Pictures!

so finally I bring to you my loyal few, pictures of my lates crafty works.

first up is the afghan I'm currently working on for my friend Beffie...she picked out the colors from my stash of Styleknit DK from England.

it's done in a simple granny ripple pattern that works up fairly quickly, this pic shows the afghan about a third of the way completed.

Next up are some pics of a shawl and cowl that I did for my SCA bestie Bonnie for Christmas.  Both of these I did over the course of one weekend...talk about speed crocheting!...whew!@.@

The shawl was done in a lovely boucle type thick yarn in shades of blues, greens and blacks for a really pretty look.

 
It worked up really fast and the edging I sorta created on the fly and just made up, it added a really cute scalloped ruffly edge to the shawl

The cowl I did in a more vibrant color patter, I saw this yarn and it called to me and its vibrant beauty reminded me of Bonnie.

I know it looks sorta mundane here, laid flat on the table, but it really is a very pretty pattern and cowl.  I made it extra wide so she could wear it up over her ears on cold days.

Here are a couple of pics of Bonnie modeling her goodies.

Best of all, she loved both pieces and thats really the greatest gift a person cna ask for is that your gift from the heart is appreciated and loved.

let me know what y'all think of the projects!

Musey

New Craftys!

So I ecently ahve become involved with the SCA, [The Society for Creative Anachronism] and Ive noticed at events that while the fighters and archers are all busy with things to do, those of us with no fighting skills are somewhat out of luck and left to our own devices as I've yet to see anyone teach an art or crafty class.
Being the type to be bored easily, I ahve taken in upon myself to find and learn new craft ideas that would be appropriate for the era.

While crochet is technically a bit too modern, I dont care, I do it anyway...Im not entering the item into competition, I simply want things to do.

I've also located some new things to learn and try such as rope coil baskets and peg loom and stick weaving, as well as sprang work and hoop weaving.

By golly, if no one else will teach new things I'll learn on my own and at least me and Bonnie, my SCA bestie will be plenty busy with lots of fiber crafty things to do!

Hot Darn Im Crocheting Again!

Ive been hard at work on some projects and gifties for friends, an afghan for my best friend Beffie, a cowl and shawl for my other bestie Bonnie, and an afghan for ME!

As soon as my phone lets me, I'll post some pics

EEEEPS!

Gosh...it's been almost a year since I posted in here....life sure has a way of flying by.  I've not really done much crafty stuffs in the past year...it's been a trying one for me personally so my crafting bug was squashed as I just didnt have the energy to do anything...too busy trying to survive.

I've started a few new projects....2 afghans really...one for me and one for a friend, so soon as I can, I'll post some piccies of them. 

As life has started to even out...I'm still dead broke and living on about $30/mnth....but I have yarn, yarn, yarn everywhere and it's time I did something with it instead of just looking at it...so hopefully I'll be posting more projects here in the future

Much Love
Musey

My Current Craft Ventures

Work progresses on the granny square afghan.  I've decided to scale down the size due to the cost of purchasing more yarn to make it the original intended size to fit a Cal King bed.
Now I only will use 25 sqaures of each of the 5 colors and will edge it in white, which I am hoping will be ok and not contrast too badly.

I've started a new project as well to give me a break from the never ending parade of grannies...I'm crocheting this shawl

I'm using a wonderful handpainted sock yarn from TurtleDove Yarns, in their Snow Queen colorway which is a beautiful mix of dusty blue, tannish brown, grey and white.  I plan to do the edging bit in a light fingering weight baby alpaca yarn in a soft almost baby blue.  It's a differnt shade than the blue in the sock yarn, but I do think it will add a nice element to the yarn.

As for other crafty news.  I've got my order of undyed yarn from Lions Brand and KnitPicks.  so I have 15 hanks of yarn ready to dye.  I splurged and picked up some Jacquard Acid Dyes to move away from the Wilton's which although admittedly cheaper, just broke too much.  I will still use them but will be more for experimentation.

I'm on the hunt for a cheap microwave to cook the yarn in.  I do prefer that method for hand-painted yarns....incredibly easy...2 minutes in, 2 minutes rest and if you do two batches at once, one rests while the other cooks...easy peasy and you only need to cook for 6 minutes....very easy peasy.  I do want to try the canning jar method of placing the yarn in sections in a jar and steaming and seeing the results from that.
Also am going to have the hubby build me a warp board so I can do self striping yarn and play around with patterns that way. 
So the search for a good size cheap microwave continues. Our local thrift store had a few, but they were tiny and I'm not sure my cooking containers would fit, which reminds me I need to find some glass containers too for use with the jacquard dyes.  That is the one bonus with Wilton's...they are food safe.

I promise to get my dyeing tutorial up soon and pics of all my current projects!

Lovely package

today I received a lovely package from my swap mate in the CS Coffee & Tea swap...it was full of fabu items...Lea is a gem of a gem for sure!

Welcome

A happy and giggly hello and thank you to my two followers....heehee...never thought I'd end up with any...but wooots I got two....thankies ladies....I promise to try and make it worthwhile to have followed my lil blog =)