Monsters and bunnies

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Welcome to all my new friends and thanks a lot for all your comments in my previous posts. I visited all of your blogs but wasn't able to leave comments in some, the comments just didn't appear even after trying a few times. Sorry about that.

First let me show you the monsters. These are the new patterns in my shops. I made the blue monster first.

Then I felt it would be more interesting if the eyes pop out. So I made the green monster/alien.

Then I wanted a girly monster, so made this pink one.

Right now you can find these patterns in my Etsy shop. I will make them available soon in my Craftsy shop too.

We have 2 new members in our family...

...Fluffy and Tuffy

 

They are soooo cute, aren't they?

Crochet ruffled leg warmers

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I intended to make this post 2 days ago but was not able to upload images. I didn't know what the problem was. I was fed up of trying again and again. Then all of a sudden realized that I was still using the old blogger interface and hadn't upgraded it, maybe that was causing the problem. So I upgraded it and tried again... Voila! 

I had never tried crochet ruffles before. I don't know what inspired me to make these leg warmers with ruffles but I really really love them. Ruffles are easy to crochet too. I designed the above one with 3 ruffle layers at the base. I fell in love with ruffles so much that I went a bit overboard with my second design.

Yes, it's ruffles from top to bottom, but I love it too. It would look really cute on kids.

You can find these patterns in my Etsy and Craftsy shops.

New releases

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More new patterns in the shop, and more new bags/purses. I love this owl bag.

Here is a ripple purse with a charming snowflake at the back.

More purse/bag

Also potholdes...

...beanie, headband, applique patterns. There is more to come.

They are available in my etsy and craftsy stores.

Ruins of Bhangarh and Ajabgarh

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Last week we made an unplanned trip to Rajasthan. I had wanted to visit this place called Bhangarh which is a ruined city. I read about this place on the internet. It is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in India. I am skeptical about ghosts but this place has a very interesting history. The entire city was deserted centuries ago due to the curse of a tantri. You can read the story behind it here. So I was telling my husband about this place and last week when Friday was a holiday here we packed and left. The journey was not an easy one and this place is not a very popular tourist destination. We reached Rajgarh by train and hired a vehicle from Rajgarh. This person didn't know Bhangarh and he took us to Ajabgarh instead. That's another story and I will talk about it in my next post. I liked Ajabgarh better than Bhangarh.

Anyway we managed to find our way to Bhangarh and I must admit that I was disappointed. I had read a lot about this entire town being deserted even now with only a handful of visitors visiting the ruins. So I had gone there with lot of expectations. Though I was skeptical about any ghostly encounters I had expected to at least feel eerie and scared, but there was nothing, absolutely nothing even remotely unnatural. Friday being a holiday here as I said earlier the place was crowded, almost half the population of the surrounding villages must have been there. So even if there had been any ghosts there previously they all would have packed their baggages now and left for a better place.

  This had once been a market place.

Can you spot the structure on top of the hill? That is supposed to be the place where the tantrik lived.

A closer look....

I wonder if anyone goes up there now!

There is a main fort and some temples but there are no deities inside the temples. I went inside only one temple because I was too tired after so much of walking. 

 This is the fort.

This is the Gopinath temple.

This is a secret passage going down from the top of the fort.

Spiral stairs inside the passage.

Local women carrying water.

We went during the best time of the year. It was green everywhere and it was drizzling. The way to Bhangarh was excellent. We went through mountains and forests and even saw deers crossing the road. I had never seen so many peacocks on a single day in my life. The whole place is full of monkeys and peacocks. Actually Bhangarh is on the edge of the Sariska tiger sanctuary. Thankfully we didn't come across any tigers.

In my next post I will tell you about Ajabgarh. As I said, I liked Ajabgarh more than Bhangarh. 

Oh! I forgot to show you the Rajgarh railway station. We took a train from Delhi to here and from here we hired a vehicle.

It looks ancient right?



New bag patterns

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The intervals between my posts are getting longer and longer nowadays. I am away from blogging for longer periods than I used to be. One thing or the other takes my time away from blogging and this time it had been my preoccupation with designing these bags.

These two bags are somewhat similar, only the squares differ and the pink one is slightly shorter than the white one. These patterns are available in my Etsy and Craftsy stores.

I don't have anything else interesting enough to share with you. So I'll come back when I have got some interesting stuff. Until then I will try to catch up with all the lovely blogs that I missed.   

Crochet for my grandma and mom

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As mentioned earlier, I took plenty of yarns along with me during my vacation and made a few items for my mom, grandma and a neighbour, but unfortunately I took photos of only few of them.

This is a stool cover that I made for my grandma. This is a favorite of mine.

Actually this is the cover that I made first for the stool at my mom's place. After seeing this my grandma asked me to make one for her too and I made the one that I showed in the beginning. 

My grandma also wanted me to make a round table topper and so I made this. I didn't use any pattern for this. I created my own.

I wish I had photographed others too. I would have had lots to share with you.

Wonderful Weekend

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I had an amazing weekend!

I had intended to share with you all the crochet that I had done during my vacation, but got busy with my son's school projects. I took along with me plenty of yarns but except for this potholder I didn't do anything for myself. I made a couple of small flower-like doilies for my neighbour, but unfortunately I didn't photograph them. Then I made a couple of stool covers for my grandma and my mom, and a round table topper for my grandma. I will show them all in another post. This potholder is sort of incomplete. I forgot to make the loop.

 I worked out the pattern on my own, but forgot to write it down : (

 Do you see cupcakes above? 

Here are the scrumptious vanilla cupcakes...

  Looks yummy, eh? 

They tasted yummy too!

There was indeed an occasion to celebrate. My brother is back in India. He has moved back from UK and I am seeing him after almost 2 long years.

Besides plenty of other things see what bro got for me...

Cookie cutters in all imaginable shapes, and colorful too.

Silicone cupcake moulds. 

Have any of you used these silicone moulds? Won't they melt in the oven?

I guess I should run a google search and find out.

And Chocolates, PLENTY of them!

But when I opened a packet you know what I found?

 One gooey mess! The chocolates had all melted and clumped together.

But who cares?