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The dress I was able to make :)

Dressing up

I like making clothes and dressing up. I dreamt of becoming a fashion model when I was young, but because of my very short stature, I shifted the dream to become a fashion designer or a fashion consultant. Amongst our circle, I usually give advice which clothes to wear or which accessories to use for an […]

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I love my mom

I love my mom. She is not the doting kind. She would seldom praise you nor compliment your work. But she is the type that perserveres no matter how much difficult it is for her. Amidst all our financial troubles during the early years, though we had an almost incomplete family and literally negative savings, […]

Lacy Crochet Dress in progress

I dream of yarns as smooth as silk

I dream of yarns as smooth as silk That through my fingers they would slip I’ll make a dress as awe-inspiring That everyone would be wearing I dream of hearing my name as well That it would mean wearable crochet And they would ask, is it lorelie The one who made your outfit today? I […]

Sunday is Family Day

Sunday is Family Day

Sunday is family day for us. Actually all weekends or every night after working hours if time and energy still permits, if not, my husband and I compensate during the weekends. We are always busy during the weekdays, sometimes even through the night and a bit of Saturdays if we have pending problems to solve. […]

ICE Yarns

A surprise for today.

I promised to write down the last part of the crocheted shorts instructions. Though I obliged, I never actually wished for a reward and yet I got one today and the reward came from Turkey! MY YARNS from ice yarns came today! HAPPY! Last last week, my husband agreed of this purchase, though I originally […]

Dainty little crocheted shorts

Dainty little crocheted shorts

This project was for: My website I have put down my blog for two years and I just recently put this up again. And I did try to make up by writing a post every now and then. And I am happy about the results. A few followers seemed to pick up and this prompted […]

Fitting the shorts

AngieHeart’s Shorts: Lace Edgings and Stitching Together

The final part of the series: [Introduction, Basic Square, Connecting the Squares, Mesh & Half Motifs] Now we are ready to crochet the last part of the shorts – The Lace Edging. The design uses a beautiful lace motif: a fan shaped lace with in between mesh. You have to count your previous stitches here.The […]

AngieHeart's Crocheted Lace Shorts: Other Half Showing Two Layers of Lace Mesh

AngieHeart’s Shorts: Lace Mesh and Half Motifs

I am following up on the instructions on making the AngieHeart’s Crocheted Lace Shorts. My last post was about crocheting motifs together. The first layer of the motif is actually too short for me. So I added a layer of half-motifs. The following is the instructions on making the half-motifs: 1. 4ch to form a […]

WIP - AngieHeart's Crocheted Lace Shorts

Today, work is overwhelming

Today, work is overwhelming. I have complained too much for the slow progress of our project. Complaining is too exhausting.  I do not want to put negative vibes to my team, early this week, but frustrations should be vent out and expectations should be cleared out, too. And before actually expressing all the frustrations, I have […]

AngieHeart's Crochet Shorts Basic Square Motif - crocheting into another square 5

Angie Heart’s Shorts – crocheting motif squares together

Following up my previous post about crocheting the Angie Heart’s crochet lace shorts, here are the instructions on how you would crochet the square motifs together: 1. You have to follow the instructions up to 5th round. 2. For the 6th round, crochet the first half of the open shell [ 3ch, dc 1ch, then […]