Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

Soapmaking

Sadly, there will be no photos here again for a long ass time, what with computer death and all. Dammit.

But I am taking a soapmaking class for a couple of weekends. We didn't end up doing the messy lye stuff (which to be honest, I don't look forward to ) this week, but we did do glycerine soap, which is incredibly damn easy to make. Melt some glycerine in a cup, sprinkle in some dye/glitter/scent, pour it in a mold, stick mold in the fridge, and voila, soap!

Okay, so trying to put objects in didn't go so well for me, particularly trying to put little pieces of soap within bigger soap, but I still came out with enough to hand out as gifts. Huzzah.

I want a wall hanging, I just don't want to MAKE the thing

I still think it'd be great to have a giant Tower card wall hanging for my show next year.

Too bad I uh...hate making huge things. Really, am I going to knit the thing? What? I hate dyeing fabric, so painting a design on wouldn't be great (plus I suck with the wax resist).

I kind of want something like these quilts, except quilting also drives me crazy. Too huge.

April and May calendars

Hey, wait, didn't I do this theme last year?!

I'm attempting small item manifestation this month. It is working...fair to middling in practice.

Birthday crafting

I finally gave up and made more paper beads (another paper bead anklet) this morning at the crack of dawn. Frankly, the symbolism can't be beat and it takes me a half hour to do. I may as well just do that every year rather than angsting over trying to find a fast yet interesting yarn project.

I am bringing along a pattern to make a masquerade mask on my trip to see if I get that done as well, but technically at least I don't have to worry about it.

I like this idea

MAKEcation.

I have Friday off from work and can't go anywhere. Maybe this is what I should do...too bad the CC is closed, so that limits the project-ing.

February calendar

This month brought to you by interesting collage postcards and whatnot I got at the hippiecon.

Totally did this

"Is there anything else in the emergency survival kit besides knitting needles and yarn?"
"You said to just pack the necessities!"

(Then the mouseover: "Hmm, only brought the one pattern.")

Last weekend, I went to a conference. One that Just Happens to have a fiber arts panel at it. I pondered what to bring to work on over the weekend. I ended up bringing two balls of Motley Chaos yarn and the Leftovers for Dinner jacket project to work on, because I could show off my yarn. And indeed, the chick that runs the panel had also started spinning this year, so this was doubly appropriate. Girl even brought her wheel.

Now, I was trying to be good. I only brought two balls of the yarn (you're supposed to leave a ball for each sleeve), and I figured I probably wouldn't get through the two balls anyway. After all, I'm always overpacking yarn and not going through all of it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA NOT THIS TIME. I actually both (a) ran out of yarn, and (b) finished the big overall circle, during the fiber arts panel. Irony!

I had bought a cross stitch project at the vendor area the previous day, and ended up begging a smaller needle off someone else at fiber arts (thank you!) so I would have something to work on during lectures on the last day. I hadn't done cross stitch in awhile (uh...4-H club last I recall), but this kit was cute as the dickens.

And I realized...holy crap, cross stitch is annoying. You have to start in the middle, and given that you're using one color at a time, you have to line up the positioning exactly right or else you screwed it up by the time you get to the next color...and I did this a lot...and there was a lot of taking out, and I got a big knot in the red included in the kit and now I definitely do not have enough of it to finish the project...

And I kept thinking, "Dude, if I knitted this it would be so much easier."

Hah.

I kind of want to try knitting the pattern, actually...

(Anti) Valentine crafting

So, there's some contests around. Particularly this one, which is more my speed.

What to do? I should do something.

Maybe based off this?

Thoroughly INSANE spinning!

So I saw this book last night. HOLY EFFING SHIT! Makes you think, "Hey, it doesn't matter how wonky my yarn gets, because LOOK AT THIS STUFF." It makes me want to get a wheel at home and put all kinds of weird crap together.

Another year, another calendar

Followup from here. Yup, this month is yarn and what I worked on.
It is so weird to me to be working on this SMALL a surface. I'm used to collecting an asston of pics to fill the space and falling short, not the other way around.