halfway to salvation!

they had some of the wool i need for my jumper!!! but only the blue :l so still have to keep checking back for the green, but it has given me knew hope! i didnt think they'd ever have it in again..

in other news i've had loads of uni work so of course rather than doing it i've been making ... i havent even been able to bring my self to photographing them :S i will! i meant to today but got busy.. shall have to make time over the weekend..

yeh and i still havent photographed my stash! i'll try remember to do that when i do the other stuff...

anyway i have a diss meeting tomorrow i've done nothing for , FUDGE!! :( SAD BUNNY so i have to get some sleep so i can get up!

nite :)

november novelties

ok so i havent showed u things i've been doing for a while:

it was a friends birthday a while bak but i was uber busy so i only had time to make her this...

jumper update:

here is a nice almost (but not quite) colour accurate picture of it,

and here is an image showing how far along i currently am..

HOWEVER massive problem, like the NOOB i am when i bought the wool i only bought one of each colour and when i went bak, THATS RIGHT, THEY DONT HAVE ANYMORE!!! so this project is in hibernation, for now at least, i keep going in to see if they have anymore.. fingers crossed...

i made this last night for my brother (the best brother EVER to have existed)

its a case for his ipod, dunno if he wanted one, or if he already had one, but anyway i made one :) get to give it to him (and see him) on friday HURRAH for weekend trips :)

i have also been working on a way to do gloves with thumb tubes (??) without circular needles, its going well :)

any who, i am super tiered so off for an early night,

there will be wool stash photos and photo of a pressie i made for my bestie sooooooon :)

xx

stash!!

ok, i went to new york, my wool stash has EXPLODED!!!!

photos soon!

x

currently i am...

failing miserably at uni, but working on some other stuff...

in our soc meetings im working on my first ever caridgn! this is what i have so far:

i never knitted anything very big before so this is a bit of an adventure, doing it with cheap crappy wool incase i mess it up!

THIS arrived yesterday:

which is awesome im really excited fro this project, just have to find a way to link it to my photography work..

any hooch, because that has arrived, on my way bak from uni today i couldn't resist all the pretty pretty leaves :)

so now aparently i need glycerin, shall pick that up later..

i dont want to say wat this project is yet, and im not gonna let my self start it till my modules are done, there due in next week :S

SHIT!

hahaha FAIL! best get on with some stuff before i disappear off to soc meeting.

bento

i just rememebered i forgot to post my bento attempt...

so here is me with my first ever bento

and here the bento by its self

with a knit knit here and a knit knit there :)

i had this beutiful blue wool i wanted to make somehting with, but its really thin, so has to be done on little needles and couldnt be bothered with anything big so decided to do a knit toy, was actually looking for an elephant and i found a cool pattern but it is too complicated for my current skills and then i happened across a lamb and went for that, here he is:

(from here: http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_67/907000/907313/8/print/fuzzy-lamb.pdf)

he doesnt have a name yet, but i felt bad for him being lonely so i made him a friend :)

(from here: http://betsy.imagin-itis.net/fibrecraft/kitten.html BUT i halved it)

and here they are together

hehe who needs to pass their degree rite?????? oh shit.. yeh .. me :S

i have to go have a shower, so i can go to our soc meeting... and knit... at least im doing wat im SUPPOSED to be when im there!

fi-mow...

i made some fimo cats! they where inspired by one my friend did and she was inspired by someone else... i made 4,

here are 3

here is the other one

and here is a sence of scale to person

(forgive the lame picture)

and with a better model for scale

anyway i made them a while bak and never quite got round to posting them.. but here they are, in all they're green glory :)

HOORAH! finished stripy bag

was a heck a heck of a lot of stitching, ESPECIALLY the straps, that took for god damn ever!

i made the button out of fimo coz i couldn't find one that worked with the rest of the bag .

i made this tote, for carrying my A3 sketchbooks to uni as well as generally useful bag. the reason i made one, instead of just using the one i had was becuase i wanted the pocket on the front, mostly becuase i used a bag this size on my last trip home and not having pocket on the front for my travel tickets and stuff was a PAIN. and i wanted it to be bright and smile inducing :)

wool worth it..

...yes... im that lame!

as i mentioned in an earlier post, when i was home recently i popped into a wool shop, and found some BARGAINS! £1 a ball! heck yes!

so, here are my spoils :)

(this is more blue in reality, couldn't get the colour right on the camera)

And this is what i have left over from making my friend's gloves, she gave it too me :)

gifts from am-re-ka!

forgot to say earlier, my friend helen has been away over in the summer, working and then traveling in america and she brought me bak some AWESOME things

the BEST being:

this freakin SWEET timer, i LOVE it, its awesome!

she also bought me pocky, i dont think i will EVER be able to have pocky without thinking about helen and our glorious glorious china times :)

oh and a really cool square of fabric i shall have to find something fun to do with :)

so, much love for my helen face

freshers fayre madness!

so me and mah buddeh decided there is not enough crafting going on at our uni so we started a society, here is our stall at the freshers fayre:

you can check out the society blog here http://bitz-and-bobz.blogspot.com/

and here is some of the prep work we did to get to the fayre

some of the stuff we baked.

We ended up with 82 cupcakes, 29 people shaped biscuits, 25 cookies, 23 biscuits, 20 jam biscuits and 2 trays of brownies

all the cakes all staked up, ready to be taken to the fayre,

and here, are some naked freshers :)

and i leave you with this rather jolly picture of me and helen at the freshers fayre :)

stag pillow

It was my friends birthday, and she LOVES Cath Kidston and cushions so i thought i'd try doing some thing with that, heres what i got:

back detail hand embroidery

i found the fabrics from ebay on this awesome shop, has all kinds of fabric, but i really liked these and i knew she would too.

Basically it was inspired by this painting that Isobel did which was a black silhouette of a stags head on a flowery background. ANYWAY, i am now obsessed with stags heads, i want to make it into my logo :)

what else? i messed up the edging, the corners didnt fit properly.. so it doesn't lie flat,,, i guess thats something i'll have to work on.. just need to work out why it happened..

Doing the embroidery was a pain in arse the, then i suddenly occurred to me, that here was a time when my embroidery loop would be dang useful. My gran brought it for me YEARS ago for my cross stitch but i never found it useful for that, nice to finally use it :)

i did, however, look like a RIGHT granny :)

arm warmers galore!

Whilst i was in my hometown i met up with one of my buddies who saw me knitting a pair of arm warmers for myself and was like oooo, will you make some for me? of course i agreed to, i think she said she wanted them in black but she then remembers she has some wool already:

this stuff, its beautiful, this coming from me... i HATE pink... but its lovely stuff, thick, soft, im not used to using wool that has such a lose twist, but i got used to it after a while :)

(it is of course however too late for me, shes mentioned going to a wool shop so of course i had to go :) i picked up a nice few ball on the cheap.. wow... there's something i should never say again, i'll take a photo when i remember..of the wool)

Anywhich way, here are Hannah's finished:

and here they are all wrapped up for her :)

the blue pair i was knitting initially, i ended up giving to Matt for his birthday :) i dont have a photo of them but maybe i'll ask him to take one :)

birfday cakes :)

two of my most lovely-est friends had birthdays recently, i was kinda pushed for time so they where pretty simple ones.

this is matt matts one:

he is in his final year of a digital film production degree, so i thought it would be funsies. he was 22(hence scene number) i chose el bandito as the title becuase matt matt is... hes a crazy fuckin non mexican :)

AND Isobels

she wanted a peppa pig one but it just wasnt gonna happen. sooo i chose cath kidson-ie colours, because she LOVES that stuff :)

i meant it when i said i was obsessed with marbling :) don't know why i chose theses colours. Matt matts was plain on the bottom with a layer of chocolate sponge on top. i just layered them straight into the cake 'tin' no putting them together after.

and here is Isobel, enjoying her cake :)

MORE cupcakes

i've been promising my self an icing bag for AGERS and i was in my home town a couple of weeks back, having a wonder round the shops with my bestie and we saw these:

so i got that, then found a muffin tray for a reasonable price (i have also been promising myself one of those for along time) so snapped that up, which of course meant when i got home, it was baking time :)

recently every cake i make i have marbled, i just like the way it looks :)

heres how they looked done:

then i got to icing, my icing wasn't quite stiff enough for anything too adventurous :(
two of my really good friends had birthdays recently so i made them cakes, and they will be up soon (hopefully :) )