Fabric Bonanza!

I bought all of the fabrics for the blue hued quilt, it was so exciting! They are all below, with a close up of the patterned fabrics below that. The solid navy blue will be the center diagonal stripe, along with the backing and binding. I think that they go together pretty well!So far, I have all the pieces of the lightest color cut - it's a harder task than the last quilt I made - since there isn't any repetition to the pieces, really.

Grand Ideas in Quilting

It's about time that I started thinking about a quilt to make for an upcoming wedding. In my head it looks like the drawing below - which is also my makeshift pattern. Wish me luck - I may need all of the next six months!

Cute Little Baby Hat!

I made this hat for one my coworkers who is having a baby. I used a "squares" pattern, basically a rib (k2, p2) that switches every few rows. I used some spectacular soft baby yarn that Tam lent me, and away I went. For once, the decrease didn't look all strange, so it was actually well shaped. And, of course, all baby hats need a pom-pom! :)

Hat! (no way!)

So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that I made a hat (or that it's red), seeing as winter has arrived. It will be a surprise that I finally switched it up and used a new type of pattern (click here to see!), one from knitty.com (a great site I just found last week that is full of FREE patterns).

The pattern was actually pretty easy to follow, but I had to add about fifteen extra rows in the middle to make it long enough, I think the yarn I was using was not as thick as the original pattern. (But of course, I'm too lazy to check the gauge, so it's pretty much all my fault there!). The pom-poms were my own addition, mostly just because they are fun.

In the picture above, it looks like an alien head, but that only makes it cooler! Below is a side view of it on my head - it's a perfect hat for when you have a really cute ponytail going on and don't want to screw it up, but it's so cold out that you need to have your ears covered. Yes, I realize that a headband could do the same job, but headbands don't come with pom-poms now do they?

Flag time!

It's been a long time since I've crafted for someone else, and I always forget how I get a little neurotic about perfection when it's not just for me. So, needless to say, I might have had a few freak-outs about how some things on Tim's flag were a little rough going.

The picture is a little far away, so luckily you can't see how the stitching around the head didn't line up right at the end and got a little bunchy. Also, the silver stars look pretty cool, but the fabric was such a pain to work with! It pretty much shredded any time that I tried to sew it, so I had to iron it onto some interfacing to give it some structure. That worked well, which was good because my next stop was going to be a silver sharpie!

So far the flag has survived one pretty good rainstorm, so I'm pretty satisfied! Plus, it's way more interesting than Tim's neighbor's flags!

Skully bracelet!

I so haven't posted anything in ages! I've been crafting up a bunch of jewelry to take to a craft show in November, but I also managed to make myself a sweet cross-stitched skull bracelet to wear while I sell my wares! (ooh, that was fun to type!)

I got my skull inspiration from skulladay.com! he is awesome!

Fiona in her dress!

Well, it's a little big, but she tried it on during her little fashion show. Here's a squirmy picture. :)