tina craft

finished projects - totoro

2012-01-21T13:47:00.000-08:00

I finished the totoro!
his eyes are a little crooked, and look very wonky when he is squished, but Sadie doesn't seem to mind. She yells at him a lot and falls asleep on him too.

I made totoro using the big snowy owl pattern from purl bee.

spats

2012-01-21T12:02:00.000-08:00

On the needles right now:

Photo property of Interweave Knits Magazine

Cute Wool Spatterdashes

knitting pattern by
Rachel E. Pollock & Erin Korey

(after a pattern from Interweave Knits Magazine)

Using size 7 needles, cast on 44 stitches.

Rows 1-50: 2x2 rib [k2, p2] (Add/subtract rows here for longer/shorter spats.)

Row 51: Cast off 6, 2x2 rib [p2, k2] for 37 stitches.

Row 52: Cast off 6, 2x2 rib [p2, k2] for 31 stitches.

Row 53-67: 2x2 rib [p2, k2]

Row 68: 2x2 rib [p2, k2], cast on 6 stitches.

Row 69: 2x2 rib [k2, p2], cast on 6 stitches.

Row 70-79: 2x2 rib [k2, p2]

Row 80: Cast off all stitches.

Seam center back and arch seams.

Single crochet with contrasting color yarn around edge for trim.

Add tassels or pompons on single-yarn finger-woven cord or knitted I-cord as desired.

Christmas present

2011-12-14T12:17:00.000-08:00

I saw this Big Snowy Owl on The Purl Bee.

The yarn it calls for is quite expensive so i checked on Ravelry t see what other people had been using.. Wool ease thick and quick was the best priced option. It is a little smaller gauge yarn, but that's fine.

While looking though the comments on the Ravelry page someone suggested to make it a Totoro instead of an owl.
I love this movie. So i bought the yarn to make a totoro instead of an owl. I'm about done, almost to the point where i'll be making the ears and closing him up. Then ill add the little V shapes to his tummy. It is going to be Sadies Christmas present, and will be about as big as her.

Headbands!

2011-09-19T12:01:00.001-07:00

When the weather started getting warmer,
I started making head bands for Sadie instead of hats.

or stitches wide knit in a strip then sewn together at the ends
and wrapped with the string tail to scrunch it in.

Simple crochet chain tied in a bow.

crochet band with a flower sewn on.

Sadie Fashions

2011-09-17T11:48:00.000-07:00

I haven't been crafting much because it has been hot hot hot. It is slowly cooling down now and I have been making tiny hats like crazy. I made a few hats for Sadie that she worse once before it got too hot.

Hat one is a simple green ear-flap beanie with a white scalloped edge.

Hat number two is knit. Leaf edging then i picked up stitches and made the hat part. the little leafs turned out to be perfect little ear-flaps.

What I have been doing is playing dress up with my new favorite baby, Sadie. :D

Crafting in public

2011-01-08T11:20:00.000-08:00

I am a big fan of crafting in public. I bring a knitting or crochet project with me in my purse about everywhere I go. It is fun to have people stare amazed at my fingers as I'm watching the band play, but still knitting. I've even got my husband knitting. He keeps a small project in his "man bag". He told me laughing last night, that he was caught knitting at work.

There is a day even dedicated to knitting in public!
World wide knit in public day
Go to that site and find the nearest k.i.p to you.

According to this site, there has not been a California day set up yet. But i'm sure there will be one soon.

Etsy Treasury

2011-01-05T12:32:00.000-08:00

I got an etsy convo a few weeks ago from someone telling me that they included one of my items in their treasury they had made.
So I stumbled around and made my own treasury of Alternative Baby Items, lacking in pink princess themes.

Do you know, it is hard to find plain black onesies at a decent price? My first search results came up with 9.99 - 12.99 for a single plain black onesie. That seemed outrageous to me considering you can buy a 5 pack of plain white onesies for 9.99. After some digging I found a good wholesale site that also does sample sales.

Zoey's Boutique

That site has a range of plain colored onsies for 3.50 ea. MUCH better than 9.99 i'd say. Shout out THANK YOU to my aunt Debbie who offered to buy me a few for soon to be here Sadie.

In a bag of free baby clothes i snatched up off of craigslist, there came a cute little leopard print sweater. and the only thing that goes with leopard print sweaters would be a solid black item. So, i'm set on that now. :D

do over

2011-01-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

So after being about halfway finished with the border on the bulky baby blanket, I tore it out and started over. I decided to just use the slightly different color white. I am much happier with how it is looking. I think the white pulls it together best. I'll take pictures once it's done, since it is all curled up on circ. needles right now.

Been doing some barging baby clothes hunting.
Snagged a bag of free stuff off craigslist and hit
goodwill right after Christmas.
I am excited to do some stenciling and embroidering
on the simple little things I found.

One thing is a plain yellow zip up hoodie that just wants a little owl or bird applique on the back. I can feel it.

On the needles

2010-12-30T14:10:00.000-08:00

My current project on the needles is
Bulky Baby Blanket
by the purl bee.
bulky baby blanket

I didn't want to have to go buy yarn so i dug through my stash. So my version is in stripes of yellow, pink, maroon, gray, with a single row of white in between each row.

I had a skein of white set aside for the border, but it didn't quite match the white I had been using as the stripe. So i started using colors from the blanket. Not sure if I'll love it. But it will do.
It is squishy and soft, and that's what matters right?

Baby Girl

2010-12-27T13:18:00.000-08:00

We found out that our baby is going to be a girl. Sadie, be prepared to be showered in yarn and craftyness...for life.

I'm trying to steer my family away from the pink princess things. Make them be a little more creative when choosing out things.

Orders

2010-12-06T11:30:00.000-08:00

Finishing up a scarf and hat order for my sisters boyfriend. When we were talking about what colors to do he said he wanted pink and white. And then it turned into pink black and white. To be clear on what kind of pink we were talking about we pointed at many thing. Baby pink like that? no, more bright. So like Neon? no... like that.
so... like...

Volcom pink?

yeah, perfect.

Art Walk

2010-12-03T09:43:00.000-08:00

Art Walk went well last night. My husband was able to get to Downtown and set up before 5:30pm. We got a pretty good spot! After dealing with stupid traffic I was able to meet up with him close to 7pm.

Sales were slow until about 8:30pm, when i was tired and cold. But from past experience I knew we had to stay out until at least 9pm. That's how it was last night too. All of our sales but 2 were made after 8:30pm and we stayed set up until almost 10pm. TIRED. But worth it.

Got a lot of cards out to people for different requests they have.

Dog sweater,

bear hat,

child sized owl hats,

those baby tubes for photography...

A group of girls are suppose to come by on Sunday to the Art Bazaar. I need to take an inventory of what went last night and try to re-stock that by Sunday! ahh!

Thank you to all who came out!

Art Bazaar

2010-11-29T11:25:00.000-08:00

So this is where i'll be next weekend.
My husband has been helping me out, running around, loading the car.
I think we have everything we need. Art walk is this Thursday so we're scrambling for that as well. You always have to get out there early to catch a spot on the side walk. So my husband will take my car with all the things loaded in it and I have to drive his parents car to work and meet him at Art walk after he sets up.

Music and happenings going on afterward as well. This will be a bust week.

Colors

2010-11-19T09:14:00.001-08:00

Have a color you want to see in the shop?
Let me know.
I've only been putting "fall" colors up right now, but if you
would love a aqua scarf to go with your sweater, I can make it happen!

Heather, Soft Taupe, Clay, Soft Fern, Grass,

Grape, Soft Rose, Topaz, Kelly Green, Aran,

Amethyst, Aqua, Black, Butterscotch, Cadet,

Chocolate, Claret, Deep Forrest, Fern, Forrest,

Lavender, Navy, Rouge, Royal, True Grey,

White, Pumpkin and for holiday 2010: Cherry

Decorating

2010-11-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

I bought my Christmas tree today.
We had been looking for a 6 or 7 foot fake tree for about 25 dollars.
Salvation Army had a TON of them, at 50% off!
But we didn't buy one that day and when we came back....
All the 30$ ones were gone. ::sigh::

But I found a 6 ft lighted tree today at Big Lots for 30$!

And even better it rang up at 20$.
Sweet.

I like decorating for Christmas and i get more into it each year.
I thought i was going to knit our stockings last year but that never happened.

Maybe it will get done this year......

Harry Potter

2010-11-17T10:01:00.000-08:00

Nerd Alert!
Harry Potter starts on Nov 19th.

I won't be at the opening night, im getting too old for that.
But I most likely will be seeing it over the Thanksgiving weekend with my husband.

I've made my fair share of Hogwarts House themed scarves.
They were all for other people though, so I have none for myself.
Tom and I have matching Slytherin jackets and t-shirts.
I might be able to whip up some scarves in time!

Here is a Slytherin scarf that Merriam71 has in her shop right now.

Sales!

2010-11-15T09:07:00.001-08:00

The shop is doing well. I hope it keeps up this pace. I've made 2 sales since i re-opened. I'm trying to list new items every day. I'm also trying to post here regularly as well.

The ascots still seem to be the big seller, so that's what i'll make most of.

SOLD

SOLD

Advertising

2010-11-13T21:14:00.000-08:00

I've been looking into advertising for my etsy. I found a site that seems to be working, projectwonderful.com. It is pretty easy to understand and for a few pennies a day ive seen a drastic increase in the amount of hits to the etsy page.

I'm pregnant. So i keep wandering around the web ending up on baby sweater patterns and cute blankets. I started one sweater, which i need to take pictures of.
I found this tutorial that i will probably try out soon.

Baby sweater dress

Shop Update

2010-11-11T10:51:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to add a few new things to the shop every day.
If you look on the left there is a link to the etsy shop,
but here are some bigger pictures.

I made a sale the day after posting these up there.
I'm going to be signing up for the December Art Bazarr
At Back to The Grind on Dec.5th Be there!
that's the first Sunday of the month.

That Thursday before is art walk.
December 2nd. I hope is not raining because
I plan on setting up since i missed November.

2010-11-09T11:10:00.001-08:00

Iv'e been working hard to get some new ascots made.
I am going to take pictures of all of them today
and hopefully get them edited, and posted in the store!

Back in the habit

2010-08-20T20:12:00.000-07:00

I've gotten back in the swing of making things again. I'll start going back to art walk once it cools off.
Finished this hat yesterday. I think it came out cute.

2010-08-20T20:05:00.000-07:00

I've been working on a twin size chevron blanket.
Green, off white, orange and brown.
It's been going pretty fast. I just have to keep buying more and more yarn.

Slippers

2009-10-12T20:23:00.000-07:00

I found this pattern on purl bee a few days ago and had to try it. My slipper turned out almost too big for my husband to wear. I'm going to eventually make the other one so he can have a set. Next set i try will have to be with a thinner yarn haha.

Etsy Shop Update

2009-09-10T14:52:00.000-07:00

More new stuff up in the shop!
stenciled t shirts and ascots. wheee.
more to come. i have at least 3 more shirts to do.

Shop Update!

2009-09-08T15:56:00.000-07:00

Here is the scrunch/slouch hate mentioned in previous posts.

It is now up in the shop, so go and check it out.
Etsy Shop
I'm working on getting more fall things ready to update the shop with.
up next: ascot.