The Last Project

The last project before the storm, aka before summer prematurely ends, is origami madness!  I made about 150+ origami creatures for a school project but then I thought why not have a little fun with it.  I already had the Star Trek Origami Book and my favorite ship is the Klingon Bird of Prey... so why not run with it?

Big Blue

From humble beginnings as a mere 12 inch square this afghan has grown into something Big and Blue in 155 days (that's about 5 months!) each colored blue Caron yarn is 15 rows in a granny square pattern.  It is approximately --- inches across although the corners are a little stretched out so it's actually a little bigger.  This afghan is almost too big for a king sized bed!!  I'd have to weigh it to make sure but I used about nine or ten POUNDS of yarn! My only regret is the visibility of the dye lots in the lightest blue yarn.  I wish I had put in a middle row of a darker color to break up the two different colored Azures.  So much for Caron yarns not having dye lots!  Regardless there is no way in hell that I am ever EVER going to rip out all those rows to fix it.  Clearly it was an artistic choice, like pairing off white with white.  I must have subtly wanted to pair the lighter Azure with the Cape Cod while the blue gray Azure meets the Ocean Blue and the Midnight Blue makes a great border to the entire afghan.  So it was all on purpose... clearly...   :D

This is an aerial view of a king sized bed, notice anything blue and afghan-ish about it?

Too big for business, the stretched out corner of this afghan can reach the ground when there isn't anyone under the covers! 

Old is New, Preserved for Posterity

This tissue box cover was the very fist project I did in my clothing and textiles class in early 2008.  I used the same yarn that I had left over from my afghan so that it would match my room decor nicely.

Something Old and Something Blue

While looking for old clothes to donate I ran across some of my old crafting projects.  Before sending them off to a nice home, I needed to document their awesomeness.

This is the second knitting project and scarf that I ever made.  It was an experiment transitioning between different needle types and yarns.  It's also my first crochet project since I edged it with a basic slip stitch.  However back then I was working on  zero knowledge of what crocheting was and I thought I was being inventive.  Least to say I had to rework the edge of the binding before I could donate it, although it does make a very good scarf!

Years later but still years ago, this project is a little clutch that I made to go to my first formal.  It almost matches my dark maroon dress, although it ultimately proved more practical to just bring a little black clutch than this furry contraption.  It was made on the smallest kniffty knitter hoop with dark purple Caron yarn and an evening color funfur.  The handle was a maroon ribbon that was quad braided into a nice clutch.  This was actually made over winter break in January 2010.

Snood Number Two!

Since I picked up more crochet thread when I was in Nevada, I decided to make another snood but this time in gold.  This pattern was incredibly easy and simplistic while still looking really good when all was said and done.  Also it's not as thick as my last snood so you can actually see the color of my hair.  It looks like I'll be wearing the gold snood with my purple Renaissance Dress and my silver snood with the blue one.  It took me about two or three days of intermittent crocheting and it turned out wonderful!  I used a 2-hook and Royale Metallic Cotton Crochet Thread Natural/Gold, size 10.