It was my sincere intention to post my Thing-A-Day stuff both on posterous.com, the official Thing-A-Day site, and here, but I forgot how Thing-A-Day just sucks the Thought-A-Day right out of me! Thank goodness February is a short month!
Anyhow, here's a quick recap of what's been happening at the craft table:
Day 1 - "In honor of this being my birthday, I made a cupcake pincushion complete with Shrinky-Dink birthday candle pin toppers!"
Day 2 - "It was raining today so I decided to treat myself to a day of knitting. Somewhere along the way I deluded myself into thinking that I could actually knit this doily (on size 0 needles!) in a day. Three rows plus the cast on short and the day is done.
This is my "almost-a-doily" doily."
Day 3 - "Fingerless mitts upcycled from a felted sweater."
Day 4 - "Knitted and felted fortune cookie."
Day 5 - "Pickled Daikon radish and carrots - Do Chua. I'm going to attempt to make Banh Mi Xiu Mai aka Vietnamese Meatball Sandwiches on Sunday. This looks like a great recipe!"
Day 6 - "This was a Cub Scout camping weekend so nothing tangible was made. I think I did make my son happy though!"
Day 7 - "
Yummy, yummy, yummy! I've got Banh Mi in my tummy!Now that the weekend's over, I can get back to some actual crafting!"
Day 9 - "Looks like number 8 just kind of slipped past me...Embroidered heart that will become part of something bigger! Thanks to Karen of Maggie Makes for such a wonderful pattern! The execution leaves something to be desired...."
Day 10 - "I
worked on this a LOT over the weekend while camping. Even here in
Florida, several of the other campers were cold enough to take over
some of my camp duties so they might have a shot at a scarf to wear!
Fooled them, huh?
This Mock Cable Scarf from knittingwisdom.com is hitting the mail tomorrow for the Red Scarf Project. This will be my third year knitting a red scarf for this wonderful organization. Normally due in December, Crafthope.com (yet ANOTHER wonderful group of people) has gotten a deadline extension until Valentine's Day.
I'm really pushing that envelope a bit aren't I?
Day 11 - "Ahhh, the joys of the elementary school classroom Valentine's parties. All those little paper bags lined up in expectation of being filled to the brim with Valentines and candy.
Sure, it would have been much easier to have just gone out and bought a bunch of Necco Sweetheart treats and Superhero "Spidey Wishes You a Happy Valentine's Day" cards. Too easy! Instead I cut out 70 felt hearts, glued them together and put them on the ends of Valentine pencils.
Besides, wouldn't the world be a much nicer place if we all had felt hearts on the ends of our pencils?
Now...if only I had enough googly eyes...."
Day 12 - "I decided to make the mouse pin cushion from the My Byrd House blog. I have some fabric covered with peace signs so I was going to make a pair of "Peace Meace". After I dug that out, I remembered that I have some other fabric covered with the word "Moo". I could make a "Moo-se". Alas, I couldn't find the copy of "The Cow that Went OInk" which would have been a great background Then I found a scrap of fabric covered with swirls of green, blue, purple, pink and red. It was a bit left over from a top and shorts I once made for myself...and wore. Sounds scary and it probably was, but hey! it was the 80's!
In the end, this is a story not of Peace Meace or a Moo-se. Rather it is a sad tale (tail?) of when bad things happen to good rats.
Meet Pepito. Once owned by the evil Dr. Yzarc, Pepito was the victim of several lab experiments gone horribly wrong. Scarred, bloody, half blind and prosthetic-ally challenged, Pepito is in semi-retirement until the PETA case involving the evil Dr. Yzarc is resolved."
Day 13 - "Nothing creative today. Just some "obligation" sewing.
Since when do Cub Scouts wear little red vests for their badges? Sashes are so much cooler and don't make anyone look like Santa's Elves!"
Day 14 - "Remnants of my heart...
When I cut out all those hearts for the school valentines, I discovered this long run of hearts. In one, I put in the embroidered heart I made earlier this month in one, did some machine embroidery in others and added some ephemera in a few more.
Though a bit wonky, it' kind of a cute hanging."
Day 15 - "The Trouble with Tribbles....I mean Trivets!"
Day 16 - "I call this the "Good to the Last Drop" Needlebook.
While poking around the internet for some inspiration this morning, I ran across this post on Craft Blog. I knew I'd been saving selvages for something!
The only thing I would do differently would be to make the button loop larger so I could use a very large, cool button!
