Grad School

It's no surprise that we have been neglecting our sweet little blog here for awhile, but other things have been demanding our attention.  One of these things is graduate school.  I've been blabbing on here about online schooling for the last two years, but guess what?  Those two years were just prerequisite classes!!!  If I was a mess then, these next three years should be chaos.  I have met some really great people through this program and got to send one of them a little gift for becoming a new momma.  It seems so far away, but the thought of getting to meet everyone at graduation is pretty motivating to keep going.  It's hard not to get bogged down, but I need to be better about not abandoning the arts and crafts I love so much.

It's a GIRL!!!

A friend of mine had a baby!  Super excited for their growing family.  They are such fun people.  

This Easter break...

I crocheted, bought the new JT album for my mom, and did one math problem for my dad. :)
   23 flowers
     9 scarves
+   4 beanies
    36 pieces  

Irish Snail Mail

Happy Day After St. Pat's Day!  St. Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday and this year I celebrated it by running the LA Marathon.  My mom was there to cheer me on, as well as so many great running friends.  I'll post the details later, but in the meantime... check this cute crocheted beanie.  One of my dad's nurses asked if I could make her a beanie with ear flaps to go with her scarf when she traveled to Ireland to celebrate March 17th.  How amazing would it be to get to spend St. Pat's Day in IRELAND?!?  Of course, I had to make her one.  The was my first ever beanie with ear flaps and it turned out great!  I was kind of nervous about trying to make one, but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  Definitely going to be making more of these in the future.  Here is the tutorial I used.  It's for a owl beanie, which would be super cute as well.  I just left the owl details off and added a shamrock instead.  Esty has a fast shamrock tutorial here.

Scarves Round 3

Wait a minute... these are BEANIES, not scarves!?!  That's right!  After many years of avoiding beanies because you have count and concentrate, I finally made one!  Not the fancy cute ones (my aunt made those), but the charming and imperfect black one.  As you may know, we are making lots of scarves for people, but one of them wanted a beanine.... ahhhhh!  It was about time I learned how to make one though and thankfully my aunt let me come over for hours and hours and taught me how to make this... masterpiece?  I usually keep the first I make of anything, but I gave this one away.  Lately, I'm really just enjoying making a piece and then passing it along to someone who appreciates it.            

March 2nd and 3rd!

Here is a super simple mask I made for the Empty Space’s Art Show, Visible Poetics by Julie Jordan Scott! I used another Threadbanger tutorial and channeled my elementary school days when we made country masks. So much fun! The quotes in the picture is a little hard to read, but it’s a fun one: “Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid or something? Oh no. It’s just they’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.” I am probably reading way into this one, but it makes me think every time I hear it.

The next project comes from another You Tube video. What would I do without You Tube? I need to start making some videos and putting them up there. I am so thankful for all these talented crafters and artists for sharing their knowledge with us. Here is my first attempt at a crocheted beret. I think I messed up somewhere because it just doesn’t look exactly right to me. Honestly, I had been working on it ALL day long and by the end I just started making loops to finish the dang thing. I love it though and I’m going to try making it again soon...hopefully, the next time it won’t take all day!