IMAGI-KNIT

My friend Susanna and I had a great ol time perusing Imagiknit a couple of weeks ago. In fact, our heads nearly exploded. These pictures may give you somewhat of a clue as to why, but they don't tell the whole story.

Not only do they have bazillions of lovely yarns, they also have racks of knitted items on hand with notes as to what size needles they were knitted on, etc. to inspire you even further. (AND a ton of cool books and magazines!!!)

It's too much, if you already have way more ideas than you'll ever have time for to begin with, but it's too much in a way that feels REALLY GOOD.

YARN UPDATE

It has been untangled!

"Moon View From Earth" by Urban Gypz. Soon to be my friend Adam's scarf.

Black Dragon Costume For A Kid!!!

I know it's sorta late to post pics of the Halloween costume that Susanna and I made for our 7 year old kid-friend, but I finally gave up on getting him back in costume so that I could take the pictures I wanted, and decided that these are decent enough pics, considering that they actually EXIST.

He wanted to be the Dungeons and Dragons version of a black dragon. We used the fig I posted here as a model for making it.

My friend Susanna and I made this costume in one night, and truthfully, she made most of it. I was there the whole time, doing stuff she directed me to do, but she made it happen.

I made the horns from stuffing a couple of those stocking pantyhose that you buy in the little plastic bubble for 30 cents at WalMart. I put a wire inside the stuffed hose to give shape to the horns, and handstitched and gathered the thread for texture.

Susanna built the mask, which is actually a hat, on a ready-made small child's baseball hat. There is a snap on the material that hangs down from the hat, so he can snap it to cover his face, or un-snap if he's tired of covering up.

She mounted 2 big wires inside a tiny backpack, which she attached the dragon wings to. The wings were made from pleated contractor bags. I hand-stictched the pleats because we forgot to buy staples for the stapler. We dis-assembled a plastic "caveman" necklace and attached claws at the tips of wings with black duct tape.

The backpack was an easy way to fit the wings on him, and to make sure they would go on and off easily. It was also a great place for him to store his claw gloves when he was not using them.

We used black plastic fake fingernails as claws to attach to his gloves and to glue onto the cheap black sneakers we bought him to go with his costume. Oddly enough, he really liked the shoes and continued to wear them for several days after Halloween.

It was a quick job, but a very gratifying one. It was great to see a kid come home from school basking in the glow of how cool he looked all day. We love our kid-friend and hope we can make his costume again next year!

WIP: Baby Blanket

Don't Be Like Me

I was so excited to start knitting my beautiful Urban Gypz yarn into a scarf for my friend, I didn't wind it into a ball first. I got it super tangled, and I couldn't even find the end. Ciarra's boyfriend Nalu, being the nice guy that he is, found the end and worked on untangling it for over an hour. I have spent a couple hours on yarn-untangling today.

I'm almost done!

An Etsy Purchase, and A Scarf Made By Me

Novemaber 23rd was my friend Rita's birthday!

I gave Rita this beautiful birdy (a lavender sachet) that I purchased from Ruby-Crowned Kinglette's Etsy shop. She also has a lovely blog that I just checked out again recently and was excited to see a bunch more birdies that she has made. It's nice to see more of the flock.

I knitted this scarf for Reet too, and gave it to her when she met up with me and a few other fun folks in Tahoe. I've been working on it in really little bits since September. I actually planned to start it a bit LATER and but couldn't stop myself from knitting it sooner because the yarn was so pretty and tempting. I just love tropical sea shell colors.

Now I can start the scarf for my friend Adam with the really exciting Urban Gypz yarn! The colorway is called "Moon View From Earth". Yeah!!!