made of: black caron simply soft; grey paton's classic merino. inspired by some scarves i saw on a blog that i read regularly but whose name i cannot remember--if you know what i'm talking about, or if it was you, let me know. i want to credit the person who came up with using two fibers--one that shrinks and one that doesn't (the blogger used merino and tencel, if i remember right)--to create this ruffled effect.







i really would like some feedback, please, even if it is negative.

i've knitted BitterSweet's foreign exchange student ( http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/foreign-exchange-students/ ).



modifications: i did fewer straight-plain-ol'-knitted rows on the head, because i thought i was going to run out of yarn (which i did, which is why his feet/butt/pants are a different color). also he has no feet, and i embroidered his jhonen-vasquez-alien-style eyes with something almost, but not exactly, entirely unlike satin stitch. there are yarn scraps filling his head (so he and i have something in common) and there's a plastic bag full of rice in his bottom.

his antennae are tapestry needles; i think he might be my new pincushion.

artsy OMG THERE'S A CRAZY KNITTED ALIEN IN MY HOWSE shot:

i couldn't find a haberdashery category so here it is.

backstory: one summer a few years ago, my cousins and i made hats to commemorate, um, the summer. it was my aunt's idea. anyway that was the summer when i first read jhonen vasquez, and therefore my hat was covered with little flying bunny things and "moo!" and so on.

NOT AWESOME. anymore.

fast forward to last night, when we were watching the third batman movie. i saw two-face's top hat (the psychedelic side) and said "man i wish i had a hat like that." i say that about a lot of things in the batman movies. including adam west. anyway, fast forward again to this morning when i saw a poster advertising hoagies at a local stop-shop. the poster was done in peter max's style.

click click click.











if you look closely you can still see some of the non-awesome shining through.

specs: blank white craft store paint, google images search for "peter max", sharpie (which didn't work very well), acrylic paint and puffy paint for the outlines.

edit: i am sorry about the picture quality, really. my dad's camera is... not the best. but you get the idea, right? the colors are accurate, at least.... and if this post is posted in the wrong place, or if there is something else wrong with it, please, let me know.

edit again: peter max was an influential artist in the 70s, btw; if you've seen "Yellow submarine" or any of those old woodstock posters with the "quintessential 70s" font, you've seen his style. this hat is only meant to imitate that style; it looks like a cheap knockoff because it is, in other words.

so, since i only have this camera for a limited time, and since i made a bunch of stuff before i had the camera, i'm going to sort of put it all in this post.

i was going to do this complicated thing where every week or so i would post a new picture as if i'd just made the thing in it. but i'm too busy making stuff for that.

so here's a bunch of stuff i have woven.

a bookmark using a pattern from the first issue of weavezine


a scarf in green and tan bamboo




a bag in suede yarn with a silk lining (i'm really proud of this one, i'm sorry)






white acrylic and chunky blue, which you can't really see because my beating and weft tension were all off, and also i sewed some of the chunky blue on in a swirly design


the first full-size scarf i ever made


prettier pictures of the leno lace i posted a while ago




a soft-mohair-with-glitz weft and a brown acrylic warp; also a shawl pin.




the end, thanks for your time.

EDIT okay, the pictures should work now.

so, it's my first time posting an actual post (instead of just a reply), so let's just hope i don't break the site or anything.

anyway, hey, i made some leno lace stuff, and then i scanned it.





this second one was dyed with kool-aid (lemonaide, orange and black cherry).

....i'm sure there's more information i'm supposed to be giving (like: i use a rigid heddle loom, and this leno was weaver-controlled) but i don't know what (else).