Handmade Holidays
While a DIY wedding is cheaper than the other kind, it still is far from free. So I’m looking to save some money any way I can. Part of this means is that I’m going handmade for multiple holidays....
View ArticleSuccess! Kim Werker Interviews Joss Whedon
Our long campaign is over, and you can find the fruits of our labor here. Show notes and a link to the transcript here. It’s going to take some time for me to come up with the right words to describe...
View ArticleCrafty Resolutions 2009
What are yours? Here are mine: 1. Continue to expand my crochet efforts. 2. Design more crocheted items, especially crocheted chokers. 3. Learn about jewelry making. 4. Lose my fear of messing up,...
View ArticleMy Crafty Life
I haven’t been posting but I have been crafting. For Halloween, I altered a shirt I found at Goodwill, as well as crocheting the Ladylike Lace Gloves from Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker....
View ArticleMy Lifestyle, Let Me Show You It
It turns out when you’re a graduate student, even though you’re online all the time, you’re not actually talking to people about fun things like crochet. What have I pursued in terms of new domesticity...
View ArticleCross-Stitch: Black Mage and White Mage
A couple of years ago, I discovered the excellent website Sprite Stitch, which revealed to me something that seemed obvious immediately after I learned about it: pixels are little colored boxes which...
View Article2011, The Year of Amigurumi: Cephalopod Edition
I’ve decided that 2011 is going to be the year of amigurumi: i. e., the year I give an amigurumi gift to everyone whose birthday I think of in time to actually get one made. The beauty of amigurumi is...
View ArticleWelcome to 2011: The Year of Amigurumi and Transformation!
Hi there. How are you? Back in October, I announced that 2011 would be the year of amigurumi: for each birthday of my friends and family that I am able (because there are time constraints and disputes...
View ArticleJanuary Amigurumi: Baby Dragon
Meet Gorbash! I made him for my sister for her birthday. Sadly, I’m incapable of taking good photos with my phone. I made him using this Baby Snow Dragon pattern. I don’t know what kind of yarn I...
View ArticleFebruary Amigurumi: Nonspecific Cephalopod
My friend Stuart celebrated the anniversary of his natal day in February, and in honor of the blessed event I created for him a yarn-based lifeform in a cephalopod shape. I used this baby octopus...
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