Vampire Mitts

How are all my happy crafters? Fall is just around the corner, and my favorite holiday, Halloween, as well. So I'm designing some Halloween bracelets and earrings.

I'm also working on knitting vampire mitts for those nights of vampiric storytelling and poetry. If you are a poet in the Anaheim area drop me a comment.

My energy is low today. So I'm not getting going too fast.

People in Etsy chat are always asking for the magic wand that is the secret to many sales.  I wish I had it. As far as I can tell there is only hard work.  Making inventory, listing, shipping, and as much as possible keep your customers happy so they tell more people about you. And don't annoy the other chatters by having an  'it's all about me' attitude. If you only care about your own sales and your own life, then who else is going to care about them?

Dessicated Fairy Art Dolls, Knitting, and more

My Sunday was more like a Monday. I did get over to the store to get some parts for my next tutorial, which will be a kitschy Halloween charm bracelet.

Last year I wanted to make dessicated fairy dolls, but the discount shop had already run out of skeletons. So this time I snapped them up early. I long ago lost track of the tutorial so I'll have to re-invent the wheel. I can't even remember if they were mummified with cheesecloth or papier mache'.

Today I'm also working on some blood red vampire mitts in knitting. There again I was using someone else's  tutorial and I could see they were going to be way too small for me.  So I started over from scratch. Once I have my own pattern that fits my arm not one-size-fits-all, I can make as many pairs as I want. Somehow, when I left them on my desk overnight, some stitches fell off the end of the needle. and I could find no way to fix it. So I had to unravel four rows of ribbing, which turned out to be pretty tricky, and re-knit those rows. I should just take a bit of uninflated balloon, cut a disk, and poke the needles through it. The latex should keep the contents on the needle. I come up with the most genius ideas in the middle of the night.
At least they seem brilliant until I've had 8 hours of sleep.

I hope tomorrow is even more productive.

Macrame' Owl and Mitts That Are Knitted.

My goodness have I ever been busy! Today I worked on some mitts with cables and when I needed a break from that, I worked on my macrame' owl. I'm working my way through the design process and trying not to get intimidated by forging a new trail with the macrame'. I've never made an owl before and I'm not using directions, because I want it to be my very own owl, you know? I added the brass rings for the eyes today. It looks pretty wild made out of humble twine, but I'm liking it.