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Knitting

Pok pok yo.Recently took up knitting, perhaps spurred by meowa & thanks to the Stitch 'N Bitch book, I somewhat know how! Here Reginald models the hat I made for my 1st project. It was supposed to be a cat eared hat per 1 of the patterns in the SnB book, & I didn't get it done in time for AX but I continued anyway up to what you see here. It was too small for my fat head, and Master laughed when I wore it. So now I've put it on permanent hold, unless I can find someone who has a smaller head and wants me to continue adding on the rest of the acoutrements.

I'm currently working on a keyhole scarf w/ K1 P1 ribbing. It will take forever.

But here is a tinsel-y looking scarf I made from 2 balls of Lion Brand Fun Fur (Confetti).

Beaded Bobby Pins

I bought the Klutz Beaded Bobby Pins book before I went on a flight, to give me something to do, and I needed something to hold my hair up anyway. I've since made more for friends, but here are the ones I have currently: @ upper left are long basic pins, gold & blue seed beads on gold wire (My attempt @ Cal colors!); @ lower left are regular basic pins, clear & pearl & purple & lavender seed beads, 1 w/ green leaves & flower-ish arrangement; @ right is 1 regular funky pin w/ green tubes & gold & green seed beads w/ a button & gold flower bead - hard to handle & so I hardly use it. In general, if there're things hanging off the body of the bobby pin, it's hard to handle and I'm discouraged from using it. I usually use those long ones.

I got these skull beads from The Bead Asylum and wanted to use them in some bobby pins. I like them for they are eViL-ish. Huh, they have 2 nostrils instead of a single nose hole...

Hemp

I bought the Klutz Hemp Bracelets book, just 'cuz. So I made some bracelets. I used mostly square knot for the red beaded one @ left & you can make braided bracelets w/ the leftovers. I had made one w/ rainbow wish beads but I've lost it in my room w/in 2 hours of making it >_<;; and made the braided one @ right w/ the other leftovers - I'll likely use it in a geocache.
(Update: I found the missing bracelet; it's too big for me so it'll be geocache fodder.)

Sewing

I bought some remnants from JoAnn's and a bit of silver cord to make this dice pouch. I used a CD-sized circle to form the base so it's ~15" for this cylindrical bag. Mostly sewing machine work. It's not top quality but it's good enough!

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