Knitted Scarf Weekend Project

It's that time of the year when you can never have too many scarves!

Knitting a scarf can take a very long time... if you use small needles. I completed this scarf in just three evenings - while watching television.

Using 9mm (US 13 size) knitting needles made it easier to work with this nubbley yarn - it would have been difficult to use this yarn with thinner needles. The larger needle size also meant a looser knit but a faster project.

I'm not an expert knitter (I'm self-taught via online tutorials), but I believe you would call this a knit 1, purl 1 pattern. What I did was knit one row, moving the yarn from the left needle to the right needle, then flip it over for the next row, continuing to move from left to right. After finishing, I added three tassles to each end.

Characterized Gacha Toy

I always love those japanese toys in which they merge a disney character with another object.  Such as Mickey Cookies, Winnie the Pooh as a Purse, Dumbo as a TV, Stitch dressed up as Peter Pan, Donald as an Umbrella, or Buzz Lightyear as a Cars.  Ok I got carried away, but I loves these.

So I was playing with Microsoft Expressions playing around with vector drawings and came up with these.  These are based off of those japanese  capsule toys

Micky and Minnie.

Who am I?????

Inspiration - Movie Posters

I came across an artist on DeviantArt, Mr-Bluebird. 

He recreated several series of movie posters.

Alfred Hitchcock Series

The way he uses just two colours and simple designs yet it says soo much.

Whimsical Journeys Series

I love his use of extreme colours to push the wildness of these magical lands

 Paul Thomas Anderson Series

I love how he can incorporate text as part of the image.  Also how the picture has movement to it.

Pixar Series

Using well known but not main characters makes gives this a mild, yet recognizable unqiue posters. 

And then THE BLOB

Giving the classic comic book look with the polka dot gradients really helps date this movie. 

This artist has many more Movie poster and other print pieces that are amazing. Approaching these classics from his own perspective just makes my creative juices flow (oh he's a MUSE)  Should check him out on either his DeviantArt account or his personal site. 

http://mr-bluebird.deviantart.com/

http://www.combustibleart.com/Home.html

Damask Drawstring Bag

Drawstring bags are great to have around if you need somewhere to stash money when you are in the middle of dancing.

Just slip it around your wrist, stuff the money in, tug it closed, and keep on groovin' to the beat!

My sister asked me to make her a "money bag" that she could use for the money dance at her wedding. Knowing she likes the nouveau-French style and had pink as a wedding color, I came up with this style. I found the cute damask fabric in the remnants bin at JoAnn's, and I already had the wide grosgrain ribbon on hand.

To make the bag, I cut out the circle bottom then measured the circumference and used that measurement as the length of the rectangle that comprised the rest of the bag (taking into account seam allowances of course). This is a very simple project that really doesn't require a pattern. I sewed it by hand because my sewing machine wasn't working at the time.