THIS makes me really glad that I don’t live in Australia, we don’t have huge bird eating spiders in New Zealand which i think is so very awesome…. at least I don’t think we do… I hope we don’t!
Archive for October, 2008
Feeling…
Lately I have been feeling rather like it’s time for a change, so I updated the look of my website. I think It’s rather swell, but then again I designed it. So I have had a website for a year and this blog now for a year. It’s interesting originally I thought I was going to make both the website and my blog strictly for my fashion design but in the past year I have noticed that I really need a website the encompasses all of me, the activist, the fashion designer, the performer, the web designer, the writer, all of me. So keep a look out in the next couple of weeks for a new format and some new content.
Speaking of web work I have too many sites to do and I just got one more!! But I hope to have one of them done soon, and thus be able to move on to the other ones.
In other news sometime in the last few weeks my brain fell out of my head and turn to a liquid that was asorbed into the carpet. I know you aksing your self “what the bloody hell is she on about?” Well in a great moment of stupidity I signed up for NaNoWriMo and if that wasn’t enough I decided that I would do al the writing in blog form. So if you want to read the nonsense that I will be writing throughout November please feek free to follow my blog over at http://brooklynnemichelle.com/grrrlshapedthing.
SO what HAVE I been doing.
I suppose there are many of you(who come for the knitting content) that are curious on what exactly I have been doing knit and maybe even craftwise!
I have been knitting! I have been working on a Katia pattern, the asymetrical scotch tweed jacket, in a lovely shade of Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed. and it totally my usual fashion I have completely rewritten the pattern! the mathe has gotten a little sticky so I’m stuck at the arm holes trying to figure out how often and how much to decrease here.
Other that really the only other knitting project I’ve been working on is the recycled shawl(yes I’m still working on that) I get maybe one or two rows done on it at a time because there are so many stitches per row easily 600+ and increasing 1 stitch each row! It may not look much bigger in the picture then the last time but really it is.
I ripped out alot of things which is how alot of my knitting is ending up lately because I just seem dissatified lately with alot of what I knit. I have tho been doing some embroidery. Infact one of those pieces is taking up all my spare time which isn’t a lot lately. It’s this really wonderful and quirky canvas work pincushion.
(note: the bunny decided she needed to be seen at this moment and in a way that you all couldn’t avoid looking at)
I have also been working on a cross stitch sampler, based of a pttern orginally printed in a 1930 burda magazine. The pattern is a tunisian tree of life pattern. This is going to be my own wedding sampler which I have always wanted to do and Ryan is okay with me starting so that seems good!
So that is really all I’m working on right now(yes I know there are some things some of you all know about that aren’t listed but i’m not actively working on those so thus they do not make it to the blog) and with that I leave you a picture of the cake I made for the cafe I work for.
Organizing!
One of the first things I noticed when we moved into our current flat is that I was going to needa good solid way of storing my stash. Originally we had found this really cool pvc pipe and nylon hanging basket storage thingy that used to be Ryan’s. I thought yes that’s perfect absolutely perfect! At first it was, then I bought more yarn, and more yarn and mooore yarn! The weight of all that yarn slowly caused the frame to torque and twist, while the bags started to rip I started to have to put less and less stuff in the baskets and instead on the floors next to it!
This is what it looked like!
I knew it was time for a new system but what? I started to have a look around and besides your generic large tupperware boxes with lids I wasn’t finding anything I thought would work well. Then I was browsing one of my favorite stores, Plastic Box, which is a lot like the container store in San Francisco, when i found something that would work! There were these stackable baskets that were partially open on one side and seemed really sturdy. The best part was they were affordable! So I started out getting four of them and was able to turn that previous picture into this!
I would still like to get two more of them so that I can put all my UFO/WIP’s in one instead of staking them on top of the whole thing and also so I have one to put needles, gauge rulers, and other assesories into instead of having to put them in random places with the yarn. they also have stable ways to conntct them next to each other! While I was in an organizational mood I made my embroidery threads go from this.
to this.
I love being organized it helps the creativity flow so much easier. When you want to do something with something everything is all right where it should be!
Ugggggh!
This is the kind of day I have been having!
That’s All!
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