Whole wheat bread pudding

Recipe for bread:
3 cups of whole wheat flour ( I used Annaporna atta)
2 1/2 tsp of active yeast
2 tbsp Sugar
1 tbsp Salt
2 cup warm water

Add all the dry ingredients and slowly start adding warm water. Mix and form the dough. Do not knead at this stage. The dough should be more like a poori dough. Knead it to activate the yeast.
Keep aside for about 20-30 mins till the dough double its size.
Knead the dough until its soft  in a gentle way . Place on the baking pan and bake at 230C for about 30mins.

Recipe for pudding
Bread
2 cups of milk
2 large eggs
1/4  of sugar
1 tsp of Apple spice mix
1/4 cup of ghee (clarified butter)
hand full of raisins


In a small cake pan place the bread in such a way there is no gap. I  used half of the bread I baked for this pudding. Drizzle 1/8th of the sugar on the bread and some raisins. Generously brush the ghee all over the bread. Now mix the milk, eggs and apple spice mix well and pour over the the bread mix. Add the remaining raisins and sugar over the pan . Preheat the oven @  200 for  5mins. Now place the pan and bake @200C for 30mins. The top of the pudding should form a golden crust and inside of the pudding should not be soggy.
Cool the pudding for 5mins before serving.

Shared Pattern #5 : Kitty Bag

I know its a long gap between my pattern shares. I was super busy with my other works. So sincerely apologize. But I'm very happy it took this long. I came across this beautiful pattern. It has both the concept of graphgan and a becomes a useful bag. This is a great beginning for starters who wants to try hands on crochet graphghan. Small projects like these will initiate more to work on graphghans for beginners. I hope you will love working on this.

http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/KittyBag.htm

One Eye Minion Small Baby Pillow

 

Material Required: 

1. Yellow, Royal blue and black yarn.  4 Ply or 8 ply yarn depending your preference
2. White, black, grey 8 ply yarn for eyes

Pattern:

With yellow color yarn

Row 1: In a magic ring 6 SC, join in the first SC and ch 1 (6 SC)

Row 2: 2 SC in each chain, join in the first SC and ch 1  (12 SC)

Row 3:* 1 SC and 2 SC* in the next chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (18SC)

Row 4 : 1 SC 2 times and 2 SC in the next chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 

( 24SC)

Row 5: 1 SC 3 times and 2 SC in the following chains and repeat  * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (30SC)

Row 6: *1 SC 4 times and 2 SC* in the following chains and repeat * *all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (36SC)

Row 7: *1 SC 5 times and 2 SC* in the following chains and repeat * * all around, join in the first SC and ch 1 (42 SC)

Row 8 -12 : SC in each chain

Row 13-15 : Change to black yarn, SC in each chain

For hair

Cut 5 inches of black yarn and fold it into half and crochet to the top of the head

Do this 5 times.

Row 16-29 : Change to yellow yarn , SC in each chain

Row 30: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 5 times* around - ( 36 SC)

Row 31: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 4 times* around - (30 SC)

Start filling with fiber fill

Row 32 : *1SC Dec, 1 SC 3 times* around - (24 SC)

Row 33: *1SC Dec, 1 SC 2 times* around - ( 18 SC)

Row 34 : *1SC Dec, 1 SC * around - ( 12 SC)

Fill it with enough fiber fill

Row 35 : SC Dec around - (6 SC) 

Fasten off and leave about 2 inches of tail and sew it inside.

For Eye:

With black yarn in a magic ring, 6 SC

Change to white yarn, 2 SC in each chains - 12 SC

Change to grey yarn . *2 SC, 1 SC* around - 18 SC

Fasten off and leave a long tail.

Attach it to the minion on the black yarn section.

Tadaaaaaaa

The small one eye minion pillow is ready

You can very well add the blue pants if you like. I wanted to stop with this.

Shared Pattern # 4 : Minion Pencil Case

I love recycle crafting. The satisfaction of recycling something and the end product is as cute as this is unexplainable.

 It is such a joy to cherish. I have done similar recycling craft before, but I loved this minion pencil case by Petals to Picots.

A similar work that I have done before

Shared Pattern #3 : Vintage Beach Crochet Bag

For today's pattern share I chose this beautiful Vintage Beach Crochet Bag by Anoo's Crochet World.

http://www.annoocrochet.com/2013/07/vintage-up-cycled-beach-bag-free-pattern.html

I came across this bag sometime early last year. The instructions were so clear and I loved the fact it had a proper lining which helps the bag from being loose and sloppy. I wanted to recreate the same, but as days went on my idea of doing this bag changed. I came up with a hooty bag. You can try your own creation by following the blog.

And what a coincidence, today Moogly has shared this beautiful website which clearly instructs on how to line a crocheted bag.

Shared Pattern #2 : Storage Basket

For today's share, I chose these beautiful  Easter storage baskets by My Hobby is Crochet.  These baskets were for Easter but I'm sure they can be used through out the year.  They have very clearly written instructions and I am going to try one for sure :)

My hobby is Crochet also has various other free patterns which I'm sure you will enjoy Crocheting.

Shared pattern # 1 - Friendship Garden Crinoline Circle Doily

From today till July 10th, I am planning to share some of the beautiful Crochet patterns that I come across.
To begin, I came across this beautiful Friendship Garden Crinoline Circle Doily and it is free only till tomorrow. So grab it soon. Its a very beautiful doily by Crochet Memories and here is the link
http://crochetmemories.blogspot.in/2014/06/friendship-garden-crinoline-circle-doily.html

Flower board deco

I saw this wonderful flower board on Ergahandmade and wanted to try exact similar one for my home too. Its an excellent recycling method for your cartons and cardboard boxes too. All you need is the following

1. Cardboard box
2. Fabric glue
3. Yarns of your choice
4. Cloth to cover the cardboard box
5. Buttons
6. Stapler
7. Satin Ribbons
8. Scissors
9. 3 mm Crochet hook

Step 1: Cut the cardboard to your required size and cut your choice of fabric to a size slightly bigger than the cardboad box

Step 2: Staple the fabric around the cardboard

Step 3: Start crocheting your choice of flowers. I have attached the video links for some of the flowers that I chose for my wall decor.

Flowers:

Step 5:Attach the flowers at your choice of placement with fabric glue.

Step 6: Attach satin ribbons as stems for the flowers
Step 7: Crochet leafs and attach to the satin ribbons
Step 8: Add buttons or butterflies or appliques of your choice to fill the blank spaces. I crocheted butterflies.

Leaf pattern:
Row 1: Ch 7 and SC in the stitch next to the crochet hook, HDC in the next chain, DC in the next 3 other chains and 3 HDC in the last chain and turn
Row 2: Now on the other side of the chains DC in the next 3 chains, HDC in the next chain and SC in the last chain and join by slip stitch to the first SC.

The final product will be a very beautiful wall decor.

It gives such a beautiful color to your plain dull boring wall. Hope you liked the tutorial. If you like it, please leave a message on the comments box.

Thanks
AOME

Owl Shoulder bag

I'm fan of bags. Maybe I inherited this quality from my mom. After her demise, we took all her clutches, purses and bags and stored in a box and never looked at it again. But after many years when we took a look at her collections, it was very memorable. My dad found a torn 100 rupee note and he still preserves it as a treasure. Such a lovely memory of my mom.

This owl bag will be on my favorite's list for a very long time. It took me more than 4months to complete. Now don't think its that touch a pattern. Certainly not :). Its that block that comes inbetween every crochet  project and I also went through it. :D

I got inspiration to start this project from this blog post by Annoo's Crochet World. 

I followed all the instructions in that blog to sew the lining for the bag and from there though my intention was to replicate the same pattern, it did not end that way. I wanted to crochet an owl bag with crocodile stitch in it to give a feel of feathers. Even that did not happen. The attempt was a huge failure and the bag went totally out of proportion wrt to size. Then I decided to go with simple treble crochet and even that came out to be out of shape. It started with a treble crochet and slowly changed it to simple double crochet and went round and round with my choice of yarns. Then gave the shape for eyes and nose and finally finished it. For the handle I went with a simple button hole stitch around the two sides of the handle and kept it simple. Lastly I hand sewed a zip to the bag to ensure it does not stay open . 

Though I kept this project idle for a very long time, something made me go back to the project and that drive never stopped and finished this bag.

Happy Crocheting :)

Apple of my Eye

Love, Heart and Crochet

Valentine's day is nearing and its time to spread some love.
Crochet hearts are awesome and you can make keychains, buntings, coasters, pillows and more

Trying to consolidate some of the crochet hearts here with their links

Click on the picture to get the link for the respective pages.

• To begin with the heart coasters I made last year from Crochet Geek's pattern.

•   Granny sweet hearts by Nancy L Drew
  
   
  
  
  • Heat Pillows by Drops
    
    
    • Crochet hearts from Freshstitches
      
       
      
      
      • Crochet heart baskets
         
        Last but not least I loved this box of crocheted chocolates.. Makes a perfect finish 
        
        Happy Valentine's Day
        
        

Quick girl's purse

You can buy this pattern here

I always love small little purses. So when I got inspiration for this purse, I tried to create my own pattern. I added some appliques and stickers which I loved it. :)

The "HE" Cap

 

Materials Required:

Sports Worst weight yarn of your choice

Colours: Denim Blue, White, Black

Crochet hook: 4mm 

Tapestry needle

Terms:

Ch - chain

HDC - Half Double Crochet

DC - Double Crochet

TC - Treble Crochet

FPDC - Front post Double crochet

BPDC - Back post Double crochet.

Pattern:

 

You can get the pattern here

Graph ghans

 Most of us wants to gift personalized gifts to our near and dear ones. Especially when its a gift to a new born its even more special. Afghans and lapghans are always very helpful to wrap the newborn to make them feel warm and cozy and when its a cold place, the use of lapghans and afghans are more.

I always wanted to make lapghans. I'm going to start this year with a try on that. I have a big list of images that I want to try. But I am yet to decide which one will be first and how far I am going to be successful in trying it the right way. So fingers crossed and keep watching for me to brag  all about my first try on these lapghans :D Hopefully its this year ;)

Making personalized image lapghans and afghans first need to be converted to graph charts. There are so many methods to do this. I'm going to list them here so that its helpful to me and you as well.

An example of  converting a picture to graph

Free websites

1.  Stitch board.  
2. Pic a pat 
3. How to make your own crochet pattern 
4. KnitPro 

 Paid websites

1. http://www.mckcreations.com/ 

Hope you try anyone of these methods  and crochet your own lapghans and afghans. Please share your views on the comments..

Hair clips

 I love these hairclips.. If I had a chance to wear this during my childhood, these clips would have been all over my hair :)

Happy to share the pattens with you...

Crochet Hook : 1.65 mm
Yarn : Any 4 ply yarn

 Pattern 1:

Row1:Chain multiples of 2.(12 chains) Do not join Ch 1 and turn
Row2: 5 DC in the first chain, slip st on ch 2, 5 DC in the third chain, sl st in the 4th chain and continue till the end. Fasten off . Leave a long tail.
Now fold them in a circular way to form petals of a flower, and sew the flower to the clip

Pattern 2:

Row 1: Ch 17
Row 2: 3 DC in each chain and fasten off. Leave a long tail
Fold like the previous pattern in circular way to form a rose shape and sew with a bead to the clip

Pattern 3:

Row 1: In a magic ring, ch 1 and 12 SC.
Row 2: Join in the first SC and *Ch 2, 2DC in the same chain, 2 DC in the next chain, ch 2, slip stitch in the 3 rd chain* and repeat from * to *
This 6 forms the petals of the flowers.
Fasten off and sew to the clip