Top Secret Projects! Oh, and a scarf.

There are a few projects that I am working on that I unfortunately can't show or talk about because the recipients of said projects, happen to be readers of my site. But I'll show a wee bit of what I've been working on!

I love this fabric



I also worked on a knitted scarf this week. I went with a camo yarn that I once made a hat out of (and an evil ex-boyfriend stole the hat) that matches my fall jacket. And apparently I knit oddly. My Aunt happened to see me knit and asked me if I was left handed, which I'm not. She then looked at me strangely and said "Oh". I have a feeling it's because I'm a crocheter and I don't hold my yarn in my right hand. I've tried holding it in my right hand but it feels awkward. I'm so used to holding my yarn in my left hand as I work across a project. I really wish I could learn how to knit more things but I can't grasp knitting patterns quite yet. It's only recently that I was able to understand crochet patterns and I've been crocheting for a couple of years! I'm sure one day I'll figure it out.

My last day of work was yesterday. I got laid off. This has been a horrible year for my "career". I start at GM next Thursday so I have a whole week off. I intend on working on as many projects as I possibly can. Especially considering on my last vacation (which was only two weeks ago), I intended to make a lot of Christmas presents but only got around to working on one very large project. I think this time I'll work on a bunch of small projects so it seems like I'm accomplishing more.

FAIL!

I tried my hand at embroidery. Holy failness. I wanted to make some homemade labels for some of the bags that I've made. I may need to rethink this option.

Here is my failed attempt at embroidering RAWR Elephant.



Update

I decided to try again. This time I had my friend draw Rawr to be slightly bigger. So much cuter!

Lil' Greg is complete!

Another project where I designed the pattern is complete! Man, writing patterns can be bloody frustrating. I probably made the head three or four times before I was happy with it. The shoes, I totally guessed how to make as I couldn't find a pattern for tiny shoes online. Luckily, I wrote the whole thing down so if I ever need to make another, it would be so time consuming. When my brother is in the city next time, I will have to get a picture of the two Gregs!

Also, yesterday was my birthday! I am now 27 years old. Eeeek! I went to visit my family down in the Valley and had a great time and got some awesome presents. Plus, it was Canadian Thanksgiving so I gorged on turchicken and all the fixings. It was also my parent's 25th wedding anniversary as well. Needless to say, it was a busy weekend. Luckily, I am on vacation all week so I plan on getting started on making Christmas presents while I have the time.

Greg & the Cobra

So my brother asked me to crochet him a doll in his likeness for his girlfriend. Generally when I crochet amigurumi dolls, they are animal shaped so I wasn't quite sure how to go about it. Well so far, so good. Obviously it still has a lot of go. A face would be nice. Oh, and limbs. Maybe some ears too. I'm creating the pattern myself as most of the amgurumi doll patterns that I found online were waaaaay larger than what I wanted or just didn't look quite right. And yeah, that's a bottle of whiskey with a cobra in it. My brother picked that up from a guy that makes it himself somewhere in France. So effing disturbing. Due to my immense fear of snakes, there is no way in hell that I will be drinking it!