Posts Tagged ‘misc crafts’
Locker Hooking disaster… with new opportunity!
Do you remember the rainbow-colored locker hooked bath mat that I made? It was beautiful, it was comfortable, it was practical... ... it was, unfortunately, not machine washable. It was a bit silly of me, but I didn't give tossing it into the machine a second thought- since the fabric I used was 100% cotton, I knew it would be alright. I [...]
New camera!
I use my camera a lot... in addition to taking photos while traveling, I take lots of amigurumi pictures! I take progress photos for all of my FreshStitches Patterns, I take all of the photos for the website and I love taking pictures of my various projects for Ravelry. So, when my camera started acting up... that was bad news! So, I went [...]
Off the needles & on the hook: a finished sweater!
It's been an exciting week on my needles! First, I finished my 'Sedum' sweater that I told you about last week. The pattern is a free download available on Ravelry from Jane Richmond, and you should check out her other designs, available on her site. It's lovely stuff! This is going to be a great cool-nights sweater! I modified the design [...]
Silk yarn production spotted on TV!
If you know me, you'll know at least two things: I care about our environment (especially as it pertains to yarn production) and I watch a lot of TV (particularly, the History and Travel channels). So, I was delighted the other day when these two interests collided with Andrew Zimmern (on Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel) visited Thailand, and [...]
Photoshop tip: the ‘spot healing brush’ tool
I don't have a light box to take photos in... I use my bathtub, because the lighting is really good there, and it provides a white background for my photos. But, it's a 50 year old bathtub that has it's share of blemishes. As you can see in the photo above, there are some spots ruining my idealized white background (particularly to the left of [...]
Batch of spinning completed!
During the last snow storm, I wrote about my progress on spinning some lovely roving from Spin Span Spun. Well, I've finished! I can't say enough about this roving... it is so soft and the colors are just lovely. I spun it to about a dk-weight, and my plan is to use it as a single-ply. I don't really think I balanced the yarn perfectly to use [...]
A snowed-in weekend
Just a few days ago, I wrote a post about my snow day, and it looks like we're about to get significantly more snow! It's snowing as I write (the photo above is what it looks like outside of my window at current), and it's predicted that the DC area will get about 2 feet of snow! Geesh! Since I haven't done a Designer's Week post since the [...]
Snow day!
Here in the DC area, we're getting a bit of snow! Whoo hoo! It's only supposed to be about 2-4 inches... but there is something exciting about snow days. Maybe it's a holdover from when I was a child and one tiny snowflake meant that you got to stay home from school (if you're familiar with DC snow stereotypes, you know what I mean. We once had [...]
Making stitch markers from an old bracelet
This is an old bracelet that I bought when I was a teenager. I didn't really wear it anymore, and it was showing signs of age... but I didn't want to throw it out, because the hearts were so cute! That's when I thought: I can make stitch markers! This bracelet was a great candidate for making stitch markers because the hearts are joined by [...]
Preparing for travel in a blizzard
If you're in the US, you've probably seen the news that the east was just hit with a major snowstorm, and this included my little DC suburb. We got about 18 inches of snow, beating the previous record set in 1932! That's a lot of snow! Those of us who live in the DC area get a lot of flack for our inability to cope with snow. And, maybe [...]
