I'm finally using the Patons yarn that I snagged at the dollar store months ago...it's a laceweight, I forget the specific name but it's a light ice blue...I'm making a tunic type thing, and yes I am using a pattern - still not brave enough to try to wing something like that just yet. One day though. One day.
Also still working to finish up that cross-stitch that I never posted pictures of...I'm so lazy sometimes.
AND I'm making two skirts that I bought the fabric and pattern for before I left to go down to TX for the summer. I have them both cut out, and the first nearly done. I need to put in the elastic and the hem. I have to buy the elastic before I can put it in though...I will have to do that tomorrow after my job interview.
Woot.
I am working to finish a cross-stitch that I have had in progress for the last (almost) 5 years. It's a bigger one, yes, but it's one of those Dimensions Gold Collection ones, which means a LOT of detail, a LOT of shading (which is hard to do in cross-stitch and means a lot of combining strands of similar colors to get the effect), and so a LOT of work. I've made some mean progress over the past week or so though. Which is encouraging. I'm actually probably about 75-80% done. That's an encouraging thought!
I should take a picture and put it up in here. Maybe I will get to that tomorrow.
The projects being lined up are clear back from this post here, and so it is just taking a while to get things moving. I've made some modifications - instead of choosing for the 5 people who got selected, I am letting them choose. I want some challenges of completely customizing a project for someone else; I dislike putting effort into something for someone else that they are not going to appreciate. I want whatever I make to be something that they actually want...hahaha!
I know that for sure I will be making the following:
This last one is a pair of fingerless gloves/armwarmer type dealios.
I'm pretty excited for the two clothing pieces. I have not, as of yet, really made the effort to crochet to someone else's body measurements/shape, so this will be great practice. And, in spite of their somewhat complicated appearance, they're all actually pretty easy pieces. :) Yay!
I should take a picture and put it up in here. Maybe I will get to that tomorrow.
The projects being lined up are clear back from this post here, and so it is just taking a while to get things moving. I've made some modifications - instead of choosing for the 5 people who got selected, I am letting them choose. I want some challenges of completely customizing a project for someone else; I dislike putting effort into something for someone else that they are not going to appreciate. I want whatever I make to be something that they actually want...hahaha!
I know that for sure I will be making the following:
This last one is a pair of fingerless gloves/armwarmer type dealios.I'm pretty excited for the two clothing pieces. I have not, as of yet, really made the effort to crochet to someone else's body measurements/shape, so this will be great practice. And, in spite of their somewhat complicated appearance, they're all actually pretty easy pieces. :) Yay!
