Knit Pouch

The second knitting kit were the pouches. It came with these two colors of yarn.


I did make a "practice" one with blue, but I didn't really care for the color too much...
Coincidentally, the zippers in the kit were again, pink and green! So, I decided to make with my own yarns using these zippers.

This time I learned how to increase and decrease the stitches addition to adding a design like from the last kit.

And of course, how to apply a zipper...
As you can tell, it was time-consuming and a struggle! I almost got attempted to use sewing machine instead of hand stitching it, but it probably would be still difficult to do anyway...!
My yarn was a bit thicker than the one came with the kit, so I had to adjust a little to fit a zipper in, maybe that made it even more difficult! Argh... but pink was irresistible!
Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with how it came out even though it is a bit crooked.. lol
Green one to come... soon, hopefully...

Coasters

To re-learn basic and new techniques of crochet and knitting, I've ordered the kits from Japan which arrive every month for 6 months from the items using basic skills to more advanced ones. Supposingly, I should know the major techniques to crochet/knit by the time I finish all the 6 projects. That's exciting!

After checking my mail box daily, the first kits arrived and they were both coasters.

Crochet kit came with blue/white (they called it pink though) yarns.















With very thorough instruction, I could make some circle coasters.
Starting with the loop, using single crochet all the way.

First with single color, and I tried out a couple of them with both colors making a design.



















Knitting kit came with pink and green (how could they know my favorite?!)



These were also with the basic knit and purl.
With combining them, you end up with a design, in this green one, the tree!
I thought to put an initial on the plain pink one with the blanket stitches around.
I think they came out very well considering I only made a plain scarf before!
More the tree design getting shaped row after row, the bigger my smile became!

My husband loved this tree coaster so much he uses everyday to put his precious beer bottle on it. lol



My co-workers also loved the idea of yarn coasters, so I made them their own.

I put a little dot in the middle for crochet one :), blanket stitch one with her inital on it, and the tree coaster for another.



Very basic but very fun project!