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Here’s a box I made to pack something sweet. Is it a cake? Looks like a cake. A sweet birthday cake? A rainbow cake? Just take it outside the box to find out what is it. Is it a snail? a rainbow snail? Is it a ribbon? a rainbow ribbon? Take a look a little bit closer, it is like a woven… what is it?

This is my latest finished object, a tunisian rainbow scarf made for Chubby. Using tunisian technique, tunisian simple stitch and edging with 1 row single crochet around. Based on her request wanna a narrow - long scarf, this scarf has size in 183×6cm. This is not for a winter scarf, just a fashion scarf made by rainbow ICT called ICT sembur consist of pink, yellow and blue gradation. The changed color of the thread just as same as the scarf’s wide, result a perfect stack of different color bar. I love the result, so does Chubby, she plan to wear this scarf with a perfect shirt in a perfect time. Hope she have a perfect moment wearing it

Sudah lewat seminggu lebih, gak papa lah diposting

Bermula dari antusiasme teman-teman plurker saya untuk belajar merajut dan kegiatan di kopdar selanjutnya yang diposting oleh wetiga. Pihak Koran Kompas ingin meliput kegiatan merajut ini. Liputan dan wawancaranya diadakan pada Kamis 12 Januari 2009 di Wetiga.

Pulang dari kampus, saya dan suami langsung meluncur ke Wetiga sesuai janji. Sampai disana sudah ada Chic (Chichi) bersama Joey, Linda Nicegreen dan Aida Mandaka . Masih menunggu Mas Budi dari Kompas dan teman2 lainnya, Amanda akhirnya tiba dilokasi setelah menelpon untuk dipandu. Tak lama Kania tiba bersama Ibn, dan ternyata waktu belanja di Micky Mocko kemarin, ada Amanda disana menyaksikan adegan benang pinky, hihihi.

Bambam dan Luki segera bergabung dengan kami, sementara mas Budi Suwarna masih menunggu fotografernya untuk memulai wawancara. Wawancara dimulai dengan sesi foto terlebih dulu…, foto rajutan yang sudah jadi (display) juga foto kami memegang rajutan yang sudah dan sedang dikerjakan. Setelah itu wawancara dilakukan bergiliran. Sambil wawancara, sambil mengajarkan dan sharing merajut dengan peserta yang hadir. Tentunya dijelaskan teknik dan alat merajut yang ada (crochet, knitting, tunisian, tapestry), pengalaman dan hasil yang didapatkan dari merajut. Wawancara selesai sekitar jam 21.30 tapi masih ada beberapa yg bertahan, merajut, ngobrol dll.

Walau sedikit mundur dari jadwal wawancara semalam berlangsung lancar dan cukup heboh, karena mas Budi belakangan ikut mencoba dan akhirnya penasaran… Mencoba sebentar pas wawancara tentunya masih kaku tangannya… abis wawancara tp masih ngobrol2 nyoba lagi bikin rantai (chain) dgn lebih luwes… Selesai acara kami masih kongkow2 dgn tamu2 yg lain eh beliau masih penasaran dan coba lagi bikin rantai… wah tambah canggih bahkan berani menambah speed bikin rantai. Seru deh karena komunitas lain yg hadir disitu ikut menyaksikan , mengomentari dan menyemangati.  bahkan mas Budi tertarik untuk mengajak istrinya jika kami mengadakan kopdar lagi.

Kurang lebih begitu acara malam itu. Alhamdulillah Jakarta yg diguyur hujan sepanjang siang & malam di hari Rabu sebelumnya cerah selama kopdar… hujan baru turun setelah jam 22.00 jadi kopdar dan wawancara tidak tergangu.

Liputan di Kompas:

http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/01/18/01524287/merajut.bukan.monopoli.nenek

http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/01/18/01514391/yang.berewok.yang.merajut

Hehehe, kejar tayang nih posting. Ceritanya ada Kopdar Martabak di Wetiga hari Selasa 6 Januari 2009. So sehabis jam pulang kerja kami kesana. Sampai sana sudah mulai ramai, ada kania, ndoroKakung, belutz, Chic, Joey dll yang sekarang gak bisa diinget satu persatu. Nah ternyata Kania bawa rajutannya yg sudah jadi beberapa baris tapi doi gak puas dengan hasilnya. Setelah di periksa memang ada kurang hitungan, tapi sudah rapi kok tarikannya. Akhirnya disarankan untuk menyudahi rajutannya dan bikin baru lagi saja. Semangat!

Selanjutnya Bambam dan Luki sampai juga, walau gak bawa benang tapi Luki punya pertanyaan tentang rajutannya. Berhubung peralatan perang kopdar merajut kemarin masih di mobil akhirnya saya gelaran rajutan nebeng di kopdar martabak. Chic, ternyata penasaran dan akhirnya belajar bikin chain… Langsung Chic didaaulat jadi murid angkatan 2 oleh Bambam, hehehe. Jadi yang merajut ya merajut… yang ngeplurk sibuk depan notebook, Yahyo dan Bambam malah main catur hihihi, yang main Facebook ya serius juga termasuk nyobain fitur !FB dari plurk. Yang pasti semuanya sambil kunyah2 martabak, so Tetap kopdar martabak deh. Sebenarnya ada lagi yang tertarik dengan merajut, temannya Chic namanya Sarah kalau gak salah, hanya doi nda bisa lama-lama di wetiga. Oh ya, belakangan baru tahu kalau Luki sempat pengen balik pulang ngambil benang rajutannya, hehehe. Semangat bu dokter!, doi serius banget lihat teknik2 selanjutnya di buku rajutan yang saya bawa.

Gak berasa, sudah malam banget…, so pulang deh sambil anter Belutz…, sip dapat referensi bakso enak deket kos-annya. Dan ternyata lagi kopdar merajut yang menyusupi kopdar martabak ini di posting oleh wetiga… huhuy!

Actually, this booties was made since a few week ago. It’s a quick project actually just a one-day project but I made it slowly … very slowly #-o  . Inspired from Junior’s booties, my friend Utha wants me to make one for her youngest daugther. First, I made it in pink but my yarn was limited, so I decided to change it to maroon with pink accent to make it girly.

Despite of make a spike booties, I changed the spike pattern with a serial of sc, dc and sc on dc, dc on sc like the overlay part of my Uptown Bag. I make the booties 1 row higher before add  2 rows overlay and a 3-ch edging. It just easy to make, make 2 sc chain for the strap and hide it below the overlay.

And this red booties is a gift for Jihan.

In my DC group, there a self-written booties pattern by one of our member as the exam of reading pattern class. And as the member I got the pattern too. This spike booties result a cute booties accent by a spike pattern with different colour of yarn. This pattern is easy to follow and to make, actually I’ve already finish this booties last week. But just have time to take the picture and post it today.

I made this booties using light grey baby wool yarn rom DC combine by dark brown soft cotton yarn. Using hook no. 4/0 it seem that I made a little bit bigger than the pattern size. After washing this booties it became   more tighten than before… more steady I think.

So here my first booties for my Junior. Can’t hardly wait until the delivery time. Your shoes is ready my Junior

My Dear husband just have a new gadget named Mio DigiWalker C230. A portable pocket-size GPS to assist and accompany him go to many places. He loves it’s adjustable features to show him a bunch of alternative route to go.  As leaving Mio inside the car when parking (especially in an open area) is not recommended (actually I don’t allow it too ), so he has to bring it inside his pocket. Considering keys, coins and other thing inside that would scratch its beautiful body, my husband request a “simple” pouch to keep it safe.

Because the requirement is to safe it from scratch, so I make the pouch with tunisian technique. Use tunisian simple stitch to make it a solid and masculine pattern with grey wool thread. I only add 3 rows tunisian knit stitch as an accent. Even it just a simple pouch, I finish it in a few days due to my high activities.

Why I said a simple pouch? because my husband doesn’t want any zipper, or button or rope to close the pouch. I think the pouch must have any safety item to prevent its content from slip down when put upside down in his pocket. He just wants to slide in his Mio into the pouch just like a sock.

Mas Riyo punya GPS untuk jadi penunjuk jalan, biasalah gadget mania. Nah karena si Mio C230-nya itu bisa dan perlu dibawa kemana-mana dan dilarang keras ditinggal di mobil kalau lagi parkir. Maka dia minta dibuatkan kantong supaya aman dari gores kalau masuk kanton pantalonnya. Karena mas Riyo mintanya kantong “biasa” yang gak pakai embel-embel apapun jadilah saya bikin kantong rajutan pakai teknik tunisian.

So, here it is… his grey-mio tunisian pouch.  Pssst, actually I plan to add an elastic rode/ribbon at the top of the pouch

Lihat selimut cantik ini…, cakep kan? Ini kado surprise dari anggota milis dinamic-crochet buat Thata Pang yang berulang tahun tanggal 26 Mei. Karna satu dan lain hal yang tidak disengaja tapi akhirnya disengaja **hanya anggota milis yang tahu, hehehe** Hadiah ini “disembunyikan” sampai tanggal 27 Mei, barulah semua anggota buka mulut ngucapin selamat. Happy birthday Thata Pang!

Ceritanya 3 minggu yang lalu tercetus ide diantara anggota dinamic-crochet group untuk bikin kejutan buat founder DC. Nah Miss Ganny a.k.a Fenny bersedia untuk menampung square dari setiap member untuk disatukan menjadi kado. Setelah dirembuk kanan kiri, akhirnya sepakat square tersebut mau dibuat selimut, setidaknya selimut kecil untuk di mobil saat master kompor DC berpergian. Eh ternyata jadinya besar juga selimut ini.

This beautiful square blanket is assembled by Fenny from assorted square made by 19 20 members of Dinamic Crochet group as a birthday-gift surprise.

Sebagai salah seorang member DC, tentu saja saya turut serta membuat square dan mengirimkan ke markas besar Bandung. Untungnya square saya bisa selesai dan sampai pada waktunya, walau gak banyak tapi bisa dipertanggung jawabkan **maksudnya? ** Nah Fenny yang kerja keras sampai bergadang finishing selimut ini, wrapping, packaging sampai shipping, dimana saya dan yang lain mendukung dengan doa, email, YM dan lainnya dari kejauhan. Thanks ya Fen

Nah pagi hari ini, semua was-was menunggu kabar dari Surabaya. Akhirnya siang tadi paket sukses membuat speechless Ratu DC. Akhirnya milis DC ramai lagi setelah sepi-bungkam kemarin seharian. Issu-nya pula Ratu DC mau membalas “kenakalan” rakyat DC…, hehehe penasaran nih, kali-kali ditimpuk benang-benang cantik dari Surabaya **ngarep.com **

Here my latest FO as the CAL project among member of Dynamic Crochet group. The project actually is a speedy project because it used bulky yarn. I finished this purse several days ago, but… I can’t post it because there’s a problem downloading its picture fom my camera memory

Ok, forget about the trouble. I share the story of my CAL, Chic on The Halfshell Purse designed by  Drew Emborsky. I used 3 green small-roll of 4 ply wool that available at DC. Considering the need of the yarn, I used a turquise roll of 4 ply cotton for the centerpoint of my purse. It’s my first time using bulky yarn and thanks God I have clover hook no. 10 to work. The pattern is consist of sc, ch, dc and sl st to make a round shape. It’s easy to make, that’s why its become a speedy project in my group.

I almost got crazy knowing my yarn is up! Fortunately it still enough to make a row of sc for edging the purse. The bad news is, my yarn is not enough for making purse enclosure. Just think of it later and enjoy wearing my purse first

Actually this mystery KAL scarf project was held for 2-3 month but Diana, my friend in groups was finished it in a few days! What a quick knitter. I, my self just finished it in 3 weeks in a busy couple weeks enrolled the committee for graduation event and support my husband for his Open Dialog with Mr. Roy Suryo last week.

As this project was a mystery project so the participant just got a hint text pattern, the rest project was up to each participant. When I finished make the scarf based on the hint, it’s time to modified it to make the best that I could. Start to exam the hint pattern, considering the repetition part so I make a modification. I rotate the pattern and add extra motif to make a nice connection between each part of pattern.

As the final result, my scarf looks have a mirroring pattern. Use 1 big ball of softy wool, knitted with no. 6 needle. It’s so warm, just suitable to cover my throat … I’ve got cough and fever  since 3 days ago and getting worse

Ok, here’s my version of mystery KAL scarf… I’m going back to sleep to get rest again. May I getting well soon!

This doily was one of my project in our group. Given a few month ago and delayed finished because of miscounting row The center of this doily was the one that make me struck on it. It’s so beautiful that make me submit to enroll this project. Imagine that someday I will make another project based on it

As a fact, I still did it in a slow motion Make it with sleepy eyes in midnight just resulting in miscount stitch and realize it after some rows ahead And the final obstacle was I run out my yarn! My only 1 medium-ball of cotton thread just don’t enough to finish it’s 4 rows border left. What ashamed… I just can’t find any color from my stash that suitable to match it So for now, just assume it finish first and make it up when available