Crafty Ho

I've been doing stuff!

2008-12-03T17:12:00.000-08:00

Yes I have, winter is just plain crafty season because well it's cold and crappy, this winter especially.

Stuff made from my fabric haul:

Pocket Fitted Diapers:

And another, the baby can no longer not hang off of me, look at my gawjus knees!

They're all green faux 'minky' inners, if you're not a sewing person you probably have no clue what minky is, it's like a soft soft almost velvet almost fur.

Pocket diapers:

They don't have snaps yet in that pic, they do now. The red one has royal blue snaps, the black one has yellow, and the ocean colored one has black.

inside:

I've almost used up all the pul and suedecloth I bought for next to nothing. I just need to make some AIOs now and I'll be good.

Last but not least, the reason I shouldn't ever make knitted toys... The awful, wonky sad looking turtle. I started this last February and just now got around to sewing it up, I know why I hesitated so long now.

I also made Xander a hat, and am starting the sleeves for a sweater for Trent, it has an intarsia T on the chest, so cute!

WHEE! Fabric Haul.

2008-10-10T14:35:00.001-07:00

I went to Joann's today and made a killing on Columbus Day sales cack. The goofy looking reindeer, bats and skull guitar's are all for fitted diaper outers, the zebra and green faux minky are inners for various diapers.

It was almost worth having to haul two kids to 4 stores today, yeah almost :|

I need to get to sewing!

I am trying to kill some time before 8pm

2008-10-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

So I figured I'd show off my favorite diaper of all the ones I've made for T.

it's a Rita's Rump Pocket pattern with quite a bit of modification. Since I just sold off almost all of my prefolds (they are NOT working for us anymore) I think I shall make some more. I'm also working on daddy friendly AIOs for when I go to school. Stay tuned more things a-comin'!

I finished some things, wish I could finish everything.

2008-10-02T05:18:00.000-07:00

I've got a bit on my plate right now, I just signed up for school, the holidays (my god how did this season get upon us ALREADY??), and I'm trying to finish/start projects left and right. Not to mention chase a semi mobile baby who seems intent on hurting himself at every turn.

I finished these with the yarn I dyed from my previous post. I think they turned out quite nicely, the super cute model helps too!

And another, but really all your seeing is the back of the head because, he cannot sit still anymore.

Somewhat creepy sock monkey butt, I charted out this pattern and when I was knitting it I realized, wow this looks a little uh posessed. At least it's on the heiny. Yes it needs a second leg, I HATE grafting anything which is why it's been sitting with one leg for a week. Need to get on that badly.

Now someone tell me how he went from this:

To this:

And this:

Not to mention this: (check out those hammy ham legs!)

In only a short 9 months! The first year a wild trip man.

content and peektures

2008-09-01T06:35:00.000-07:00

I swear I'm so lazy I have to force myself to photograph stuff anymore. Anyway here are the diapers I've sewn so far, they will be for sale on etsy when I have a few more made *hint nudge*

I have not been knitting much of anything but I finally got some inspiration and found a skein and a half of the bare merino dk from knitpicks, so I got out my dye and dyed it for pirate longies and perhaps a matching hat. The black got slightly felted because I'm an impatient idiot, but it's not unusable so that's good. The other skein is cranberry red. The sun was awful at 8am, behind the yarn is my 87 honda, yes it still runs.

Look who's crawling away!

Geeze mom want to stop blinding me with that flash?

I am seriously dying to get back into knitting.

2008-08-31T05:51:00.000-07:00

The cooler weather perhaps? I located a few balls of the bare merino yarn from knitpicks I had stashed away and they're just dying to be dyed (haha yeah) black and red for some cute pirate-ish longies for the baby boy.

On the side note I'm nearly ready to start my etsy cloth diaper store, I've got 2.5 sewn up currently. Pics will come today hopefully I finally have some free time.

Yeah soooo...

2008-07-11T21:13:00.000-07:00

I'm not dead! And I've been doing stuff! I don't have all the pictures of all the stuff but I have some of the pictures of some of the stuff. Some of the stuff is in the baby's room with the sleeping baby and well you know you are never EVER to wake up a sleeping baby.

I've made 2 pairs of wool shorties one pair is for sale for $25 *wink nudge*, and three soakers. I also sewed up a cloth diaper, and a blankie for Trent.

For sale shorties, decided they were just too pink for the boy, yes I'm terribly sexist, what can I say?

Peace sign soaker:

Pocket Fitted diaper from Rita's Rump Pocket pattern. Not bad for my first attempt at diaper making, considering I'm definitely not a seamstress.

I'm currently trying to come up with some sort of side snapping fleece/suedecloth pocket diaper for my kiddo and possibly to sell so I'll be looking for testers, if you want to try one cheap let me know. I'm not sure who even reads here anymore and or has babies or cloth diapers, lol.

Dying to Dye?

2008-03-05T07:50:00.000-08:00

Okay that was wickedly cheesy but I'm going on 4 hours of broken sleep give me a break.

I finally finished some diapers, and this completes my entire stash, yay!!

Motherease liners and t-shirts.

Motherease One-Size

GMD brown edge premium prefolds

GMD Yellow Edge Infants.

I need to make a few more wool wraps, and that's it.

I just bought a toy knitting book and big boy wants a gingerbread man, and little boy wants a turtle according to big boy.

And because I can't resist, awww...

Update!

2008-01-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

I figured what better way to show off the last thing I made then by letting the recipient model it ;).

Trenton Henry born on December 28th. Almost a month old already!

I don't think this will be a permanent craft..

2007-12-08T10:56:00.000-08:00

But I thought it would be 'fun' to tie dye onesies and some of my prefolds. It wasn't nearly as much fun as one would hope. They do look pretty cute though, and the cheap WalMart dylon dye seems to work just fine despite people on the internets saying you have to buy the far more expensive stuff from dharma. It was messy though, and I was sweating like a pig and exhausted by the time it was over. Here are the results:

Onsies:

Newborn Prefolds:

Infant Prefolds:

Eh I know that no one will really see the diapers, but maybe it will make me cheerier to see the bright happy colors while I'm washing off poo?

Finally something finished.

2007-12-02T07:37:00.000-08:00

It took way too long and I messed up only about 10,000 times. That's what I get I guess for trying to rework a pattern without taking actual notes or anything. And I think the hood is too small, if this kid has my husband's head like the last kid, well it isn't going to fit. And I'm pretty sure I need to pound the snaps again to get them to set right. *sigh* not so much success I suppose. I wish I would have made this kid more blankets too, but with 3-6 weeks left probably not going to happen.

What's that you say, actual content?

2007-11-06T06:11:00.000-08:00

Just to kill some time while I wait for the Dr.s office to open, bah still feeling crappy.

Stuff I knitted for babay:

Not nearly as much as I thought I had done, but then I had to make a halloween costume this year. The black and white stripe thing that's IP will be a romper eventually. Blanket and hat from SnB crochet, hat and socks from random internet patterns, red pants from Chic Knits for Stylish babies, romper too.

The boy was Link from Legend of Zelda

Yes I sewed it! And I absolutely suck at sewing so I'm pretty proud of myself.

And of course we couldn't leave out the dog, Indy was an inmate. It's because he's a thief! Anything laying around is instantly his.

There he is getting yard time, for decently good behavior.

And if you care to take a peek at my new pregnancy blagh it is here: Pierced Reproduces! right now it's not much more than a backlog of the blog I had up at a certain internet messageboard, hoping to do more with it now though.

New things coming!

2007-11-05T06:56:00.000-08:00

I will probably get some pics snapped of everything I've completed today after my fun morning of bill paying, I have a nasty miserable cold and snapping pics sounds way more attractive than say um cleaning or anything else important.

9 days and counting

2007-09-18T05:47:00.000-07:00

Until I can say bye bye to my job. Then I shall knit!

I can't say I have a lot going on in that department right now although I did manage a pair of baby socks and am almost done with a hat.

I'm going to get this book http://www.amazon.com/Chic-Knits-Stylish-Babies-Charming/dp/0823099954 I wish they gave some idea on yarn type these things use, I'm eyeing the knitpicks swish dk but no clue if it uses dk, hmm.

it seriously took me forever to remember my log in!

2007-09-13T06:10:00.000-07:00

It's been a really long time.

Updates

pregnancy = good
work = bad
family = good
dead refrigerator = bad

And this took me like 3 months to complete, think he'll shit on my bed?

He normally looks less angry I swear

I haven't been updating, here is why..

2007-07-11T08:43:00.001-07:00

Well first I got a job. Then I got one of these. Then because that isn't enough, on Mother's Day I got this. Now I've got this (I'm due in January). Other than a baby blanket that's taking me forever to finish I've got nothing else.

Spring break blog.

2007-04-16T12:56:00.000-07:00

The week of spring break was....interesting. The weather sucked the whole entire week for one thing. I also had to put one of my cat's to sleep, his kidney's were failing and he was quite sick. Then to top it all off I got a job, I am the newest salesfloor wench at Target. Amazingly none of this interfered with me finishing another pair of socks lol, the sign of a true addict I suppose.

Cruddy cell phone pic me = lazy.

To top off the craziness we've decided to get a puppy. My child is at a good age for a dog and I really need another furry creature to love. I am probably insane. I am also thinking about starting a sweater for said furry creature that I don't have yet, so I am probably doubly insane.

Now hurry up weather and get nice, I am tired of chasing my blown away lawn chairs out of the neighbor's yard.

2007-04-04T07:50:00.000-07:00

OMG two posts in one day! I tried to update my sidebar, and I'm sure I missed a shitload of people so if I missed you leave me a comment yo. I tried to change my template back in September and lost everything, you can see how motivated I am with it being April and me just fixing it now.

Yup

2007-04-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

It's April 4th and the snow is coming! I hate Ohio. At least I'll have warm socks to wear when the weather gets ugly ;).

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Jaywalkers made out of my handdyed that I messed up (it bled and I didn't have the striping right). The merino/silk is luscious. I have started yet another pair of socks, monkey from Knitty's winter edition. I still haven't touched my sweaters, and I have a bunch of yarn left to dye. And spring break is next week which means I will get nothing done.

Well

2007-03-21T05:23:00.000-07:00

I've gotten quite a bit done since my last update, and it's all for sale in my new etsy shop.

ETSY!

Now that I've gotten those things done I will actually finish some of my other projects. Hopefully maybe.

So what am I doing?

2007-02-09T05:43:00.000-08:00

Other than freezing my butt off in sub zero artctic temps? Hibernating and knitting/crocheting of course!

My only completed new project can be seen her STASHALONG the baby blanket I desperately need to ship out, next week I swear *paranoid*. I love crocheting round-ish blankets, it's like instant gratification.

This (very attractive malabrigo, thank you so much for giving me this yarn you know who you are <3) lump will eventually be a lovely cropped 3/4 sleeve cardigan for spring, yes I'm thinking of spring! I need something to wear over the ON long tanks I seem to buy in bulk, lol. I started the sleeves last night so hopefully *crosses fingers* I can have the thing completed soonish.

Here is the infamous never ending cat skull/striped sweater. I can't even recall when I started it but I think the weather was hot so yeah it's been awhile.

Sleeve detail:

I am so proud of that sweater but I don't know why I can't bring myself to finish it *sigh* I charted that cat skull all on my own, I measured and sized the thing for myself it's going to look so cool on but it just seems like so much work to complete even though it's not.

And my non crafting project:

Mmm white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. You can see the last two people who tried to eat it on the stove there behind it *grin*.

Hopefully I'll have more to show for myself next time *sigh*.

Finally finished some stuff..

2007-01-21T09:56:00.000-08:00

Yes I have!

Xander's Train Socks
Pattern: Nada, got the intarsia out of Style your Own Kid's Knits

Xander's Spiderman Afghan
Pattern: Here

Bonus crocheted spider because after I finished the blanket he asked me where the spider to go into the web was.

Pair number 2 of fingerless convertible mittens (stash project)
Pattern: Magknits

And last but not least, all the supplies for my first from scratch skirt:

Notice the yardstick, it's so lame lol, that's all they had at the store. A quilter does not live here!

Well well well..

2007-01-07T18:39:00.000-08:00

Look who's updating or something. I'm thrilled that the holiday craziness is over and things are more or less back to normal.

Knitting has been sporadic at best other than making things for other people, for sale or whatnot.

I made this bag for a friend:

Other than the fact that I can't tie a ribbon to save my life, she likes it a lot.

I also made a pair of socks for someone's child and a few hats for someone else's children, but I was too lazy/busy/distracted to photograph either before they went out.

I do have plans to make stuff though, and I have a few WIPs so hopefully I'll have more to show for myself next update.

My lists stuff to make/WIP..

WIP:
~Train socks for Xander 50% complete
~Awesome striped catskull head top down raglan for moi 70%ish (I so need to finish this but everytime I look at it I don't want to work on it)

Stuff to Make:
~This for Xander
~A star rug for my LR since it's impossible to find a rug that I actually like.
~Cabled hoodie with fur lined hood like the one I posted a pic of a few entries back.
~New convertable mittens since I lost one of mine at the tree farm. Doh!
~From scratch sewed skirt, from Sew What? Sew Skirts (a great book btw, especially for sewing dummies like myself)

I will end this by showing off my little artist, this is the child that was so not into crayons or drawing etc at the beginning of the school year:

Snake in a Cage! Way to cute not to share :D

The holidays, knitting plans, etc.

2006-11-20T06:05:00.000-08:00

I am not holiday knitting this year (which I'm sure is really obvious since I haven't mentioned it), the lack of appreciation I got for last years stuff has made me not want to take the time or the effort or spend the money. But the nice thing is it frees up my time to selfishly knit for myself :P.

Still working on my top down raglan, when I've got the entire catskull chart done I will take a picture of it. It's actually going rather fast, I'm only a few stripe repeats from the body being complete, knitting in the round = love.

For a time I thought I was sick of knitting in general, but now I've come to realize that I'm just sick of knitting patterns. I've felt very uninspired about the things I've seen. So I'm branching out to copying store sweaters and designing my own. This will be my first project after I finish my current sweater...

I also would love to copy this minus the hood..

I have two other ideas that I need to think further one, one involves a ballet wrap type lace sweater (think razor's edge from s&b nation) but with kimono type sleeves, and the other some sort of tunic with short sleeves.

And now I must clean because I'm having people over for thanksgiving :|.

Stashbusting...

2006-11-18T12:43:00.000-08:00

I've been stashbusting this fall and so far to good results.

I made this scarf out of patons merino/knitpicks merino. I think this is the biggest intarsia project I ever mastered...

and here's one with more detail of the skulls

And I started a top down raglan with cat skull intarsia on the sleeves. Hopefully I'll finish it in the next 3000 years.

insert something witty here as it's too early

2006-10-20T05:58:00.000-07:00

I finished the child's sweater last night, I'm not sure I love the way it turned out but meh it's too late now. The Debbie Bliss pattern I used was so full of mistakes it bordered on the ridiculous but thank god I've been knitting long enough to know how to fix such things.

I would have had the child model it for me yesterday but he was in this kind of a mood

So since I finished that, I started on my fingerless gloves from magknits out of SWS natural plum

And this pretty much describes my mood, although I have had coffee it's not kicking in..

Things I should have been doing tonight...

2006-10-17T16:45:00.000-07:00

~Cleaning my office
~Folding Laundry
~Winding that damn afghan yarn up
~Working on the sweater

Things I actually did to tonight

~played nintendo with the child
~played castle with the child
~Screwed with my blog.

A day at the farm, and rip it rip it good.

2006-10-09T05:50:00.000-07:00

So yesterday we visited my city's historical farm, I haven't been there since visiting on a field trip in elementary school so I thought it was very cool. It's a shame I couldn't get picture of the spinning wheel they had there *drool* but I figured they'd frown upon that. I did pet a sheep and told it that I was coming back later that night to shear her or him I have no idea how to tell gender in sheep.

Here is my child taking his first pony ride, I think he dug it. Before we got there he looked at me horrified when I told him he could ride a pony, no idea what he was expecting lol.

This is my family in front of a carriage that was apparently ridden on by President McKinley, this photo will also appear in their photo album up at the farm, lucky me I look like a putz.

I did get about 6 inches accomplished on the sweater I'm making for X while riding around in the car most of the day. It's a Debbie Bliss pattern I'm sort of adapting, I may put a cable onto the front, and I'm using bulky yarn. I truly hope this thing turns out.

I solved my afghan dillema and started ripping the sucker out, I do not feel much remorse, I think dyed a different color (because bright red looks terrible on me) this yarn will make a nice sweater.

And last but not least my skull lace scarf, can you see the skull sort of? I suck at photography at 8 am for sure.

Dilemma.

2006-10-06T06:29:00.000-07:00

Forever ago (like think 2 plus years) I started this afghan with the best of intentions. I had planned to do my LR in red, and figured I'd make a matching afghan. Well 2 years later LR is gold, and sofa is way to dark a red to match my afghan. I am almost done with the silly thing, but I just don't want it, it's 100% wool and it will need hand washing *twitch* add into all the zillions of mistakes I made and I'm probably going to have to rip back 10 or so rows, then find where I'm supposed to be. If I rip it out I could easily dye the yarn black or whatever and make something else. Probably a lot of something else's actually lol.

WWYD?

Old Lady blanket you are mine biotch!

2006-10-04T14:36:00.000-07:00

Through an unbearable headache I tediously weaved in 1000 or so little ends today, but now I can say that I am finally finished with this sucker! Here it is in all it's old lady glory, I have no idea what I find so appealing about this blanket but I just love it. I'm considering making one for my LR in different colors of course. Maybe the headache is making me insane?

Seriously on a level of 1-10 on the tedius scale I think this fucker scores a 20, huge pain in the ass, but a lovely end result. I will say that this sucker is HEAVY, I have no idea why I'm surprised by this fact, but yeah it weighs a ton. And it matches my bedroom perfectly, unfortunately I couldn't get my sack of a husband off the bed to photograph it in there.

Next up? Finish this neverending skull scarf.

63 of 63 flowered squares.

2006-09-30T14:43:00.000-07:00

Finally I got all my squares done, now if I can detatch the child from spongbob and retake my t.v. I plan to start connecting them. I'm scared the directions are as clear as swampwater, and I've never joined crochet together *twitch*.

I found this yarn patons chunky shetland tweed at michaels where I trekked to get yet more frigging white yarn for this afghan. It screamed MAKE THE KID A SWEATER! at me, so next time I'm going to pick some up. Still searching for the perfect pattern, am looking for a cabled turtleneck, or a regular turtleneck I can design a pattern for.

Lightening, nightmares and more flowery squares oh my!

2006-09-28T06:23:00.000-07:00

Last night I heard the single loudest boom I have ever heard in my entire life, it trumphed fireworks, the airshow, etc. I was in bed reading, and BOOM! I had no idea lightening could be that loud, I thought for sure a bomb went off or something exploded in the house. I have no clue where it hit, I went outside this morning to assess damage and I didn't see anything. It could have very well hit something in the forest down the street, but it was so loud it sounded like it got something behind the house.

Then after all of this I had a horrid dream about my kid at school. For the past 6 years I've had reoccuring dreams about highschool, you know either being naked or getting lost or not having shoes on etc. Well in this dream my kid's school was somehow connected to my highschool, we missed the bus and for some reason my husband came home from work, so we had to drive him. I got lost going to his classroom like three times, and then his teacher and a parent yelled at me for being late, lol. I'm volunteering to help out with the classes' apple party tomorrow, lets hope there is no yelling.

Now on to the afghan from hell! I don't think I've sat down once without a crochet hook in my hand in the past 5 days.

In that bag there are 54 squares, I only have 7 to go. Hopefully my next post will be of a finished afghan!

And one more day until the weekend, thank god.

I'm a terrible blogger.

2006-09-23T09:35:00.000-07:00

And not a very good knitter/crocheter/crafter person either to be honest.

Things have been so super hectic in life since my son started Kindergarten, it's funny I thought I'd have sooo much time to do this or that, but the days have been a blur of volunteering, cleaning, homework etc.

I did recently pick back up on the flowery afghan for my bed, and now I have 44 squares done out of 63, my goal is to have it all put together by the end of October, I also need to make mittens and a hat for the munchkin.

If you haven't seen/felt this yarn SWS you must check it out, I'm thinking of doing fingerless gloves and a matching scarf in the natural pink.

Hopefully next time I post I'll have more to show for myself. And I do wonder if kindergarteners are too young to learn basic crochet? hmmm

Stenciling part deux..

2006-07-27T14:11:00.000-07:00

I haven't forgotten about my blagh, but it actually took a freaking month to get my t-shirts, absolutely insane. I wanted American Apparel t-shirts because I heard they were great to stencil on (and that's absolutely true btw), so I ordered from one comnapy that I had to file with paypal to get my money back *rollseyes*, finally I just got them from another company which rocked my socks, if you need t-shirt blanks (they have printed ones too!) www.yque.com is fabulous.

Here's the original picture that I changed in photoshop... That's Jean Harlow btw.

Here it is stenciled on my shirt.. (it's slightly distorted because part of it's over my boobs, lol).

And I made a skirt out of jeans too..

I've been knitting, a skull lace scarf, but other than that I'm over knitting for the time being.

Poor neglected blog.

2006-06-06T13:33:00.000-07:00

I've been so lazy about updating this thing, possibly because knitting has lost a lot of it's charm lately. I did finish the shawl for my dh's grandma, it was great to get that big project done.

I've also taken up a new crafty thing, stenciling. I'm loving it so far just because it's fast, well that and cheap, yarn isn't cheap.

My first t-shirt :D, it's not perfect I could have put the paint on a little thicker in areas, but for a first ever thing it's not so bad, I chopped the stencil out with an exacto knife on freezer paper. Yes it's political, if you don't like it bite my ass ;).

I just finished a stencil of Jean Harlow (who I adore <3) I'm just waiting for my t-shirts to get here to stencil on.

I've almnost finished this: http://carodanfarm.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product348.html I'm like 5 inches away from completion, but I just can't get motivated.

And my other non knitting project, my living room.

I'm starting work on my kitchen too, again with the motivation.

Socks, Socks, and 'lace' gloves.

2006-04-26T17:21:00.000-07:00

I have been knitting, oh yes I have, even though I haven't been updating. Bad blogger.

These are toe up, my first time ever, they were made out of dancing by knit picks. This color (I don't remember the name of it) has got to be the most hideous thing ever, the socks are comfy anyway.

Opal tiger + baby cashmere toe and heel = LOVE. I adore these.

Ladylike lace. I detested this pattern and it took me forever to get it even enough to fit *twitch* in the end they came out ok. I think the chance of me crocheting something that has to fit someone in the future is slim to none though.

In other news my kid had his kindergarten orientation last week, they said he did well, he is so excited to start school.

My review of Stitch and Bitch Crochet : The Happy Hooker

2006-03-21T10:11:00.000-08:00

I got this book the other day, and have persued it many many MANY times already. Several droolworthy crochet patterns all in one place!?! Nobody but Debbie Stroller could do it.

The Learn to Crochet Section: 100% the best crochet guide I have ever seen anywhere. I had no idea that when you're crocheting into the first chain you should either do it through the back 'butt' or through both chains. For the first time I completely understand what crocheting through the back loop means really.
Pattern Varitey: Off the map! Everything from sweaters, to shawls, to blankets and every accessory in between, for variety this book cannot be beat. It will keep you from getting bored for years (or weeks if you crochet quickly) to come.
Pattern Instruction and Clarity: So far so good from what I can see. The only problem is (and really it's a problem with every S&B book) the amount of mistakes. I started the Ladylike Lace Gloves last night, right into the lace pattern I saw something was not quite right, and yup after visiting Craftster I saw there were several mistakes in the dc cluster instructions. Once I got it fixed up it's been smooth going.

Overall, it's a great book, just make sure you check for pattern mistakes before you really get going.

Yeah so I haven't updated in over a month...

2006-03-14T11:21:00.000-08:00

And I haven't really done much of anything either, lol. My shawl is on row 161 of 189 but it looks like such a wrinkled up mess on needles that it's not even worth photographing. I started work on that flower afghan from the read heart book...

Aaaand I faux stained glass my bedroom window..

Other than that I got nothin'

2006-02-02T09:47:00.000-08:00

I am so making this.

Ooh look here's that actual content I was talking about!

2006-01-31T07:25:00.000-08:00

I decided to pop my new blogs cherry so to speak. I actually had pictures taken weeks ago for a new post but for some reason the thought of resizing them and uploading them just seemed to hard.

I think first we'll talk about spinning. I started spinning right after christmas, basic drop spindle type stuff. I'm gradually getting better, my yarn won't win any awards or anything but it's sort of relaxing I suppose. Here's what I got so far...

That's a pretty good example of how bad it was when I started. Stuff I dyed..

My only project so far...I dyed this too. It's a case for my cell phone.

I would have to say if you want to pick up a really interesting knitting book the Second Treasury of Magical Knitting is awesome. I made a cotton/flax bag courtesy of Herreshner's sale Lana Grosso Lino.

Cool 'magic' strap.

Finished!

I added a pocket and only loosly followed directions since my gauge was not even close to what was needed. I plan to line this guy in some cool vintage fabric, possibly the 'domestic goddess' in green.

I also finished a vegan fox. I wore it to a wedding I attended a few weeks ago, I had people petting it all day.

I also made bobbly socks. I got the bobble lace pattern from The New Knitting Stitch Library that my good friend gave me <3.

I'm working on the feather and fan shawl from A Gathering of Lace for my husband's wonderful grandma.

We actually managed to purchase paint for our bedroom last weekend, it's Sherwin Williams Soft Suede in Vineyard. I'm kind of doing a leaf/purple theme in there I suppose. I'm embracing my inner old lady and making this for in there, but with purple flowers instead of pink..

Now I am usually not a floral type of person but there's something vintage-y about that afghan that calls to me. Or maybe I'm just 90 years old at heart.

And while I'm here and remembering it, here is a picture of my kitten, the one I found half dead behind the fence last summer. His brother went to my neighbor's but Tiger stayed with us. He's huge now!

It's hard to get a good picture of him since he's always moving. This one is a little older..

Well I really need to start wall prep, I figure if I manage to paint the trim, and fill in the holes in the room today I'll be doing ok. Right?

Switching blogs...

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Got sick of lj format, will have actual content at a later date.