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!

Tuesday's Tallies - April 15th 2014

Hello Lovelies!

So here we go!

Wednesday:

I started off the day by watching Lilo & Stitch for the unteenth time. When I was finished I wrote and printed out a couple resumes/CVs/whatever for me and my boyfriend. 

When I wasd finished doing that I asked my little brother to help me and we carried down half the DVDs we have in the attic (my family is a bunch of home-video-addicts. We've got a couple on video cassettes, but since digital is so much easier, we film nearly everything that happens...) I started archiving them on my external hard-drive because the DVDs wouldn't live much longer. We have a lot of DVDs... There's probably hundreds of euros worth of blank CDs there...

Thursday:

I asked my dad to drive me to the nearest city so I could not only hand over all those CVs but also to ask in the daycare if I could do six weeks of work-experienc that's required to get into the school I was admitted to. It was a lot of walking, but in the end I went back home with the phone-number of the daycare's boss and only one CV that I couldn't hand over because the place was closed...

Friday:

I called the daycare's boss and got an appointment for Monday to talk it through with her, so we'll see how that goes! I also went through the last DVDs of the first half. These are now all archived:

All those boxes are full of DVDs in cases. It's mental... Imagine all the money that could've been saved by just buying an external hard-drive right away x)
Saturday:
Oh my gosh. I feel like every few DVDs that are archived grow new ones on the To-Do-pile! There's just no end to it!
Oh and by the way! Tomorrow my friend Libby's gonna audition for X-factor! My fingers are crossed and I wish her all the best, we'll see how it goes tomorrow :)
 Also I braided my sister's hair:

Sunday:
I think I've never had as weird a day as today. I was just supposed to go for a walk with my best friend, his new boyfriend and his parents. We had quite a nice afternoon with their dogs near the rhine. Until his boyfriend got a call from a friend who was asking where we were to meet up with us. Another gay friend. And our town is really small and I thought how many gay guys can there be. I was very surprised...
But even more so when I saw that mysterious friend. It turned out to be my ex-boyfriend. You can imagine what a weird meeting that was. His fiancé is a lovely guy! We spent the rest of the afternoon talking about him! It was really fun and it drove him mad x)

I guess you wanna know how it went for Libby... Well...
She didn't get through... But she takes it quite well. She's more comfortable on Youtube anyway. :)
Monday:
I managed to do my hair really pretty today! :D

I haven't touched any of the remaining DVDs since saturday... But... I'm gonna work on it... Probably... Maybe...
Tuesday:
Today I went to my boyfriend's. His best friend picked me up at the station and we went to his home together.
I've also started working on a scarf at the beginning of the week - I even made a picture, but unfortunately I left the memory card at home... I'll show you next week :)

Tuesday's Tallies - March 8th 2014

I blog less and less... So I decided to start doing weekly-ish updates on what I'm doing, whether it's crochet, knitting or other crafty stuff.

So here we go for the very fisrt update!

Since my last post I have been making a lot of dresses for my dolls. Here's a picture of all of them:

Tell me which one's your favorite! I'm really curious! 

I also did some non-crafty things this week.

On Friday, for example, I became an aunt. My little niece was born at 7.02pm French time and she's gorgeous!

Can't show you a picture of that though... Sorry.

On Sunday I went to see my boyfriend's American Football match. Here are some pictures:

 

He's the number 52 here. Although that's not his official number. He doesn't have one yet. But that doesn't matter, because hes the only one with flashy green shoes, so he's easy to find in the mass of players.

I took a load of other photos. Some of them I took with my Ricoh reflex camera. The one that needs a 35mm film. I brought them to the drugstore for developping yesterday. I'm really excited to see how they turned out.

Then, on Monday, something amazing happened. I looked into our mailbox and found a letter from the school I applied for in january. It was to tell me that I was in. They had a place for me and they just needed me to confirm that I would take that place. I'm so happy.

I kind of humiliated myself a little later though. It took a while to sink in, but when it did, I was on the parking lot of our local Zeemann walking with my sister and I suddenly started crying. 

I'll admit, I was really worried they wouldn't take me. I had some issues with the paperwork earlier. But now everything's fixed and from september on I will be going to school again.

I'm very excited.

There wasn't only good things this week. Actually this week started out with quite a bummer, but I'm just so happy right now, that I don't want to spoil my mood by talking about that again :)

See you guys next Tuesday! Enjoy the nice weather and spend some time outside. 

x Evelyn