1 year older...

Last week did not go the way I wanted it to! Somethings went better, somethings went worse...

On Tuesday I had a molar pulled, (tooth of doom will not be missed) which was apparently a very complicated procedure, but I thankfully had little to no side-effects from it. Barely swelled, no bruising, and thanks to my buddy T3, no pain! However the T3 caused me to spend Wednesday and Thursday sleeping most of the day, so my vast list of crocheting goals was left mostly undone!

 The big deal was that my recovery went well enough that I WAS ABLE TO EAT BIRTHDAY CAKE on Saturday! I turned 27, and I was kind of bummed earlier that week that I wasn't going to get cake, but since my recovery was going fine, I decided to bake myself a bday cake! (Yes, I bake my own cake. I have for the past 3 or 4 years, I love to bake, and this is one of the few excuses I have to bake a cake). I decided cinnamon rolls would be my inspiration for cake this year.. I started with vanilla cake batter, I set a bit of the batter aside to mix in some melted butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar, then I spiraled the cinnamon batter on top of the vanilla batter, and baked it! I finished the cake off with tangy cream cheese frosting! It was awesome!

I forgot to take a picture with the icing on it... but it was pretty
and more importantly it was tasty!

But I was able to get some cute new mitts created, and I've designed a new fashion scarf which I'm in love with. I'm excitedly waiting for my keychains to come in so I can start crocheting those up!

Love this neapolitan popsicle fashion scarf!

Con Crocheting Season begins!

So it has begun! I'm working on items for Comic Con (May 18th) and I'll know by March 6th if I'm also doing Animaritimes or not! So far this week I've tested out a few new patterns, which I'm really thrilled with!

Child version of Twinkie Chan's Carrot Scarf!

 

Dragon Mittens from NeedleNoodles

Grrr!

I really love the shape of these fingerless gloves, especially the thumb covering, and that it's crocheted in one piece. I think I might use them as the base for some more designs.

Mood Scarf - Month 2 - August 2012

I'm a few days late posting... I had an oddly social weekend and therefore didn't get around to taking pictures and posting my scarf update until now! So here it is!!!

The scarf is coming along REALLY nicely! I still don't know what I'm going to do with it though it's looking like the scarf is going to need some edging because all those colour changes, mean the edges are SOO uneven! I still love it though! and I'm happy to report that at the moment, yellow is the colour that's there the most, apparently at 8pm at night I'm not as depressed/angry as I thought I was :)

Mood Scarf - Month 1 - July 2012

So... I will be honest and say this so far, has NOT gone at all as planned... I have been recording my mood/colour every day but I definitely have not been crocheting a row a day, infact most of this scarf got completed this past weekend. *hangs head in shame*

Well shame aside! It does have 31 lovely rows of 30 sc that do coincide to my mood every night at 8pm. I'm happy to report there really are no big trends emerging so far, there were two days in a row where at 8pm all I felt was sick (green), but I'm such an emotional person (sorry J) that thankfully even my angry bouts, or stressed bouts etc tend to really only last an hour or two.

My goal for August is to ACTUALLY crochet a row a day!

Some of you, may notice, this is not the scarf I originally showed  4 weeks ago. There were a few flaws with that plan, the hdc were probably going to make this thing way too long, my math initially said it was going to be 7 feet long, but so does my math on the new sc version... so math somewhere failed me! But the bigger problem with the 1st version was the 730 ends I was going to have to deal with! OMG that's so many little 3" strands to sew in! Thankfully Lion Brand Yarn came to my help! Their blog recently showed an awesome technique for dealing with ends, that still takes a bit of time, but it does cut down a ton on the annoying little ends! Go check it out! So thrilled to learn this! I had heard about the Russian join years ago, but that method involved cutting yarn and handfelting it together, which would only work with wool. This doesn't help me at all, since I can't work with wool, but this one works with acrylic yarn! It's the little things :)

And now back to working on some commissions and presents!

150 Likes Giveaway!!!

One lucky Facebook fan is going to have the chance to win a custom colour Noose Scarf! See below for more information! Here's the link to the picture on Facebook!

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Commissions I finished up last week!

So last week had some insane crocheting happening! A scarf, a hat and a pair of mittens! (not all for the same person ironically) Though I did score all the orders while at a kid's birthday party, so that works for me!

Noose Scarf, made from Bernat Waverley yarn. This was my first time using this yarn, and it was really nice to work with, fluffy and comfortable. The pattern for these is one of mine and can be found for sale on Ravelry.

These mittens are from a Bernat pattern and were made using Bernat Chunky Yarn, I'm not a huge fan of the yarn, but it was the customer's request, so I couldn't very well refuse :)

This hat is my own design, and not available at the moment anywhere. It's made with Lion Brand Vanna's Choice, and fits an adult male, but not my tiny female mannequin head!

Pattern: Noose Scarf

My Noose Scarf pattern is now available for sale on Ravelry!

This scarf is crocheted in a single piece with no seams to mimic the popular style of wearing a pashmina or scarf called the “noose”. It can be worked up quickly from a single ball of yarn, which makes it ideal for a last minute present. Unlike the popular key-hole scarves, which has a slit in one side of the scarf, because the hole in this design is at one end, it allows for the scarf to either be worn tight against you neck to protect you from the cold and sits flat against your chest under a coat to avoid looking bulky or can be worn more loosely as a fashion accessory.


It's available for $3

Free Pattern: Tunisian Scarf/Cowl

My first available pattern! well if you can even call it a pattern! it's a simple, beginners tunisian scarf/cowl. I made mine 90" long, which is enough to comfortably go around someone's neck three times and be buttoned. This was my first ever tunisian project and I'm very annoyed with myself that I waited this long to learn because it is EASY!

Tunisian Scarf/Cowl

Yarn: worsted weight approx 300-325 yards for a 90" scarf (I used Bernats Mosaic, I would suggest a variegate yarn to give it some character)
Hook: 6mm tunisian or regular hook (the scarf is narrow enough that a regular hook will work)
Notions: needle, 2 - 1" buttons
Size: 4.5" x 90" (or whatever size you want)

To make this scarf, you need to know how to do a few things in tunisian crochet: base row, tss (tunisian simple stitch), tps (tunisian purl stitch), and binding off (there are instructions all over the internet on how to do this, I found YouTube to be the easiest source to learn these stitches, I was going to try to explain them, but I'm a visual teacher and writing out the instructions wasn't working well!

Buttonhole: I improvised how to do this... tss to buttonhole, yarn over (yo) 2, skip 2, continue tss as normal, on return pass, work the yo the same as any other loop.

base row: 15
1: tss* (15)
2: tps* (15)
3-4: repeat rows 1-2
5-?: tss* (15)
work until desired length (mine was about 90")
1: tps* (15)
2: tss 3, buttonhole, tss 5, buttonhole, tss 3 (15)
3: tps* (15)
4: tss* (15)
bind off

Finishing: sew your buttons onto the starting edge of the scarf, make sure that they line up with the button holes. Sew in all your ends!

If you have any questions, please leave a comment or email me

Works in progress

So I've once again found myself with a ton of projects on the go!
1. A set of three angry bird inspired hats (red bird, black bird, green pig)
2. A loom double knit cowl in green and bone Vanna's Choice yarn
3. A tunisian crochet scarf in Calypso Bernat mosaic yarn
4. A 3 coloured cellphone case for a coworker
5. A case for my new Samsung Glide!!! At 25, after years of arguing against it, I finally got a cellphone and it so pretty and fancy and I am totally infatuated!!!