Just a spoonful of crafting
Oct. 28th, 2013 04:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
untonugganHad a lovely day yesterday with jelazakazone &co; we spent most of the time in her lab concocting ways to make wire & fiber art yak fusions for an art quilt. Yes. It was that awesome. There may also have been discussions of wire art alpacas, possibly with tiny alpaca scarves. In the end there was a yak semi-made. My contributions were some fuzzy yarn spun from locks that I spun as an experiment independently (verdict: pain in the butt on a drop spindle, and probably on a wheel too, but timely for this project) and also a handspun alpaca "scarf" for said yak made out of i-cord. Partner drew sharks with her daughter, and also had an excellent time. (Well, a shark with its tail covered by a half-eaten donut. Long story. But aren't those the best kind of sharks?)
I also seem to be accidentally making a Slytherin-Gryffindor house unity cowl. Funny how I just happened to have green, gold, red, and gray (interspersed with cream) in my stash...also funny that I didn't notice it was in Hogwarts colors until the last couple of stripes. Now I am kind of more in love with it. The cream is handspun Finnsheep.
Close up of the Slytherin-Gryffindor House Unity Cowl, see above for description of colors. In garter stitch (yes, in the round, I am like that), so it's got texture and ridges but lies flat and is very stretchy
Yesterday also saw me obsessed with buttons. I am making Things involving buttons and upcycled felted sweaters, with the odd bit of embroidery on them to liven them up. (And did I mention some of the buttons are vintage and awesome?) And then jelazakazone gave me more buttons, and I have All The Ideas for them. (Hats! With buttons as embellishments! And Things!) I enjoyed the hand embroidery more than I expected, I think because it was something different.
A sample of the Things with buttons, a black glasses holder made from a black upcycled sweater and a silvery vintage button, embellished with asterisk-type hand embroidery in silver thread
Why am I posting at almost 5 am, you may ask, when I've obviously had a very full day already? Well, because it is cold outside and I woke up in pain and unable to move. As in, I couldn't roll over and my hands wouldn't close. *gnashes teeth* Probably some of this is because I did a lot yesterday, and for awhile I used to think that if my hands were like that the solution was to not knit and sit around looking lost. What I have found, for me is that if I do just a little bit of crafting involving my hands - particularly knitting or spinning - the motion tends to lubricate my joints or something and then I can actually, say, make a dreamwidth post. YMMV.
jelazakazone &co; we spent most of the time in her lab concocting ways to make wire & fiber art yak fusions for an art quilt. Yes. It was that awesome. There may also have been discussions of wire art alpacas, possibly with tiny alpaca scarves. In the end there was a yak semi-made. My contributions were some fuzzy yarn spun from locks that I spun as an experiment independently (verdict: pain in the butt on a drop spindle, and probably on a wheel too, but timely for this project) and also a handspun alpaca "scarf" for said yak made out of i-cord. Partner drew sharks with her daughter, and also had an excellent time. (Well, a shark with its tail covered by a half-eaten donut. Long story. But aren't those the best kind of sharks?)I also seem to be accidentally making a Slytherin-Gryffindor house unity cowl. Funny how I just happened to have green, gold, red, and gray (interspersed with cream) in my stash...also funny that I didn't notice it was in Hogwarts colors until the last couple of stripes. Now I am kind of more in love with it. The cream is handspun Finnsheep.
Close up of the Slytherin-Gryffindor House Unity Cowl, see above for description of colors. In garter stitch (yes, in the round, I am like that), so it's got texture and ridges but lies flat and is very stretchy
Yesterday also saw me obsessed with buttons. I am making Things involving buttons and upcycled felted sweaters, with the odd bit of embroidery on them to liven them up. (And did I mention some of the buttons are vintage and awesome?) And then jelazakazone gave me more buttons, and I have All The Ideas for them. (Hats! With buttons as embellishments! And Things!) I enjoyed the hand embroidery more than I expected, I think because it was something different.
A sample of the Things with buttons, a black glasses holder made from a black upcycled sweater and a silvery vintage button, embellished with asterisk-type hand embroidery in silver thread
Why am I posting at almost 5 am, you may ask, when I've obviously had a very full day already? Well, because it is cold outside and I woke up in pain and unable to move. As in, I couldn't roll over and my hands wouldn't close. *gnashes teeth* Probably some of this is because I did a lot yesterday, and for awhile I used to think that if my hands were like that the solution was to not knit and sit around looking lost. What I have found, for me is that if I do just a little bit of crafting involving my hands - particularly knitting or spinning - the motion tends to lubricate my joints or something and then I can actually, say, make a dreamwidth post. YMMV.
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Date: 2013-10-28 02:08 pm (UTC)I felt all kinds of distracted yesterday, but I was so pleased with what you and E did. I posted a picture of the yak in progress. EEEE. So frigging cute.
Also, I adore your partner. I love anyone who can engage DD2 for serious lengths of time. <3 <3 DD2 adores your partner too, as you might have noticed :D :D
Also also, I think those little bags are adorable. I hope you are selling them at your knitting craft gig. Oooh, I wonder if DD1 would like to make some with the felted sweaters we have. How hard is it to learn to embroider? Not very, right? What sort of needles do you use for that? I just bought some floss, actually.
Also, I think Santa's beard is going to have some sparkly silver angelina fibers. :D :D I just can't resist.
Ok, going to go wash Santa wool now.
Thanks so much for coming over! Hope you are feeling better now! <3
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Date: 2013-10-28 10:32 pm (UTC)EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAK.
<3 Partner has serious fun with DD2, so I think it's even. She told me she created an "ocean of calm" and let DD2 get curious enough to find out what she was doing. Deviuosly clever.
I *am* selling the little bags at the knitting craft show, and happened to get some more felted sweaters at a thrift store I
draggedtook partner to today after the doctor. Embroidery isn't that hard I think, I was doing it (and getting the thread all tangled) when I was three or four, albeit a little crookedly. The woman who looked after me when my mom was at work taught me how; she used to do beautiful embroidery. I think I have a book of stitch patterns and how to do them if you want to look at it, or there's the library, or there's YouTube.SPARKLY ANGELINA I love it.
Hope the washing went okay!
Thank you so much for hosting! If you are free sometime it would be great if you could come over here again at some point for playtime, possibly with DD1/DD2 if partner is around (or we could just have adult time, but I think partner would find that less fun). I redid my craft organization and it's all prettified now. Just don't look in the drawers, some of them just have yarn shoved in without any organization because I take it out to look at the colors and then I shove it back in a different drawer...