Photo Friday

My blog keeps inspiring me.

I really liked the experimental post for 2KCBW

So I wanna do it every friday. It helps me clean out my desktop of all the pictures I've pulled off the internet that amuse me and everyone gets to see them. 

So without hesitation, here's what's on my desktop.

Now I can file them away in my ever-growing pictures album!

♥

Guessing Game

Guess what I'm making

Give up? I don't blame you. The only people who know are the people I've told. I promise to not leave you in suspense and I'll post pictures when it's stuffed and done with. As for now, I need to go to JoAnne. (I ran out of stuffing) 

Happy Birthday Katelyn! This is your present

Wednesday's Hump Day

Lookie what blog week prompted me to do!

I'm working on the sleeve (finally) of my long and forgotten sweater. I'm this much closer to finishing the whooolllee thing. Working on this sleeve has made me recognize something. I really must hate working things in pairs. I swear it's the most annoying feeling. You get so close, and feel like you finish something and then your left with the feeling of oh yeah...I still have another one of the same thing to make. Socks, sleeves, sweater fronts and backs. More reason for me to never finish anything.


Anyways.
This is one of my favorite bands

The Avett Brothers. Recentally, they became quite popular.

I work merch for the music festival they came to two weekends ago.

I love them so much, but they brought the worst merch. One CD and one shirt? Get real.

I must of not have been the only one who felt this way, I got a lot of noise thrown at me from people frustrated that these things were their only options. I really want to tell these people that there's nothing I can do about things like that, but they tend not to believe me and blame it on us anyways. My favorite story of the night was a woman who got mad at me because I would escort her backstage to let the band member sign her pants. She also told me (when I told her they weren't coming out to sign CDs), that they've gotten too big for their britches.
I thought of this from the point of the musician, seeing as I would dream of being famous someday. Really, I don't think you should have to come out and sign CDs if you don't want to. You don't owe your audience, even if they did buy your merch and contributed to your success. They did this because they like your music, not you as a person. I talked to one of my friends who was also playing at the same festival and she was telling me about how none of the musicians would be caught dead playing with the avett brothers. You don't have to like the person, just the music they produce. Musicians do not deserve to be harrassed by people. Most of the musicians I've met, would rather just decompress alone after a show than come out and sign CDs. I know I would.
That's all I really have to say about that.

♥

Caturday! Day 6

It's CATurday

Day six: Saturday, 2nd April. Something to aspire to
Is there a pattern or skill that you don’t yet feel ready to tackle but which you hope to (or think you can only dream of) tackling in the future, near or distant? Is there a skill or project that makes your mind boggle at the sheer time, dedication and mastery of the craft? Maybe the skill or pattern is one that you don’t even personally want to make but can stand back and admire those that do. Maybe it is something you think you will never be bothered to actually make bu can admire the result of those that have.




I want to master socks, because some of the patterns out there are just too cool. There's something about the turn of the heal that keeps getting me. Haunts my dreams. Not really, but it is really frustrating that I can't seem to just spit socks out like some people can.




I also want need to learn how to block. I've not started a lace project and most of the things I do, don't require it so therefore, never learned it. My mom sent me an email with a link on how to block properly. I've looked at it and it seems easy enough, I've just got to get around to making something that requires it. (Plus I need the equipment)




Blocking reminds me of what's next on my list of projects, lace. It's kind of intimidating. I think it's gorgeous and I really want to give it a go, hoping that nothing bad happens along the way. I have the attention span of a gnat am really busy most of the time and not really into having big projects that I can't finish right away. But I think lace would be worth giving a year or two to finish. It may seem like a long time, but lets not forget, I still haven't finished this.




What's everyone else's aspirations?

Day 5

Day Five: Friday, 1st April. And now for something completely different
This is an experimental blogging day to try and push your creativity in blogging to the same level that you perhaps push your creativity in the items you create.
There are no rules of a topic to blog about (though some suggestions are given below) but this post should look at a different way to present content on your blog. This can take one of many forms, but here a few suggestions: 

• Wordless, photographic post
• Video blog post
• Podcast
• Cartoon/sketch of an idea
• Write about a subject from a different perspective (for example, you could write about a day in the life of a knitted sock from the point of view of the sock).
• Interpretive modern dance (why does someone always suggest this?)
• A poem or piece of rhyming verse
• Stop motion animation

Here's some pictures I have on my laptop's desktop

Have a wonderful, funny, friday.

Day 4

Day Four: 31st March. Where are they now?

Whatever happened to your __________?

Write about the fate of a past knitting project. Whether it be something that you crocheted or knitted for yourself or to give to another person. An item that lives with you or something which you sent off to charity.

There are a lot of different aspects to look at when looking back at a knitting project and it can make for interesting blogging, as much of the time we blog about items recently completed, new and freshly completed. It is not so often that we look back at what has happened to these items after they have been around for a while.

How has one of your past knits lived up to wear. Maybe an item has become lost. Maybe you spent weeks knitting your giant-footed dad a pair of socks in bright pink and green stripes which the then ‘lost’. If you have knit items to donate to a good cause, you could reflect on the was in which you hope that item is still doing good for it’s owner or the cause it was made to support.

I love this question. It gives me a chance to prove that not everything I start ends up on the island of forgotten projects. Seriously, I promise I make stuff. 

Anyways, back in the day when I taught a craft class to youngsters, we decided to do a class of embroidery. That's where I learned I totally loved sewing as well as knitting. It was my junior year of high school when I got back into knitting, I decided to combine the two...sorta. Okay maybe not at all, but I thought the things I made with felt and knitting were pretty awesome. I ended up making a bunch of little bags and pouches that could fit in mine and other's purses. I also learned some new knitting patterns and stitches through making these. I don't have pictures of some of them, but my mom owns her own blanket gallery on facebook, so I swiped some pictures that she took of my stuff from her facebook. So here they are, and what happened to them.

This is the first purse I ever made, for my mom. She puts her change in it and stuff. It's really small, which I wasn't expecting being that it was the first purse/bag thing I'd ever made. I'm not sure if she still uses it, but it sits on her dresser.

I sold this. I wish I hadn't because I think it's awesome. I think this one was the most time consuming. It had a lot of details. The pattern is a basket weave stitch. It sold.

I also really like this one. My boyfriend drew the giraffe for me because I seemed to be incapable of pulling it together. Stitched some brown spots, used twine for the tail and we were good to go. The stitch is moss stitch. This one sold as well.

This one made be want to sell things on etsy. It's just a simple knit stitch so I figured anyone could make it. I think the little ice cream is too cute. It sold. I miss it 

I  dont' remember what the pattern I used for this one is, but it was kind of intense. I wish I could find a photo of the lining that I put inside this one, because it's one of my favorites! It's so colorful..and I'm a sucker for crazy rainbows. This 'clutch' was one of my best stitching endeavors. I do love it. 

Those aren't the only ones that have been made, just the only ones that are documented and I currently have access to. Man I can't wait till I have a regular apartment room and I can get all my project here, where I live. Till then, I'll look at my flimsy collecting and pine for the yarns of home.

toodles  ♥

Day 3!

Day Three: Wednesday, 30th March. Tidy mind, tidy stitches

How do you keep your yarn wrangling organized? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organization exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organized at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the individual skeins. However, if you are organized, blog about an aspect of that organization process, whether that be a particularly neat and tidy knitting bag, a decorative display of your crochet hooks, your organized stash or your project and stash pages on Ravelry.

I wish I could answer this accurately. 

I'm gonna sound a lot more orderly than I actually am.

I live with a roommate, In a dorm so really, I try not to keep much of a stash around here, there's just no room. I have a few skeins of yarn kept in my project bag for the things I'm working on and I get more to put in there when I go home or decide to message my mom to send me more (wouldn't happen). I have about 3 crafting/knitting books on the ledge along my window to keep me company and my first drawer of my built in dresser contains several hats that I've knitted. (I'm addicted to quick projects. send help)

I sound so organized, but if you saw my house, it would be a different story entirely. My dad hates it. My mom and I are both avid yarn users so naturally, there's a lot of product to rummage around in. The crafting closet in our home office has a big storage tub of yarn and more yarn surrounding it, shoved into different bags. Our front room has a basket filled with fun fur and several projects my mom is working on. Then there's my room. God bless my mom for trying to get this basket of nightmares in order when I moved out of my room. It's near impossible. I am just not the organized type, I'm the 'in-hindsight' organizer. I look at that terrifying pile of tangled yarn and I think to myself how I would use it, if only it weren't in an impossible state. Keep dreaming. My room back home has my projects stuffed in all kinds of places. I need help.

From the home mess.

My needles are a totally different story. I keep them all in one place, for fear that they would get lost. My mom bought me a case with interchangeable circular needles. Bliss. There's a place for everything there. When I got into crocheting last year, that was my present this christmas. Hooks! I have nearly every size, and I can keep them in the handy package they came in! Then my boyfriend bought me a package of every size DPN you could think of as his christmas gift. I ended up making my first sewing project to hold them. So on that front, I'd say I'm good. They all fit in my nifty second sewing project (my bag)

That about wraps this day up. Anyone wanna become a professional de-tangler? I know someone in Florida who needs it.

My project bag. You can see my needle case poking up from the depths.