b-a-n-a-n-a-s

So basically, this month has been BANANAS in terms of shit I have had to do. HOWEVER, there is an end in sight. Namely, this weekend. After this weekend, a bulk of my volunteer commitments will be over, and I will get to sleep and craft and have a life. Or thats the theory, at least.

Things that I have managed to do/Need to post photos of:
-Positive/Negative portrait
(technically for my drawing class, which has basically taught me that I need to practice practice practice)
-Gator claws!
(stolen from the yarn bombing book. originally sized to the parking meters downtown but we all know how that turned out)
-Baking: Vegan cowboy cookies and dairy-tastic danish wedding cookies
(all of it! all of the baking!)
-the "Envy" cowl
(sewed on the buttons LIKE A BOSS)
-Scarf from hell
-Chekov bookmark

In other news, I have found an internship at Hatch that I want with all my heart. It involves old school typography and metal presses and it sounds amazing. I'm about 90% sure it won't work with my schedule, but we'll see.

If only I could knit at work...

Despite my completely insane schedule, I finally managed to finish up my very first cabled cowl! This is attempt #2 at the "Envy" cowl and it turned out really well. It was essentially finished before, but I kept stalling on sewing on buttons. Last night I managed to do this and work on some very special yarn bombs as well. I'll post pictures later (pinkie swear).

They're essentially little gator feet- 2 green cylinders with white claws sewn on. I've finished all the knit components to them, now its just down to sewing the claws on. I am a little worried, as they were sized to go on the parking meters that line university, which we have not had the best history with. The last two yarn bombs we put up there were taken down within 24 hours! I'll have to figure something out...

Oi

I am terrible at posting in a timely matter. Basically, I was a bit commitment happy this semester and took on waaaay too much stuff. I can handle all of it, but it definitely means less free time for me to craft.

Anyways, me and a trusty accomplice posted our first yarn bombs on Wednesday night. It was very exciting and no one questioned us (though the people of Karma Cream did give us some very strange looks). Here's the completed bobble bomb:

Today I'm checking to make sure they didn't get taken down and taking a less shitty picture. Hopefully this weekend I can finish bomb #3, which is some epically cute gator feet!

TTFN

Blind Contour Drawing: The Breakfast of Champions

Today I acted and drew and homeworked and clerked and very little else.

I did blind contour drawings of my hands and shoes whilst camped out at a coffee shop. The hands were kind of ridiculously successful, considering that I can barely draw whilst looking at my paper, let alone while diligently ignoring it. The shoes kept ending up as some kind of bow/whale hybrid (now dubbed the "whaelbow") but whatever. No one likes shoe drawings anyways.

Now I'm going to pretend to knit a row and then go to bed, so that tomorrow I can do it all again!

Oh yeah

Today I watched someone else work whilst knitting. Yay supervising!!! Anyways, yarn bomb #1 is nearly done.

The Procrastinator's Mantra

So for the past few days I've been knitting up my very first yarn bomb with my very cool $2 yarn. I've also been procrastinating a lot and not putting up photos of my completed projects. So... there's that.

These things, I will do them. Tomorrow.

Recap

Sunday: Knitted up a test patch with some of my new horrible acrylic. I managed to make the Chevron pattern from the Yarn Bombing book, and it looks pretty good.

Monday: Sewed in the ends on The Scarf. I also promised my mother that I'd add a fringe to it. Sigh...

Tonight: Made my first attempt at bobbles! They are pretty tricky to understand just out of a book, and the first row of them turned out pretty loose, but I think I'll do better next time.

And now to bed, as I very sadly start classes tomorrow morning. Ick.