Knitting Commission

I am notorious for taking forever with knitting anything.  I enjoy knitting but my arms can't do a lot of it before my muscles say no more.  Because of this when I do make something it always goes to someone I love and it is always on my time so when I take 4 bazillion years I don't feel horribly guilty.  

Several years ago my sister asked me to design and knit her an afghan of curse words.  She thinks it would be hilarious to be able to say give me the f***ing blanket.  I designed it, sent it to her, she confirmed that was what she wanted and I started working on it.  It's been 4 years of work but in my defense it is a giant blanket that is individual squares that have to be knitted together.  She'll eventual get it.  

Now that you have the background I was commissioned to make a shawl for someone.  She wanted something to keep her warm while working from home.  I hesitated to take this on as I hate being rushed through my knitting.  I always end up being off knitting for a while.  However, because of who asked I agreed.

With this one I'm using the Premier Parfait Navy.  It ended up being well over 6 feet long when all was done.  It was super warm and soft.  It only took me about 6 weeks to complete it.  Definitely worth it but I swear never again. 


   

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Combining Fabric and Paper Tumblers

Image
 In addition to the paper method I wanted to combine it with fabric.  I have family who adore Harry Potter.  I found some amazing fabric at Joann Fabric. My plan was to just do some all fabric tumblers for myself and other family but as I was putting it together I had the brilliant idea to combine the fabric with paper.  I took a HP book and destroyed it.  As a lover of books it hurt my heart but it turned out amazing.  I did go and burn the edges of the page to create a look.  I am pretty clumsy so I do this in the bathroom over the sink so if something happened then I had ample water to put out.    You can see in this picture the edges of the paper are more ragged and have a small burned look to it.  I think it adds so much to the cover by doing it this way.  I made sure the paper overlapped the fabric so you wouldn't have a line.  You could opt for more fabric or pages.  It would be whatever works for you.  I also included different HP themed glitter to fill in some of the white
Read more

Paper Tumblers

Image
 I've been seeing videos of tumblers using paper to create custom tumblers.  I didn't know how this would work out.  Surprisingly it went very well and was pretty easy.  I could see sprucing them up even more. Here is one where I took some scrap paper and used modpodge to glue to the cup.  All you need to do is wrap the paper around the tumbler and make sure it goes completely around the cup to get the look.  I added glitter to it but I could see adding vinyl to the cup as well.   It turned out amazing and I will be experimenting with this later.  There are just somethings you can't get without something premade so this is definitely a way to get special cups that are unique.  I could even see printing your own pictures and gluing them on.  You would want to be careful to make sure the epoxy won't bleed through your paper but that is an experiment for another day.
Read more

Glow in the Dark Can Cozy

Image
  Life has been soooo busy.  Several years ago I moved home to help family.  This meant moving into my parents basement.  It's cool and dry and I can have bookshelves has far as the eye can see...though my mom keeps threatening me about the basement sinking because of all of the books but I think I need way more than 2500 that I currently have spaced out throughout the basement.  I was pretty ok with how it was but I definitely wanted a bathroom downstairs so I wouldn't have to run upstairs for a shower or toilet.  Long story short between starting a new job two months ago we also started on construction of the basement which is why posts have been few and far between.  Having a walk in closet and bathroom great but when doing a lot of the stuff yourself not so much.  That and I am highly allergic to dust and trees so yeah my body is trying to kill me with the construction. On to the fun things in life.  I've been playing with craft techniques again.  Some have been a huge
Read more