Both the collar and the cuffs are lined in adorable puppy and kitten vintage inspired fabric. The cuffs can be flipped down to completely hide the fabric, but who would want to hide puppies and kittens?? The back do-hickey. I will try to get better full length pictures tomorrow and come back and edit this post, but I'm very proud of how it came out.
So I made these a few years back and Ive always considered them unfinished because I wanted to cover up the red labels. So I was hoping perhaps fellow craftsters could help me out since Ive been drawing a huge blank. Should I even cover them or just leave them how they are now? Any opinions/help would be greatly appreciated!!
Hi all! I haven't posted before, so bear with me here.
A little while ago I painted a computer room for a friend of mine. She wanted something unique for her kids, so we decided to make the room look like it was all under water! It took most of the summer, but it turned out really cool. I'm pretty proud of it. The ceiling (which I wish I had pictures of!) is supposed to look like you're underwater looking up so I put light reflections on blue water. Then all four walls are covered with sea life. The windows and closet are painted to look like they have bolted frames, like a submarine.
Had pictures of the whole wall somewhere, but I seem to have misplaced them.
I'd love to hear comments!
The whales are supposed to look far off. Pretty proud of the light streaks
Puffer fish looking startled. I did the sand all around the base boards of the room, so it's pretty shallow water I guess.
Lionfish just above the window.
This is kind of a bad angle, but you get the idea. They're right underneath the window.
Butterfly or Angel fish. I'm not sure which, I just liked the shape.
The shark above the closet. Since he's supposed to be near the surface, I put his reflection as if his fin was sticking through the water.
The turtle is pretty close to being life size. Takes up quite a bit of room on the wall and took a long time to do, but I really think of him as the centerpiece.
The octopus above the door.
Jellyfish
This is supposed to be a big coral structure in the corner. The moray sticking his head out with a little fish eating the leftovers.
Stingray swimming up the wall.
A sponge coral. I tried to put little things like this throughout the room, something other than just fish.
Starfish and the domino fish just below the puffer.
Yeeeee I'm so excited about how this guy came out! I made up the pattern. The yarn is red heart super saver in "carrot" and some random off-yellow from my g-ma's yarn stash (which I was lucky enough to inherit when she passed). I crocheted the eyes as well.
Well, what do you think? If y'all want a pattern, let me know.
Over the summer someone gave me alot of yarn. I had a couple small skeins of the odd green sort of shiny stuff (very soft btw). Not really enough to do a whole lot with other than a hat, so I found a cute pattern and knit one. I'm so please with how it turned out. Sadly I had to gave it to my friends 10 old Daughter (her favorite color is green and I told her I'd give it to her when I started it). Looks So so much cuter on her than me anyway. Luckily I have enough for another.
So one of my very close friends from college got married this past September. I wanted to give them something beyond the typical registry gifts. I decided to make them an afghan for the wedding out of their favorite colors hers, purple his Blue. I used this http://web.archive.org/web/20010711184037/members.aol.com/lffunt/spanish.htm pattern for the squares. I honestly don't know why I thought making an afghan out of granny squares was going to be a good idea I hate granny squares. I hate the monotony mostly. It took me about 7 months to make but that was with substantial periods where I did nothing. I have since taken a break from crocheting since I'm sick of just staring at the same pattern
Onto the pictures! (It looks a bit wonky but it's really not that bad in real life)
Close up of a square and the border:
Thanks for looking! Comments and criticism welcome!
Whole Cell; Cell wall and Membrane; Nucleus(purple), nucleolus(light pink) nuclear envelope(blue) and rough endoplasmic reticulum(orange); Vacuole(the blue-and-white-egg-lookin'-thing), smooth endoplasmic reticulum(that purple/whatever squiggle), ribosomes(the pink dots) and cytoplasm(what everything is sewn on to); Golgi apparatus(blue thing), Half a mitocondria(yellow) and a chloroplast; the bottom;
I did this for a school project(got an A+ ) I crocheted it because A; it's what I'm good at. B; I have no life, and C; I hate styrafoam balls
Well, I got this Christmas present done early and I wanted to post it - somewhere! I can't post it in my blog yet as it is a super-secret surprise, but I'm pretty sure it will be safe to post it in here.
This is an afghan for my son's girlfriend who much-prefers Captain Picard over Captain Kirk, (as far as Star Trek Captain's go). (Please click on the photo to embigger them).
I used a size J cabled afghan hook and crocheted it in the tunisian (afghan) stitch.
He was a bit tricky as I've never crocheted a bald person before. I hope his head is in good proportion to the rest of him. He does seem to have a smallish head in all the photos I could find anyway.
Here's another front shot next to a shot which is the back of the afghan.
I made the "Star Trek" word part crocheting bottom-to-top. (Hence, the stripes here are vertical.) I used Simply Soft Shadows yarn in Merino.
When I crocheted the portrait, I stitched side-to-side so the stripes are horizontal behind his head. I joined the the pieces together and crocheted around the whole thing doing a basketweave stitch.
I'm glad I chose that yarn because it looks really "outer-space-like", <--- LOL - is that even a word?
I hope I got the badge right. There were several different versions as you can imagine. This was Star Trek:The Next Generation's first version .... I think.
I want to learn to knit and read the Knitting FAQ on here, among other things, but they didn't really help. Since I see people needing all kinds of different sizes, I was thinking of buying a set. I found one on ebay that has: size 3,6,11 Boyle needles 29" size 10 circular needles plus some stitch markers, yarn gauges, and row counter
Would those size needles be good to start out with? Does it matter if they're double pointed? Are longer needles better?
If you could only have one size needles, what would they be?
I know you guys probably get posts like this all the time so thanks for taking the time to read mine!
So a friend of mine wanted a sock monkey for her hubby as a present. She and her whole family love zombies so it seemed only natural that her monkey had to be a zombie!
First you take some mutant bits from your stash of left over bits from previous stuffie projects... like so...
You take said bits and start assembling them into a sceery zombie...
Then you take a frosty beverage break...
And after much sewing and slashing and darning you end up with a zombie fit to eat anyone's face off =D
And then the zombie decides to explore the grounds so he can get a lay of the land to report back to his other zombie buddies.
And a few close ups of the slashes and gashes...
And what zombie wouldn't want to have a furry vest... =D
and in the process of looking around mr zombie seems to have lost part of a leg- ewww...
Hope I'm safe while I wait to deliver this zombie goodness to my friends family
I made this yesterday, I was inspired to make something girly and 'lovey dovey' as my boyfriend proposed to me on tuesday and I`m currently floating around with a daft grin on my face lol
These are pretty basic and they're a holiday favorite at my house. Okay, they're an any day favorite! There are hundreds of variations on the basic Deviled Egg recipe, so dress them up for your occasion or just to your personal taste. Try adding curry powder, basil or even minced onions.
1 dozen eggs 2 teaspoons dijon mustard 1/3 cup mayonnaise salt & pepper paprika
First, boil your eggs. Again, there are many methods for this, so use what works best for you. I boil a pot of water, put the eggs in, drop in this nifty little egg timer thingie and we're good to go. Once the egg timer turns clear, the eggs are done. It's usually 20 minutes or so.
I immediately put the eggs in ice water to cool. I've found that it helps the peeling process, if I gently crack each egg for this step. I just tap them all with the handle end of a butter knife. This allows moisture under the egg shell and they'll slip right off in the next step.
Peel the eggs. Slice lengthwise. Gently remove the yolks. Arrange the white halves on a platter.
Mix up all of the goodness: yolks, mustard, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
Put the mixture in a plastic freezer bag. Snip the corner to create a piping bag.
Fill the white halves with the mixture. This is SO much neater and easier than using a spoon to fill them. It looks pretty nice, too.
I made a hat for my first double knit project and it is awesome. I love love love it. Too bad it was for someone else. oh well just gives me an excuse to make more. LOL
Luckily I have enough for another. 
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