Crocheted Stitch Markers

unikatissima Crocheted Stitch Markers

I wanted to present these little, ingenious crocheted stitch markers.
I crocheted mine in less than five minutes!

She offers instructions for small, medium and large ones at ravelry.
Generally speaking it’s ‘only’ a chain ring base crocheted with single crochets – very simple as all ingenious ideas are :)

 

unikatissima Crocheted Stitch Markers I did it a little differently:
– I wrapped a needle 3x too big a couple of times with the crochet thread and
– crocheted single crochets around this tread ring.
That’s because I don’t like rings of chains ;-)

Her stitch markers are more beautiful, but mine are sufficient for me ;-)
And I don’t have to fall back to my usual stitch markers ;-)


Links:
ravelry instructions (Stitch Markers)

Photos of her stitch markers at flickr: photo 1 (IMG_6415[1]), photo 2 (IMG_6411[1]) and photo 3 (IMG_6415[1])

Here at unikatissima:
Little Improvised Knitting Helpers

Wineglass Tea Light Holder

unikatissima Wineglass Tea Light Holder.jpg

Don’t these wineglass tea light holders look nice?
Once I’ve seen an instruction for them (that’s only available now via web archive), which was meant for Christmas with little Christmas ornaments put in the glasses.

I can’t throw away anything and so I thought that it’d look nice to fill the glasses…

 

unikatissima Wineglass Tea Light Holder.jpg… with hand-dyed paper scraps or…

 

unikatissima Wineglass Tea Light Holder.jpg… with yarn and thread scraps that I kept for reasons I can’t understand anymore ;-)

 

I can imagine as well to put flowers into the glasses, or carved vegetables or the apple swan or the little hors d’oeuvres penguin ;-)

Note: Be careful to fix the tea lights or even candles so that they can’t slip or topple over!


Links:
Wineglass Candles in web archive

Here at unikatissima:
Chillie Anthurium
Apple Swan
Penguin Hors d’oeuvres

Paper Earrings

Artin Xhoroom Paper Earrings

Sigh, aren’t these earrings beautiful?
My various I-really-must-try-this- and I-really-must-have-this-lists are growing further.
;-)

Addendum of June 15, 2010: I got a nice e-mail where she told me that there’s a video with the folding instructions.
Many thanks!

Links:
Paper Earrings (ARTIN XHOROOM ESPIRAIS FUSE’S) (I think that the instruction is in Japanese, but good graphics)

Video: Espiral – Tomoko Fuse