fishie’s aquarium

Apparently all I needed was company. Today was Chris’ first day where he was CONSCIOUS and not working. He sat in the craft room on the computer all day, while I made shit. It was great!

1) I finished another pants bag for the August Craftster Challenge. I know it’s not the best and that I won’t win (I had better ideas in my head, but it’s not something I’d really want to put energy into. ANYWAY, I figure I get extra points for recycling ;)

That’s an old button from like, the 70’s that I stole from my mom’s sewing kit when I was 8 and put it into mine

2) Chris, not having been conscious and at home since I knit with his drumsticks, looked at the heart thing on his bass drum, and was like, “I thought you were going to make that into a pillow.” So I was like, “ok.” And I did. First I sewed the knit thing onto a white napkin from a restaurant I REALLY didn’t want to go to when I was a teenager, then I sewed the knit/napkin hybrid onto one of the only white fabrics I had, and it matched the theme of the knitting so I figured why not.

Chris was less than pleased with the… uh… design of the back, but WTF THERE’S A BIG PINK HEART IN THE FRONT!!! So there. >:P I stuffed it with a small portion of one of the three giant bags filled with stuffing from some free couch Chris tore apart for the wood and saved the stuffing from way back before I met him. Very pillowy. Yay!

3) I FINALLY put the placket on that corset I made somewhere around 4 or 5 years ago. I broke the needle I’ve had in my sewing machine for however long I’ve had it (note: more than ten years) on one of the metal eyes, but it’s okay, it wasn’t going to last forever.

4) I said fuck it, ripped out the waistband from the drawstring thong, and did MATH to find out how many stitches to ACTUALLY cast on to make it work with my yarn. And YAY IT FITS NOW.

I’ve been wanting to experiment with new cream pie flavors. Until now, I’ve only done the double chocolate and mint chocolate pie… while I have altered the recipe to make the pudding into banana pudding, I never made pie from that. I want to try a chocolate-peanut butter cream pie and a coconut cream pie. Oh man coconut cream pie.

And I want to make an ice cream cake. Mmmm. And eat it with pie.

I got sick of those damn socks and wanted to knit something new for a change. I didn’t want something big to commit to, and just wanted a new FO, NOW. So thong it was.

Item: DRAWSTRING THONG
Pattern: Lacy Thong, Interweave Knits
Needles: 24″ size 6 circs
Yarn: Tahki Cotton Classic, Khaki Green
Time to Complete: 6 hours
Unusual Knitting Location(s): Knit while IMing with my stripper from New Zealand
New Skillz: Crochet picot edge thingy.
Notes: The lace pattern has an error! See that naughty hole on the left at the bottom of the lace pattern? Not supposed to be there. Tisk tisk. I was also bad and didn’t take swatching too seriously and ended up having to add a drawstring to keep it on.