Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

A rare couple of screenprints that don't suck

Worked on some shirts for an organization. Did not screw up too bad!

Ceramic tree tile

This is from the tile workshop I did last month (more to come). I think this will end up being a birthday present.

Leftovers for Dinner, with Motley Chaos yarn

Yup, it's done. I REALLY had to block it as the starting point came out very pointy, so no pics of it on yet. But it's a cute little short cardigan/vest thingie.

Cold Weather Corset

What I ended up doing for "Vest-uary" earlier in the month. Not too bad.

Crocheted crown

I used the leftover yarn from the Labyrinth to make these, but the necklace ran a bit short.

Finger labyrinth

Finally did something with my tiny yarn. Not sure if it will end up a table decoration or a giant patch or what.

More on the chevron scarf

I am adding on to this with the scraps left over from afghan square making, or other projects. I put my remaining handspun yarn into this one.

Another crocheted square

To be honest, making the squares is getting really old. I may not even be able to stick with this...I'm having a hard time with the one I've been working on for like 2 weeks, and I now kind of want to make a giant beer scarf with my leftovers...

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...