whoa! just when i think crochet is fun, but ugly.....

look at this aussie chick's amazing blanket of crocheted HP portraits!



here is totallee's blog with all the finished portraits.
lookee! A SNAPE PATTERN!

sign ups over at the HPKCHC are open!

the term begins september 1!
anyone thinking of joining?

link to the group


edited to add:
signups are closed, but we are IN! slytherin FTW!

envisioning tiny stitches!

i picked up my new pair of prescription reading glasses at costco today. (i did not like the transitional bifocal lenses. i had them remade into single vision lenses.)


now i have no excuses left when it comes to crocheting that jewelry project i was dreaming of a while ago!

It's 100 degrees outside...but autumn must be in the air

I spent 20 minutes fingering yarn yesterday, then went home and watched YouTube videos on how to knit.


uh-oh!

;)

where i stopped...

i did also work on the ash, but i haven't photographed it.
i am still at a standstill on all my crochet.

sigh.

alas

i did not meet the deadline for the end of the second month on my OWL. not that i hadn't been working-- it is just sometimes, february goes out like a carpstorm. i did get the little phoenix body banged out and most of the ashes, but i didn't even try to submit it before the deadline. i really have been distracted and discouraged.

i also did not finish the braille secret message scarf.

grr.

amigurumi: ur doin it rite!

yes, it looks a bit like the last post! frankly, most amigurumi begins in a circle, but looky what i made! a HOLE! this phoenix body needed a hole in both ends of a sphere. this sphere will have a dowel running through it that continues up the neck (yet unmade!). here is my first attempt (after i remembered about the hole and tore out the actual first attempt). i abandoned it because of the wonky shape of the hole and the arrhythmic increases.

version 2 started with a joined chain ring of 18 stitches. i then went around the ring through the center for 24 stitches. (amigurumi LOVES multiples of 6!) since i started my increases every 4th stitch on the next round, every 5th, every 6th and at this row, i am at one increase at every 7th stitch.

much happier with the results. good amigurumi has such a nice body to it when you are doing it right!

the baby phoenix looks a lot like a large bladder with a little neck. i WISH i had started from the top down on that one, but alas. i am going forward with it as is. the next step for that is the felting.