Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

Chain chain chain, chain of hearts

One-off gift for Valentine's Day.

Lost and found

These pendants were ones I thought had been stolen, but they turned up in a bin months later. Go figure!

Not my best work.

I have too much stuff I want to do.

My current projects:

1. I have decided (this was back when I was waiting for my KnitDenise needles to come in. They have, and they are spectacular) to remake the Candy sweater, seeing as it's kind of unwearable on a practical level with it being way off the shoulder and the tits o' doom bursting those buttons. So I am currently remaking it as a pullover (screw the buttons!), with extra titspace and a much higher neckline. This is my "work on in public" project, at least the middle is anyway.
2. I am trying to design thigh-high legwarmers, which I am working on as my "at home only" project because DPN's are always trying to fucking escape. Too bad I started doing them on size 7 DPN's 'cause this'll take awhile.
3. I really wanna do something with my new KnitDenise needles. I attempted to start Cherie Amour with them (as another "at home only" project since I've got a ginormous ball of yarn), but am currently quite confused as to how this thing is supposed to work. Which I hear is a problem for everyone around the neckline/arms, but I haven't even managed to successfully kick off the bottom yet. Uh-oh.

Godet skirt is done.

I love that I have enough sweaters and knitted accessories of my own to go with this entire dang outfit. Though it did inspire me to decide to knit some black thigh-high legwarmers to go with it to keep me warm in yarn skirts still, rather than the pink ones I'm wearing in the pink that only go to the knee (which you can't see too well in the pics). I am working on designing a pattern for those.

Pattern notes: front is sized slightly differently from back- is slightly bigger. Instructions tell you to “continue as for back” after adding on an extra four stitches to the width, but this does not line up equally with the back due to that adjustment. I ended up with 88 stitches at the point where the skirt splits for the godets. I divided the godet panels into 28/32/28 sts, adding extras on to the sides.                                            

The only issue with it is that the waist came out too big- argh, I hate when my waist comes out in between “too small” and “too big” on patterns. In this case, it actually FELL OFF right in front of my boss. sigh I ended up making a chain and installing a drawstring along the top of the skirt. Note to self: either put elastic or drawstring in any yarn skirts, period!

                                           

Finished this in 19 days. God, I love the speed of crochet!

Baby's first cabled thingie

Here's my cable hair wrap from my class. Not bad, not bad at all.

More flower scarf photos.