Quick update

Hey, if anyone still reads this- I've moved over to WordPress. My new blog is at http://sheepishlittleblog.wordpress.com. Hope to see you over there!

Woo!

Here are the mittens that my friend Jody commissioned from me. The pattern is from here- found it on Ravelry, of course.They're done in Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in Forest Heather. I love this pattern, it was a fast and easy knit but not very boring with all of the cabling and inc/dec areas. I'll probably make some for myself in cream :D

Oops.

I completely lost track of this blog, thanks to a molotov cocktail of schoolwork (thank you senior year of college), making Christmas presents (so glad that's mostly done), and.... *cough*.... Ravelry. Yes, I'm completely addicted. Craftster's great and all but you can be all off topic on Ravelry! You can browse so much more in terms of patterns! And it just plain rocks hardcore! (plus there's a queue function!)
So yes, I apologize. Here is a makeup post! Whee!
First, I've made a quilt! It's only 15"x15", it's for a Blythe doll (not mine, for a swap).
The yellow is bees. I think it turned out pretty well!

Next, two pairs of knucks. The first pair is really small because they were for my super-skinny future sister in law. She really liked 'em, too! The second pair was for me. It's way too cold for them now but they served me well back in mid-October. First pair: Elizabeth Lavold Silky Wool. Second: KnitPicks Swish DK. Here's my Halloween costume. COMFIEST COSTUME EVER. Srsly. In case you can't tell, I was Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro. People kept hugging me, it was great. I made the main part of the costume out of a men's hoodie. I took off the pocket before I sewed on the belly fur and I used the pocket fabric to make the ears. The whiskers are pipe-cleaners and all of the accents are fleece.

My mom bought a crochet tomato off of me a while back, and had it on a little shelf in her kitchen. She commissioned an onion and a carrot to go with it.
Here's my friend Kiah's Christmas present. (Kiah, if you read this, DON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER.




ok, so here it is. Well, one of them. There is a pair, I promise. This is the Buccaneer's Booty Socks pattern from Craftster. I used the recommended yarn, KnitPicks Elements. This was my first fair isle!
Finally, a rather blinding MS paint rendition of my next major Christmas project... a quilt for my future mother in law. It'll be an oversize lap quilt. I'm starting it Friday and probably spending all weekend on it.
I hope all that makes up for my long absence! I'll be around more, I promise.

Socks FTW!

That's right... I knitted socks! My very first pair. I'm totally enamored of (with?) sock knitting now. I used #3 DPNs, TLC Baby in Bunny Print, and Silver's Sock Class rather than a real pattern. The only thing I changed was the leg ribbing... I don't like ribbing all the way down the leg (and I hate purling besides) so I did a bit more than an inch and switched to just knitting the rest of the leg. In all this project took me about 5 weeks, but that's coz I put it down for nearly a month in between. I got sock 1 done in 5 days (with surgery in there somewhere) and cast on right away and got nearly done with sock 2 in another 2 days, but then set it down until 2 days ago, so if you scrunch the time together, it took about 11 days. Not bad for first socks!

Things I learned on this project:
-DPNs aren't scary! Really! You feel like you're going to poke your eye out for the first 3 or 4 rounds and then it just makes sense. I love them!
-I looooove turning heels. It's some kind of crazy voodoo. So awesome.
-Picking up stitches is kind of cool and not hard at all. I expected far worse.
-Kitchener stitch is not that bad either!

A short pictorial telling of the first part of Beowulf.

Grendel, vile descendant of Cain, ravages the Danish countryside.
Exhibit A- vile countenance. Look at the evil in those beady (buttony?) eyes.

The hero, Sanji- I mean Beowulf, comes to battle with him, bare-handed! Will he triumph?!
Beowulf rips Grendel's arm clean off (ah, the power of velcro) and Grendel runs away like a little baby. Later his mom comes and tries to tell Beowulf off for killing her son, but Beowulf kills her too. What a jerk.
But later, Beowulf gives Grendel his arm back and they become the best of friends. (This doesn't happen.)
The End.

Grendel is made of socks, polyfill, buttons, and a bit of velcro. He's for an English assignment.

...best english assignment EVER.

There are no words.

Dr. Fu Manchu cupcake.

That's all you need to know.
Oh, and that he'll be up on etsy tomorrow.

Just some news.

So far I've gotten 4 etsy sales! HOORAY! ...but, I've bought like 5 things, haha. Oh well, it still counts, and none of my sales have been from friends so I guess it's not just pity buying :P
Anyway, I've got a couple more cupcakes and a couple more DPCs to list. I just have to make a few more DPCs this weekend so I can print up a new sheet of cards for them- no sense wasting paper!
I've been thinking of adding some more sewn stuff to my shop. Some crochet hook rolls, some totebags maybe... and maybe some other crochet- related goods, like stitchmarkers or something. Could go over well. Thoughts?

In non-crafty news, this vegetarian thing is still going great. I really feel a lot better than I ever did eating meat- I have more energy and I feel better about what I'm eating. I'm eating healthier, unintentionally, too! So, this will probably be (if not permanent) for sure a long term thing. With my family's history of heart, cholesterol, and bloodsugar problems, I think this dietary path is the best choice I have (aside from completely abandoning sugar, which I've tried and CANNOT do. I get mean. :P) But it's also making me a more adventurous (and therefore better) cook! So I guess this part is kind of crafty. :D oh well.

I had intended to make/sell Pullip shirts and clothes, but I can't seem to get the pattern to work (I can't sew stretch fabric, apparently) so I'll be adding Pullip sized hats and other accessories later this month. They will be cute!

wooohooooo! Etsy = OPEN!

Go shop! There'll be more items (i have 22 done) going up over the next few days, and I'm working on more DPCs, so keep checkin' back!

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