A blanket

This is just a dark blue afghan, with stripes on one side and edging of kiddie rainbow colored yarn. I made it because I was bored... It's sitting in my big blanket bucket right now, and anyone who wants it can have! Not quite big enough for a bed, but a good size for snuggling with or wrapping around yourself on a couch.

HEY HEY AMERICA!!

I got really restless on the fourth of July this year, I hate the fireworks, and it was a Saturday. I had something else I needed at JoAnns, so I trekked out there, only realizing once I was a block away that they could potentially be closed. Lucky for me, they were Independence Sale-ing instead of closed! I got what I needed, and picked up several patriotic remnants.

When I got home I worked them up into a rug quickly, starting and finishing all on the 4th. I'm pretty set on rugs for myself these days, but my brother moved recently, so I gave it to him. Last I heard (which was, the day I gave it to him) he was using it in his bathroom, where it matched the blue walls, and where he and his roommate hadn't gotten around to getting a rug for yet. I hope it's still working out for them!

Long time, eh?

This is a crocheted blanket I worked on after my friend Lani taught me a pattern for granny squares (the purple squares). I figured out how to make the brown squares by staring at a blanket for a little while and thinking about the different stitches, and then was inspired to work on my own blanket, just to see if I could do it.

My friend Erika moved at about the same time I was finishing up the blankie, and so I gave it to her. It (conveniently!) matches her bedroom color scheme, as you can see in the first picture. The second picture gives you a more close up view of the two patterns that I used for the different colored squares.

Gift Rug Colors

This post is for Mark W.B. and Mark alone, really. I bought some fabric for the rug I'm making you and Ian as your moving gift... These are the colors I picked out, sortof following the Asian theme I got from you, though it ended up going more in the Tibetan Buddhist direction than anything else. Maybe I should throw in a copy of one of HH Dalai Lama's books with your gift?

a dress, i guess

I actually followed the pattern pretty much straight through, though I got lazy on the lining for the back of the top/bodice. Tucks, I still hate doing, though I am good at them when I want a thing to look nice- I recently got a nice (I think, my mom says "it hurts to look at") button up from the thrift store, and I noticed that the tucks on the bottom face the same direction... that is weird to me, I always make mine radiate from the center. I need to take in the armpit a little bit still, it's gappy, but I'll get there eventually. Needed to use my bloggy energy spurt to get this out there!

My computer is still broken.
I never posted A LOT,
but now I just get lazy when I have to think about charging my camera batteries and going to school and using the computers there to upload pictures to my flash drive and then post a new bloggy post...
):

Mac Pillows!

"the lil mac guy pillow is cute as hell," says my brother, of his new pillows he got for his birthday, in reference to the 'finder' icon. I got the idea when my friend J sent me a link to this website: www.throwboy.com. The pillows are all fleece, polyester stuffing. Smallish, but not tiny. They were quick and easy to make, kind of fun too! I just used a tight zig-zag stitch to applique the colors on top of each other.