Category Archives: Crafty

Louella’s Birthday Dress

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So I have been knitting, I swear. I just finished two projects today, in fact! But today I am just going to show you one. You know, so I can have something to blog about tomorrow.

So, without further ado, here is Louella’s Birthday Dress, made in honor of her 1st Birthday, which is tomorrow!

I thought the dress needed a bit of girly-ness, so I added the flower buttons.

I love it. I may end up making a sweater version of it for myself, just because the pattern is so darn cute. (Um, definitely not while I am pregnant, though.)

And for those of you who were wondering, here is the pattern link. (Raverly Link)

My mom, sister Erika and nephew Ez were in town for the weekend and I found these on my camera after they left! How cute is my nephew?


What a ham!

And a parting shot for you: We’re narrowing in on 20 weeks, and strangely enough I feel smaller than I did last week, even though horizontal stripes are supposed to make you look bigger.

Alright, I am off to the grocery store to pick up a few items to make Tortilla Soup for dinner. Yum.

Cross Stitch

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No new projects of my own to show you today, so I thought I might share a few amazing things I’ve been seeing around the internet lately.

Cross stitched eggs! Yes, you read that right!

(photo via Sublime Stitches)

I wonder how they did that? Aren’t they amazing? So beautiful and fragile!

And check out these embroidered Classic book covers:

(Photos and artwork by Jilliam Tamaki, via CupofJo)

Aren’t they beautiful, too? I think The Secret Garden one might just be my favorite.

 

Well, that’s all I have got for you guys today. Hope you have a great weekend and a happy April Fools Day! I’m off to work for the rest of the afternoon/evening, but I might be back later this weekend to show you some finished projects!

Knitting Catch-Up

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So here is a bit of that knitting catch-up.

A simple brown sweater for a cute little girl.

And another slouchy hat. No pictures of me modeling it.

I love this yarn. I love, love, love this yarn.


It’s so squishy and wonderful.

Also, a crocheted surprise for someone!

I also love making ripple blankets. This is my 3rd one (or 4th? Now I can’t remember) and it’s just as much fun to make as the first.

I’ve got a few more projects that are still being worked on, but should be ready to share later on this week.

Exploding Glitter and the like.

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So, you know, I work at an arts and crafts store now. It can actually be a lot of fun. I work with pretty cool people, and I get to talk to people about their projects all day, which, let’s face it, I’m obsessed with crafting. But sometimes there are just some weird things that I’ve never had to deal with, not really being in retail before.

Today for example, a young mother with 3 kids came up to the register, and the oldest girl (I’d say she was about 4-5 years old) wouldn’t put her plastic glitter bottle on the counter for me to scan. The mom went through her “Put the glitter on the counter so she can scan it” routine about 4 times, then she said she was going to count to 10, so she counted to 10…. 5 times, the little girl was clutching her bottle of glitter and was not going to let that bottle go. The line is starting to get really backed up behind these customers… I politely ask the little girl if she can at least just hold it up so I can scan the barcode and she hurls the bottle of glitter at my face! I quickly ducked and it hit the wall behind me and exploded. Glitter EVERYWHERE. The mom just looked up at me, stared for about 10 seconds, walked away from the register, got the little girl another bottle of glitter and said “I’ll take this bottle instead.”

Another customer comes with 3 items and her total is about 15 bucks. She hands me a $100, no biggie, I’ve got several twenties in my drawer. As I pull out the twenties she asks if she can have her entire change in $5’s and $1’s…. Seriously.

Oh, and you lady? The one that handed her kid that candy bar from the shelf? I saw your kid eat it. I also saw it when you tried to leave the wrapper in another aisle.

And please don’t let your kid play with the plastic bag with 150+ googly eyes in it. I saw the bag rip open, I saw googly eyes all over the floor, and yes, I saw you try to scoot them under the shelf with your feet.

Ah, the joys of working retail. Do any of you have any great customer stories for me that would make me feel better?

February Lady

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So my goal for February is to finish my February Lady Sweater.

I don’t think I will actually finish it, but it’s good to have goals, right? I’ve only got one project that’s being made right now for someone else (At least that I am getting paid for) but right now I am just doing like 5 feet of stockinette stitch, so this sweater is just the perfect thing to mix it up with. The lace pattern is simple enough that I don’t need to keep the instructions up, but hard enough that I need to at least be paying attention. It’s the perfect project.

In other news, I started my new job today. Seems pretty straight forward so far, just hoping that it stays low-stress, because I am all about no stress these days. Also, I think I need to buy some more comfortable shoes, because standing all day is not something that I am used to. So if any of you locals needs some craft supplies, stop in and say hello!

My Big Scary Project.

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So, I finished the first 1/2 of the intarsia knitting on my Andre the Giant project.

The lovely backside of my work.

And yes, all of those ends have to be woven in. Ugh. I think that between weaving in ends and seaming, those two things would have an epic battle on the things that I hate the most about knitting. Actually, I think those are the only two things I hate about knitting. Everything else, well, we have a good relationship.

So there is his face. Kind of frightening, no? But considering this is what he is supposed to look like: (look down) I feel like I did a pretty good job.

I think it’s his eyes that creep me out the most.

I notice that some of the stitches look kind of loose, and others are pulling, that is just because of all of the loose ends hanging out the back. Once those are pulled tight and woven in, it will all be much smoother and nicer looking. Well, as nice as Andre the Giant can look, I guess.

Oh, and just in case you didn’t realize just hot HUGE this giants face is, here is my hand for some comparison.


I know, right? This scarf is going to be hooge. And now, wow. Now I get to do another 5 feet of straight stockinette stitch! WOO! My favorite thing ever!

Ok, so add one more thing to my knitting-hate list. 5 feet of stockinette stitch.

Blackberry Slouch

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This is another order for a cabled Slouchy hat.

Sorry, you don’t get any pictures of me modeling it.

It’s too late at night to try to take pictures of myself…. maybe tomorrow.

Today Paul made us a delicious breakfast, then we ran errands all afternoon, I picked up some fabric for a very fun project (well, two projects) Paul wants me to make him an shirt like the one Jimmy Stewart wears in It’s A Wonderful Life, a highschool jersey.

So, who knows how it’ll turn out. I am not the best seamstress…. but I will be sure to post my progress on it.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Stay warm out there!

Blue Ruffles

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I whipped up another Ruffled Hat.

Modeled, of course, by my coffee canister.

I’m pretty fond of these little flowery, ruffled hats.

Intarsia

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My latest project.

Trying my hand at intarsia knitting. Not as hard as I thought, but it is taking a lot of time. It’s going to be the most labor intensive scarf I’ll ever make, I bet. This is the chart I am working off of.

It’s that OBEY stuff you see around. I dunno. I only vaguely knew about it before I was commissioned to make this piece. I had to look it up on Wikipedia to get the back story on it. But the face is of Andre the Giant, and, well, we all know that I love The Princess Bride, so I was only too happy to oblige.