Most Productive Day... Ever.

I took a vacation day from work to get a few things done. Firstly, I needed to go to the bank really badly and had been putting it off for about 4 months now.  I also needed a massage, especially for my shoulders as sitting at a computer 10 hours a day has been reaking havoc on my back muscles.

Besides the practical, I've been up to a lot of my ownsome today - I took a trip up to Knitomatic as I never venture north of Dupont and I thought that it would be good for me to get out a bit.  Bad because I spent some more $, but good because I found a few yarny treats -

Some Ella Rae yarn which I'll admit was a bit steep, but it was so pretty I could make something springy out of it... I also got some dyes...

In moss green and delphinium blue.  I figure you can't go wrong with those colours, even though it's really tricky to tell what your finished project looks like when dying with food colouring.

In addition to my recent purchases, I also modified an extra large Mens Teeshirt that I bought at bluenotes with my friend Robbie a few months ago.  Instead of a manly looking tee it's a servicable tshirt dress and a good enough length to wear with some leggings out and about town.  Going to see a movie later today, so all in all a really great day off!

Things

I finally spent the time to take a few pictures of some things that I am working on. Firstly is this fancy snap purse that I used some of the fabric that I bought at the workroom the other day -

I wasn't that crazy about the snap coin part, as it was really hard to squish down, even using those fancy nylon pliers. Thinking that doing some web research on how to insert these properly will help.  I was also having some fun swith stitching around the edges. All in all really pretty.

Here  is another pic against my hand quilting....

I think I'll make a few of these, as I think they're fun, but maybe as little presents. I could fill them with crafty goodness.

Sick

Feeling sick today so I decided to use my downtime wisely and start a crochet cloche as a sample for my crochet class. Who knew malabrigo would be so lovely to work with? It almost made my headache go away. I'll put up posts soon. I'm sorry blog for neglecting you. Soon I'll have lots more crafty things, just you wait!

I absolutely and utterly need to make these, not because I really like twilight, but because these are the original mittens from the movie and although they're pretty, they look easy to fudge

There's that bellas mittens pattern floating on ravelry, but I know that they are a bit simpler with the details - they're missing the hand shaping and don't have the moss stitch detail and ribbing in the back end.

I need to make these for a little teen friend's birthday - so I hope she'll like them:)

e-out.

Megashaun

He's lookin crazy yo!


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Springtime bandit

Putting this little bandana in my repitoire of knitted goodies. Using noro silk garden sock for this one... So far so good!



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Cuteness

I think that one of the reasons I like Aaron is his ability to make interesting faces at the camera which always turn out strangely photogenic.


Here he is looking strangely French and funny. The scarf he's wearing is his Christmas scarf made from Misti alpaca. It's lovely stuff to knit with. His hat is an oldie but goodie in charcoal brown sheep worsted. All in all he's a good knitwear model:)

Just so he doesn't feel self conscious, here's a dorky pic of me tipsy and looking particularily hipster. Shameless!!!!





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