Retirement of the Care Bear Pincushion

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So I used to use a small care bear as a pincushion. Think about it: I used to stick pins and needles on him(?). And I even strangled him with an elastic band. Kinda cruel righ? And I call myself an animal rights activist. For SHAME! So It was about time to do something about it.

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Much better! And cruelty-free. Well, it's animal print.. hehe. I used this tutorial for it, just like before. And the star button is one of the 288 I got from my mom's friend. Actually there were 4 of those star buttons. And on the other side I put an elastic band so I can wear it around my wrist when I'm sewing. Me likey!

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Finland has been so sunny and warm these past few days. Lovely. It's just a little hard to take un-shadowy pics in this sunlight. But I can very well live with it.

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late edit, didn't want to make a while new post for just one little thing:

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I made a square one too. Did it pretty much the same way as in the tutorial, but I used a coaster as a pattern. I'm not sure what to do with it. Maybe I'll take it with me the next time I'm going to mom's. The pincushion there is a little stuffed animal as well.

Shetland Triangle

Oh my! Some actual knitting in my knitting blog. Weird. Spooky really.

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Pattern: Shetland Triangle by Evelyn Clark (from the book Wrap Style)

Yarn: Novita Bambu (68%bamboo, 32% cotton) less than 3 skeins

Needles: 4,5mm

Mood: quite happy with it

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Yep, in the picture it's on a dumbster. Not to worry, it was never in it. I started knitting this on the 16th and finished on the 22nd. I liked this yarn for this project, but I'm thinking maybe I should have used a bit bigger needles. Maybe 5mm. It came out a little smaller than I would have hoped. The top measures about 140cm. Maybe I should have stretched it a little more when blocking. Anyhow, I still like it.

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Impossibile to take good pictures just by myself. I think it's the perfect size when worn as in the picture. But it is a little too small for my taste when worn on my shoulders as I am doing in a wedding tomorrow. Again this is something I can very well live with.

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Almost forgot to mention: I'm not sure how much I like these kinds of scarf patterns where the number of stitches keeps adding and adding. I start to feel like it's never going to end. Maybe that's just me. But that's why I liked ene. First you cast on an insane amount of stitches, but through out they just dissapear.

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(kiitokset markalle neuleohjeanarkiasta)

I'm Not Bad - I'm Just Embroidered That Way

I thought I blogged this allready. Apparently I didn't. Mmmm...spring. Mmmm...hotties. My brain is all mush.

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Come on, who doesn't love Jessica Rabbit? I remember watching her when I was younger and thinking she just oooozes femininity and sex appeal. A little while ago I watched the Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie for the first time in years. Still liked it. And then I had the idea to embroider Jessica.

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I used an image I found on the internet as a pattern for this one. I really like how she came out. Except for the chain stitch edging. But I'll learn to live with it.

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I also did this tofu-licious embroidery for a vegan themed swap I'm in. It's nice right? It found it's place on an apron. But I don't have a good picture of the finished item.

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This notebook cover I made is also for the same swap. I like this one too. I may have have to do something similar for myself too.

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I've been even doing some knitting. More on that when it's finished. Oh, and I have until saturday morning to sew my very first dress. Wish me luck!

Simply Sublime

I've been on a little embroidery binge for a few days. I finally finished the Reform School Girl from Sublime Stitching's Mitch O'Connell set. Mmmmm Mitch O'Connell.. Would not mind if Sublime Stitching would come up with another set from him.

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I think she looks good. I didn't do as well as I would have hoped on the face, but the flame turned out so well I had to take a close up on it.

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The flames consist of 3 colors. Kinda nice, right? Took quite a while too. That's actually why I didn't finnish this for a long time. After I did the flames I put this aside for a few weeks.

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This next one is from the Sublime Stitching Craft Pad. At first I got to say that I thought it was very weird that I found myself wanting to embroider a freaking fairy. But then I told myself that the fairy was kinda pin-up-ish, so it was ok.

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This time I like how the facial features came out! And there's even orange there! Anyone who knows me knows that I HATE orange. But as an effort to try and tolerate it I started to use it in small amounts. First as one of 3 colors in the flames in reform school girl, and now in small amounts just by itself. I can live with it. I can. Maybe.

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Oh, oh I did a little knitting too. I knitted this cute little pink cabled purse for "fill a purse swap".

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It's knitted with Novita's Samos yarn. And I made up the pattern as I went along. Oh, and the best part: my swap partner really liked it.

288

No, no. It's not post 288, still far from it. The title is referring to this buttons I got from my moms friend. Guess how many there are? (wow, how did you ever figure that one out?)

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Isn't she nice to me? Some of the buttons are ones that she's been holding on to since the 60's and the 70's. And now she just gave them to me. I loooove buttons.

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As you can see I also did some crochet, I made some reflective brooches. The inspiration for these came for the ever-so-lovely Wilma and her brooches.

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Oh, oh, I have to new favourites to sing at karaoke: I Love Rock N Roll and Shanghain Valot.