artbeat 3Speak Podcast

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Hey guys! 👋

How you're all doing well

I have off from here for very long time, there was alot going on. But anyways, let's not get our blue feelings get over again.

I have always been afraid to try out baking, partially because I've seen my cousin terribly failling baking attempts, and that I didn't had baking oven. But getting it right was kind of a ideal to be achieved. So I just scrolled down the YouTube searched for a tailored video, applying some conditions, " without oven, without butter paper"etc.. then I came across this perfect tutorial.

[Reference Video ](https://youtu.be/vlD9hOyE0SQ?si=2BRrGesPU4TbVkas)

## Ingredients

So the ingredients yout gonna need are:

- 4 Eggs

- 2 cups of Flour

- 1tsp of Paking Powder

- 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda

- 1 cup Oil/ Butter

- 1/2 cup Sugar

- 2 tsp of Cocoa Powder

- 1/4 cup of Milk

## The Process

First thing first you don't need any fancy mixer, you can get the perfect consistency with a blender. You take white of all the eggs first, putthe yolks aside, and blend whites for almost 2,3 minutes. Then add one yolk and blend for 30 seconds, repeat the process for the number of yolks you have. After that you add the sugar and blend it for 2 minutes. Then you pour one cup of oil and mix it the batter for further 2 minutes.


Now you will have a smooth and light paste, which you'll add into a boul and add flour, baking soda and baking powder through a strainer. Also pour four tsp of milk.


Mix it well.


Now take another bowl with cocoa powder and add 2 spoons of milk, mix them well until there remain no blobs. (Believe me you're gonna make lots of utensils dirty 😂)


Add some amount of main batter. Mix it. ( I really like in-between state)


It's gonna look like this.


Since we don't have any butter paper, so we're gonna do some jugar. Apply a thin layer of oil on inner side of the mold (actually a degchi), and sprinkle flour over it. Gently tap the pot over a surface and spread the flour thinly and evenly.


Now to make the marble texture, pour the 2 batters in patches, i.e. make four patches at first, 2 plain and 2 chocolate ones, and keep on adding alternatives over them. Tgen you'll have something like this.


Here's the most fun part, take a toothpick, swirl it first inward and then outward. I just wanted to keep on doing it but it would have mixed everything completely.


For the baking part, you need to preheat a large pot with a small plate at the very bottom. You don't directly make the contact with heat. When it's completely hot put the batter over the plate, cover the lid and put the stove on very slow heat.


The video said 20 minutes, but I had to bake it for 50 minutes to cook completely😂. Okay you can take off the lid, and put in the toothpick, and if something comes out with it, it still need time and if nothing then your cake is ready to eat😋(That's a classic though 😀).


I struggled a lot in taking it out 😭, because i didn't want to disturb the shiny and sweet crust.


O my god you can see from miles away that the cake tastes really good.


I proudly distributed it among the family and wehad it with tea😋. And the dopamine boost that I got is unexplainable.


You should definitely give a shot to this, it's really healthy, for its made from scratch. You can take the game to next level by adding cream and decorating it with anything you like, because why not?

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I hope you enjoyed through the process.

For now good bye 👋

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Hey guys!

How are you all doing.💕

I think now it's time to level up my crochet skills😅. I cane across a video that short video which said that it's best to start learning crochet from amigurumis, supposedly when we start learning from say granny squares, we need to make a lot of them to complete a project and the sense of accomplishment is delayed. On the other hand, these small projects require less to complete and we can learn a variety of techniques and stitches at a time. And most importantly the feeling of accomplishment is a crucial factor for the motivation to keep on learning.

Having said that, I recently crocheted a beanie for my niece and now one of the is still pending for the other. Now I'm looking for the best patterns and color scheme for a sweater. A long time ago I saw this beautiful pattern in which a lady made a top using this pattern. I searched for the pattern and followed this tutorial: [Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/x-x07CL-D4A?si=8Ou4qM_fMrKLb1-5)

So tried making a sample.

At first the work didn't seem much promising 😅. It was curved and the berries weren't bulging out as they were supposed to be.


But o my God, look at this. It was the first strawberry and it cam out just right. The together stitch at the top of berry was truly a game changer😍.


Here I stopped making after 2 rows and because I had some other plan for this yarn and I didn't want to waste over practicing. 😅



The design that I finalised was something like that I would made the body ribbed as I did for beanie and in the sleeves of the sweater this strawberry pattern would be used. That would give sleeves a nice fluffy texture. Would start it's work soon.

Okay that was all for needleworkmonday 🥰.

See you guys in next blog💞

Take care

Bye bye👋🌸

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Hey guys!👋

How are you all doing? 💞

It's monsoon and the weather is hitting like it never did. I hope it changes soon to make everyday life comfortable.

Ok now in this dazzling heat, I thought to make a woolly warm beanie😂. I wanted to make something that could be worn in the upcoming winters. I have yarn of different colours, so I had to make something as small as a beanie so that it could be made in the available colours. The second reason of making this was to learn to keep the stitches a bit loose. Because in making all those other amigurumis and small stuff, have a stiff grip over yarn is necessary to make them turn out in a nice shape. But I had never tried to make something a bit loose and big like this.

The yarn that I used was 4 ply, it was so fun to make use it as the thick yarn helped in completing the project unexpectedly in 2 days.

The process was followed of this YouTube tutorial: [Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/zPPPGItJp74?si=YzI8AeirsqCQkETh)

And it included making a chain according to the required length and half double crochets in the back loop only. This created a nice lined texture.

After completing the crocheting part, I headed towards embroiding flowers. I have hard and soft relation with embroidery so better thought to follow a tutorial: [Embroidery Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/Hqf3D_7Cc1Y?si=fwUQWmx3GE0i-KvT)

I started off with a french knote, these colours looked already too good together and now I have thought to make use of them in next project.


Then I made the petals of the flower.


One flower looked lonely so I made it a small friend 😅.


Then I added some leaves.


And taaaadaaa!

It's ready.


And here's my bunny wearing it's beanie in the scorching heat😂. She was not ready to take it off. 😅


So that was all for today's needleworkmonday.

See ya guys in next blog.✨

Take care.💞

Bye bye 👋

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Hey guys!

I hope you are all doing well! 💞

So finally I survived through my final examination😮‍💨 and now I would would give all my time to my hobbies. I really missed crocheting and watercolours and sharing the process here. Talking about what and how I do stuff, makes me learn and get to know what I can improve upon.

So after surfing YouTube a little bit, I came across this video.[Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/uHTN4ZjZT3Y?si=Z2TChTaqWGObwAF1) I have seen many tutorials about pouches but I usually find them too basic. But this one looked pretty cute and especially the puffiness at the top was all that inspired me.

After deciding the color, I started the process. The work began with a long chain and I increased stitches only twice. It was all about single crochets. Hete the lower part was ready.


Now it was the turn of white part. Here I was suppose to chain one, skip one Stitch and half double crochet in the next, then chain one and so on.

I was bit worried at this point, because I hadn't watched the full tutorial yet and top part was obviously not turning out like I expected.


It was a relief to see that there was one more round to be done. And that was the game changer.


There were some embroided flowers too. I don't know much about embroidery, or you can say I don't have experience of it yet. But I tried, and it did troubled me at some points.


For closing up the pouch, I crocheted a 100 chains, and passed through those left over gaps.

At first I didn't understand the working of the rope, and I end up making such a long, tentacular bow. And there was no room left for tying it as a charm.


I finally figured it out in the end by watching the tutorial again. How could I be so dumb🤦.

It was actually to tue q small bow at the front, and pull the left over towards back where we can tie it to anything.

So this was the final result. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it🤭



Okay that was all for today.

See ya guys in next blog.

Take care.🌸✨

Bye 👋

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Hey guys 👋

I hope you're doing well!

A few days ago when Rafah was attacked, a clip was circulating in which a man was carrying a headless body of a kid no more than 4 years old. That picture shattered my heart into pieces, like how could a world where there are activists for every other thing, who take over the world when something happens against their will, and these innocent souls are being ended like they don't matter. I mean can you imagine the fire that would have burnt a mother's heart over seeing her baby headless and the father who would have left the tent to bring something to eat and upon returning he could not find those hopes for whom he was holding onto those tough times. They are indeed the people of Jannah.

And being a human and a Muslim it's our duty to speak and advocate for their cause. So to show solidarity, today I recreated Palestine flag bracelet but this time not with the yarn rather common sewing threads.

Here's the [Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/L4i1FXd00vI?si=nYi8D5UeQaak-C08)

It was quite difficult to handle at first, these 6 long threads made by folding 5 times. Though I was making it second time but I needed to consult video quite often.


First flag wasn't that neat, but second one was my most favourite of all till end as it was really perfect of all.


This time instead of twisting tge strands I braided and it too looked good.


Here it was all done.


I'm really satisfied by the end result. The one that I made last time was quite thick because I used yarn, and but this one is good enough to be worn everyday.


Okay that was all for today's needlework.

Keep Palestine in your prayers.

See you guys again,

Take care, bye bye 👋💞

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Hey guys! 👋

I hope you guys are doing well!

When I found this technique of making bracelets with knots, I was amazed to see that how knots can create such beautiful patterns. Whenever I see things such crochet, painting or any other art, each time what I want to know is the underlying patterns. I always makes the complicated things easy to learn and further for experimentation.

Last time, I tried making a Palestine🇵🇸 bracelet, i thought yarn can be used for this purpose but the it turned out to be quite big in size. Then I realised that I was suppose to use cotton embroidery threads. Well I don't have those yet, so then I thought of using regular sewing threads.

I selected a tutorial from YouTube, [Inspiration ](https://youtu.be/sS2BmCzQwbs?si=wR66TGVYsSCc1ruO)

I chose these colours:


We were supposed to use pink of 170cm and green and yellow of 120cm. So took thread of 170cm and folded it 4 times. Then put then all together, make a knot in the middle, so now we have a total of 6 strands.


Then I taped it over cardboard.

What I miss the most during my vacations is my work place, it so convenient and enjoyable to work here back to village this prevelige needs to be compromised.

Here I made the first flower, it didn't looked that neat, but I just trusted the process.


Here I had done a couple of flowers. After completing 2 flowers now I remembered the pattern by heart, this is what makes the process more fun i.e. you don't have to look into video again and again.


Here it's complete. She was really excited for it. She deformed it a little bit by stretching. But I was glad she like it.




But the realization that now can use sewing threads for making more bracelets was so overwhelming. It has many benefits, on the top is that we the liberty of utilizing a wide range of colours, like if you buy embroidery threads it costs a lot and we can have at most 24 colours. But with these we have hundreds of colours to play around. I'm looking forward to make more out of it.

But one thing is for sure, the amount of consistency and work is required in this work is so large. Like you have perform at least 20 knots just to make one little flower.

Okay guys that was all for today.

I hope you like it.

See you guya next time.

Take care bye bye 💕

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Hey guys 👋

Happy Eid-ul-Azha to everyone!💞

I hope you guys are safe from heat stroke. Temperatures are rising alarmingly.

For needleworkmonday I decided to share the process of making this mushroom. This was also among the orders I got. So I went through YouTube for the tutorial. It's quite strange that I sell items and take orders for the things that I'm not sure about even to find a tutorial. But one thing is for sure that if start making something it has to be perfectly I thought of it to turn out. Till then it's crocheting and then opening up the stitches😂. And I'm sure that I'm not the only crocheter doing this.

Okay for the reference I found this tutorial pretty good. [Reference ](https://youtu.be/WM8jHNE91eM?si=--6N_GEqWVJ6tPs8)

When I searched for Mushroom, I stumbled upon some other unique tutorials and I really liked them, so saved them to make for my own recreation. Here they are if you wanna see: [Mushroom 1](https://youtu.be/AUhjM1T5jh8?si=SCr68DX9Y_DHj2BL)

[Mushroom 2](https://youtu.be/Z88qTm0-6o4?si=W2YaS1ljWFmXPGFP)

To begin with I made the cap of the mushroom.

What was more interesting in this tutorial that we had to do FLO in 2nd last row.


And from remaining those loops, the body was to be started from them and the remaining part of cap acted as the shade. And it's body was complete (I always love how these bob stitches act as hands and legs).


Then I made these tiny ears.


I usually attach everything with sewing and I know it's a nightmare for crocheters. I do it quite neatly but I wanted to try uhu this time for the given purpose. And it didn't disappointed.


After adding details including eyes, blush and key chain, here it was ready to be given away. It's always hard to give up on stuff that I make with dedication and diligence.


So how was it?

I hope you guys like it.

Enjoy Eid, stay safe from heat.

Till then Bye bye 👋 💞

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Hey guys! 👋

How are y'all doin!🌷

After my first stall I got some crochet orders. I was super excited to work over them. The girls that ordered stuff had really good taste. They went through Pinterest I guess, and came out with super cute crochet references. I was really nervous at first that I might not be able to make like they would have expected. But keeping this self doubt beside I started to look for the reference videos or patterns.

After surfing a little bit, I found some tutorials that fit for them. I saved them to watch later as I didn't wanna loose them.

So first of all I made this cartoon character, named as "Pikachu". Honestly I never watched these cartoons, I have seen them on different posters and kids stationery etc, but never occurred to me give them a watch.

Here's it's [Reference ](https://youtu.be/fRglXUu1pKk?si=h9HxYEH3ynPKY5FH)

## Materials

I used following materials:

- Crochet Hook

- Tapestry needle

- Yarn ( Yellow 🌻, Black 🖤, and a little bit of Pink 🌸 (it's for blush, but you could also use makeup for this purpose)

## Process

To begin I crocheted the main body first. Then I made all the accessories including, 2 ears, 2 hands and 2 feet. Hands and feet had the same pattern.


Then came the most difficult task, yess, sewing everything together. Here I attached the ears with the body.


Here the tini tiny hands and feet are attached. One things everyone should be awake of that, the attachment of different parts should be occurred symmetrically, by counting the rows in one hand or any other part is being attached and the other should be attached accordingly. These little details make a huge difference. And same goes for faces. Some people's amigurumis don't turn out to be cute or can't give particular vibes that is being wanted , and it's just because of some off proportions.


Here it is ready to be given. I made it's blush by taking out one ply of pink colour and sewing two stitches beneath the eyes!


It's a whole new vibe outdoors, isn't it?

So how was it? 👀

Okay that was all foe today's creativity.

See you guys next time.

Take care🌷🥰

Bye Bye 👋🌻

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Hey guys 👋

How are y'all doing!💞

Prior last week, I was sharing my progress quite consistently, but last week I had a lot to deal with and could not maintain the momentum. While writing this post a thought came across that does even someone care what I went through in the process, why am I writing this all? In a philosophical way, "what's the point of it?"😅. But you know what I'm excited about is when I'll look at all this in future, say 10 or 20 years later, I'm definitely gonna be proud of myself not just for getting out of my comfort zone but also for documenting every little detail that I would most likely forget till then.


Anyways let's stop being emotional and deal with the topic😂. All the time in my university I was surfing canva for a logo design or to make something to present as a poster.

These were the templates that I tried at first but they were not giving the vibes.



This was the final template I liked at the end. I edited it, added my Instagram QR code, picture and a caption.

The size of image was really large so I just added it's screenshot.


I previously told ya guys that I was unable to open the chains, so one the weekend I snuk out his tools🤭. They were a bit dusty so i had to clean it.


Adding keychains was the most satisfying part, and the end result was really adorable.


Now the next problem was that how am I gonna display them on the table. We had these cardboards, that we got with bedsheets, and I was saving for something, knowing that they have some greater function to perform. If we put even a little flexible paper behind, it tend to stand stand in a perfect angle. Ans I used thum pins to hang them over it.

There were many pending tasks so my father helped my helped me get them ready.


So this how they turned on the big day.


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Hey guys 👋!

How are y'all doing 💞

At my stall these bouquet keychains were tge hot selling. I had made ten of them and all of them went away in a single day. And even I got some orders after it. So let me guys share the process of making these colorful lads.

While making them in a number as big as ten, they made me tired the most. But today was supposed to make just 2, that too requires a lot of work if you're obsessed with dealing.

## Materials

Following are the required materials:

- Crochet hooks

- Tapestry needle

- Yarn (colour of your own desire; I used pink, yellow, white, brown, light purple, sky blue and pistachio green)

## Pattern

Daisy;

5 stitches into magic ring

Change colour with a slip Stitch

Chain 2, 1dc, chain 2, slip into same stitch

Start next petal with a slip stitch

Lavender:

Chain 20

Slip stitch on the back of those chains.

Chain colour

Change colour slip stitch into next stitch

Repeat for almost 8 times on one side depending upon you desired size.

## Process

I took start with making all the daisies.

I wanted to finish them all side by side, but end up doing it at te end.


Here I started giving stems to flowers.


Then I made the the lavenders.


These were all stemmed here, but still those extra threads needed to be sorted.


Look at the mess I have to civer up. I see some people who keep it as it is. But I can't help myself.


Okay so after clearing everything for an hour, we have these neat buddies 😍


Here I assembled them tied them off with yarn. It's complete to be given away. Just attaching keychain and ribbon and remaining.


While assembling I realised I lost one flower, so I have one more pending task🥲.

Okay guys that was all for today's creativity.

See ya guys next time🤗

Bye bye 👋,