Posts tagged crafts
Writing on the Window
Breathing on the Glass
I made a tiny bird! (Pattern here.)
I think this the first picture of my boobs on tumblr ever. Really, I just wanted to show off the very first knitting project I ever completed. I finished in April but I never got around to posting it. I figured I’d get a better picture eventually, but that never happened, so here it is!
Another past project.
A few years ago after a mega bidding war (which ended just minutes before I lost my internet connection, phew!), I managed to win a lovely 1970’s Fidelity portable record player, which quickly became one of my most prized possessions despite it’s rather musty aroma.
I remember one afternoon having the genius idea to make a plush version of it, I was rather secretive at first because it was the most daring thing that I had attempted until then and didn’t want to let anyone know what I was doing in case it all went wrong, which thankfully didn’t happen!
Compared to the real thing it’s pretty simple, as I wasn’t so confident at attempting to creat non-basic shaped, but both the record and the arm move which I still happen to think is pretty nifty.
I love this even more than the cassette player she made!
One of my favourite past projects, a cassette tape recorder based on one that I used to play with when I was little.
It was the first time that I had made something that included a removeable part, I was so nervous that I would find a huge mistake in the measurements when I came to assemble it all!
How cool is this?!
May 19, 2012. SPECIAL SPRING GIVEAWAY!!! :D
This year has been off to an amazing start — I’ve been more busy than I have ever been before, but I’ve achieved goals that I had previously thought were only wishful dreams. For example, I am finally starting my own little online shop (it’s still under construction lol), and I JUST published my first amigurumi pattern!! I’m celebrating this HUGE milestone in my crafting life by giving away lots of FREE STUFF!! :DI’m hosting FOUR giveaways on Tumblr and Facebook, and there will be a total of TEN WINNERS! Visit me on either site (or both sites!) to join in the fun! YOU CAN ENTER ALL FOUR GIVEAWAYS!!! :D
**This is a giveaway is for FREE SPRING BUNNY CROCHET PATTERNS!**
How to participate:
- REBLOG this post (ONCE) IN ITS ENTIRETY (please don’t delete any text!) AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WHEN YOU REBLOG: What will you name your bunny and why? That’s it! Simple, right? :)
Winners:
- There will be FOUR winners!!! These winners will be chosen using a random generator. Please enable your ask boxes so that I may personally notify you when you win.
This giveaway ENDS on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 11:59PM (PST). Winners will be announced on A Morning Cup of Jo Creations on Sunday! :)
SNEAK PEEK:
To get a glimpse of my super detailed, super cute Spring Bunny Crochet Pattern, visit me on Craftsy!
GOOD LUCK! <3 I can’t wait to see who wins!
I don’t think I’d get to name it anything! Evie would be the one naming it once it was finished! She loves Bunnies so much and I’m sure this would end up becoming an honorary member of her Bunny Clan that she’s collected.
I showed her the picture and asked her what she’d name it and she decided “Flower Bunny”. Not the most original name, but it works! I’m sure she’d end up calling her Flower for brevity’s sake. lol
(via we-love-crocheting)
So, after searching forever for a tutorial or pattern for a knitting needle case for interchangeable needles, I finally decided to design my own. I knew it needed to have separate pockets for the cables and somewhere to keep the needle pairs so this is what I came up with! The pocket accordion velcros to the front of the first needle pocket flap and that one has velcro keeping it secured to the needle pocket in back. That one is sewed to the case itself and has an extra pocket behind it. I also put in a small pocket for tiny things in the back of the last cable pocket.
(Pocket no longer sounds like a word to me.)
The whole thing is made out of felt, with the outer case reinforced with that plastic mesh people sometimes cross stitch on. It’s a simple design but it’s working out perfectly! I’m super proud of it.
Sorry about the ‘SkillzMcFly’ url stamped all over the pictures. I was having fun with that font and I went overboard. I love that it looks like those plastic labels though!
Cut.
Ok, I cut the giant dowel to make the knitting needles. Now I just have to figure out the best way to sharpen the points. I might have to break out the dremel and risk Evie freaking out at the noise.
The dinosaur ring is back too! I was going to keep everything in my shop one of a kind but the masses have spoken.
And they want dinosaurs.
Click through to get to the shop.
What a cool idea!
This is the still wet yarn I got out of the sweater and then dyed. It looked great when I pulled it out of that dye bath but now that it’s drying, I can see some parts of it didn’t get enough color, especially where I tied the loops up so they wouldn’t come unraveled. Sucky.
I think I’m going to dye it again tonight, but this time orange. Maybe I’ll get a fire effect. I wasn’t kidding when I said I got a lot of yarn out of that sweater!
I made an impromptu yarn swift yesterday to gather all the yarn from the sweater. See how ugly the color was?! The swift worked pretty well for as long as I needed it to (about a skeins worth because that chunk of yarn got all knotted when Eric tried to help me wrap it) but towards the end, the stress of the yarn pulling on the jars which were hot glued to the lazy susan pulled them all off. I put a paint stick in one of the jars so it was easier to spin. Eric plans on making me a swift by drilling holes into the lazy susan big enough for dowels to be put in, which will be awesome because I’m not spending $40 on one. That’s just insane to me.
The dye bath I used when I dyed the yarn tonight.
I decided I wanted to learn how to spin my own yarn because I was too cheap/poor to keep buying nice yarn for my projects even though I’m kind of yarn snob. I have a ton of wool sitting in a bag next to my desk but I haven’t really touched it yet. I always put off trying new techniques because it freaks me out and I hate failing.
So anyway, in attempt to procrastinate a little longer, Evie and I took a trip to the thrift store yesterday and I bought a bunch of sweaters to unravel. That’s how I came across the cashmere sweater (which will be staying in sweater form). So last night and today was spent unraveling a men’s extra large sweater. I can’t remember the brand but it was a good one. The sweater was probably sold for at least $50 when it was new and I grabbed it for four bucks.
I passed over a lot of sweaters because I didn’t like the colors and it wasn’t until a half hour ago that I realized I had RIT dye and a lot (a LOT) of brownish/tan yarn and that the two would go together swimmingly. (Most of the sweaters there were made out of cotton, which is cool with me because I love cotton but it’s way harder to dye than animal fibers.) So now, I’m sitting in my bathroom, stirring a five gallon bucket of yarn and dye. I don’t even know how much yarn I got out of this sweater but it’s a stupid amount. Hundreds and hundreds of yards.
And it’s going to be red and beautiful.
Back to the subject: spinning. I think I’m going to be done with spinning for a while after the batch of wool I have now is used up. (Unless spinning the wool gives me something super amazing.) Ripping apart $4 sweaters and ending up with at least $50 worth of yarn is totally more my style. I get to customize it and I’m upcycling something that would have either sat in a thrift store for years or ended up in a landfill somewhere. Plus, the money I spend at the thrift store goes to charity. I get to be cheap and green (and probably a little red because I didn’t have gloves to wear.)
I’ll post pictures of the yarn when it’s all done. It’s going to be awesome.
I have a lot of wool. Now I just have to learn how to turn it into yarn and I’ll be in business.
Eric has decided that I will be making these for him. I’m definitely not complaining!
