My mom, brother, and I spent our long weekend in Bohol to celebrate my mom's 59th birthday. It's been quite some time since she had a good vacation, so we went all out for this one.
To start things off, we got this view from our balcony. This is the Panglao Room of Bohol Bee Farm. If the doors are open, this is the view you get when you wake up in the morning (because the bed is literally facing it). [Insert the sound of the trumpets of heaven]
I kid you not in saying that one of the first things I thought of was, "Where can I crochet?" It's been a fantasy of mine to crochet in a serene place where you can hear the birds chirp, the wind blow, and the sound of the sea waves envelop you. Yes, I found it. Here comes my serene crocheting pic on the balcony. I'm crocheting a shawl here.
Click the link to see more of Bohol Bee Farm (and my yarn in Bohol)!
Gantsilyo in the limelight! Woot! Woot! The segment was shown earlier in "Good News Kasama Si Vicky Morales" on GMA News TV.
Got the (surprise) call more than a week ago about the feature on gantsilyo for this show. We shot my segment just last Monday. I'm happy that gantsilyo is being featured!
Here are some "behind the scenes" pics. Can't believe my more than a minute part took almost 5 hours to shoot! We shot the scenes in the La Mesa Ecopark.
All-out for all of my crocheted creations.
This is me attempting to explain how to make a crocheted flower petal. Since explaining and demonstrating a pattern on video can take so long, my line was practically reduced to just "crocheting a chain and single crochets" to make my spiel fit the limited air time.
The segment (on the last part) also debuted my crocheted African Flower Bed Throw! Although it was already shown in the video, I'm still holding back from showing pictures in its entirety (as if I have not killed the suspense already).
Thanks to the "Good News Kasama Si Vicky Morales" Team of GMA News TV for the feature! Thanks to my brother Genesis as well for being our impromptu production assistant for the shoot.
Here's the video! My segment starts on 0:34. You can also see my African Flower Bed Throw on 4:35. This segment also features crocheters Shannen Chua and Milli Reyes.
Because the wind feels a bit colder and more Christmas-y, I am finally revealing THE crochet project that started it all for me.
I was taught how to crochet in 3rd year high school in Poveda. The craft just clicked with me the moment I started making those chains and single crochets. I liked how I became so zoned out when I was practicing my stitches. So I decided to buy my very first (brand new and expensive) crochet book and crochet a pattern out of it. I wanted to challenge myself if I could do what that book was showing.
Honestly, I don't know why I chose the tree as the project to submit. I could have just given the doily seen on the cover (by the way, I did the doily, but I didn't submit it). I bought my yarn from DMC Megamall. I think I used the itsy-bitsy size 9 steel hook. Dealing with a small-sized steel hook (at the beginning of my crochet life) gave me the best training because overcoming small stitches made me a better crocheter. Bigger sizes of yarn seemed sooooo easy to deal with.
Without further ado, here's the tree...Kabammm!
I think it's been almost 13 years since 3rd year high school. This doesn't look bad at all after 13 years. I starched it for my project submission in class but haven't washed it since then (ew). And no, it's not standing on its own. There's a cone under it that supports it.
