Current Projects

Kufi & Booties for a baby

Close up of the booties

This is a set of crocheted hat and baby booties commissioned by a friend who plans to give them as a gift. I am waiting on a special yarn to arrive so I can make a pair of solid black booties with a different pattern for her also. For this set I used a very chunky yarn that reminds me of a phoenix in colors. The pattern for the booties is available here, but I had to modify it slightly to adjust for the chunkier yarn and I only used the one color.

Chocolate Brown & Multi-Color Texting Gloves/Wrist Wamers

Barrington Purple & Navy Texting Gloves/Wrist Warmers

Tri Color Scarflette with Buttons

Chunky Icy Blue Cowl in Popcorn Stitch

Ear Warmer & Infinity Scarf (part of a 3-piece set)

Matching Arm Warmers with Rose at Wrist (part of a 3-piece set)

These are all new pieces available for sale at my Elephant & Dove Etsy shop. There are more things to come soon!

If you see something you like but are interested in a different color, drop me a comment here and we can talk about what you are looking for.

I’ve had a chance to try some new things and learn a few new stitches. The booties were also my first time ever working from a pattern.

Unbelievable Amount of Updates (10/28/11)

• Outlaw Midwives Vol 3 was released today. I have one article in it, but the whole zine is beautiful and great reading.
• As you can see, I have redesigned this blog. Which was a lot of fun, but the best part was learning how to create the banner for the Elephant & Dove Etsy shop, which I am also using here on this site.
• There are several things available in the Elephant & Dove Etsy shop – some crochet scarves/cowls, crochet hair scrunchies, prints of some of my art, and the Jewels for Survival Vol 3 zine.
• I taught myself how to make wrist warmers (fingerless gloves) and have been busy making some as gifts. You can keep up with my crochet and knit projects on my Ravelry page, though I need to update it with the purses I made last Ramadan and the projects that are up in the Etsy shop.
• I created a blog for queer Muslims and am partnering with some other fantastic queer Muslims to run it.
• I am participating in the Art House Co-Op Sketchbook Project and just designed the cover of the sketchbook this week. When I’ve completed the sketchbook, I will scan it and upload it to be viewable online. My theme is “Time Traveler” and I am incorporating stitching and collage elements into my idea of traveling thru time to learn from my favorite artists (many thanks to my friend Sumayyah for the idea for how to use the theme).

Recent Crochet Projects as Gifts

Crochet Purses

Crochet purses made for friends as Eid gifts. The straps are also crocheted, but tucked into the bags for this picture.

Teapot Cozy

Crocheted tea pot cozy for a friend. Made with three strands of yarn (cherry blossom pink, dusty rose pink, and periwinkle blue) to make it nice and thick! This was a super simple design. I took my tea pot to use for measurements. I began by chaining 20 stitches on a size L (8.00 mm) hook. I made a rectangular piece of crochet, checking how it fitted over the tea pot (i.e. I lost count of the rows after about 4, LOL). When the piece was the size I needed, I used a smaller crochet hook to crochet side edges closed (while still on the teapot to give me a good idea of fit), leaving openings for the handle and spout. I then removed the cozy, turned it right side out and put it back on the teapot. It is a snug fit. I know some people like snug, but others might prefer something a little looser than this, especially since a looser fit would make it a bit easier to get onto a full hot pot! I used the periwinkle blue yarn to also add a little pom pom on top.

Don’t forget there are other items available for sale on my Etsy, Elephant & Dove Designs, including some crocheted scarves.

New Items for Sale

Now available at Elephant and Dove Designs on Etsy

Have put up prints of my Love Revolution and Make Time to Dance collages. Am preparing prints of some of my dot art tulips as well.

Have also just posted three scarves, with more to come.

Cherry Blossom Pink & Confetti Super Size Cowl/Infinity Scarf

Cherry Blossom Pink Chain Scarf with Removable Decorative Cuff

Super Soft White Infinity Scarf

Super Soft White Infinity Scarf Wrapped as Cowl

yarn everywhere

Apologies, this post was actually begun on December 21, but WordPress was not letting me put links into the post for some reason and then i got busy and never came back.

i’ve been messing around with a bunch of knitting and crochet projects. You can see them at the following links on my new Ravelry account.

 

2-Color Cowl (crochet)

3-Color Chunky Cowl (crochet)

4-Color Ear Warmer (crochet) – a gift for my brother

Large White Cowl (knit) – still working on this but haven’t done anything on it in a while

2-Shade Green Cowl (crochet) – gift for a friend

Triple Yarn Multi-color Cowl (crochet) – for another friend

My favorite is actually a grey cowl that is double crochet stitch, made with an extra big (rug) hook. i wear it every day!

There are a few other projects you can see in my Ravelry projects as well. And i’m currently working on a knit shayla, made with the thinnest and softest yarn i have ever been blessed to have my hands on. Pics to come of that, inshaAllah.