Sunday, December 28, 2008

Knitting

A few years ago I knit a few children's sweaters. They turned out ok, nothing impressive. I tried to tackle some projects that had more complicated stitches and nothing seemed to progress so...I gave up. Last year I thought I would try again and bought some red yarn to make a scarf- I started it about 6 times and would drop a stitch (I still don't know how to pick up a dropped stitch) or get mixed up on the pattern so... I gave up. Last week a friend told this very sad story about how she wanted a felted hedgehog so I thought I would try again. Success! It only took 2 days to knit and felt. Here's what it looks like:





I'm so pleased, I pulled out the red yarn (scarf above) and am trying again. I have restarted 3 times, but I feel like I finally understand what I was doing wrong all along. Amazing. It's going to be a basketweave

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Ironically, I just mistyped the above so had to fix that too.
Wish me luck.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Covering a fuse box

I have a very unattractive fuse box that you are forced to look at immediately on entering my home. Now I could hang a picture, but there are electric wires coming right out of the top, and it's in a funny spot so I always thought I was stuck just having to have it there.

But I saw someone that used magnets to attach something to a fuse box and Voila! My problem is solved. I used some fancy papers decoupaged to a very light board and now I have a very attractive wall with no sign of a fuse box.



And close up:

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Friday, December 5, 2008

Blinds!

After 15 months of newsprint taped up over my windows...

























Glorious!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

2nd upholstery project



Ok, did this one on my own.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008