Open the jar and take out a couple of pieces . . see how they feel. If they are dull around the edges (so that you couldn't cut yourself) they are ready. Just be careful!

I just did a Mona Lisa paint by numbers with weird neon colors.

Oh, the irony. :)

Anyone love to make jewelry or want to try their hand at it?

Here's a link to a project I'm wrangling on the PenPal thread:

http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...715#post625715

If interested, please sign up on the Penpal thread.

Been awhile since I checked in here, anyone putting together anything interesting right now?

I recently went on a road trip and picked up some small pieces of driftwood along the Oregon/California coast that I want to try and turn into desk planters for succulents. Still thinking over how I want to do it, perhaps sand down a bit, I dont want to take away too much from the natural look of the wood.

Ive seen driftwood made into beautiful tealight holders. I imagine its just a matter of having the right drill attachment :)

I'm going to be taking a knitting class starting Wednesday. I already crochet. These are great hobbies to have in the long dark nights of winter!

yay a crafty site..
 

Good morning fellow crafters... my bff Bianca and I have an etsy account and would love to share w you all.. ideas are totally welcomed..

I do have a question to the yarn folks, does anyone have a simple pattern for dog sweaters to knit or chrochet?

Also I have a ton of scrubs and any ideas what to make with them? I was thinking aprons but Oh lord that was way technical..

Ty in advance!

totally agree..
 

I totally agree w u knitting has saved me from the death of boredom at times Lol.. just a hint of advise (Pay super close to the teach When they go over patterns) Those ate where j find Alot of troubles... but good luck!

beautiful
 

Hi I wasn't sure How to reply on your photo So I hope this works.. but I just wanted to say wow you have great skills... do u ever sell ur carvings?

Kim, I have to thank you for this website! I have perused it a bit and there's just SO much to see and do...I have sooo many ideas for upcoming season. Thanks again :)
Ang

Knitting!
 

Hi all!!! I'm looking for a thread to talk about knitting and trade patterns/ideas/yarn recommendations/vendors/etc. I hope this is the place!! Anybody else on ravelry?

Oh wow! You're super advanced! I'm still starting out, just tried my first lace hat pattern last week. I'm in the middle of knitting hat/scarf sets for holiday gifts this year.

I just read about a KAL pattern but had no idea what it was! Thanks for the info! What are contests like? I'm not good enough for that yet, but I"d like to be. Hopefully soon. :)

As for favorite yarn, I have some leftover baby alpaca that I got a loooooong time ago that I keep around just to pet. I've got my eye on some knit picks Galileo merino/bamboo that looks neat, and I"m having a friend hand spin some yarn for me from a batt I got on Etsy. I'm looking for something that will show off a cable and lace pattern well. What do you like to use?

What's a stuffie?

I just joined! What a great site. Even though I am supposed to be spending less time away from my school books, handwork is so easy to do while I am reading. :)

I am softlanding on ravelry.

sweeeeeeet! I'm currently in the middle of a conundrum with my knitting. There's a pattern I want to start that uses both yo and yf. From what I can tell, they're both a yarnover!

Nope!
yfwd aka yf
yarn forward between the needles

yo yarn over: wrap the yarn around right needle

knitting help

see, that's super awkward because the only time you need the yarn forward between the needles is for a purl, yes?

Take a look:

Begin Cable-and-Lace Pattern:

Rnd 1: *p1, k2tog, yf, k2tog, yo, p1, k6; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 2 (and all even rnds): *p1, k4, p1, k6; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 3: *p1, (yf, k2tog) 2x, p1, k6; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 5: Rnd 1.
Rnd 7: Rnd 3.
Rnd 9: *p1, k2tog, yf, k2tog, yo, p1, C6L; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 11: Rnd 3.
Rnd 12: Rnd 2.
Work these 12 rnds 4x total, ending with a Rnd 12.

I am positively BOGGLED as to why I would need to bring the yarn forward to knit 2 together!

the only thing i can think of is if the yarn was surposed to actually wrap around the front of the stitch, but then you would slip one and yb. Maybe an error in the pattern?
I am off to work, but if you go to ravelry and patterns and put the pattern name in it may find it and then you can see if anyone else has done the pattern. I have pm'ed people to ask them questions. Also if you post the pattern name and the above highlighted on rav in the Patterns Group people will help you. You can not post to much of a paid for pattern. Free patterns are fine to post.

My biggest crafting fun is making Halloween costumes. I use to do them all the time for my kids. Anything from a Juicy Juice box w/ a straw headpiece, to Raggedy Ann, A computer monitor and keyboard, One of my kids was once a Hershey Kiss w/ the paper coming out of the top, another was a Jack n' The Box. It started the first Halloween my son was born. I made him an Alien Baby. The Helmet was from a milk jug and the antennas were pencils covered in foil, etc. He was only 6months old. That kid got so much candy. It just snowballed from there. Nothing is every premade store-bought. The best one I ever made was a Valentine Box of Chocolates for my youngest. The front was an open box and the candies had all been individually wrapped in reds, gold, and silver foil. Her headpiece was the top of a Valentine box of chocolate made from cardboard and covered with red wrapping paper, and decorated with fake roses and paper doillies for the lace fringes. A flourist shop asked for it when we finished with it. They wanted to pay for it, I just gave it to them. I was planning to trash it anyway.

This year I will be a scarecrow and I need to get busy with the "stuffing" part of it. The hay that will be coming out of the shirt, pants and around the neckline.

I don't sew... but I am a wiz with a hot glue gun and I use most scrap materials and items from around the house. Some things I will buy but I usually won't spend over 20.00. Except for the scarecrow hat I just bought but I am debating on returning it and making my own for a lot cheaper.

We'll see... :eyebrow:

I used to make costumes for my kids too. Sweat suits from Goodwill were a good base. and here in Canada they have to fit over a snow suit.

I've made puppies, skeletons (painted white bones on a black sweat suit), mummies (that was a lot of wrapping gauze and pinning with a glue gun) scarecrows, kittens, zombies, bubble gum machine and so much more.

I wouldn't let me kids trick or treat after 12, so we had parties and they started making their own costumes. Now they are both much more into Halloween then I am.

My girls have carried on the tradition and yes the sweat suits do make make a great base. My son was once a Ninja Turtle with a cardboard shell that he leped craft with me. The girls did the hippie tye dye thing and yes we had ghosts and a hobo.... it really is a load of fun and I am loving that the girls are doing things for their babies now. My mom did it for us... it stays in the family for sure! :)

I have a long weekend coming up and am really looking forward to a little crafting time. Plus with Christmas coming up, I need to make some hideous handi-crafted gifts for people I love!

Which brings me to this:

What is the most hideous hand-crafted gift you have ever gotten?

Mine was a sweatshirt that I received from an ex-Mother in law. It was a 5xl when I was a 1xl and was red with a GIANT teddy bear on the front. She had glued googly eyes on the teddy bear and had sewn lace around the cuffs and neckline!!

PICS!!!! I don't think I can believe in the existence of this magnificent creation without photographic evidence.

GIRRRRLLLL, that thing went to the Goodwill like 16 years ago. I think it was the single thing that set off my Christmas-sweater aversion. To this day, I get hives and anxiety when exposed to Christmas sweaters.

THIS IS THE EXACT TEDDY BEAR APPLIQUE THAT WAS ON THE FRONT OF THE SWEATSHIRT!!!!!!!! NOT KIDDING!!!

http://zibbet-production.s3.amazonaw...6-original.jpg

My stepsister only gets me gifts because my stepmother guilts her into it. Two years ago she found a wine glass at the dollar store that was painted to look like a round santa claus. I don't mind gifts from the dollar store, i'm just saying that so there is a frame of reference as to the quality of painting skills. She put a piece of tissue paper in it, strung some pony beads on a piece of waxed cord, called it a bracelet and put that in there, then put the whole shebang in a box she took from work.


I re-gifted it at a white elephant at work last year. (SO NAUGHTY)

Well, i brought this on myself. Imagining that bear with glued on googly eyes and glitter paint, surrounded by lace...

I'm going to have nightmares...

"Come give me a hug! I want to hug you. GIVE GLITTER BEAR A SPARKLY HUG NOWWWWWWW"

OMG!

One year an ex-friend went on and on about how she got me something for my birthday. Our birthdays were only like a week apart and I felt like she was doing it so that I would feel obligated to get her something even though I was broke as shit at the time. I ended up getting her a set of hand-made bath bombs and lotions. When I opened the gift she had been yammering on about, it was a wok.
When I took the wok out of the box, out flew a little slip of paper that said "Thank you for ordering from xyz company, here is the free wok we promised you".

Don't get me wrong, LOVED the wok but I was definitely :|

That seems to be the common gift for hated DILs! LOLOLOL