The first shout out in this tutorial has to go to Vintage Grrl, without her I wouldn’t have been able to make these awesome gloves because she hand spun the yarn for it! How freaking cool is that? Please go visit her blog because she is truly a very skilled and talented lady.

I was so happy when this arrived at my door!

Look at the lovely colours, it reminds me of yummy candy

This is what it looked like after I balled it. I couldn’t ask for a more “me” colour!

And this is what I made out of half of it… a pair of very frilly fingerless gloves I searched Ravelry for patterns but I couldn’t settle on something that I really liked so I took a very basic lace stitch and made a standard fingerless glove with ruffles ^_^

Now I’m going to try and show you how I made them. Please be kind because this is the first knitting/crochet pattern I’ve ever written so it may make no sense at all. I’m more of a visual person so I prefer to just knit and see if it looks right rather than following patterns to the letter but you girls keep asking for patterns so here goes nothing!

Row 1: Cast on 44 stitches. (please adjust the number according to the size of your wrist and hand)
Row 2: *Knit 2, purl 2* repeat until end of row. Repeat for rows 3-13.
Row 14: *Knit 2, K2tog* repeat until end of row.
Row 15:  K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1. Repeat for rows 16-30.
Row 31: Cast off 14 stitches. K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1.
Row 32-42: K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1.
Row 43: Cast off.

You should end up with something vaguely similar to this:

Now fold the left side in half, this will form the finger holes. Fold the right side in half too to make the thumb. Sew together.

You have something like this…

Make a second one. Also make sure you try them on to make sure they fit!

Now let’s crochet some ruffles. I used a very simple stitch to do this…

Single crochet in the first stitch, chain 2, 2xdouble crochet in the same stitch, single crochet in the next stitch etc. Repeat until you’ve gone all the way around the finger and thumb.

You have something like this…

Now you should sew a stitch between each finger. This is optional but I prefer it ^_^

Add some ruffles to the bottom ribbing. This time I just did 3 double crochet into each stitch.

Taaadaaa! And there you have it. Cute lacy fingerless gloves ^_^

Phew! I’m all tired from trying to remember how I made the gloves, next time I have to take more photos while I’m actually doing it and write it down as I go Now go have a look at Vintage Grrl‘s beautiful yarn!

Last weekend a whole lot of bloggers met up at Koko Black to eat a whole lot of chocolate. A whole lot of fun followed.

There are a huuuge number of photos from the day, around 30 or so bloggers turned up, each with their own cameras in hand. I’ve put my photos in a gallery here so you can have a look through easily and to avoid this post becoming just full of “…and this is me with ___” I’ve added some of my favorites below ^_^

Gallery:

Click for larger photos or navigate through the pages at the bottom. To get out of gallery mode just click the photo again.

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The lovely Penny from Jeroxie and I were the organizers of this one and Nuffnang sponsored our chocolate addiction. Yummy!

It was so lovely to be able to meet a lot of people I’ve been talking to online in person!

So many people came and it was fantastic! I wish I had gotten more time to chat with everyone there but I had a great time anyway!

The view from the other end of the table! There were even more people than this but we took the photos at the beginning.

Sarah from 100 Dates was a little bit silly to bet me that I couldn’t finish both my ice chocolate aaaand a hot chocolate.

I win!! Where’s my prize? I felt soooo full afternoon even though I forgot to have lunch before hand >_<

The silly scarf brigade

Makes it slightly difficult to eat chocolate…though not for lack of trying!

There was such a lot of photo posing going on! I don’t want to post every one of these so please do check the gallery above for the rest ^_^

This is Sylvia and I, we had been talking online for so long it was almost like meeting an old friend!

Alice and Ness who I was so happy were able to come! Having a few friends at events like this makes it so much easier to break the ice ^_^

Bunny who is the sweetest person I think I’ve ever met!

Of course Penny and I had to be slightly silly and take photos of each other taking photos because we have the same camera Though I deco’d mine this week so it looks slightly more pink and sparkly now

Everyone wrote their blog addresses down so we could catch up with each other again soon, here is the list, please go have a look at their blogs ^_^

• www.alookinmybook.com
• www.ihua.blogspot.com
• www.messtyle.com
• www.jeroxie.com
• www.thq13.tumblr.com
• www.eatdrinkstagger.com
• www.bunny-florentine.com
• www.poppygetsalife.com
• www.aurorahime.blogspot.com
• www.100dates.org
• www.healthypartygirls.com
• www.changsylvia.blogspot.com
• www.michelle-chin.com
• www.thecakemistress.com/blog
• www.jimmyamerica.com
• www.project-kathryn.com
• www. nessbow.webs.com

I think that’s everyone, if I missed you I’m sorry please let me know in the comments ^_^

I had such a wonderful time and I really hope we can have more events like this soon!

Hi lovely readers!

I’m very excited to announce the finalists for my Celebration Give Away I couldn’t believe how many people entered and the quality of the entries made it really hard for me to choose the 3 for you to vote on, I even had to ask James to help me! So without further ado…

Entry A!

Calling all princesses! VioletLeBeaux.com features everything a girl needs to be a princess, without breaking the bank! Creative, step-by-step tutorials show you how to use a couple gems and a bit of lace to turn everyday blah into something fit for a princess!

Entry B!

A blog dedicated to the frillier side of life, focusing on beautifying yourself and the world around you. Learn to customize and create clothing to your liking, decorate your living space, and be inspired by the luxurious “hime gyaru” look from Japan.

Entry C!

My blog? Well, it’s unique. There’s no other one like it. It’s creative, artistic, and entertaining. A place where all girls of all ages can come to, to find their inner princess. From tutorials, to sharing my personal life, violetlebeaux.com is the place where all things are possible.

So to vote please use the poll below or on the side bar. I will be leaving it up until Midnight my time next Wednesday. Only votes in the poll will be counted so make sure to cast yours!

Thanks so much for all the time you guys took to enter!

Good luck everyone!!

*EDIT* A couple of people have let me know that they can’t see the poll. It’s a Java Script poll so please make sure that you have all the latest versions of your software/browser etc and make sure your firewall isn’t blocking java. I am looking for a non-java solution to this so you can all vote so please be patient. */EDIT*

*EDIT 2* Ok.. Hopefully this will solve the problem. I have added a html poll below so that fingers crossed everyone will be able to see it. If you are unable to vote in the Nuffnang poll please vote below. If you can see the Nuffnang poll please use that. At the end of the time I will add the results together and find the winner. Apologies if this seems a little convoluted but I want to allow everyone the chance to vote to keep it fair. I will release the total number of results and statistics with the winner announcement.  */EDIT*