LBD-Finished

Here's the finished product of the little black dress I designed for my school project. It came out really cute and I love it.

We had a 'walk off' to see who's dress from each class would be picked to be in the senior show at the end of the year also. I didn't win...but the girl who did is super nice and her dress was amazing. If I'd lose to anyone else I'd be VERY upset. Here's some runway pics. Thanks to Krystal for modeling my dress!!

Little Black Dress - Muslin

Hello there. Today I'm updating with pics of my LBD in muslin. The final will be due on 2-35-09 for my draping/pattern making class and will be made out of black (obviously) duchess satin. Hopefully it'll hold my pleats...somewhat.

Alice Cullen Scarf

I decided to make my own little pattern for the blue striped scarf that Alice Cullen wears for like a second in the Twilight movie. This appears when they're on the field trip. It's really easy and I based this original pattern on the limited views in the movie. Now I see it's a little more varied in the length of the stripes, unlike mine which I made all my stripes the same length. Oh well, close enough! Mods can be EASILY made.

Materials:
#10 1/2 US needles

1 skein of Vanna's Choice worsted weight in each of the following colors:
- Colonial Blue
- Navy
- Silver Blue
- Dusty Blue

Directions:

Cast On 30 stitches starting with Colonial Blue. The whole scarf is done in stockinette stitch(Ss).

Ss for 5", change to Navy

Ss for 5, change to Silver Blue

Ss for 5", change to Dusty Blue

Ss for 5", change back to Colonial Blue

Repeat this pattern for as long as you want the scarf to be, then Cast Off.
Mine was 85" total.

You can try blocking to prevent curling but it's hard with an acrylic yarn. Wool yarn would have more success. To prevent curling, try knitting the first and last 3 stitches on your purl rows.

NOTE! Make sure you end with the same color you stated with! (Colonial Blue)

That's it! Easy! You don't need to see the future to whip this one together!

I put two extra pics up for color reference in different light than the first one, and another of Alice!

Joie's Arm Warmers!

Two months after she ordered them from me I've FINALLY got them finished! A mix of school up until mid-December and those tiny needles kept me from getting it done sooner. But they are finished and awesome! I love the colors and the design. It almost seems sporty to me, like baseball for some reason.

And, of course, I had some fun taking a few pics with them on before I sent them away!

Finished Shrug

Finally finished the Love in Music Shrug by Ruby and it looks great! Sorry the pics are a little low lighting, but it still works.

Old and New!

First let's start with this new project I did yesterday. My first time making stitch markers!



Cute right? I did them in 'Slytherin green and silver' for my HSKS5 partner!

Now the old:

First the 'Hannah' hat by Blake Ehrlich




Ok now the ' Dream Swatch Head Wrap' by Wendy Bernard



Finally Calorimetry by Kathryn Schoendorf



Thanks to the designers for being so awesome and releasing their patterns for free so that we can all enjoy their brilliance!

Embossed Velvet

Ok, so today in Fabrics we embossed velvet! It's SUPER EASY and comes out really nice. Basiclly you pick out a rubber stamp or stamps you want to put on your velvet, place the stamp rubber up, place the velvet face down over it, place a buffer fabric like cotton/muslin over that and place your iron over it and press for 10 seconds NO STEAM! And when you take it off...BAM! It's in your fabric and looking very awesome.

Now, if you find you get holes when you remove it then you might need to get a cheap iron that doesn't steam because it's the steam holes coming through.

Also, you can do this with a lot of pile fabrics. Corduroy, Velveteen, etc. Just keep in mind that you can't wait velvet so your embossing wont come out, but if you wash your corduroy after embossing your pattern will come out. Which is kind cool if you want to change it up!

Pictures of mine coming soon, probably after the weekend.

Ok, not an awesome picture by my phone, but it'll work til I get back to my room after the weekend.