It is a bright January day. I will say, unusually bright. I actually went to the balcony to take this picture. It is sunny and the temperature is in the plus side a bit.The trees are bare against the wind. The ground is still covered in the snow. The sunlight is reflecting on the snow. It dared me to to go to the balcony with my camera without wearing the jacket. It gives the kind of a fairy land feeling. There is no one in the place...just the silence and the snow. 

I am still working on my multi colored afghan. One row at a time! It will take some time to make it a big blanket. Each new color makes it looks different. To give me a break fro the blanket, I made a pair of crocheted earrings.

The pattern is from the book "Crochet Adorned" by Linda Permann.

The book gives many ideas to embellish an existing garment with crochet motifs. I would like to do more projects from the book. There are two more earring patterns. I like to make some flowers and stitch them on to my old  t shirts to give them a new look. 

Today I am showing crocheted placemats in the Bindu Blogs.I have some granny squares in my yarn stash. I made them a couple of months before. I connected 4 of them to make one placemat.See that one. The squared are joined with the same color as the final row. May be I can make a big square by continuing the granny square pattern. 

Below is the granny square motif I started with. I like the shade of purple in this one. My daughter doesn't like purple. As a matter of fact she doesn't like pink either. So I just know one girl who doesn't like pink at all. 

Today I found some more granny squares in the yarn box. Here we go with another place mat. The squares are joined with the black yarn. Then I did single crochet around it. I am proud to show of a small thing I made with my hands. Aren't they pretty?

The granny squares were made using the same pattern as my baby blanket mentioned on October 24, 2009 in Bindu Blogs.

Todays Bindu blogs is about the new crocheting project,the  afghan I started a  few weeks before. This is going to be mine. I am trying to use as much colors as possible in this one.

I use the shells made up of 5 double crochet to make this pattern. By using different colors in a random way, my yarn stash can be used up. Mainly the acrylic yarns are used for this project. The random colors is the beauty of the project. It can take some time to finish up, because I happened to see some flower motifs to stitch on my sweaters and T shirts. Here is another picture of my work in progress crochet afghan. Hope you enjoy!

See the width...It has to go a long way to get finished. We will show the progress of this crochet afghan through the Bindu Blogs.

I am very glad that I finished the wavy scarf and Sayoo was able gave her Christmas present to her teacher. But I am sad that I was too late to finish it so that I was not able to take a picture of it.

While all that was going one, I finished a page on Mahalo about How to Make a Chevron Crochet Scarf  Now I have a new Vertical manager for Crochet. She has many ideas.I am thinking I will be able to make many more pages about Crochet and Beading in Mahalo soon.

By the way, I have started a new crochet project. My one blanket project is still going on. But I am glad to start a new Basket weave scarf in blue. I learned the pattern some time before from the Crochet for Dummies book. The pattern will ad some texture to the piece. 

The pattern calls for front post double crochet and back post double crochet stitches. 

  You can see the texture created by the post stitches. Since I decided to have a multiple of 4 post stitches to create each textured blocks, my initial row of stitches is a multiple of 4 plus 2 (I have one dc in the beginning and one dc in the end of each row other than the post stitches. I will make some explanations for the post stitches ones the scarf is finished.

I am going crazy over the granny squares recently. I came to an easy design. Aren't they cute?

With pink in the centre, white and blue around in next rounds...they are adorable to me.

I made chain 4 with pink and joined with slip stitch. then made chain3and 2 dc. then ch2,3dc and voila one corner is made.Repeat the chain2,3dc,chain2, 3dc 3 more times and join with slip stitch. To secure the yarn I did slipstitch over to the corner and cut the yarn. Now added the White and repeated the pattern of 2dc, 2chain to make all four corners.

Now I have added the blue yarn and did2dc,2chain,3dc,2chain. One corner is done right? Now chain2 and do 3 dc on the ch2space then repeat for other 3 sides. Wow, my granny square is done. it may take about 5 minutes to finish one. I am planning to join the squares with white yarn. Then I will think about adding a border. This is going to be asmall blanket.I like these shades very very much!!