Is it Nostelgia feast today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR anything else

Remembering prissy days of Bhadra  Months I become nostalgic and remembered last year’s laborious project I completed in this month . There is a saying in Haryana  about Bhado that “bhadon /Bhadra main to siri bhi bhaj jaayaa krain  sain” ( the agricultural labours run away and quit farm work for their landlords ……due to harsh conditions to work in the fields in the month of Bhadra )  

This is the rack and  is custom made  by my handyman 

2-Shelf Kitchen Rack with Fabric Dust Cover. 30'"Wx27.75"Dx25.5"H

it was placed  in the  lower shelf   almirah of the room as the renovation in the kitchen was on the way that time 

 One of my prepping project that was completed last year these days was a wood storage rack. It was built with some used lumber "scrounged" from a construction site. It's 30'"Wx27.75"Dx25.5"H

 in size. It was made three feet wide to accommodate tit bits of kitchen  . This was made to fit under the kitchen’s preparation platform    as a place to store some kitchen items   in a place that would be accessible when in need .

This versatile Kitchen and dish cloth  rack in wood scrap with zip opening  is easy to operate . One  shelve  stack bottles juicers, antique pans  ,wooden spatulas, spoons, ladles, and churners   and second shelve stacks dish cloths mesh cloths, muslin cloth etc.    Our dust cover protects stack while a zipper provides easy access to shelves.

Kitchen that was transformed into store house 

Since we will purchase/built a new big house in the near future, I didn’t want to procure any new drawer or almirah or I didn’t want to add doors to my store slab (which was our previous kitchen ..and the space ..from cooking platform  and upper open shelf can be made almirah by adding additional slabs and doors )so in short I wanted to make something a little quicker to hold my growing stash of yarn, thread, floss, macramé wires, beads, fabrics and lace.etc…etc, so I decided to cover a wooden rack with some fabric wadding and plastic sheet to prevent the internal space from dust…in our arid area the fine powdery sand particles are really nuisance especially in summer that they used to penetrate through the foam wadding+ fabric so I have to sandwich a plastic sheet necessarily….

later i covered this rack

Here is how…….  Here, Here..., Here

Click the links above 

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a tale of my wooden needles, crochet bag complete

 

Hand carved wood Knitting needles  

Size yet to be explored

I made my handyman to make me a pair of big and fat knitting needles. Yes wood is warm, smooth and soft and won’t drain heat from the fingers the way aluminum and plastic needles do.

This time I asked him to make needles after making my racks..he made racks out of wooden strips left from the logs during making door frames. He used to make use of leftover strips by making wooden frames for shoes, books, kitchen and toys for children.

 

When I asked him to use his expertise for making knitting needles for me …he promised to make me whenever he got the soft wood for them.

And as soon as he got the wooden strips of soft wood he made me a pair… He made  my big knitting needles from wooden strip, First he sawed the strip in half. It's made from a soft wood so it was easy to shape. A very big pencil sharpener would have been handy but with an army jack knife he roughly shaped the end of the needle. Then with amplifying paper he sanded it. Finally he smoothed it off by hand with fine sand paper.  These needles are a fraction of the cost of the bought ones and just as good.

 my love for wood

For me as haryanvi. …where I used to see my grandpa bringing long fat roots of babul for making our doi and jherani ( for making click HERE) during preparing land for kharif crop. rohida for making chakki , khejari for fuel wood……. Its but natural that I was Wishing for wooden knitting needles is but natural.




Wooden needles made from soft wood.



Furthermore, wood is our greatest renewable natural resource. It is environmentally friendly; it’s recyclable, biodegradable and durable; when it is no longer needed it can be returned to the earth.

How I feel about these needles

The smooth and lustrous surface of my wood needles allows my stitches to move freely for hours of comfortable knitting. Made from soft wood in waves of sand color, the sharp, gradually tapered points slip easily into stitches so even complicated cables and K3togethers are easy to maneuver. The soft wood warms quickly in my hands, and the burnished surface provides just the right amount of grip to manage slippery yarns. The grooves in each needle help keep the stitches from slipping off the needle while they are being held either in front or in back of my  work. Pair  of these two  provides an ideal size for any project.

My beautiful round bottomed crochet bag is complete now I will write down the pattern in later posts and very soon ! 

 

I made the lining with sheer white net fabric

 

the opening is through a beautiful string with the metal beads at each end.



my d-in-law modeling for the purse/bag I will made on for her with red yarn. Red is her fav colour.
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the salvaged items

It was in the month of June last year, all around town you one can   see the effect of the storm for long.  Every house, next to the road there is a pile of branches and tree trunk sections. I suppose the city is supposed to be picking them up, and they may be picking them up starting on the other side of town for all I know. However, it looks as if we're going to head toward fall still driving carefully around piles of wood that have edged into the road.

The branches covered with leaves have baked brown and the leaves rattle down the street in the wind. The trunk sections, neatly chain sawed, ooze sap. One industrious family converted the whole pile into a beautiful stack of firewood between their driveway and the garage; I saw it today. We don't have a pile of wood nor a wood-burning fireplace (we have gas) so I don't have a huge interest in the matter. But that frugal, crafty part of me looks longingly and with some frustration at those beautiful trunk sections every time I drive to the store. Surely they can't just sit by the road, doing nothing.

 

 
I have thought that my niece would absolutely love to play on a few of those large sections if I   put them in the backyard, but   we don't have any to accommodate, but I salvaged some branches and then cut them up in pieces and after drying I stored them in my terracotta pot in the corner .what a beautiful deco item it is! Later I will segregate the wooden pieces .larger for making coasters smaller for buttons and rest will be used for my other crafty items.  

When I was little, about third grade, we used to be lived in our rural house in Haryana  a with a huge yard at our nohra and our farmland that bordered on a mostly- Khejarli

forest. Our own farm was chock-full of Khejarli rees and it was with fear and delight that I watched from our hut    

behind the wholes and the sliding wooden doors as they swayed alarmingly back and forth during the Dust_storm that tracked fairly near our farm. When a tree fell or when one had to be cut down my father would cut the trunk into lengths then split them into firewood. We had a pretty nice wood pile and I know we played on it far more than either of my parents would have liked. We didn't know about brown recluse spiders but we did keep an eye out for snakes. I can still remember the bizarre, sweetish rotting smell of khejari leaves after it sat in the rain for a while. Once my father cut up a tree into various lengths and set them shoulder to shoulder in a semi-circle to dry. We used it for our house. Good times.

 

My father has always been attracted to wood and is a good collector of wooden articles out of our own wood en pieces. Only in the last few years has he been able to devote more time to his hobby and has made some beautiful things: Legs of 50    Charpoies  (  a picture of making legs),

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Click   Here to see the method of weaving charpoy

gorgeous toys for the children, inspired my father I recently  bought bowels from a Khadi Gramodyog fair wooden box and, bowls. These two pictured here…

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