A Little Update

Hey everybody!

I have been a very busy bee lately with school and everything!

I wanted to tell you that I unravelled the weather scarf... See the picture in case you want to say goodbye...

To be honest, I'm not gonna miss it... I started it on Jan 1st 2016 and worked on it for quite a while, but after the last Tuesday's Tallies I haven't touched it... It has been a very busy year and since it's not the kind of project that forgives neglection, I let it go...

However, I haven't been inactive! I have started a blanket for myself using the crocodile stitch. This too, is represented in pictures. I love it so much and I wouldn't even have tried if my best friend's mother hadn't told me how easy that stitch is!

I also made one crafty Christmas present for my sister. A Bat-Mobile! (Get it??😂)

Tuesday's Tallies - One-A-Day Weather Scarf (A day late ... and a week)

DAY 17 (Sun Jan17th)

Today we had snow.

ACTUAL SNOW!!!

ON THE GROUND!!!

So obviously I had to add a new color to my weather scarf. Today's stripe is white.

I am really excited about this!


DAY 34 (Wed Feb3rd)

I got a bit ... let's say sidetracked.
Here's what the scarf looks like by now...

Tuesday's Tallies - One-A-Day Weather-Scarf

DAY 7 (Thurs Jan7th)

Since today is day 7, I've decided to take it upon myself to calculate how long my scarf will be by the end of the year.

To do this, I've waited for today:

I need to measure how long the scarf is today, after 7 days (i.e. one week).

That's 7.5cm (or 2.3inches)

Now I multiply that length by 52, which is the average amount of weeks in one year.

That makes 390cm (or119.6 inches)

Which equals 3.90m (or 9ft and 11.6inches)

Now I am 1.70m tall (or 5ft8), so the scarf would be 50cm longer than twice my size.

The longest scarf I own and can actually wear is 3.34m (so slightly less than twice my size) when laying flat. It's a double-brioche pattern, so it stretches an awful lot when you wear it (in every possible direction).

I think that my Weather-Scarf will have a nice length. And if I notice at some point, that it's getting too long, I'll just stop earlier... Maybe make a second one and give it away...

Who knows?

DAY 10 (Sun Jan10th)

Today we had some rather heavy rain...
Which means I was able to add a new color to the scarf!!!
YAY!!!

So as of the end of this past week, this is what the scarf looks like:

As you can see, the last couple days were kind of dim... Let's hope it lightens up a bit...
Or at least something different than just "heavy rain" (numbers 7&8)...
See you next week!

x Evelyn

Tuesday's Tallies - One-A-Day Weather-Scarf (a day late)

It's been quite a big while since I posted on here, but with the new year I started a new "One-A-Day" project, which I would like to share with you. Last time I did one of these projects, it was a granny blanket and most of the time I ended up making at least 3 squares a day instead of the planned one.

This time, that can't happen, unless I can't do it on one day and have to catch up later.

I have decided to make a Weather-scarf (or sky-scarf)!

The idea is pretty simple: You pick out a couple of shades of blue to grey-white and each day, you look at the sky and knit a row of a scarf in the color the sky has that day and you do that for one year.

Pretty simple, huh?

That's what I thought, so I mixed it up a little:

Firstly: I decided to make two rows a day, because otherwise I would end up with a 365 row-long scarf, which is pretty short...

Secondly: I decided to put all those beautiful shades of blue I got to good use. Basically instead of knitting each row in the color the sky has that day, I made a little chart on which I assigned each color to a weather-situation. (So it's actually in-between a Sky-Scarf and a Temperature-Scarf)

This is what my chart looks like:

I hole-punched a piece of bristol paper with a star-punch to tie the colors I was going to use to the paper and assigned each color to a weather-situation. (yes, there are happy clouds, sad clouds and angry clouds, shush it makes sense!)

So everyday I knit one stripe (of two rows) in the color that belongs to that day's weather (so today's color was number 6, the sad cloud). I've done this everyday since new year's, except the first two. The first two, I just wrote down the number in my calendar, because I didn't have my knitting-supplies with me. So I actually started off with 3 stripes in one day:

(Yes, the first stripe is made up of 3 rows instead of 2, that's because there's the cast-on as well and I forgot to count that in...)

Here's what the whole thing looks like as of today, with 6 stripes:

I like the way it's coming out a lot. The stripes seem sort of random even thought they aren't, but I love it.

I also had to throw everything out of my knitting-basket for this project, because nine skeins of yearn take up a lot of space... And two of them are just little balls for now...:

I hope you found this interesting and I hope you will accompany me on this journey!

x Evelyn

The convertible hat that I still need to think of a smart name for!

This is not, I repeat NOT a heap of very bright, colorful scraps...

This is a finished product with all its ends still sticking out...

It took a very long 3 hours to sew in all those ends...

But it was worth it, look at this beauty!

 The pompom is detachable!
The earflaps are long enough to be used as a scarf!
At the end of the scarfalps, there's a pair of mittens!
It took so long to make this XD

Weaving bags

So I've spent every workday's morning of the last six weeks at the local daycare for work experience. And I've been watching kids day in and day out using frame looms to weave mini-carpets which the educators would sew into little purses or wallets. I thought that was great, because I used to do a lot of weaving when I was a kid, but I never knew what to do with it... I just made a load of Barbie carpets... So when I was finished with work experience, I really wanted to get my frame loom and weave myself a bag, so I went looking... I looked really everywhere... And really long... And then it turned out we'd sold it on eBay a while ago... So I went looking on eBay what people want for one and my dad said it wouldn't be worth it to order one for 10€ or more if he could just build one.

So he did.

Of course when I got it I immediately had to use it even though I didn't have a proper weaving needle yet. (I used a really long needle that I bought ages ago that's apparently meant for sewing closed sacks of grain)

The color-sheme that far made me think a bit of Fisher Price... Well... For a long time the whole coloring made me think of Fisher Price, because I was used to having kids weaving on frame looms (myself included) with whatever scraps of yarn they can get and that often includes (nearly exclusively) colors that people found too boring/ugly/unpleasant to knit/crochet with so they gave it away.  Which gives a completely different image. More wonkiness, more irregularity, less color... 

But hey! In the end I really fell in love with my bag. Since I finished it, I've worn it out both times I went somewhere! :D

See for yourself what it looks like:

Obviously front and back don't look the same, but I really like that random look the different length stripes give it. :D

I was really looking forward to that aspect, even though I did have a lot of roughly-the-same-size stripes... And I had to really force the "random" look in the color-order... I'm not good at random...

Anyhow... Instead of working on everything else that had to be done, I made a wallet to go with the purse. And I also really like that. I sewed on buttons for closing and they make it look SO CUTE!

Why the hell are you turned?! This is not the way you're supposed to be!

See how cute it is?! I also made a picture of it with some money so that you can have an idea of its size. I'm really pleased with myself!

However, this morning when I used both to transfer money from my French bank account to the German one to get it changed into British Pounds for the travel next week, I realized that if I were to put coins into the wallet, they could slip through the slits inbetween the strings of yarn. So I tried to think of a solution to that problem and I found it:

I lined it with a (very simply and POORLY sewn inner pouch made of fabric). Both the wallet AND the purse. Look!

I didn't really know how to properly show off the inner lining of the wallet, so you'll just have to imagine it looks kinda like in the purse...

And before anyone asks/wonders: Yes, that fabric is from IKEA. Hush.

If you're interested in how I did this, I'm planning on doing a video about it on my Youtube Channel. As soon as I upload it, I'll put a link to it here. :)

x Evelyn

PS:
I also took a picture of the WIP on my phone (hence the bad quality and wrong coloring) with my toothbrush next to it as a size-comparison (I didn't have a matchbox handy, otherwise I would've used that...)

 

Tuesday's Tallies - One A Day A Day Late

I have made a shrug for my friend Libby to go with her new dress that she bought in celebration of her weightloss! It looks like this:

Ignore the grubbiness of the mirror please...

I used The Larger Than Life Bag pattern from CrochetMe.com With the framing from Annie's Place.
I then framed them with multiple HDCs.
I wanted to make a similar one for myself to match this dress that I bought in celebration of my weightloss:

I've used the blocks from the Larger Than Life Bag again, but this time I ded´cided to go for solid blocks all the way instead of doing just a couple and then a frame.
Unfortunately I wasn't used to crocheting with such a small hook(2mm) and such thin thread, which means my first square got nice and big and by the time I did the second and was used to the size, I ended up with much smaller squares.

Whoops... So now I have a couple small squares the I sewed together and one big one, that I don't know what to do with... Hmm...
Here's how much I've done so far (since the 23rd of May)

That's less than one every other day... That is not good... (I thought that sentence in a very french accent, please read it that way)

See you next Tuesday!