Category: Crafts

In Development

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I’m still working on my Starry Stoles, just not currently. I needed a teensy break from the monotony of swaths of stockinette and beads. Instead, I am working on this:

A bag full of yarn doesn’t make sense to you? Pssh, picky. Here’s more:

It’s a new lace hat that I am taking row by row, as you can see by the notebook in the picture. Basically I’ve picked out a lace pattern and am figuring out the specifics of each row as I get to it. Helps keep my place in the pattern, really, since it doesn’t exist until I get to it.

I’ve just gotten to the widest part, so now I’m just working my way through the length. I’m thinking another color change repeat and finishing off the band in gray. Hopefully I will have this hat finished by this weekend.

(Not-so-)Trashy Birthday Gifts

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What do you get for a three-going-on-four-year-old who LOVES trash men, trash trucks, and trash cans but already has his own fleet of play trucks and cans? Trash. Well, sort of.

I needle-felted trash using the “Alphabet Soup” recipe from the book “I Stink” as a guideline.

All of the pieces, along with the description card, are held neatly in a (relatively) large garbage bag made of black fabric so there’s a place to put them when they aren’t being used.

The Finishing Touch

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Remember my mesh t-shirt I made a while back? Well, I wore it once and then tossed it in my repair bin. Not because it fell apart when I washed it, but because I didn’t like the way the bottom looked.

It was constantly riding up as I wore the shirt, plus it just looked unfinished as a raw edge:

So I decided to do something about it. I picked up stitches across the bottom at a ratio of 4 in every large space (I think it’s a chain 3 space?) and 1 in each small space (between two single crochet stitches).

Then I knit that in a 2×2 rib on size 4 needles for about an inch, bound off with Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off, and wove in the ends. Basically a 30-minute project that gives the piece the finished look it was missing.

Being 100% cotton yarn, the ribbing doesn’t actually hold anything in place. The extra inch seems to help in not feeling like the shirt is riding up all the time, though. Or perhaps that is thanks to the jeans I was wearing holding onto the new waistband. Either way, I’m liking the shirt much better now. Amazing how much difference something so small can make.