Oh, crafty motivation, don't let me down!

[smeddley]

Friday was a flop. I came home really tired, thought 'oh, I'll just lay down for a half-hour' and next thing I know, it's after 9pm (some 4 hours later!) and I'm still foggy and tired. I did get a little work done before I went back to sleep at 2, but not that much.

Saturday is craft night at my friend's house, which makes it sound like I should get loads done, but I never seem to. I did do some work on a project, but it's not finished yet (it's one of the bigger ones).

Craft #6 - Troupe Charms


Made some charms for the newest members of our troupe. Made the boxes, too, though the chocolate pieces were done previously.

Craft #7 - Very plain Crochet Keepers


All they do is hold your working loop of yarn and tell you what hook you were using, nothing fancy or special. Part of me thinks it was a total weenie move, but part of me likes it, too.

Craft #8 - Harry Potter t-shirt


I FOUND THE OTHER STENCIL! SO of course I had to use it on something, and that something was the back-up t-shirt I bought when I made the Red Dwarf t-shirt for the swap long ago. Size medium.

Craft #Unknown (will get a number when I finish!)


Original beading on the right, kinds screamed "nipple!" and she didn't like it. So I replaced it with some more subtle beading (left). I've also started to fill in half the brown swirl with two rows of white seed beads. I don't know if there's something else I should do... she says the costume lacks a bit of sparkle. I'm going to play around and see.

I also replaced the missing teardrop beads (like the nipple) on the belt, I'm wondering about adding more to it, as well. We shall see. But I will have that done by next weekend to give back to her.

Craft Failure


I finished knitting this before November, but I was going to turn it into a yarn holder, but it's too big. Plus, my knotting got looser as I worked on it, so the top is bigger and floppier. Ugh.

I have new and improved plans for the knitting container... we'll see.

Today I've already started on a craft swap project (dying a t-shirt) and I have many things to stencil (one I have to wait and buy some different colored fabric paint... maybe... and I need to find my red fabric paint from the Red Dwarf t-shirt), and there's something I want to crochet AND I should work on my cross-stitch AND AND AND... oh, so much to do... *wilts*

Comments

[dancingleaf]

oh YEAH that does scream NIPPLE!

spiral design on target - let me hypnotize you with my boobs!

I don't think the Yaarn looks so bad.

[smeddley]

Why do so many belly dance costumes look like that?! There's a limited amount of fixing I can do with it, but I'm trying. I still have quite a bit of work to do on it, though.

The Yaarn is worse in person - in theory it's great, it just lacked in execution, and that's my fault. I may try to crochet it, I'm better and more consistent with my crochet!

[dancingleaf]

because there are really only so many ways to decorate two round objects on the center of your chest. and if you only have 2 large stones - you are going to get the nipple effect.

[smeddley]

True enough - I'm more a fan of the sweeping fringe - one, you get dangles, and two, no NIPPLE! effect. I have to bead something for the Feb show (we're doing something in the theme of 'love' and we're wearing red), and I'll probably try something more along these lines:

http://www.moondancebellydance.com/product/002883/Deluxe_Bra_MD2883.aspx

[dancingleaf]

that's generally the design I go for as well - although I did an asymmetrical design that I'd like to repeat one day.... hmmmmmmm- that may be my next project.