I started these in another yarn during Cloverfield, ripped and reknit while watching There Will Be Blood, and sewed everything up while watching O Brother Where Art Thou. They're for a friend and they've got a button detail on the wrists.

Pattern Garter Stitch Mitts by Ysolda Teague.
Yarn 1/4th a ball of Brook's Farms Acero (blue green purple black) coupled with 1/4th a ball of Knitpicks Shadow in Jewels.
Needles Size 4 Knitpicks needles.

Down.

Up.

Button button.

Hiiiii bloggg! This is another sewing project, a cupcake apron for my roommate Ruchi. This is the perfect gift because:

1. She is totally into cupcakes they are her favorite thing.
2. She recently picked up the hobby of baking and aprons are a staple of baking.
3. It's handmade, which is a requirement for my gift-giving.

I got the fabric, ribbon, and pattern from jcarolinecreative, which has such an extensive selection (yay!) but I drove myself insane trying to find the perfect fabric as Ruchi would have loved so many. Woven fabric is so cheap compared to yarn and I definitely respond more to textiles. Plus sewing is fast and with each thing I make I get better and better. I've sort of plateaued with knitting; I started doing things my own way rather than learning the proper techniques and that has inhibited my learning.

There are some technical aspects about the apron which aren't perfect and they betray that the item is handmade, but that gives it charm. I finally learned to sew in a straight line (that little flipper thing that "locks" the fabric in place when you flip it down? It totally needs to be down!) and I'm proud of that and I cut the pattern out on my own using Kraft Paper, which I have a ton of that I didn't know how to ditch...until now. NOW I CAN MAKE PATTERNS.

I also made piping, which was kind of a pain in the ass in the way that I know that with enough practice I will master it. The ribbon detail on the pocket is an afterthought and is therefore not neat. I had to take that part from the neckstraps (like a graft) and I added a snap enclosure for it because it could no longer be tied around the neck or fit over the head if I had sewn the edges to make like a closed neck. The apron is tied around the back.

Pattern From jcaroline creative
Fabric Robert Kaufman medium weight cotton; Cloud Cupcakes - Sweet Tooth.
Extras Ribbon: Like this, but in orange; also some snaps and some cording and bias tape for the piping.

Pants vs no pants.

Sloppy details, but an attempt yet.

Hellooo. I made another box bag. This one for my friend Brian's girlfriend. I got some heavier needles for my machine and was able to get this one looking mostly like the example I followed, nevermind some quirky slantiness. I intend to give this to her when I gift Brian with his handknit size 13 socks which are probably too small (complete, but waiting for a trip through the wash) for his birthday.

This item is "interfaced" with canvas, lined with old pajama pants from Old Navy, and the exterior fabric is from Reprodepot, who, by the way, LINKED ME THANKS.

Goatse-ing the bag. Plaid inside!

I have a backlog of completed and near-completed items to be introduced but my camera is a total diva. It has some sort of congenital defect and it's entiteld to free repair but the problem is intermittent so I've been waiting for it to screw up so that I can do something specific to it so that Canon can confirm the problem, but of course it only screws up when I really need it to work and it hasn't screwed up since I learned what I need to do for Canon. I baked over 40 heart shaped butter cookies for Valentines Day and gave two to each of my friends telling them to eat one and share the other with someone they love and it's as if it never happened.

I also started school again and do some minor knitting during classes and the like but that's pretty much it. I'm having a great semester so far and I've met some amazing people. I gave up sculpture because of my sudden but not unexplained distaste for that microcosm of The Art Department and so many opportunities have opened up to me as a result. I've got a lot of stuff going on beyond the realm of what this blog is typically about and I look forward to introducing it all once my camera stops being all Beyonce.