Finished Object – Betty Boyfriend Sweater 2

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I am continuing playing catch-up with my backlog of finished projects this week. Just giving a heads-up that these pictures are not recent. I am not wearing sweaters and jeans to take photos right now, even inside. This finish is from February 2023.

The torso of a white woman wearing a seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs, facing the camera.

I made my first Betty Boyfriend Sweater by Talia’s Crochet Creations a few years back, and I loved it so much I had to make one in another color. I had an abandoned project with a large amount of Comfy fingering weight yarn, which I held double to match the pattern gauge.

The torso of a white woman wearing a seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs, facing away from the camera.

I sized up for this one to be more of a top layer than a wear-alone sweater like the original. However, I didn’t take notes on the sizing, so I don’t recall if I made the size large or if I just made my gauge slightly larger and used the size medium numbers.

A seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs.

I used all the Seafoam yarn I had (452 g, about 9 skeins) and 77g of the Planetarium yarn (about 1.5 skeins). Again, not much help if I can’t remember what I did about the sizing, but maybe it can help someone with their sweater planning.

Finished Object – Roblox Pillow

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(Note: I swear I published this back in September of last year, but it was still in my drafts folder and the link lead nowhere when I pasted it into a private window, so here it is. Originally written to be posted September 12, 2022)

The littlest turned 10 a couple of weeks ago and had a simple request – a Roblox pillow with the logo on a black background.

Friends, they do not make Roblox pillows at all, so it was time to make one. At first, I was going to cross-stitch the name on one side and the logo on the other. Never mind the fact that I was starting this less than a week before his birthday.

I showed him one of my cross-stitched pillows as an example to make sure it was what he wanted, and he said it was, or it could be a soft pillow like his favored pillow he won at a carnival game at a theme park this summer. That would be much easier than cross-stitching two whole sides of a pillow anyway.

My original thought was to punch needle the logo side so it would be soft, but I didn’t actually have the appropriate fabric, and what I had that I thought would work did not. In the end, I ran up to JoAnns, bought an 8th yard each of black and white fleece, and appliqued it together using my sewing machine on the zigzag setting on the shortest stitch length.

I was also originally going to cross-stitch the entire back and line it with the fleece, but I messed up the colors (don’t color match after dark, friends) and had to start over when I was almost done with the lettering, so I abandoned that idea as well and just did enough of a border to be able to also applique that piece to the black felt.

Sewed everything together inside out, turned it right way around, stuffed it with pillow fluff and the scrap threads, and managed to give it to him the day after his birthday. Bonus points, it turned out the exact perfect size for the little dog’s head, so he lays on it every time he hops on the bed and it is adorable.

July Updates

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I’m currently sitting here with 7 drafts about 7 finished projects that just need to be written, plus a few other projects I haven’t even started drafts on, and yet I haven’t written a blog post since April.

I’m not going to promise any kind of consistency here. If you want that, feel free to follow me on Instagram:

But, I am going to give a bit of an update of sorts since I have been working on the rest of this site instead of the blog.

For starters, I slightly reconfigured the look. I gave myself a new, personal logo and slightly changed the colors of everything else to match. I also cleaned up the menus and home page. Finally, I now have three portfolios available: Voiceover, Graphic Design, and Fiber Arts. Those I do update whenever I have new things to add. It takes much less time than actually writing.

In other updates, I have closed my Etsy shop and am slowly adding everything I’ve got to my Shopify shop that is connected to my Instagram shop which makes everything way easier. And way cheaper, too, because I can just pay $5 a month instead of $0.20 for every listing. I couldn’t add everything I wanted to because I always had to be careful to not go over a couple dollars in fees per month (and that charge happened every 3 months). That meant I was stacking things in listings and making it way too difficult if anybody ever did want to shop. So everything is going into its own listing so you can know exactly what you are ordering.

I have also set up my commissions on Ko-Fi! Right now there are only 2 listings, Baby Outfits and Keychains, but feel free to message me with any other requests.

Ok, in the next few weeks watch this space for more project write-ups and blog posts. I promise they are coming!