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finished

Star Crossed Slouchy Beretby Natalie Larson

Knit Picks Full Circle Worsted

needle size 10 ,11

 

 

Snapdragon flip-topsby Ysolda Teague

Knit Picks Swish DK

needle size 6

 

i accidentally placed the top to low. and i also don't really like the loop

 

 

Star Crossed Slouchy Beretby Natalie Larson

Red Heart Super Saver Solids

needle size 10, 11

 

Camp Out Fingerless Mittsby tante ehm

Red Heart Super Saver Multis/Ombres

Red Heart Super Saver Solids

needle size 7

I sold this set to a friend, yay

 

http://www.theprudentwife.com/articles/90-articles/322-quillow-pattern-for-baby.html

 

i got the fabric on a really good sale four yards for like seven dollars plus shipping

 

i got some of the fabric from the thrift shop, the backing i got for 1$ at wal-mart

 

http://www.homesweethomebodies.net/2010/05/infant-scratch-mittens-tutorial-and.html#axzz2IYItqmCE

yea these were really hard to make

 

Plans

 

yea I'm not going to even think about that any more i just cant stay on track. I'll make what ever catches my eye i guess

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I finished the quilt. and boy is it wonky its 41x56x46x56. i measured it like six time and got different numbers every time before i gave into the fact that this was not going to be perfect

im really not even sure how i got to 46 inches if everything was cut the same size my sewing could not be that off. but i just cut an even line and called it a day.

sewed on the border, the quilted it all together. i used the backing fabric as my binding or whatever its called.  I did a running stitch every two rows.and tried to keep it as close to the seams as i could.
I used up all of the batting that i had in my stash. i guess i brought a queen sized at one point so i had enough to make it and i also used some random pieces to make it fluffier.

im not sure who im going to give this to, they have to be ok with imperfection if they get anything from me .

4-16

 finished up the jewelry and gave it to maria

I wanted to make things for this knit me happy craft along. the color is yellow, i didnt have any yellow yarn so i used some from the library. the library also only had straight needles so i knit this hat flat. and i started a cable but only did four rows and didnt want to go back so i just made this flower to cover it all up.

hooks used 8 and 11

crochet thread 20-70

J&P Coats Tatting Crochet (Size 70) 12 blue,148 black, 153 yellow

J&P Coats Knit-Cro-Sheen (Size 10) red, yellow, shades of yellow

DMC Coton Perlé 5, Ball  white , pink

DMC Coton Perlé 8 black, pink

 

patterns-

Rose -Pattern Library: Crochet, Bouquet Earringsby Susan Lowman , Crochet Flower Earringsby Olivia Munroe

 

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im working on this quilt. but our car isn't running well, so i can't spend any money, so im going to use an old bed sheet, and try to put together all the batting scraps i have left . lets see how this turns out.

 

oh and next month im going to be taking a sewing class at joanns

 

 

3-14 pie day

pizza pie that is.

Zomg my beautiful toby tobes is thinking about going back to school. Yay, and oh no at the sametime. the last time toby went to school we lived with his mother for like a year or two. An we are adults and should act like them to. so were not going to go running crying home to momma. this means he wont be able to work as much. less money, less fun. I will be asking weekly for more hours at work or get a second job. Im to scared of working hard to help out. its just i love sleeping.

if all goes well in a few years we will have so much money i can buy these 40$ needles and this 50$ yarn . yes, yes, i have know idea why people need stuff that cost that much, but i want some too.

any way

I made a pillow to match the quilt

hand sewn with the left overs from the quilt

still working on the sweater, scarf, and now a little toy.

i think im going to run out of yarn for the scarf so i may start on making a pair of fingerless mitts. but goodness the weather went from winter to summer so quick i dont think i'll be  needing them. just watch its going to be a snow storm next week or something. silly global warming

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woo this post is way to wordy and rambin and such

ok so this all started off with me surfing cut out and keep. i saw these really cut paper flower. But I don’t have pretty paper then I remembered seeing fabric flower like that on craftster. But I didn’t know what they were called so I couldn't find them. so on to Google keyword fabric flowers. i got lots of different kinds but I was looking for what after ten minutes of crazy searching i found out was called [b]Tsusami Kanzahi[/b]. So I looked at all these different sites for tutorials that were easy to follow. Ehow was not the place they just tell you in words which doesn’t help me. So I went to the great and powerful YouTube and found this video. The girl in it I think her name is Sara; she was so cute and fluttered at times that I kept me watching her video above all others

 video

her blog

 Ok so the first two I made where crazy messy. I just had to redo them. Then I followed the advice in the video and ironed my fabric, I don’t have starch so I didn’t do that. But the flowers after that turned out great.  It could have been the iron or the fact that I just practices making them for an hour.

i wanted to use up some of my crazy shape and little pieces fabric stash. So there is cotton, canvas, satin, fleece. I have a never ending bag of (fake/plated) gold and silver buttons so I used those. I like the silver more so yea. I found that the buttons will sink to the center of the flower. The only way that I have found to stop that is to sew a little circle on top of the center and sew the button to that. then you sew a clip, bobby pin or whatever to the back.

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as im sure you can see this cat bed is way to small. i have no idea what size cat the person who made this pattern had. or my cat is just to fat i don't know. my other cat dexter can fit in it. i not sure if she like it or not. she like to sleep in uncomfortable places like toilet seats, piles of paper, table, drawers full of knitting needles.

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pattern- Cozy Pet Bed by Johanna Dzikowski

yarn- all different kinds for blue yarns that i had.

hook- J

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the quilt top that killed two needles. i got kinda upset with this one. I wanted to try to machine sew a quilt. my machine is very tiny and cute like a my first sewing machine . i just don't think it was made for this. so i had to make sure the two seams weren't stacked on top of each other. and even then the machine/I hade a hard time going over the seams. so i looked up this issue and im a puller, which is a bad thing i guess but i taught myself to sew. so i dont know how to just guide the fabric i've tried and its a crazy hot mess. so i will just have to see what happens when i add batting and backing. a machine fire, fabric being eatten, my finger being sewn to the quilt.

the to small red and blue scarf , the blue was turned into a cat bed. so that was frogged. still working on the scroll scarf. i should be going to joanns today so i can get the yarn to the shawl.

k bye

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oh boy i forgot i was supposed to be making scarfs for the special Olympics. the website says to use red heart yarn. but the deadline date is the 10th and i don't have money to go and buy the yarn. so i made one scarf using the Caron simply soft yarn i have.

then i went to knitting group and was put to shame when the other member who i told about the months ago had someone drop off her scarfs she made three. and as you can see the right brand is alot brighter. so i don't know if i should even send in my scarf.

speaking of knitting group. I tried to help a mother and daughter learn to knit. the mother got it really quickly and was knitting with in an hour. and little girl of maybe 10. oh my she was getting it at first. then i turned my back and her knitting loops where huge. so i watch to see what she as doing. she was holding the needles 4 inches apart. pulling the loop though the knit stitch with her teeth. i think she was just frustrated by that point. but she got all the 50 stitches from the left needle to the right one way or another. and her mother wanted to save the messy first try. so i slipped what ever i could onto a string. the girl looked upset that her mother wanted to keep it.

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what Ive been working on

i finished a quilt top. just need to get batting, backing , edging stuff, and put it together. its hand sewn i think i may have made 1/2 inch seams which made it way smaller then it should have been

scroll lace scarf

another Olympic scarf. but i ran out of yarn so i think I'm just going to undo it and make something else with the yarn

I'm also sewing another quilt top for got to take a picture of it