Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

A random necklace I made out of crochet chains with a leftover bit of yarn

First string: just chained.

Second string: chained 5, then did a single stitch to the first chain, repeat

Third string: chained 6, then did a single stitch to the second chain, repeat

Fourth string: just wrapped it around the layers of loops. 

Rey

A birthday present. Pattern found here.

Flower wreath

I took the yarn advent calendar flowers and made a wreath. I had this kind of battered/falling apart a bit twig wreath that I knitted a cover for and then sewed the flowers to the cover, then sewed the cover to cover the wreath.

Doom advent calendar

So Ask A Manager introduced the concept of a "doom advent calendar," for the months of January and February when everything is awful and you still need a daily chocolate pick-me-up. 

I haaaaaaaaaaaate January (especially this year) and this sounded like a perfect idea to me. Create a 31-day advent calendar. Make it up from scratch. What could go wrong?

Well....it came out kinda to VERY crooked, I redid the pocket sizes like 4x and it just looks awkward. But I care not. It's DOOMUARY. 

I will be filling them with chocolate/other candy and fortunes I printed out off the Internet. 

Yarn advent calendar

I got a yarn advent calendar this year and decided to make flowers (and leaves and pinecones) out of the yarn. There's more than 24 after that, oh well...sometimes the yarn did not match to one size flower.

What will I do with these? I'm working on that.

This didn't go very well

This doll is supposed to come out looking like this. Hoo boy, did it not.

1. I went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth on what skin tone to get, ended up getting a different brand than I planned on, went back and forth on the options I could find (Kamala does tend to have different skin tone depending on the lighting) and finally decided to go with the shade that seemed less food colored, now I wish I'd bought the toasted-marshmallow shade after all.
2. The face sculpting did not go well and did not turn out cute. The eyes (you were supposed to combine them with felt) came out weird looking, sigh. 
3. Hair's not awesome either, but I just wanted to finish it before the start of this week and at this point the doll was just looking bad and adding more hair wasn't going to help. 

SIGH. Oh well, she looks better with more hair put in and a sticker put on.

Rainbow skirt is finally done

I started this back in May when I was doing Twelve Angry Jurors. (Literally, made while doing the show, started while doing the show.) Got through one ball of giant yarn during the six show run, was all, "welp, guess i need to use another ball to make it long enough to wear in public," then took months to get around to adding that second ball now that it was very large to carry around. Now, here it is. 

I got off on the pattern--it's more lightning crooked pattern than what it was intended--but decided to just roll with it since who can tell while it's on anyway.

I am totally obsessed with Mandala Gnome yarn. I've made or been gifted multiple things in this colorway, hence why I decided to make a skirt to go with the rest. Here's the skirt paired with a sweater, for example. 

Halloween costume #2

Here's the original costume idea I had going on before the job switch. Previous reference here.

Captain Marvel in her Princess of Aladna dress.

Ravelry only links: Skirt pattern is this one again, with two hidden pockets and I had to make up the arm fabrics. They are pinned on so I can wear the skirt the rest of the year. Sun motif at the bottom is this.

I had to make up the top entirely because nothing existed akin to what I wanted. I cast on 124 stitches and did them in 3x1 rib up to the bust, then increased to 5x1 rib at that point, made up the sleeves and rest of the star, used fabric stiffener on the star. 

Photo refuses to rotate, sigh. 

Cake hat is a winner

Years ago, I made this for a friend's birthday party.

Today she informs me that her son wore the hat to trunk or treat and won a cake at the cakewalk.

Huzzah! 

"I think your cake hat is magic," she said.

Lambtown 2024

Photo album over here.