My crafting is worse than sporadic, but I do spend a lot of time drooling over project ideas and patterns online. I really like One Pretty thing for that. My bookmarks are packed with pages from there ( Read more... )

I had a terrible weekend of exhaustion and nausea, which finally culminated in the worst headache ever last night that actually woke me from sleep at 4 a.m. By 4:30, I had decided I was going to get out of bed and go to the corner store to buy a Diet Coke and some Tylenol, because I hadn't had any caffeine that day and knew my body was withdrawing ( Read more... )

I finally finished a crochet project I've been working on for months. It's a bolero from Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet. I started it while I was still working for the magazines. I remember because I bought the yarn at the very lame Joann's in Danbury one Tuesday before my knitting group. I don't know why it took me so long; it's short and crocheted ( Read more... )

I made some more projects from Tease.

Here's a purse made from T-shirts. One side:


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Last night, I made my second project from Tease: a halter top made from my high school photography club T-shirt. I always liked the image on that tee, but the shirt was long-sleeved, and after high school, it was consigned to the pajama drawer and only rarely saw light.


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I made my first project from Tease. It was one of the easiest projects in there, and I tackled it because after working and shopping for work pants and going to dinner and ironing Lee's shirt for his interview and feeling crappy all evening, I couldn't begin on a complicated project, but I reeeeally wanted to make something. This book has been ( Read more... )

After I made my last post, I hung around the mall until I pretty much had to leave. Then I found out that Blair's flight was delayed again, but only by half an hour or so. So I got in the car and drove to the airport, which is in the opposite direction of my house from the mall a far enough distance that it didn't make sense to go all the way ( Read more... )

Thanks for the responses. I've kept a close watch on the crock pot. ( Click to see the worst of it. )

I made this for Meagan from a pattern I found on craftster.org.


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Saturday, the Hat City Scissor Squad had its annual Craft Swaptacular at Christine's badass abode. We all brought crafting items to offer to the group, and we came home with more than we got there with. That's how I felt, anyway! I managed to unload some bias tape, some crochet patterns for those gigantic Barbie dresses that you drape over half- ( Read more... )