Thursday, April 28, 2011

Mini crochet cake :)

Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Dear (name)
Happy Birthday to You.
From good friends and true,
From old friends and new,
May good luck go with you,
And happiness too.
My later creation is this cake that was made for my friend who moved another state to live.
Mini crochet cake is size of milk lid. Cake crochet with 100% cotton, flowers and trim made with orange-pink, light pink, green and blue embroidery threads in rococo style. Hook 1.65mm. Also I slightly sprayed with starch.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Patriot Bear

Patriot is a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country
and its interests with devotion.
Believe to me a teddy bear could be a patriot also 
because was named after president.
The Patriot Bear was made for person who a real an American Patriot.
This bear made from acrylic yarn, able to move legs and arms. Hook 3.25mm. Hat and vest were made 100% cotton. Hook 1.65mm.
The vest has 25 stars. An American flag was made as magnet.
Size of bear is 4inches, the flag is approximately 1inche.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Crochet a bicycle

It is my first toy that I made without any instructions.
This crochet bicycle copy of Specialized Roubaix Bicycle made as Christmas present to my husband.
It crocheted 100% cotton blue, white, yellow and black and then starch. Hook 1.65mm. Size is approximately 4inches long and 2inches tall.

Vehicles for human transport that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s.
There are several early but unverified claims for the invention of bicycle-like machines.
The earliest comes from a sketch said to be from 1534 and attributed to Gian Giacomo Caprotti, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci. In 1998 Hans-Erhard Lessing described this as a purposeful fraud. However, the authenticity of the bicycle sketch is still vigorously maintained by followers of Prof. Augusto Marinoni, a lexicographer and philologist, who was entrusted by the Commissione Vinciana of Rome with the transcription of da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus.
Later, and equally unverified, is the contention that Comte the Sivrac developed a célérifère in 1792, demonstrating it at the Palais-Royal in France. The célérifère supposedly had two wheels set on a rigid wooden frame and no steering, directional control being limited to that attainable by leaning.
A rider was said to have sat astride the machine and pushed it along using alternate feet. It is now thought that the two-wheeled célérifère never existed (though there were four-wheelers) and it was instead a misinterpretation by the well-known French journalist Louis Baudry de Saunier in 1891.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Easter Bunny on the lilies of valley's field.

Easter Bunny on the lily of valley's field.
The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure
and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs.
Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behaviour
at the start of the season of Eastertide.
The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes.
In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy,
and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Santa Claus
or the Christkind, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holidays.
The custom was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus (About Easter Eggs) in 1682 referring to a German tradition of an Easter Hare
bringing Easter eggs for the children.

Bunny made from white acrylic yarn, eyes 2 black beads, muzzle pink thread,
and white berry with green crochet part. H. 3.25mm
Lilies of the valley made 100% white, green cotton, 7 beads, stems made from wires and
wrapped with floral tape. H. 1.65mm
A big liliy of the valley size is 4inches, a small 2.5inches.
Field knitted Patons Cha Cha 100% nylon yarn. Needles 2mm
Base is firm foam size 4X3inches.