hey everyone!! This gallery is so huge that I have only been able to keep up with a few of the posts that have gone up. but! here is the super fabulous loot that littlejoi sent me. I am seriously in AWE of her amazing skills!!



She stuffed it with polyfill! tee-hee this made me happy.



OMG! 13 packages?! I know. Ah-mazing.



All my loot together!! For those who are curious (From left to rightish) :
2 beautiful knitted scarves, one pink and one brown
brown and blue fingerless gloves with matching head-warmer
Gorgeous pinky-red hand dyed yarn
Ridiculously awesome stocking - it looks like an elf hat!
Wine Cozy and a delishus bottle of Grape Cider
Mug with mug cozy and hot chocolate
Tiny Gingerbread house!!
Embroidery starter kit - I am SUPER stoked about this! I immediately ripped it open to oogle.
Holiday Frosting and Gingerbread Tree Kit
Black (crochet? Knit?) Drawstring purse
Amazingly cute kitty stuffie! I love this too!!
Orange Chocolate Fondue kit



Blurry close up of the stuffie!



Yarn! It's a pretty good photo of the color.



Some of the knitted items. You should all be really jealous of these, littlejoi is a pro knitter!



A close up of my other amazing stuff!



Me looking doofy, but enjoying my wearables! (Now I'm even more sad that it was like 80 degrees out today. Curse you global warming!)

Thank you SO SO much littlejoi! You are my crafty hero!!

i bought these two beautiful skiens of yarn from pleasurecrafthttp://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=13375 over on etsy and I was just wondering if anyone has any great ideas about what to do with them


this is a ridiculously soft 53 skien of wool and angora. i would love something to wear,  because its so so soft. it's thick and thin.

this baby is larger, 127 yards and i think it's a little greener than the picture shows. it's probably like a 5 in weight and fairly consistently spun.

what do you guys think?

yay! I've received!


some incredibly cool HP magnets, with coverart from the books!


no flash = a little blurry but a better shot of the true colors.


Also some amazing silk screened notecards! With our friends the puppet pals. Snape, Snape, Severus Snape...


Sorry for the blur again. I somehow cannot take clear pictures without the flash. I heart Ron.

Thank you so much Jen! All these things are amazing and you're the best swap partner ever!

yay! I've been crocheting up a freakin storm since I am recently graduated and unemployed....

a little pig



white scarf with pink flower






blue scarf with grey flower

I also made the one skein scarf and the garden scarf from happy hooker, but those are kind of boring, so I'll leave them off for now. I also finished a project for my harry potter swap partner, but I won't post it yet because she might be lurking

I can't wait till it gets cold enough to actually sport these babies!

So, first a disclaimer. I pretty much shamelessly stole this design from user Riddikulus's post here http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=177375.0 but she said she wants other people to interpret them, so I obliged!

I basically just took a black tee and with a combo of freehand painting and stenciling got the design on there, then sewed a hood on the back.  I love it and I can't wait to wear it on Friday for the release!



The finished shirt!




Myself modeling




It has a hood!




Close up of the Gryffendor crest (anyone have any ideas on how to get that remnant of freezer paper off?!)

Thank you so much for the inspiration, Riddikulus! If anyone wants to do a personal Harry Potter swap, I'd be happy to make you one of these babies!