palette colours

playing around with my embroidery threads i thought of doing this:

my palette being full of thread instead of paint doesnt look bad. :)

Soothe

In other News - I just created my first ever Etsy Treasury!

how exciting

Taking Care of Business part I

I have been at Tafe studying the Arty stuff since 2007, and it's time to organise myself and take care of what i havent done. (more procrastination)

SO, taking photos of all my works i have made since i started is step 1
editing those photos is step 2
posting those photos is step 3

then i will have a proper record of what i have created and will be able to see the progress i have made since the beginning

I know i have  - progressed that is.
I think i'm at the point where i have been wanting to be for a long time. Where I have wiggled into my own niche and am making things that are suited to me and starting my own style of arty things (finally! huzzah!)

unfortunately now i am going to have to go through all my junk backlog to be able to take photos of the stuff i don't already have photos of.

Piles of papers and cardboard folders await me

-__-

Hopefully i still have it all...

actually.. i know i already painted over one canvas so i won't be able to show that one

it was just a modified Frida Kahlo piece though... nothing too serious

still a shame though...

Time Lost

No Idea what happened for the rest of 2010... Life..

2011 came and i prepared myself for my first semester of my last year at School.

Art Journals purchased from the Art Shed after they recovered from the Flood

That Flood was in January - half a year already gone

along with my first semester

Getting a head start during these mid-year holidays though - don't want to be rushing through the nights making heaps of things procrastinating as usual (i wasn't as bad as i usually am though, which is good, i am improving)

Have found that without a deadline it is a lot less exciting and interesting

I must live for the rush

maybe that's why i loved February Frenzy so much..heh

Was crocheting while i was sick at the beginning of my holidays - an intense 3-day session, but came to a halt when my left hand muscles were hurting too much to continue comfortably

the fruits of my labour:

only half cooked... and its yet another project, but i have 3 years to get it all done.. as well as my crochet squares afghan quilt thing from before.

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HEY.. forgot.. i also made another ipod pouch for JP, he seems to be thrilled with it since now he can press the play button through the pouch easily and not have to be pulling it out all the time

Old:

not as manly, but it grew on him over the months. Too thick to press through, but shockproof in case of clumsiness. small button and loop closure - not the best idea for the big man hands

New:

Manly and with loop to facilitate a quick grab and pull out of a pocket. Not as shockproof but as indicated by JP, can leave it on and press through yarn to play ipod

School is OUT

Fun is IN

bring on the crafts/arts

(finally!)

never again will i have to endure art history, you can't fathom how releived i am. its over. its finished.. i can concentrate on practical now! Yessssssssssss

Updates: no crochet news. it's become a bit too warm for me to be able to get into the mood for it anymore. So my attention has been refocused onto Jewellery

no new pieces made yet. but i have a drawing i made for my website class, one of my girls ^_^

an explosion of crochet matter

First thing's first. The Baby Blocks block, the one that was too narrow, i made up an extra column and attached it to the main. i put it off, but it did get done

 its actually properly square now... 8 x 8
i dont understand how they got a square shape using only 8 x 7,

because all these blocks are meant to be 15 x 15 cm

1. Triangle Stripes
I actually started this block the first of all the blocks, but i abandoned it when i reached the stripes, i finally finished this one and am pleased with how it turned out. even if there are mistakes (i must have missed a few stitches or something, because theres less rows than there should be apparently) 

 13. Circle in a Square
i quite like it, i thought i wouldn't. the colours in the book are too gaudy for me, but the design is pretty nice once i made it myself


 16. Waterlily
I've made this block many times before, its been my experimento block, with lots of different yarns. i wish i could have used nicer colours for this one. i really like the orange they use in the book. but alas - no orange in my colour scheme (i'm starting to get bored of the colours - luckily im not doing the same colours and the same blocks or i'd be going mad and start looking for my next project)


 24. Italian Cross
I like how this one looks, fresh-like. i thought i would regret using so much white (i'm trying to limit white from now on, because i only have one ball of it) but no.. its a nice chang. Making the Puff stitches was fun


26. Snowflake
I thought i wasnt going to make this one because its so holey. but hey it looked like it wouldnt take me too long so i made it one afternoon. I didnt use white, i know its a snowflake.. but it can be dirty or dusty snow or something. 

28. Christmas Rose
The name put me off, i'll be honest. i didn't want to make it because it looks too christmassy in the book and i don't want anything like that in my blanket (the same goes for the american patriotic pages that i'll be reaching soon) but its the colours that fool you. they really do. but as well as these last two worked out. Doubt very much i'll be making number 25. Tannenbaum (the christmas tree one) can't see how colours will improve it... plus its a Rows Block and ive got a grudge against those already haha

 31. Primrose Square
Ah! this one i was looking forward to, and i made it while we were watching the news on the Chilean Miners being rescued. An eventful block after all.
Its stretchier than i thought, and its turned out to be bigger than the rest (the Snowflake and Italian Cross also have turned out bigger). But it's pretty and i love it, and i'll work something out in the end i suppose

 

 35. Tricolour Square
I made this one a couple of times before on ugly yarn as practise.. and lucky i did, because i spent enough time re-reading and thinking about the instructions as it was. Had to expect it from a Level 3 difficulty block.

 

My Current Pile o' Blocks


it keeps growing


Conclusions: decision to work on only Blocks done in Rounds has been fruitful. I appear to be able to tackle Level 3's in Rounds with minimul difficulty, compared to the massive amounts of frustration i go through when dealing with Level 1's and 2's in Rows

Bear Hug

i've been drawing on photoshop again...

It felt good to be working with my old friend the tablet