Hello, Internet. How are you? I've been okay. And fairly busy. I made some things! Want to see them?

So the thing about my job is that I have a lot of time for stuff. Not much going on at night. This means I have hours and hours every week to knit my heart out. I'm also getting some good reading done-I'm in the middle of NK Jemisin's Inheritance ( Read more... )

Internets, let me tell you a sad story. A story of woe. A story of despair. A story without a happy ending. It's also kinda long.

Once upon a time, I decided to make a pair of pants. They were going to be very nice pants (or trousers, if you prefer.) I bought some lovely dark blue linen/rayon that had a nice hand, didn't wrinkle too much, very ( Read more... )

Hello, world. I'm still around. I got a job, which is cool, but which has reduced my available free time somewhat significantly. It's a night-shift job, which is okay, but since I have neighbors living downstairs of me, it does cut down on my available spinning wheel/sewing machine/noisy activity time. I will update crafty stuff soon.

However, I ( Read more... )

It's truly lazy summer again. I love summer. It means that I haven't been blogging, though-that would be the "lazy" part. Oi.

Stuff I've been working on:
job applications (sigh)
sewing pants
knitting a giant semi-secret project
organizing and cleaning my apartment (sigh)
sleeping.

I did go to Yellowstone last week, which turned out to be a very successful ( Read more... )

So you may recall that back in April I posted a WIP of some towels on the loom. Well, a little while ago I finished them. I think they turned out rather well, if I do say so myself. They're squishy and nice to the touch, and they're my mom's favorite colors. Yes, I finished them almost three weeks after her birthday, but that was because I had the ( Read more... )

Mostly, recently, I've been working on pants. Which is not very exciting, I must admit. There's a lot of fit shenanigans. I started with the tissue-fit method detailed in Pants for Real People (I really truly almost wrote "Pains for Real People") and have now moved on to a muslin. The book says with their method you don't need a muslin, but for my ( Read more... )

Please actually read the number on the packages you deliver. If, in fact, you did read the number and just didn't feel like coming up one flight of stairs to deliver it to me instead of my downstairs neighbors, it may be that package delivery is not an appropriate job for you.

No love,

Carrie

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On the plus side, my neighbors are nice people and were ( Read more... )

It was, in fact, done on time-finished before last Friday night, so I could wear it for graduation. (Honestly I'm not sure why I picked that event, since I was wearing my graduation robes/gown/thing most of the time.) I have now worn it twice and have Thoughts on its construction and ideas for future projects. I also finally have adequate photos.

( Many, many photos! )

I don't have all the photos I would like of the graduation dress yet, so you'll have to make do with this. It's a dress I made over two years ago. I had made it with the intention of wearing it to Hawaii on family vacation. When I got there, I decided it looked silly on me, and I never wore it. (Two major factors went into this: I wear dresses ( Read more... )

For FO Friday I have only this: I am finally a college grad. Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies and Bachelor of Arts in Chinese. I feel relieved to be done, a little bit sad for what I'm leaving, a little bit anxious for the future. Mostly I want to sleep for a week and then deal with everything else ( Read more... )