How Long Until A Dog Destroys These?

They are doomed. I know it. It is only a matter of time before I will be picking shredded parts off the floor. But until that happens I can enjoy how cute they are. The actual knitting took maybe a couple of hours per animal and then they took about a day to dry after felting. The finishing is what kills me with every project, and these had so much finishing. The inside of the ears, the eyes, the teeth and the noses are all cut out of felt and sewn on. They are stuffed with little plastic beads in the bottom and batting in the heads. Luckily these are so small, or else they would have never been finished. The first animal I finished was the fox, so I took pictures of him by himself to put on Ravelry, and just because I like the picture, here it is:















I have noticed in the upper left corner of this page there is sort of a double title thing going on. I have no idea why it is there twice and it is possible that this computer is the only one showing it. Is anyone else seeing that?

More Adventures In Dyeing

Last week I took over the kitchen and made it into my dyeing lab. And I successfully made brown out of different fruity flavors of Kool-Aid, which is more complicated than you might think. I mixed Kool-Aid and tested on small amounts of yarn. From left to right there is the squirrel body color, then the squirrel tail color, then beaver color (I used black for the tail), and finally, fox (I used some of the white, un-dyed yarn for the end of the tail and the face). As much as I'm sure I could bore you with the detailed descriptions of the color mixing, and as much as I would enjoy that, sadly, I can't remember how I mixed the colors. This might make my next dying experiment a little difficult. I guess I will have to turn the kitchen into my lab again.

That's it, just a short one today. By the way, I still demand everyone go look at the Crafty Alien site.

I Am A Negligent Blogger

I have finished projects that are backed up just waiting for me to stop being lazy. I think the problem is that I just don't have that much to say about coffee cozies. This one is for mom, even thought it is too small for most coffee mugs and has to be stretched so much the XOXO cables disappear. Both of these are the Adjustable Coffee Mug Wrap. I had to change the pattern because the original pattern was to wide for my mug. I would have been drinking coffee and getting wooly hairs stuck to my lips. So I had to take care of that problem.

If you remember my last post (I'm too lazy to find out if I can link to my own blog, even though I am pretty sure you can, plus I don't know if anyone actually looks at the links I put up here.) you will also remember that I made a Calorimetry and that it did not fit. Well, I made a new one that does fit. I will spare you the picture of me wearing it so that you can enjoy the button I used. I have no idea how old this button is, I would guess it is at least 20 years old. But it is a pig, and it is funny.

Right now I am working on a dog sweater, hilarious pictures of a sad dog are to come, I'm sure. Also I am working on the Beaver, Fox and Squirrel patterns from Crafty Alien. I beg you, even if you never go to another link on this blog, go to this one and look around. These things are ridiculously cute.