( her story )

Remember Sophie? Well, the person who ordered her seems to not want to buy her, so she's now available for anyone to purchase! I thought I'd do a quick post here in case anyone was interested. =)

http://onetruetree.etsy.com

( I made this for a friend's baby gift )

( More Photos Here )

I'm trying to start up a side project and experimenting in ways to go about it. I decided to try my hand at solid granny squares, and seem to be doing something a tadbit wrong: It's puckering :( after the 3rd round, i fold it in half triangle style and it makes a chevron :/

I DC across, and do 3dc, ch3, 3dc in the corners. Should I just be doing 2dc-ch2-2dc like the afghan below me? or am I messing up somewhere else entirely?

Merci~

Can fleece be sexy? Why, yes, it can! This has been a week of fleece dyeing (along with wool top) and I got some real beauties. First off, there was a lovely Coopworth I got from Sandy at Homestead Wool & Gift. This beautiful fleece was coated and so very clean - a real pleasure to process. It is very lustrous and has a 7 inch staple, and yes, it is sexeh!





And then there was the Romney lambie. This stuff is so, so sweet! Very crimpy and very, very soft. It was like clouds:




Oooh la la! I love how this fleece sucked up the dye.

And there's more - some of the Border Leicester I got at the Finger Lakes Fiber Fest and other colorways in the Coopworth and Romney but you can check those out on my flickr page.

If I can manage to part with these, they may end up on my update - which I'm hoping is tomorrow.

mini-distro fun house, display mode, originally uploaded by artnoose.

My former housemate and I have been tabling books and zines at shows for several months, but sometimes on the fly I'll just decide I want to table something I'm going to. Last night, the neighbors emptied out their garage and put out a whole bunch of trash, including this toy house that opens up. I realized I could use it to carry distro materials in and saved it from the landfill. It's like a little suitcase when closed and then opens up to a nice little display. The only drawback to it is that larger stuff won't fit. It should be great for when I do just zine stuff. I'm totally bringing it to Handmade Arcade.

By the way, the show was fun--- Chin Up Meriwether from Olympia. I saw them the last time they toured through town and they were fun then, too. See them if you can. I had a good time talking to people at the show, and I even sold a few things. I think I'm going to try to play a show some time in the next month. Meanwhile the drywall is slowly getting done and so is the book. (They're actually racing at this point but I sure hope the drywall finishes first.)

Hi ladies! So this week I made my first foray into wet sets with foam rollers. Today's set came out great IMHO and I'll post pictures later, but on to my question: how to make it last?

Specific questions:

Do you find that how much you condition your hair before a set affects how well the curl holds (i.e. does heavier conditioner make the curl fall faster)?

Any tips or tricks for wrapping hair to preserve the set overnight? I put on a hair net and a silky kerchief over that, so far the style is salvageable the next morning but definitely not as good as on Day 1 (maybe 60% as awesome).

How many days do you usually get out of a set? Right now I can get 2 but I would really prefer 3. Any idea how women made sets last a week back in the day?

Any product recommendations for sprucing up a set on day 2 or 3? I use a smoothing serum and medium strength volumizing hairspray on Day 1, and then more hairspray Day 2, but hate that my hair develops a sort of helmet like texture from all the spray. Are there good curl spray alternatives to regular hair spray?

Thanks in advance for all your input!

So, the story is, I bought rather a lot of eyelash yarn a long while ago to knit into scarves for a bunch of friends. The friends rather liked their furry, rather bright scarves, but I had ends left over. Lots of ends. And then I thought, 'hmm, perhaps I could knit these into squares and sew them into a blanket?' I tried and failed miserably. In the mean time, I was buying up more eyelash yarn to contribute to the failed project.

For months the eyelash yarn stash sat in the corner, mocking me with its dimensions (which grew even further over time - I'm *terrible* at not buying yarn) until, one day, I thought 'why don't I crochet it instead?'

And so the Big Gay Afghan project was born. It's a modified granny square (double crochet (UK treble) into every stitch along the length of each side, two doubles, two chain, two doubles into the two chain at each corner - simples!) At some point I lost the end of the round and have been working in a spiral ever since. It doesn't seem to have suffered and, when I make the cushion covers to go with, I'll make sure I do that deliberately again.

Pictures (and a bit more commentary) are at my journal

I have to show you all my collection:

This amigurumi I made special for eolexe

2009.10.23 - Amigurumi Brain Slug

Hello people!

Would someone kindly help me with a Japanese pattern? ^_^
I've downloaded some scans & I've been doing fine so far, but today while making a ladybug I've got stuck... The problem is with the head:



It's the oval chart on the left, 2nd from the top. It doesn't begin with the "magic loop" as usual, but has some weird long 1st row that I've never seen before... Can anyone please enlighten me on how to make it? O.O Maybe it's just a magic loop, but not tightened?

I need help with the 1st row only, others seem to be quite clear.

Thanx in advance!

i'll be back as soon as i climb out from under this

Ok, so things are kickin' along down here.  The storm was a bust - which is a good thing.  We like to be over prepared!  The bad news is that most times we overprepare for nothing.  But all it takes is once.  And people get overconfident.  One good twist of the wind, one change in the elements, and whamo - 140 mph winds are bearing down on your house.  Yup, overprepared is good.

Everywhere I have ever lived, there was some weather element that was annoying.  Everything shuts down, you cook a lot, and watch the weather!   In the north, we had blizzards.  In the East, we had Nor'Easters.  And in the midwest, we had tornados.
Here on the Panhandle. we have hurricanes.  They seem so dramatic on TV, and yeah, they super duper suck when it hits... but kind of like tornados, they don't hit the same place. 
I guess, when you see it on TV, you think - what the hell?  Why would people live there?  Then you see things like Katrina - when the levy's fell - and you think - idjiots.
The storms look huge on TV.  And yeah, when you hear folks say that you can't hear the tornados, you think, what?  They sound like a freight train!  Well, the train goes on all night.

The thing about Ivan, that I remember MOST was the community spirit.  Everyone came together and helped each other.  I met neightbors I had never seen!  And amazingly enough, as you asked people how they faired, most people said they were great.  Then you would find out half their roofs were missing, their foundation had washed out and a couple windows were sucked out of their house.  But they were safe.  Their loved ones were safe. 
Life is good.

Ok, enough about storms.  Hopefully that was it for the year.  I have never had a hurricane when it was cold out!  Usually it is hot and muggy.

So, in the meantime, I have been playing with some goodies for this weekend.  Woohoo.
And I am getting ready to spin another yarn.  I wish I had time to spin every day.  But it is the blessing/curse of dyeing and having a fiber biz.  I have lots of fiber and no time to spin it!

Oh, and most of you may have noticed that I have not been using my cards.... I could not find them.  I knew I had just placed a large order so there were plenty whenever I could finally put my hands on them!
They were literally in the last box.

I could have sang!  Yeah cards, thank you notes, brochures, woohoo!



Here are some inspirational pictures I took the other day.  It is fun to look at things in a different light.


Oh and did I mention I got trees in my yard?  Big trees.


And these great pines... old old pines.  Although I truly prefer pines in other folks yard!



They have this great grey color that I was trying to capture.  A nice combination of colors for sure.....

And I found these shrums on my forage.. in the back yard!




Does anyone know what kind of mold this is?  It is predominantly on Live Oaks and seems to be symbiotic.


Every now and again... the dye pots make magic.  This is one of the 7 inch Coldwater Sunset Coopworth locks - it took the dye in such an amazing way!






And the last Hardwood!


And it can even happen onthe Frannie Locks!

I love when these things happen!

Oh, and this pretty is still around.  I truly am surprised!

Ok, best get back to washing wool!
Have a great night.
Hug your loved ones!
Holly

snagged from ambersan cool visuals

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Long time crocheter, first time poster! Unfortunately I don't have anything awesome to show off (yet, anyway), but I come with a question. Where in the heck do you guys get your eyes from?? I live in central NJ, ten minutes away from a Michael's, and I KNOW they don't carry them. There's an AC Moore about 20 minutes from me, but I'd just like to know what you guys do before I start driving around the tri-county area for no reason. (If it helps what I'm talking about, I'm looking to make this guy. I only make small things, so big fancy eyes are pretty unnecessary.) Thanks!

This is what my coffee table/work table looks like right now! I love spring-y, candy-like colors. I really want a coat in a cute candy color but all the coats seem to be in fall colors right now, and fall colors/jewel tones are NOT MY FAV!!!! I'm prepping a bunch of zipper pouches and hair bows to be felted. I need to make a few more pouches before these are ready to be popped in the washing machine!

In other random news, I'd been wearing my hair in pigtails a lot with the bangs down because I am lazy. A) I don't have to draw on my eyebrows. B) I don't have to curl or fluff my hairz.

Today is the 1st day in a while that I actually fluffed again!

Last night, I was on the hunt for a particular kind of red button, but then I fell in love with LOTS of buttons on Etsy!

I really want the heart-shaped ones, but I am holding back since the fundages run low whenever I prep for shows!

Finally, please check out this very cute giveaway at My Paper Crane's blog!!! It's really awesome. You won't regret it. I never win giveaways. I don't know why I keep trying :P.