Etsy opening!

Yes, it's true I have finally manage to open my little etsy: Niftycrafting.etsy.com! It took some time and I'm still uploading pictures to it, so over the next coming weeks there will be more updates in the shop. If you live in Sweden shipping is free and I'll be wrapping your order in a lovely little parcel. If you live outside Europe it will take about 7-8 days for your order to arrive.

Here's what's in the shop right now:

Tell your friend and family!

Get one of my own postcards free with your first order!

Knitting a shalw?

This is a quick show on how to make a easy shawl for yourself or someone else.

Start with two stitches on your needles

Increase one stitch on every row. You increase by knitting the first stitch as normal but then you knit the stitch from the last row. See were I'm pointing with the needle, this is the stitch I'm knitting.This is a fast knit, I'm using size 20 (European size) the bigger your needles are the faster it's knitted...

To embellish the shawl you could thread pearls on your yarn before you start and then evenly thread them on to your knitting.

I made this mini shawl in about 10 min so you could also made one for dolls ;-)

As an other suggestion I also made an example on a traditional yarn trim, like this:

This was all:-) Hope you got something out of this!

Happy Friday!

Some up-coming tutorials

As I said, this month I'm planing to do a lot of easy tutorials on how to make your own Christmas gifts. Today is just a little pre-post of what I'm making!

How about a gigantic shawl for one of your loved ones? This is so easy to knit, you can do it while watching TV every night for a week and then you have a finished gift!

Do I sound like a salesman, or what! :-)

I also planed to show how easy it is to make these snug booties? (Do you call them that?)

This was all for today, be back with the shawl tomorrow!

Ceramic Tuesday

For ceramic Tuesday I'm playing with letters. I've made some letters that form the word Creativity. They are going to hang on the wall of my new craft room! And hopefully I'll be inspired to making something in my class on Monday nights.... We are only women in my ceramic class (surprise surprise) and when I'm not occupied with a project I sit there and listen to what they talk about and there's a lot of different experiences in that room! Yesterday one told me about her very exiting backpacking trip in Africa fifteen years ago. I too would love to visit that country one day...

Eat your car?

Well, well happy Tuesday!

Etsy o my love...

I'm loving etsy right now and spending a lot of time there. It's inevitable not to buy something when you see what all the talented people are making over there. Here's my latests purchases and there's more coming my way:-)

These silver earrings are from the little llama Shop go over and see all the other nice jewellery she sells!

I also bought some lovely wool yarn for a scarf for J and maybe a pair of wrist warmers for me? I got this from The plucky knitter

Happy browsing over there!