Four projects finished in one day?
Author: fishieApparently 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.
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Author: fishieI posted this in punk knitters yesterday and I should probably put it in here too
Community post
I’m a knitter. My boyfriend is a drummer. He’s away for a wedding in a different state today, and this is what he’s going to come home to:
Supplies. Yes, those are drum sticks.
Success!
How he’s going to find it. I didn’t want to finish it because if I did, how would he know I’d used his drumsticks to knit it?
Velvet Spun says “Peek-a-boo!”
Not bad for my first intarsia project, eh?
His Reaction when he Came Home
Silly me for not realizing that pink is red enough to be included in his red-green colorblindness (doh!) and the drum/craft room is dark enough that when he went to look, he couldn’t see the heart at first. His immediate reaction was “WTF?” (harsh language spared ;) ) and as I was showing him WHERE the heart was, he was laughing.
He loved it, thought it was funny, all that good stuff. He could see the heart after I pointed it out. We’re not sure what’s going to happen with it, so for right now it’s draped over the top of his bass drum.
I posted it on craftster too, and it’s a hot topic on the MAIN PAGE yesssss
See??? Seee?????
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