This morning as I perused the shelves of Michael’s I was still really unsure about how I wanted my tags to look, for the stuff that’s now in the Storm Cellar, and I initally was thinking about printing something off, maybe in a cool font, but the more I looked at the stamps I thought it might be a cool idea. So I bought some stamps and here’s what I came up with!
Work in progress: Green Blanket. It’s been a WIP for a while now. It’s just a nice soothing project, because it’s just knit every row. No purling, no cables, just increasing and decreasing. Super simple and calm.
But I really like how the edges turn out when you increase on the 2nd stitch.
And now: More bags! Yep, these are my favorite of the ones I’ve made. The Storm Cellar has agreed to put them in their shop for me! So hopefully I can sell some of them!
They’re pretty easy and super quick. I’m having alot of fun making them!
What projects are you working on?
So I made another bag last night, and it’s my favorite so far. I altered the pattern to make it less floppy on the top, and a bit deeper, and it looks/works much better. And it’s pink! Cuter.
And my next one is going to be made out of this yummy looking speckled cream colored one. I’m pretty excited about this one!
Also tried my hand at blocking last night. I finished Paul’s scarf, but knits have that way of curling about them. It didn’t look very good.
*Pardon the nasty indoor/outdoor carpet. Eh, such is life living in a rental.
So I dunked it in the sink, then gently squeezed and pressed the water out. (Whatever you do DO NOT wring it out. Bad news for handknits) Then we pinned it to the floor into the shape and we’re letting it dry overnight and then all of today. This evening I’ll take it off and see if it stays blocked. If not, well then, honey, you’re getting a curly scarf.
Time for another WIP Wendesday!
So, I received some loverly cotton yarn, I believe most of this stash is from Aubree, and I had lots of it, but cotton isn’t the best for hats and scarves, it’s just not very soft. So I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Then I came across this PurlBee pattern, and knew instantly that was what I wanted to make with my cotton! They used linen, but the cotton works just fine, too.
I have finished two bags so far, they’re really easy and each one only took me an evening.
Tada, reusable grocery bags, which I am thinking about selling at The Storm Cellar.
They’re deceptivly small! They don’t look like they would hold very much, but they really stretch!
Full of whatever was in my cupboard, just to see how much it could hold. The blue one is a bit big. If you fill it as much as it can hold you wouldn’t be able to carry it, because it would be too heavy. I need to alter the pattern a bit to get it just right, but luckily I have lots and lots of yarn to work with!
Oh, and I’m a brunette now. I keep freaking myself out when I walk past a mirror.
So, maybe this should be under “Terrible-Picture-Tuesday” because I didn’t take the time or energy to take good pictures, but instead this will be “Work-In-Progress-Wednesday” cuz I said so. Now you should hold me to this, this WIP Wednesday stuff. I am going to TRY to post my WIP every Wednesday. We’ll see how I do, although we all know my history of failure.
So here, meet the birds.
I’m not 100% sure what I am going to do with them yet, but possibly make some sort of a mobile or sompin’.
I really like how each of their faces turned out a little bit differently.
So there’s the little flock.
And now to another project, the husband scarf. It’s cold here, and he needs to keep warm.
He picked out the colors and the yarn all by himself. Good choice, husband, good choice.
So that’s all I got for today. Back to work with me.
So, today I did some serious spring cleaning. I mean, I went through everything I owned. Got rid of a lot of junk that I don’t need. Does anyone else just feel so revitalized once they’ve gotten rid of a bunch of stuff? It’s so liberating!
Had a good coffee date. (Thanks, Hannah!)
Uploaded all of my music onto my computer (alot of my music was already on there, but lots of random CD’s I haven’t listened to in a long time.) Organizing CD’s… I never know if I should organize it by genre, alphabetically… who knows.
And… decided to try my hand at some tatting. Actually I don’t think this is really tatting, as tatting has certain weird knots and such, but without a pattern or anything to follow I just started hooking away.
I think what I’ll do is make some snowflakes and starch them, they make great Christmas ornaments (Thanks for the idea, Mom)
So…. my birthday is coming up soon, and if anyone wants to get me this book, I won’t hold it against them.
Does everyone else love Saturdays?
On a side note, only 3 weeks left of work! (whoa.) This wedding is coming up soon, less than six weeks left.
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Somewhere around the 1/2 way mark. What do you think?
So, Erika found a blanket that she liked and asked me to try it out for Baby Chuck’s baby blanket. I was a bit aprehensive at first, considering I still don’t really know how to read a pattern, but I gave it a try and I think it turned out nice! I just used whatever yarn I had laying around, so this isn’t going to be the colors for Baby Chuck, but I just wanted to show off the fact that I could follow a pattern.
Row one, it kind of looks like a little snake!
Row two…
oooh, two colors now!
Ta da! My little finished sampler. So it doesn’t photograph all that well, but it’s pretty cute in person. (If I do say so myself) But a big shoutout to Attic24 for the best, easiest to follow crochet pattern, well, ever! So whoever you are, Attic24, I greatly appriciate your amazing instruction. And your blanket is beautiful, too.
So I’ve been on a knitting rampage lately… working on Red Blanket some more. Still only about 1/2 way done… and not entire sure how I am going to work it, but I really like how it’s coming together. I haven’t gotten out of the house too much since I got back, so I’ve put in some serious man hours into it. I do believe I’ll develop carpal tunnel here pretty quickly…
So I wanted to share more of my felting fun with everyone:
Unfelted – felted once- felted twice, just so you can gauge how much they actually shrink. Speaking of shrinking, let me tell you a little story about a purse I tried to make…
So I made one large strip: (With a few stripes for good measure)
Then made an even longer skinny strip for a strap:
And then out of the wash came THIS:
And simply put, it just looks ridiculous with that long of a strap. So now I’ll just call it a ‘clutch’ and who knows what I’ll do with it. Any takers?
Good news is that the craft sale was totally awesome and we sold quite a bit of stuff.
Oh and I made more coasters:
And also a tiny little box to put my bobby-pin buttons in.
Alright, I think that’s enough photo’s for now! I’ll let you know if there’s anymore pertinent crafting information I have left off. But for now, that’s all.
I tried my first experiment with felting, and I must say that it went really well. I got some more wool at JoAnn’s tonight and I plan on making more for our craft sale on Saturday. Yep, we’re having a craft sale, if you want details just let me know and I can tell you when and where! It’ll be awesome though.
After the first round of felting and shaping
The corners
I did a little stitch work on the front because it was kind of boring, then I threw it in the wash again to felt once more.
A few of the coasters after felting-round 1
The basket after being felted. And it fits 8 little coasters just perfect!
The coasters after felting- round 2
Some more coasters prior to felting
After two washes they’ll be about 1/2 that size, which I realize you can’t tell how big those are, but they’re about as big as my hand.
And also, I got engaged! Yay and hooray.
bling!
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