Selling Items from Lion Brand Patterns

Well, I was pursuing my daily intake of crafting websites and blogs when I saw this nifty Lion Brand Post!  Crafters everywhere can sell the products they make from Lion Brand Patterns--but not the patterns of course.  Very exciting!  Now the question is, when will I have time to make any of this stuff?!  :D

K-9 and Company

It has come to my attention that I never posted a picture of my knit K-9, the robotic dog from Doctor Who.  I finished this last summer and the pattern came from *drumroll* The Doctor Who Pattern Book!

Phase 1: This is the side panel

 

Phase 2: K-9 is completely knitted but he needs his buttons and ears!

Phase 3: FINISHED!

 

...and what does K-9 travel in?  The T.A.R.D.I.S. of course!

 

This is a full length felt door covering put together with a little hand sewing and steam-a-seam iron on glue.  It's very easy to put together and only took about a week once I got all of the materials.  It even has a white erase board so the Doctor can leave K-9 messages when he's out!  :D

Eight weeks Later

Eight Weeks to the day tomorrow.  That's how long I've been crocheting this afghan, running out of yarn two to three times.  Always working away on something or another.  I am currently midway through the 5th stripe. (6.25 rws = 1 pound of yarn at this point!!)  To think that I'm going to keep on going until it's the size of a king size bed and right now it's big enough for a double!  Goodness gracious how much longer?!  :P  Well since I've run out of yarn at this location, I need to go back home for the next shipment with the same dye lot, there is no fear of this afghan getting bigger while I laze around to getting a picture up... right now!  I mean NOW! Well, maybe tomorrow :)

 

P.S. This is an aerial of the afghan on a King Size Bed... yes it is that big!  :)

Parade of the Dinosaurs

It's Origami Time!!!  So I've been making dancer mail which has hence been lost in a Pit of Despair... not joking it was thrown out on accident leaving one very depressed girl and one very unfairly guilt-ed girl in its wake.  Thus to preserve these masterpieces for all of time and space, I now officially post them online from the deepest, tenderest places of my heart.  Oh wait, I remember making these with a deranged witty pleasure... so maybe "from the depths of my crazed and obsessed crafty places of my heart" is a little better.

 

A Piggy Bank Change Purse... Sinister

I admit, I needed something to qualify for an original pattern that I could make up at the drop of a hat.  I had one very non craft busy week and I was working to the last moment on this one: a very sinister piggy bank change purse that can scare away even the nicest souls with his evil square eyes... which after looking at my keyboard for a while I can find no way to accurately replicate.  >.<  Oh well!  Anyhow I have the pattern all done and basically perfected but I'm debating actually submitting it to something, I mean that's the reason why I made it in the first place, hmmmm.  Decisions, decisions, decisions.  Oh well that's what this is for!  I shall post now and think later... right?  Right!  :)  You know it's late when... you post pictures of a pig online.  You know it is way too early when... you start talking to yourself in a blog about posting a picture of a pig online.  Jeez, on with the show!

 

When You're Ripping Out Stitches

When you're ripping out stitches and watching your life putter on by, you watch something cheerful, indulge in some chocolate and have a merry old time... or is that just me?  :P  Anyhow this is the link I just watched and it qualifies as a good fail-safe, plus you've got to love Monty Python!!

Afghans Abound!

After going to JoAnn's and picking up another couple of pounds of yarn, I finished the third stripe which was a little over a pound of Cape Cod Blue.  That is an incredible amount of yarn for 15 measly rows!  Then I picked up my lightest blue which is really pretty next to the mid colored blue.  Unfortunately after crocheting nearly 7/8 a pound of yarn I only got 7 out of 15 rows done before running out of yarn!!  I just crocheted 2 pounds of yarn in three days!  I think I have an addiction.  This means another run to JoAnn's!  So basically I'm putting off the new Granny Square afghan in favor of the yet unfinished Settlers of Catan Afghan.  Luckily most of my homework can be in the form of audio books so this addiction isn't too bad--right?  On the Catan Afghan, I'm averaging about two hexagons an hour once I really get going, which is a better than my previous hexagon per hour.  That's thanks to all of the Buffy and Angel for the practice.  I've really increased my speed but now I have to find Buffy season 5 and Angel season 2!  YAY!!! But for now, back to crocheting and audiobooks!!