Fashion trend ruffles and one shoulder

A hot fashion trend this year are ruffles. They look fabulous and can be beautifully incorporated into gorgeous dress, skirt or blouse designs as they are meant to upgrade the look, attracting attention. The new fashion designs fit for this 2010 spring summer season are meant to enhance femininity and ruffles manage to do so exactly.Ruffles look extraordinary, whether meant to be the main part of the design, or to emphasize certain details.

As they are an eye catching item, ruffles are usually an option for women who are not afraid of standing out of the crowd. 

 Dolce & Gabanna

Oscar de la Renta

 Valentino

Marc Jacobs

One-shoulder styling has been a popular trend for dresses and tops for a couple of years. This fashion occupies runways and our wardrobe solidly. And this year swimwear trends reflect this asymmetrical design too. We're seeing one-shoulder styling on both one-piece swimsuits and bikinis as well as on swimwear coverups.

 Bottega Veneta

 Calvin Klein

Jason Wu

Viktor & Rolf

I was inspired by these two hot trends to make this summer top:

My love for ruffles is shown on many of my creations:

Coffee with the girlz!

Last Thuersday I went downtown after work to meet the girls for coffee!The meeting was set by Maria from her blog and of course I couldn't miss it! Mania, a good friend was there too, with whom we wanted for months to meet, but had not managed to do it till then. She brought for all of us memoirs from her granddoughter's christening, hanmade of course by her:

Aren't they lovely?

Panagiota was there too, aka Olivetreegirl and I was very happy to mmet her in person!Very sweet!I hope we can meet again! Maria had brought her knitting and we admired her work!
After coffee we went to the shops looking for yarn and I finally found the fine cotton yarn for crocheting I was looking for!I bought 20 different colors!

and the very next day I started playing with it!These are my two first creations:

And finally I managed to take photos from a crochet halter top I finished long ago:

Craft party and show

On Monday I came back from Poros, where I participated to the 2 days craft show of the Etsy Greek Street team!
The show was a big success and we had a great time too! No need to say much, the pics say it all:

In June, Etsy celebrated it's 5 years anniversary globally, and our team organized a craft party on Maria's fabulous terrace, where we crafted enjoying tha amazing view of Acropolis!

Craft show at Poros island

Decorate your towels with crochet trims

I found a pretty decorating idea for your bath towels in an old crochet book:

 

trim pattern 1:

 trim pattern 2:

trim pattern 3:

 trim pattern 4:

trim pattern 5:

trim pattern 6:

Just finished!

Sales are very very slow lately in my shop and I decided to knit something for myself :)
I knit a sweater in lavender purple with a fabulous lace pattern:

 I finally took pictures and listed a shrug I finished some time ago:

Lace patterns are my favorites!You can find the instructions for the lace stitches here!

crochet is trendy

This summer crochet is very trendy on the catwalks! Gorgeous dresses and outfits were included in the collections of many famous designer:

 Chanel

Diane von Fuerstenberg

 Les Copains

I have marked for some time now, some beautiful patterns which I want to make :

but till now never had the time to start anything! For the time being, I only make small things like brooches and necklaces for my shop:

But if you have the time and the mood to make a crochet dress or a skirt for the summer, you can find fantastic patterns online, like these from  knitting daily:

Or you can try this skirt pattern, which is very easy :