I just mastered my first crochet scarf (pictures to be posted to my craft blog soon).  I was feeling rather proud of myself and then I came across this post on my flist today.  The idea of using yarn to create hyperbolic geometry is just wild.  Here are a few links (link1, link2) with pictures and a pattern.  The book mentioned at the end of link1 ( Read more... )

How can JoAnn's have no black embroidery thread on their shelves?  How can I embroider an army of penguins without black embroidery thread?

Ah... it feels good to create again.

( Images behind the cut, for the interested )

My mother-in-law and her slave boys *cough* teenage hired help dropped by at lunchtime with two boxes full of old vinyl LPs. I've been reading how to turn them into funky bowls and thought I would give it a try. It was so funny looking through the titles. It ranged from "I had that album!" to "Ewwwww" to "I can't ruin that one". I'm having an ( Read more... )