Mohawking

I'm saying hi to my dad. He's awesome.

Anyways, I have mohawked:

until I could not mohawk anymore. I am going to throw this in the wash sometime, probably this weekend. I should have that done by Tuesday, plus some pictures taken in natural light that don't make the mohawk look like it's neon orange. Because it's red.

I know you're not surprised I didn't cross stitch yesterday morning. I was mohawking, so I think it's OK.

Have a great weekend, and happy Labor Day! I'll see you guys on Tuesday!

By the way: I posted every single weekday this month. I feel awesome!

Give Me an M!

Because that's all I have of the mohawk hat:

Not a lot of mohawk. I really just need half an hour to sit down and work on that and that alone, which should happen sometime between now and next week. Weekends are more craft-friendly for me!

I am completely ignoring the cross stitch ornaments. Not the best way to get them done, I've heard. I have some time this morning..... Maybe I'll pull one out?

Have a great day, and do more knitting than me! :)

Be careful!

Today is Near Miss Day, marking the day (3/23/12) an asteroid came very close (within 500,000 miles) of hitting the Earth. This made me think of the day the dinosaurs weren't so lucky, so today's Bizarre Holiday links will be all about dinosaurs.

Knit:
-Dinosaur Hand Puppet from Knitting from the Heart. (You have to go to the sidebar and click on the link.)
-A seamless dinosaur from At Knit's End

Crochet:
-An adorable baby dinosaur pattern from My Skills Guide
-A really neat baby triceratops from somewhere. Yep, it's from somewhere. So helpful.

Sewing:
-It's a dinosaur, but I have no idea where it's from.

It's a mustache on a string! It doesn't work very well, so I may wear it as a necklace! Either way, I'm calling this one done.

It's the tree skirt! I have absolutely no idea what happened to that picture, but at least it's a new one, right? As I mentioned earlier this week, there was a..... misunderstanding about the size my mother wanted, so I did some measuring and I now have a final row count. (I didn't do the math, because my increases will be based off of how ruffly it looks.) 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

(Up until this point, it will be HDC all the way, with a few increases thrown in here and there. 21 will be SC to set up from the shells, which will be Row 21.)

21

22

I have done Row 1, and I'm almost done with Row 2, so I'm going to finish! I can feel it! Oh, and I wanted to mention that yesterday I managed to get it to lie completely flat. I was super excited, so I did a couple of increases in Rows 1 and 2.

Have a nice day!

UFOs! And a spider. It was scary!

This time, I mean that both ways. Today I will be linking in honor off Extraterrestrial (I spelled that right on the first try!) Abduction Day. Then, I will do a UFOs update. (I haven't finished anything recently... at least that I posted about.)

Oh! And I'll tell you about the spider. It was scary!

Crochet:
-First, an amigurumi alien from Crochetville
-An Alien Amigurumi pattern from Free Patterns by H
-Finally, a three-eyed alien from yarnyokel

Knit:
-An alien headband from Bernat
-Super cuddly alien pillows from Red Heart
-A stuffed alien from treeknits


So now, for the UFOs.

This is the doll, which now has better fitting clothes and the start of some hair. It's a big improvement from this! The dress just got a new side seam on one side, and the hair is Take 2 1/2. The first time, I tried to do it with yarn, which came very close to working, but I messed up right at the end and I tore it all off in frustration. Then, I took an old pair of tights and I'm using the foot to frame the face. The 1/2 part comes from the part where I had to rip it off a little to cut out the heel and get rid of some bulk. I'm going to keep chugging along on this one, because it's going pretty well!

Ooh, look! It's the Secret Project! It's hiding in a little felt pouch, because it's still a secret! I haven't done much on this one lately, but I'm not going to give up.. yet! (give it a few more inches... that's when it'll get really unpleasant!)

It's the tree skirt, dropping in to say hello! How nice! What isn't nice is that my mother gave me the wrong measurements to base this one off. I had a lot more than 24 rows to do. Speaking of which:

1-274

2-285

3-296

4-307

5-318

6-329

7-340

8-351

9-362

10-373

11-384

12-395

13-406 

14-417 

15-428

16-439 

17-450

18-461

19-472

20-483 This is where I'm supposed to be today.

21-494

22-505

23-516

24-527

I did about four or five rows between last night and this afternoon, which just caught me up to my usual level of behindness (five rows for one day). Luckily, it's still ruffly, and I won't be increasing for a while, so that will help. I might get another row in today. Maybe. So, I'm erasing the end-of-March goal, based on the fact I have a ton more left than I thought.

The odds of me finishing this are minimal. I have nothing to do it, and needle-felting really isn't my thing. I will probably use the leftover stuff as thrums, which I saw in this pattern from Knitty.

This little pouch? Well, let's just say I had completely forgotten about it! It's holding my t-shirt quilt pieces, which I posted about here, all the way at the bottom. I don't know what's going to happen to this, but it's taking up so little space, it won't be disturbing me for a while.

OK, now for one little doo-dad, then the spider.

Mustache! Which may or may not become a mustache-on-a-stick. I haven't decided.

Spider time! So last night, I was just hanging out, eating some really awesome taco soup, when I decided I wanted to toast a tortilla to eat with it. I went to take it out, when the little mini pan fell onto the counter. A spider came with it! I screamed. Loudly. I have no idea where it came from (I'm hoping not near any food) and it just popped out of nowhere! It fell on the floor, so I tried to capture it with a little pot until I could get someone braver than me to smush it. No such luck. It took me three tries to get the pot on the spider, and then I realized that the handle made it so the pot did not sit flat on the floor! The spider was able to crawl out from under it, so I tried to capture it with a cup, but it crawled away and I have no idea where it is! Which really makes me quite nervous. OK, see you guys tomorrow with   some cool crafts! Probably!

A Safety Cone, a Waterfall, and a Bag

As promised, here is the picture of the safety cone I made last weekend:

I don't think I posted the link yet, so if not, click here.

OK, so this is a bag from Knitty, and I think it is pretty awesome! I can keep all my stuff for one activity in this bag, and not be searching for it all around the house.

The pattern was really easy, but the miles of stockinette got old, and it has been abandoned since late August. A few weeks ago, I said, "I could finish this and then I would be able to do the Christmas presents I need those needles for," (yes, I think I need some more size 10s too) so I sucked it up and finished it. This picture stinks, so I may take a better one soon. (I used a dark yarn with brown, purple, dark red, and royal blue. It's really pretty but it doesn't show up very well without a flash!) So anyway, I think I may still add a button or snap for the flap, because I kind of have to hold it down, and that's slightly annoying. Other than that, I love this pattern and the bag!!! Oh, I made one modification: Instead of the cast on 94 stitches and bind them off for the drawstrings, I chained a whole bunch of stitches until it looked too long, then single crocheted in each one. I missed the part about making two, but it was long enough that after felting I just cut it in half.

One of the reasons I modified the strap was because this was on the needles:

I'm calling it the Waterfall Poncho, because that's the name of this color. The pattern is also from Knitty, but I'm really only using the construction technique. It's a different weight yarn, and I didn't cast on the same number of stitches, and I didn't use two colors, so I'm really not using the pattern part at all! I'm using Lion Brand Homespun in Waterfall. I think it's really pretty, and I noticed while trying it on to check the length that it's really warm! I think it would be cute over a white turtleneck. Or dark blue. There's some of that in the yarn. So maybe I should hurry up and finish before it's too warm to wear it again and I have to wait! (No, I don't really think it will take me four or five months, but you never know.) Right now, it is just over three feet (like my imprecise measurements? then you'll love what's next!) I used my patented At A Glance Guesstimation System* to see that every time I knit two rows, I get about and inch. So, I think I have maybe twenty or thirty rows to go. I'm just trying it on as I go, so it should fit really well!

*If you were wondering, the length of the poncho using the AAGGS was "not long enough" :)

Lots of Catching Up to Do!!!!!

Sorry for the long break- I got really distracted and I kept thinking, well I need to post today, but I would so much rather be working on this project, or that project, and I just never got around to it. But now you get a nice, long, juicy post!

First up: My first socks!!! Eeeep! They are crocheted using this method, but instead of my iPod I used my foot. They are going through the wash right now, I sure hope the ball band is right and they survive! Okay, pictures.

This is the absolute first one. It isn't done in this picture, it was at the point where I wanted to start the second one to make sure I didn't run out of yarn. The yellow thing was a piece of scrap yarn I was using to hold the stitch on while I used the hook for sock #2.

More pics:

I loves them! (I also loves my version of grammar, why do you ask?)

Next up is a bag. I have many pictures of when this was a little baby afghan, then it grew up into what it is today. Such a touching story. Here are a lot of pictures of it growing:

Now a big huge jump to the point where I decided it was going to be a bag for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was ugly. 

That is a white fleece lining that really improved the outside look of it a lot. Magically.

I'm REALLY happy that it's gone, off my WIP list. Next item is on my WIP list, I just need to have a date with the sewing machine to finish it. And find some brown thread in the big box of thread.

No, I'm not hugely overweight. It's supposed to be like that, kind of. Go look here. Do you see what I did wrong? I cut the sleeves too far up, so they didn't take any width off the body. Big problem. But I fixed it. I'm gonna wear it with a belt! Then it will look like a stylish tunic that was meant to be like that! I hope. I just need to hem the bottom and the sleeves. Wish me luck!

This, is a pouch. It will be a smaller pouch once I make more wooly things to felt with it. It is currently very small, so there is no justification for sticking it in the washing machine all by its lonesome, is there? The flap is an accident. I somehow, while working in the round, managed to put two thirds of the stitches on one needle and the rest on another. So I evened them out, and worked back and forth to make a flap. The green part where I stopped knitting is bound off with a sewn bind off, because I couldn't think of what else to do.

OK, moving on. Lots of cute ornaments. The top is for my grandma, then aunt, then someone, then my best friend. The gingerbread man should look familiar from here, but I fixed his face. Much better, methinks! (Oh right, the link for the pattern is here, all I did was use worsted weight yarn and beads instead of thread.) I am loving the little bead eyes. Seriously. I also made a safety cone with them, but no picture yet so you'll have to wait. Sorry.

One more thing, then I'm done. For now. Cuz there's more, believe me. It's yarn!!!! I like yarn, especially when it's free, and these two skeins were gifts from an unofficial knitter and crocheter that I taught but needs to practice more and also doesn't understand the value of pretty yarn. I have no idea what to do with either! I didn't get a ball band, but it looks to be lighter than worsted. That's all I know.

Very pretty!!!!! Me likes it! (See up higher if you have an issue with my grammar.)

OK, stay tuned for more stuff and a safety cone. And some stuff. I like stuff.