi there!
I just want to share with you a picture of the scarf I made for muy 4yo girl. I wanted to knit something with double side knitting technique. I was thinking on an emoji motif, and I asked my kid about it. But then, she asked me: 'and why not a solar system scarf?' Wow! Let's do it!
So I worked on the pattern on Stitchfiddle, and I drew the solar system part, including asteroid belt between Mars and Júpiter, Pluto and Kuiper's belt. But I needed a longer pattern to make the scarf long enough, so I added an alien spacecraft, a couple of rockets, Virgo constellation (it's my girl sign), and a big comet. I have finished a few weeks ago, and I have also knitted a pair of mittens following Drop's Mr. Fish pattern. Everything was done with Drops Fable yarn.

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7301&cid=19

Here you have a couple of pictures of both scarf and mittens.

 

 And here I post the chart pattern, it has 420 rows and 40 stitches.

I hope someone else will use it, please let me know how it looks!

Crochet backpack

Hi there!

Today I'm showing you my last crochet craft. It is a backpack showing Totoro motifs.

I used some Drops Safran surplus (the white background) and some Drops You. I made up the pattern based on this ravelry blanket pattern:

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Skirtyfyde/baby-blanket-latvian-garden

And in this picture:

  And I drew it using Stitchfiddle, which I think is really useful to make this kind of pattern.

https://www.stitchfiddle.com/en

Here is the pattern, in case anyone would like to use it. But please, do not sell it!!

It is also available in Ravelry:

Pattern in Ravelry

Interesting research

Hi there!

Have you ever heard about knitting research?? I've just read about it last week, and I think it is so interesting! Thus, I want to share it. I am talking about KEME, Knitting in Early Moders Europe, an ongoing research project which began as an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen.

And the best thing is that anyone can get involved! I just let you the link here:

http://kemeresearch.com/

You may participate knitting or reviewing the evidence and commenting it. And you can also subscribe to receive an eNewsletter reporting all the latest KEME activity.

Enjoy it!! Let's hope they will achieve great and interesting results!!!

Finished!

Hi there!

Just a couple of things today.

Firstly, I have decided I will keep on writing only in English.The two-column format looks nice but it is a bit complicated for me. So, sorry for the Spanish-speaking people, but I will just write in English from now on. And therefore I will practice my English 😄

I want to share this with everyone. I have finished my new jumper. It is knitted top-down, and this is the very first time I make something in this way. It have been a bit difficult, but it is already done. And I am very happy with it!!

The pattern is by Drops Design. Please visit the web, it is full of great and free knit and crochet patterns for everybody.

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7845&cid=19

And this is the jumper!

Mucho tiempo sin escribir... / A long time inactive...

¡Buenas! Este año ha sido una locura y apenas he dedicado tiempo al blog. La razón de ello no es otra que el nacimiento de mi primera hija, entre el embarazo y el cuidado de la niña no he tenido tiempo, y muchas veces tampoco ganas, de ponerme a escribir aquí. Manualidades he seguido haciendo, sobre todo cositas de punto para la niña. A ver si me voy poniendo al día.

Hi there! This year has just been crazy, and I hardly spend time writing on the blog. The reason is the birth of my first baby-girl, the pregnancy and baby care let me timeless and lacking enthusiasm to write here. I've been crafting anyway, specially knitting and crocheting baby clothes. I hope I will be publishing these things from now on.

¡Felices Fiestas! / Merry Christmas!

¡Buenas! Este año ha sido una locura y apenas he dedicado tiempo al blog. La razón de ello no es otra que el nacimiento de mi primera hija, entre el embarazo y el cuidado de la niña no he tenido tiempo, y muchas veces tampoco ganas, de ponerme a escribir aquí. Manualidades he seguido haciendo, sobre todo cositas de punto para la niña. A ver si me voy poniendo al día.

De momento, hoy os voy a dejar un enlace. A finales de mes bautizaremos a la nena, y voy a hacer unos conos de papel llenos de caramelos para repartir entre los asistentes. No me he decidido todavía, pero alguno de los modelos de papermatrix será el elegido. Como veis, en este blog podéis encontrar un montón de patrones listos para imprimir para hacer gran variedad de objetos con papel entrelazado. Es sorprendente, la verdad. Espero que os guste tanto como a mí.

Hi there! This year has just been crazy, and I hardly spend time writing on the blog. The reason is the birth of my first baby-girl, the pregnancy and baby care let me timeless and lacking enthusiasm to write here. I've been crafting anyway, specially knitting and crocheting baby clothes. I hope I will be publishing these things from now on. Today I will just write a nice link for you. At the end of the month, the baby will be given baptism, and I'm going to make paper cones to full them with candies, in order to share them out the attendees. I didn't make up my mind yet, but any of papermatrix's models will be the chosen one. As you can see, in this blog you can find plenty of great printable patterns to make many different objects out of paper. It's amazing. I hope you will like it as much as I do.

http://papermatrix.wordpress.com/

Alfombra con vaqueros viejos / Rug made our of old jeans

¿Hola de nuevo! Últimamente ando liada con muchas cosas, y aunque sigo haciendo cositas el tema va lento.

Hoy os enseño lo último que he hecho. Necesitábamos una pequeña alfombra para poner debajo de una silla, y he hecho esta con unos pantalones vaqueros viejos. Primero he cortado en tiras de 3-4 cm de ancho la parte de las perneras. Después, esas tiras se van enrollando y se sujetan unas a otras mediante punto bajo a ganchillo, hecho con un hilo de algodón. Yo usé hilo azul, pero podría hacerse con otros colores que contrasten con la tela vaquera. 

¡Espero que os guste! Es laboriosa, pero fácil de hacer, y el resultado es muy bueno.

Hi again! I'm quite busy recently with many different things, and even when I keep doing things, they go too slowly.

Anyway, today I show you the last thing I've done. We needed a small rug to put under a chair, and I have done this one with some old jeans. Firstly, I cut the trouser leg in long stripes, 3-4 cm wide. Then, I rolled the stripes and join them through single crochet stitches, crocheted with a thing cotton yarn. I used blue yarn, but it could be done with other contrasting colors.

I hope you'll like it! It takes a lot of work, but it was easy to make and the result is quite good.

Hobbes de ganchillo / Crocheted Hobbes

¡Hola! Aquí estoy de nuevo. Ha pasado bastante tiempo desde la última entrada que escribí, pero no me he olvidado del blog. Solo que han surgido otras cosas que quitan tiempo de hacer manualidades, y también de poder escribir aquí.
De todas formas, aquí estoy de nuevo. Esta vez os voy a enseñar un muñequito de ganchillo. Se trata de Hobbes, el célebre tigre del comic de Bill Watterson Calvin y Hobbes. Me encanta el cómic. Y cuando vi este patrón para hacer un Hobbes de ganchillo, no pude resistirme. Aquí os dejo el enlace, de un interesante blog escrito por Sukigirl.

Hi! Here I am again.It seems a lot of time has passed from the last time I published something here, but I haven't forgotten about the blog. But some other things happens, things that stole my time, so I couldn't make any craft or write here.
Anyway, here I am. Today I want to show you a nice stuffed crocheted character. It is Hobbes, the famous tiger from Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes. I love the comic, so when I saw this pattern to make a crocheted Hobbes, I couldn't avoid to make one for myself. Here you are the link to the pattern, in a very interesting blog by Sukigirl.

 http://sukigirl74.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/heres-another-free-hobbes-crochet_14.html

Y aquí está una foto de mi Hobbes.¡Quedó muy bien! La pena es que no tenía lana naranja, y lo hice de color rojo. Aún así me gusta mucho el resultado final.

And here is a picture of my Hobbes. It looks so good! Even when I used red yarn instead of orange. I love it anyway.

Aquí podéis ver su cara más de cerca. Los ojos, la nariz y la boca van bordados con lana negra.

And here you can see its face closely. I made the eyes, nose and mouth with black yarn.

Espero que os haya gustado y os animéis a hacer uno. El patrón está muy bien explicado y como veis queda estupendo.

I hope you liked and you make your own Hobbes. The pattern is quite good, and the final result is so great.

Feliz Año / Happy New Year!

¡Hola! Se nos termina 2013, y desde aquí quiero desear a todo aquel que se pase por el blog un Feliz Año Nuevo, que el 2014 sea mejor en todos los sentidos al 2014.

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

Hi! 2013 is just ending, and I just want to wish Happy New Year to those of you who visit this blog. I hope 2014 will be better than 2013 in any aspect, and all your dreams will come true.

Happy New Year!

Ramo de Navidad / Christmas "ramo"

¡Hola! Como os prometí en la anterior entrada, aquí os traigo la foto del Ramo terminado. Como veis lo he pintado de un rojo burdeos muy apropiado para la época del año, y lo he adornado con una rama de acebo, cintas de raso verdes, pasamanería amarilla y verde, una cenefa de pequeñas manoplas de ganchillo y frutas de invierno y dulces. ¡Ha quedado muy bien! ¿Queréis saber cómo lo he hecho? Pues solo tenéis que seguir leyendo esta entrada.

Hi! As I promised in the previous entry, today I'm showing you a picture of Christmas ramo already finished and ornated. I've painted it in dark red, which is a very suitable color for Christmas, and I've ornated it with a holly branch, dark green ribbons, green and yellow braids, a crocheted trim showing little mittens, some winter fruits and sweets. It looks great! Would you like to know how I made it? Then keep reading this entry.

Preparando la Navidad / Preparing Christmas

¡Hola! Cada vez estamos más cerca de Navidad y hay que ir preparando la decoración de la casa. Este año he decidido que, en lugar de árbol de Navidad, voy a colocar en mi casa un ramo leonés de Navidad. En este enlace podéis ver un poco de esta tradición, aunque resumiré un poco en esta entrada en qué consiste.

Hi! Christmas is closer and closer, and Christmas decorations must be prepared. This year I decided that, instead of Christmas tree, I will decorate my home with the traditional decoration from my homeland, Leon. More details are explained in the following link, but I will make a summary in this post.

http://raigame.blogspot.com.es/p/ramos-leoneses-de-navidad.html

Parece ser que el origen de esta tradición es muy antiguo, anterior incluso a la época romana. Por lo visto se trata de una tradición ligada al solsticio de invierno que posteriormente se ligó a la Navidad, y este ramo debe ser primo del árbol de Navidad europeo.
Así, parece ser que al principio eran ramas de árboles perennifolios (especialmente encinas). Era, y aún es, adornado con cintas de colores y caramelos.

It seems that the origin of this decoration is very old, even older than Romans. It may be a tradition related to winter solstice that was subsequently related to Chrismtas. In this way, it is our version of European Christmas trees.

It seems that, at the beginning, they were just branches of perennial trees, specially holm oak. I suppose that this is the origin of its name, since "ramo" means branch. This kind of ramo was, and it is still, ornated with sweets and coloured ribbons

Este ramo fue evolucionando de diferentes formas, dependiendo de las zonas. Hoy en día la forma más extendida es la triangular, adornado con cintas, velas (una por cada mes del año), frutas de invierno, elementos vegetales, puntillas de ganchillo, etc.

Así que, como no tengo ramo de Navidad, he decidido hacerme uno. Y como no sé hacerlo de madera, he decidido hacerlo de cartón. En el próximo post os explicaré como lo he ido haciendo, y como ha quedado.

This old ramo evolved in several ways in different areas. Nowadays the most abundant ramo has triangle shape, and it is ornated with ribbons, candles (one for every month of the year), winter fruits, plant elements, crochet laces, etc.

Thus, since I have no Christmas ramo, I decided to make one. Since I can't make it of wood, I decided to make it of cardboard. In the next post I'll show how I've done it, and how does it look.

Panettone

¡Hola! Ya vamos acercándonos a Navidad. Y como el otro día que estuve brujuleando por internet encontré una receta sencilla para hacer panettone, hoy me he puesto manos a la masa y aquí os dejo el enlace. La verdad es que tienen muy buena pinta, aunque aún no les he hincado el diente. La pena es que no tenía moldes suficientes (no pensaba que la masa fuese a aumentar tanto) y el apaño me ha quedado un poco cutre.

Aquí está el enlace con la receta original.

Hi! We are getting closer and closer to Christmas. And I feel in the mood to cook. A few days ago I found a easy recipe to make panettone, I copy down the link below. And I have just take my panettone out of the oven. I haven't tryed them yet, but they really look delicious. It's a shame that I didn't have molds enough (the dough grew more than I expected) and those I made with oven paper are a bit crappy.

Here you are the original recipe.

http://www.sabrosia.com/2012/11/como-hacer-un-panettone-clasico-en-casa-facilmente/

Y aquí os dejo una foto de los panettone recién salidos del horno. ¡Estaban buenísimos!

And I post here a picture of my panettone just baked. They were delicious!

Alfiletero cactus / Cactus pincushion

¡Hola! Hoy os voy a enseñar el cactus-alfiletero que le hice a una amiga como regalo de cumpleaños. Esta amiga está empezando a coser y pensé que sería un buen regalo. Además se lo envolví igual que ponen las plantas en las floristerías, quedó bien mono, como podéis ver en la primera foto. En las demás veremos el patrón que usé y como quedó finalmente.

Hi! Today I'm showing you a cactus pincushion, which I made for a friend's birthday present. This friend is starting to sew, so I though this would be a perfect present. And I wrapped it in the same way plants are wrapped in florists. It is so cute! You can see the final result in the first picture, in the rest you can see the pattern I used to make it and the final result.