Its been a while 2/21

So i started selling my hand made items on etsy in 2013. and i started craft-shows in 2014. I'm not a great sells man . I really don't know how to run a business, and i don't think i really want to . I just want to craft what i want and have people to give it to ya know.

So for the past couple of years i have been making between 100-300 items just to sell.and my hands have suffered for it a little .i started getting hand cramps more often then anyone under 30 should. So this year im trying to slow down. im doing more cross-stitch / embroidery , now thats a slow craft. Im thinking of doing more charity knits.

im slowly trying to either sell, or just donate all the stock from my that1girl business. thats not to say i wont make more to sell. but im going to be moving sometime this year, to a smaller place i need to get all my craft supplies and stock to fit in the cubes i have. An my husband is so busy with school/ work that he cant take me to as many shows .

I've meet alot of cool ladies thanks to that1girl online and at shows. I started going to a new knitting group this year also. It meets at a coffee shop/ bar. I now have two groups i can go to every week. my doctor told me that making more friends and leaving the house would help with my SAD. I do get happier around mon and tues.

I have been trying a little harder to stick to a more natural/ healthier diet this time around. Its a light paleo diet where i eat meat, fruit, veggies, and nuts. and a very small amount of dairy, premade/ packaged food, and sugar. and almost never grains, coffee, chocolate . i love all of these things but they do give me upset stomach . So i just try to not eat it , but mac and cheese singing to me, pizza seduces me, and baked goods call to me everyday.

I think thats all i have for today. here are some pictures also add me to instagram that1girl734 to see pics on a weekly base.

3/8

Hair cut

straight hair

wet hair

dry hair

I haven't had it this short in a while. I'm still trying to get used to it. one thing im loving is it only takes like fifteen minutes to comb and style it 

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I joined a swap. the theme is spring. spring is one of my favorite seasons. its not to hot. there are flowers in the trees.

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Im thinking of doing a craft show. the price limit is 10$ i dont have much for 10$. i was thinking of making a bunch of bunnies but they take a really long time. so they are worth more then 10$ . maybe i'll find a less detailed bunnies, because i brought the supplies already.

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Finished

bib

for a woman from knitting group. everyone else is knitting bibs, i'm not sure there big enough .

bunnies

Crochet Spring Bunny by Stephanie Jessica Lau 

Caron Simply Soft Solids 

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wips

 

  The Wool Eater Blanket by Sarah London 

Rose Red by Ysolda Teague

 AfterThought Heel Socks by Laura Linneman

 cross- stitching

and i also have two other projects going for this swap.

ok now i don't know which project i want to do today

2/21

I got a major hair cut. because my hair was damaged from all the years of dying my hair. I took down braids took about 7 hours. I went to fantastic sams, and had my hair pulled, blow dried, and flat ironed for like 3 hours.

Finished

I wanted to make a lining but didn't have enough fabric. so made a slip.

 i used the midriff and skirt from this pattern

Wips

2-1

hi

detangled on dry hair

here are some hair pictures. i wasn't able to wear a hat for a few days i had my hair out and about. i was half tempted to make a ear band with a button . because even normal headband type ones don't fit over my hair with ease.

its not good for my hair to be out to long. so i re braided it and trimmed about two inches off each braid. i think i need to trim a little more. i only do it twice a year.

some random drawings. I lost my drawing pad so its on graph paper

front.  "love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind"

back. "I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine"

Flat love card. I liked making my hair on this the most. the card is a little wavy.

                                                      Hap Blanket by Ysolda Teague

                                                           needle size 11

                             

i made this blanket with 84 stitches to start with. did 10 rows of white, then 4 of the black/gray. just keep on with that for 104 rows. then i started the edging and that was more boring then the garter stitch section so i only did half. the blanket came out 36x 32.

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I'm going to try to make at least two hats a month for knit Michigan . i still ha vent heard back from the friends of the library about selling items at the book sale. so i think that i might have to set up my own thing. which I've never done before. because I'm not a leader, so I'm going to try to get some help from a few people at the group.

plan on joining a knit along for people learning two at a time socks.

just joining a make me a hat swap you can sign up until the 11th.

i want to make another dress

work on the quilts that i have abandoned

my boyfriend i trying to quit smoking so i will have alot of alone time. so not to be caught in the anger storm

oh and i have completed 17 projects so far this year. I finished one on the books on my cover to cover quest whimsical little knits 1

k bye

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pattern Scroll Lace Scarf by Ysolda Teague

yarn Knit Picks Telemark in  aubergine

so i worked the lace while on breaks and lunches at work. and i worked on the body at home. it took about two weeks doing it that way. so i would say that you can finish this in three days . I'm not really sure what i did but i made this uneven.  I did mess up on the lace bit a lot forgot to do yarn overs and k2togs here and there. and oh how i hate picking up stitches.

Oh did that yarn bleed. i washed a item for the first time and I'm glad i did. or all my clothes would be discolored. and i read that some on washed it with out it getting felted which means i can toss it in the wash, yay.  and i blocked it out, I'm trying to block out my lacy stuff. i used dress makers pins and the floor. and poor love stepped on a pin. which means that he was walking on my scarf, but i felt bad for him first.

pattern Headband with Flower by creativeyarn

yarn- random color and sizes

hook F

I love a good flower hair thing. and the fact that these tie means that they will fit even the most fluffy hair. I made all the flowers first so the headbands i tried to match up as much as best i could.

the flowers can be moved up and down the strands of the headband. each took about a half and hour or so

(true colors)

pattern Hearts by Anna Hrachovec

yarn - random colors and thin sizes

needles- size 2

each heart took about a half an hour. i was planning on making more but i got bored with them and only made a handful. there cute and all but there is a faster way to make them and i will find it later.

18 ct fabric and black thread. i need to buy a picture frame

I tried to sew the backing to one of these and it looked so bad. i just used some tacky glue (not sure that's the name of it) and black fabric. trimmed it up and there good to go

starting the Hap blanket. using lion brand pound of love doubled and Loops & Threads Charisma  that i got in a swap. keeping track of rows in garter stitch is pretty hard and cats love to steal row counters. also that's my new foxy shazam CD just came in the mail yesterday.

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i got patches to help the knitting group from waggonswest. thank you so much for them