Korean Xstitch Cushion - part 1

Yayy finally got the chance to make this beautiful cross stitch pattern !! Ive bought this on my honeymoon last year in Korea (doh!! where else??) .. and totally forgot about it!!
When going through my craft stash last week I found this pattern, and since Im in between projects decided to make these cute korean couple in a series of traditional dresses..

I love cushion cover so Im gonna turn this project into one as well.. problem is the original chart size doesnt allow me to make the full pattern into a cushion cover... so a bit of creativity is needed here!! I decided to make 2 couples per covers and position it in the centre :)

So far, this is all Ive done... (couple 1 and couple 4) haha needed to buy a few more DMC to finish off the projects!! I'll post up the pics shortly then....

"God Is Love" Cushion Cover

I am totally in love with Precious Moments designs!! When I got married, I decided to make all my cushion cover using PM designs... here is the first one...

Actually it is two separate designs, but... seeing that I wanted to have designs with both the boy and girl together... what can I do??

A bit of creativity is needed here!! Just combined the two pictures together right?? Well... not that easy... seeing that actually the boy in the design is facing left... which is the same as the girl... and it would look weird if I just make the boy and girl facing the same direction.... sooooooo

Decided to make them back to back... a bit of trouble when making the boy.. seeing that I have to calculate everything backwards!! But its WORTH ittt!! Im happy with the resultsss .. The grass is sort of the connector between this two... have to improvise a bit on that too ahhahah

Anyways... still need to sew it to make the cushion cover now.... :)

Cute Baby Hat

On 14th June 08, Nathan was born ... and he is just soooo adorable!! I love him!! Well.. he's my friend's boy but I like to pretend he is my nephew :P Anywaysss decided to make a few knitted item for him... I make this baby hat when he was almost a year... together with the knitted jumper with his initial on the front...
I used eskimo ice blue yarn for this hat... and totally love eskimo!! So soft, bulky, warm, and easy to knit!! It takes me only 2 hours to finish this hat ... :)

Stripe Alpaca Scarf

Few months ago ... (or was it last year??) I went on holidays wid my family to Moss Vale! Nice little town, very good for relaxation :) On the last day, we went past a little town with an Alpaca shop!! **Shopping mode on** I know alpaca is basically ONE of the NICEST and WARMEST and SOFTEST and basically the BEST (well .. you got my point!) for any kind of winter clothes...

So... there you go.. at the back corner, what would you see except a BARGAIN for baby alpaca yarn!! Costin only about $8 each balls, I then decided to take 3 colours and make it into a striped scarf ...

Due to the thinness of the yarn, I had to use 3.25mm needle therefore its taken about almost 1 week to finish the project.. which is more than what I predicted .. Anywaysss Im happy wid the result.. love it!! Would love to go and buy more yarns!!