Handmade Monday: Just a Doily

It is the beginning of the new week, so it’s time for Handmade Monday! Let’s share our handmade items and DIY projects.

For my part, I want to show a crocheting project that I recently finished. Adoring lavender/lilac color this summer, I made a lavender doily. As it is not very big and of the easy “pineapple” pattern it only took me a few days to crochet it.

This is the second doily that I crocheted this summer. My next crocheting project will be a tablecloth.

Thank you for stopping by and, perhaps, adding your link. The guidelines for Handmade Monday post submission are here. I’m looking forward to checking out all your handmade projects.

Steel and Roses

A few days ago, I went to one of my favorite places in my town – the Rose Garden. Usually, I walk between the neat rows admiring and smelling the roses. But this time, I had a different scheme.

I walked on the perimeter of the garden exploring the roses that grow by the steel fence. Some of the sights were just stunning. There was something magical and dreamy about the steel and rose combination. The mightiness and coldness of the steel bars and the loveliness and fragility of the roses balanced each other so well.

I wonder how come the idea of exploring the steel fence never occurred to me before. It’s really worthwhile seeing.





This week, I'm joining Claudia at Dipity Road for Friday Finding Beauty.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Handmade Monday: A Little Dress for a Sweet Little Girl

A friend of mine recently had a newborn. Her little girl is so sweet and precious. I wanted to make something just as sweet for her. I searched the Internet and found lots of knitting and crocheting patterns of baby girl clothes.

After some deliberation, I decided to try crocheting a dress. I chose a somewhat easy pattern and got to work. However, it didn’t go smoothly. Somehow the dress came out much smaller. After completing half of it, I had to tear it apart and start all over. The second attempt wasn’t successful either. And only the third attempt brought the desired results.

The tiny buttons that I used for the dress I bought a few months ago at Joann’s Fabrics. The store was moving to a new bigger location and they had a good sale there. I bought several sets of five buttons for only twenty-five cents each. At that moment I had no idea what I would use the buttons for, but I knew that some day they would be useful.



Now it is your turn. Do you have anything handmade to tell us about? Please link below. If you are joining Handmade Monday for the first time, the guidelines are here.

Gerbera Daisies

I always associate summer with flowers. Sadly, this month there aren’t many flowers in my garden to admire. That means I need to find other places full of pretty blooms; for example, city parks.

In one of them, I found a lovely flower bed of gerbera daisies. I didn’t expect gerberas at this time of year; I thought they bloom in early spring. But I was glad to find them.

As I took a closer look, I noticed other creatures admiring them too. I love this picture of an orange gerbera daisy with a praying mantis.



And this one with a bee is cute too.



Here are a couple more pictures of gerbera daisies. It’s funny how the mantis and the bee chose the most beautiful ones to sit on.





I am joining Macro Flowers Saturday.



Have a great weekend!

Handmade Monday: Baby Bits

This week for Handmade Monday I want to show two baby articles that I made about a year and a half ago when I was expecting my son.



This cross-stitch needle work hangs on the wall in his room. It was one of those kits that come with cross-stitch fabric, threads, and pattern. The cute little boy with the lamb caught my attention right away. I thought that picture was perfect for a little boy’s room.



The other article is a knitted blanket. It was the first (and the only one so far) blanket that I made. Basically, I just knitted a big rectangle. Little did I know about making baby blankets! Now, after being in use for more than a year, the blanket has completely lost its rectangular shape and turned into some imperfect polygon. But it is still soft and cuddly, and those are the characteristics my son cares about.
Below is a picture of my cutie-pie (when he was about three months old) all snuggled up in his blanket.



The guidelines for Handmade Monday are here. You are very welcome to link your handmade items or DIY projects bellow. I cannot wait to see them.

Have a great week!