flub

flub is all in dutch.
i think he's awesome.
at least i think it's a he.
i have a flub keychain.
flub has lots of friends.
http://www.flub.nl/

slides slides slides!

here are some more slide transfer images. i'm going to watercolor some of them and rescan soon.

amsterdam (next three)




japan


virginia/dc

steve's hat and a very sleepy doll

since steve's return from japan several months ago i have been promising him a new hat to keep his ears warm in his new city of chicago. it is finally done!
it's really dark here, but lurlene models this navy blue hat in rowan big wool. it'll look spiffy with his blue eyes!

obligatory sleepy dolley pic....


i got a glowing review of the towel pillows from ag on monday. i have yet to try them out, but it sounds like i'll have to make some more if i want to use one. don't think he's going to share. (excellent! more!)

also, i see i have a new reader! i have a real reader! (no offense, loyal fans) welcome, lady luxie! thanks for stopping by!

scarf update

i'm here in a funk tonight. no work tomorrow. that's good. just bought new tires. that's expensive.

ag really liked the towel pillowcases. i'm going to make some more, i think.

what better to do than drink and knit? amarula on ice. it's kind of girly, but whatever i don't care. it's nice and tasty. plus, here is a scarf update...

it's almost 16" long, and i think i have about 6" left in this ball of yarn. with the other two, it'll make a nice, long scarf.

make a pillowcase out of towels!

ag wrapped a pillow in a towel a few nights ago and remarked how great towel pillocases would be...so i decided to make them! i searched online and couldn't find any kind of "how-to" and i decided to do it myself. total time was about an hour for both of them. i'm going to make some more. they were really easy, no tape measure needed, and they're soooo comfy! here we go!

i got two regular size bath towels from bed bath & beyond...they're having their annual clearance sale now, so that was just a bonus. i had wanted to use one bath sheet, but i couldn't find any that i liked. so...

then line up two towels exactly. i wound up cutting off the ends with the tags.

next, i lined up a regular pillowcase so it would be the correct size. (if you want to use the bath sheet, just fold in half so the edges line up and continue with the next step.)

then i pinned around the case to keep the two towels together, and then marked the top towel with tailor's chalk.

then i sewed around the chalk marks. i went right up to the edging, and then went back and forth to secure the edges.

here is the completed pillowcase, inside out.

then i trimmed the edges, leaving about 1/2 inch around the stitching, and turned it right side out. that's it!

it's in the washing machine now to clean it up. now, what to do with all the left over scraps?

Public Art Private Parts

Posted by Evelyn at DC Knit Blog (See link at right)

DC-Based Crochet Artist featured in Documentary
Happy Holidays, DC Fiber Artists,

I received an email from Brandon Bloch, a graduate student at American University who just completed a short documentary on DC-based crochet artist, Ming Yi Sung. Ming is a very imaginative and talented crochet artist. You may have heard
about her - in the summer of 2005 her "controversial" crochet work,
featuring knitted nude figures, was censored by a DC law firm.

I visited this exhibit last summer and I was impressed with Ming Yi Sung's work as well as the work of the other artists that was displayed there.

Mr. Bloch is trying to spread the word about his documentary film, so take a look and feel free to share it on your blogs and with your fiber arts enthusiast friends.

new scarf and new amsterdam photo

i had dreams about eating fries with mayo for weeks before my trip. totally worth the wait. but...what's with the pinky?


here is a new scarf. now that i'm fluent in "cable" i'm hooked, so to speak. i joined a knit-along! i'm using rowan chunky chenille, which is now discontinued. boo. i got it on sale at de afstap. here is my progress from last night.


as promised, here is the melted menorah. >sigh< better luck next year. it spewed so much junk into the air in my apartment i had to clean my air filter every day. i usually do it every week.

some pics from amsterdam...happy new year!

the last time i was in the netherlands, i noticed that bathrooms do not have hot water for hand washing, only cold. this is still pretty much the case. it didn't seem to be a big deal to my friends, just soap up and rinse. i did notice everywhere that that there was soap, which is not always the case here.

anyway, that was my big obsession on this trip. again.

here is the hat i worked on. my first cable project. this pic was taken on the plane on the way over...


if you think i did anything here besides take this picture, you and i have obviously never met. neon is pretty.


this is me...traveling 3500 miles for a new yarn shop, de afstap. that's me.


ah, canals are pretty. plus, they don't stink like they do in venice. a bonus.


more soon....