Finally!

My products are for sale. In a real shop!
They are on display, and for sale, in a real, physical shop! :D
It is the museum shop at the city museum here in Oslo that has been so kind as to give me a break, and for the summer, they have chosen two necklaces and four pairs of earrings. They will have more MOE-products for sale sometime during the autumn.

One of the necklaces started here; the planning stage, before hours of detailed work and focus in dim lighting commenced:

The finished product. I've always distinguished this from the rest by calling it the elf necklace. 

Why yes, I am a nerd. 

Here is a terrible picture of the display case they're in, the elf necklace to the right:

 

Crocheted baskets

Something easy, fitting for mid week handcrafts: crocheted baskets.

I went and bought something they call t-shirt yarn. Yarn that has the same quality as a t-shirt ripped to shreds. Litteraly shreds.

You'll need a big hook for this, it says size 12 on the label. The biggest I have is size 10. It was a bit tight, but it worked, and the baskets got a nice finish, me thinks.

I started with four chain stitches, which I then made into a loop.

Believe it or not, this is a loop..

 

Then, I made 12 single crochets in the loop.

 

Going around and around in spirals can be tricky considering you have to increase for every round, so that the circle expands. What I did here is that I increased with two single crochets in  every other stitch in the previous round. I did this for the first two rounds, after that I increased with two single crochets in every third stitch.

I tried to draw a chart of the increasing, but it sucked, so I changed my mind.

When I felt that the bottom circle was big enough, I stopped increasing, and instead made one single crochet per stitch, which automatically created the walls of the basket.

 

I wanted them to look a little more finished, so I pulled some ribbon through along the edge, and put a little charm in the knot.

Ta- daaaa!

Total effective time for these two baskets: 4 hours

First attempt at a baby's dress

I saw this kind of dress somewhere on facebook a few weeks back and immediately wanted to try it.
I have used no pattern, as I've stated earlier: patterns, whether it's knitting, crocheting or sewing, I am terrible at using them. I don't understand them. They frustrate me. Like math. So I just avoid them. Like math :)

I've never sewn anything other than trims on curtains, or small applications on stuff, or mended clothes. This is the first piece of clothing I've made. It looks ok. I won't guarantee the quality though... But practice makes perfect, and I will definitely try this again!

First, I made the upper body part and straps. 

 

 Then I sewed the straps on to the main piece, and did a single stitch trim around all the edges to give it a nice finish, and made button holes on one of the middle edges.

That was the easy part... 

I cut out some fabric, and sewed a sylinder, which I then attached to the main piece, carefully making small folds. I bought this hand held sewing machine on ebay, suited for small, easy projects like these, but it was absolute crap, so I ended up sewing by hand after all.
Sewed three buttons in front, and crocheted a little trim that I sewed on the bottom of the skirt.

(This is a terrible picture, took it for demonstration, didn't occur to me to take another one before I gave it away... :( But you get the idea).

 The back.