My Sweet Tooth <3

I participated in a Secret Santa exchange recently, in which my giftee requested sweets jewelry. Since my travel plans didn’t allow for me to order something online, and they don’t exactly sell sweets jewelry around here, I decided I would just make my own with polymer clay!

I was especially stoked because I’d recently bought a new crockpot for the express purpose of baking polymer clay things and hadn’t actually used it yet. So yay! Sweets jewelry + christening of my polyclay crockpot = _>

First, we have a “Cake Slice Ring” (yeah… I’m a creative namer….):

A top view for the details:

And what it looks like on my (ugly) hand:

Next up, the “Triple Scoop Ice Cream Bowl Ring”:

Top details:

Worn:

I sort of wish I’d had a glass marble of the right size available when I was making this one. I had to freehand the shape of the bowl, so it’s not as perfect as my OCD self would have liked.

Thirdly, “Chocolate Cupcake Ring”:

Top view… not very exciting for this one:

Worn (it was kind of tall for my taste, but definitely smaller than most cupcake rings I see for sale…):

And lastly, my “masterpiece”. By which I mean a 2-piece set 😛

“Chocolate Ribbon Set”:

Top view of the ring, just for the heck of it:

Back of the barrette:

The ring worn:

Phew, so many pictures!

Overall, I was quite pleased, despite how long it took me. And my little crockpot worked perfectly as a baking oven! Just pop it on the low setting, stick a thermometer in there to monitor the temperature, and it’s ready to go in about an hour 😛 Yeah… so it takes awhile to heat up, but then again, it takes me awhile to actually make anything, so it worked out well.

❤

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Winter Knitting 09/10 – Scarf Frenzy! – Update

Now that my present for my Loli mentor has safely arrived in her hands, here’s what she got!!

2 scarves, both in the weird sky blue/mint/lavender mixed color of Red Heart Baby Clouds:

This one is a standard rectangular scarf, with fringe on the ends.

This one is in the same style as the ruffle scarves in my previous post.

Additionally, I made her a little broach with dangly felt strawberries (because strawberries are one of her favorite motifs!). Unfortunately, I apparently managed to delete them from my camera before actually downloading them to my computer T_T *le sigh* The only picture I have is one she took when she opened my package… so it doesn’t properly illustrate the danglyness of the strawberries… But at least it’s something XD

Anyways, I’m glad she got the package safely, and that she likes it!

Upcoming project: Double-knit mittens!! I’ve actually started them, what, nearing 10 times now, and messed up every time and had to unravel everything. Let’s just say converting a cable twist pattern to double-knitting is kind of hard. I’ve defaulted back to just a flat mitten, and I’ll just knit a bow or something separately to sew to it for embellishment ❤

<3,
Kyttyee

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Winter Knitting 09/10 – Scarf Frenzy!

Given the fantastically frightful winds here in Chicago, I’ve been on a scarf hunt lately. But I figured, rather than buying simple scarves that I could make myself, why not go ahead and make them? So here’s four scarves, two of which are for myself, and two of which are for my lovely Lolita mentor.

I’ve been trying to incorporate more pastels into my winter wardrobe, so I made two long ruffly scarves for myself in pink and baby blue:

Of course the two scarves for my Loli mentor are going to be presents, so I won’t post them here until after she’s gotten them ^.^

All of the scarves were made with one skein of Red Heart Baby Clouds yarn. The pink skein was 2 ounces larger than the blue skein, so the scarf came out super long, but I love it!

Hope you enjoy!

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 2.2: Hat Lined with Fleece!

Well… It’s really not winter 08/09 anymore… In fact, it’s already pretty much winter 09/10, but life got in the way of actually lining that hat. However, in order to make it truly functional for my boyfriend, I have finally finished putting in a fleece lining for it!

(See part one here).

Not only does the lining make the hat longer by about 1 inch, it also makes it that much warmer now that there are two layers between his skull and the elements.

Onto the one picture I remembered to take before he carted it off to Boston with him!

So, the tiny ribbed portion of the original hat got eaten in the seams, but overall the hat is definitely longer, and now double-layered. Apparently I miscalculated and the hat was a bit tight and the seam for the bottom band fell right on the ears, but my boyfriend says the hat’s now loosened up from wearing, and it’s all good now, so yay!!

So there ya go!!

❤

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 2: Herringbone Scarf Done!

I finally finished that scarf!! (And yes, I know it’s not winter anymore).  I actually finished sometime in March, but didn’t have time to write up a post about it.  I had just enough yarn left afterwards to knit a matching hat.  However, the hat’s just the tiniest bit shorter than I think it really should be for a normal-sized adult head.  And it’s only single-layered, so I have doubts about it’s warmth-keeping properties.  I’m thinking I’ll get some matching charcoal fleece and make a lining for it (as well as make it just a bit longer for better ear coverage ^o^)

But pictures!!

The whole scarf

Edge detail (moss stitch border, herringbone main body)

Matching hat! It has some ribbing at the very edge, the rest is just straight stockinette stitch)

So yeah, the hat may or may not reappear again with fleece lining ^.^ I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out, considering both the scarf and the hat were done without a pattern (the hat was very much improvised :-P)

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 1: Herringbone Scarf!

This is one of the two knitting projects I’ve been working on this winter. Originally I wanted to do the “Henry” scarf from knitty.com, but I really suck at knitting scarves sideways because I just lose count of all the stitches way too easily. Not to mention the tubular edge thing didn’t work out to great when I did a test swatch…

So instead I decided, well I’ve never done a herringbone texture before, so why not! And my attempt to keep it from curling quite as much involved putting a seed-stitch edge on it, but that doesn’t seem to be working as well as I thought. I think I’ll just have to try to block the living daylights out of this guy when I’m done…

It’s also the first time I’ve done a scarf using sock yarn… It takes much longer than any other scarf I’ve done T.T

But enough talk! here’s some pictures!

All crumpled up…

Seed stitch border…

The herringbone texture…

It’s not visible from the pictures, but the herringbone isn’t very even, mainly because it took me awhile to get a hang of the whole knitting through the back loops thing… But I think it’ll turn out decent ^.^

YAY!! Yeah, this one is the one I worked on all winter break (3 weeks) and it’s not even halfway done yet. I reminds me of the anime “Maria-sama ga Miteru” though because I watched the whole first season of it while knitting this.

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Javinale Dreamcatcher

August has been a really busy month for me, and it’s barely even started yet! In the midst of moving from my one dorm to another, I also went to the wedding of my friends Javier and Finale.  I was trying to make them this dreamcatcher for their wedding present, but didn’t finish in time.  Luckily, they’re coming up to Boston for another get-together celebration with all us MIT peoples, so I finished it for that ^.^

It’s an interesting and symbolic (in my head at least) variation on a dreamcatcher that I came up with, although I’m sure other people probably have done it too, I just have never seen it myself until I made one. It’s two overlapping dreamcatchers woven simultaneously. In addition to the obvious parallel to Javinale’s lives now being intertwined, it also forms a Venn Diagram, symbolizing that their two distinct lives now have an overlapping component representing their relationship with each other, but at the same time still maintain their distinctness, representing their unique personalities and interests. Or maybe I’m just a nerd… That’s okay, they’re nerds too.

So without further ado, pictures!

The entire dreamcatcher:

Closeup of the green and blue medallions (instead of feathers because I was having trouble finding ones that I was sure were synthetic, also, they’re circular, that seems to be a theme…):

And a closeup of the web:

The webbing was made from LionBrand Suede Yarn (I don’t have the exact color names anymore, I threw away the wrapper). The frames are actually a pair of bamboo purse handles that I ordered a long time ago and didn’t end up using (for that Geisha swap purse, in fact). The medallions and beads were all from the bead section of the Pearl Art in Central Square.

Now I get to go back to packing my room up for moving…. X.X

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Mad Hatter

Here’s some more creations! This time… hats!!! Winter hats, to be exact…

The first hat is a red hood I knitted up. It’s made with Lionbrand’s Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in Cranberry, so it was a really fast knit!

It’s really warm and I absolutely love it! Plus it matches a new coat I just got 🙂

So without further ado…

The front view: please excuse my awful facial expression, I’m bad at pictures 😛

The side view: you can see more detail on the braided edge.

The back view: you can see the seam 🙂

And the second hat is a pink tam, which I love wearing, but it’s not nearly as warm as the hood. This one is knit with Lionbrand Wool-Ease in Blush Heather, an absolutely beautiful color. I made the edge band a little small for the amount of hair I have, but it still works 🙂

The front view: can’t really see much of the hat itself, but that’s how it looks from the front.

A side view: you can see how it sits, slightly slouchy at the bottom, which I like a lot.

A different side view: gives a better idea of the back, plus the pompom actually shows up!

An actual back view: You can really see the segments on the hat, and the pompom!

And that’s me being happy because I really like this hat 🙂

That’s all for today, folks, but I’m in the process of knitting my boyfriend a 6-foot long scarf, which I’ll be sure to post when it’s finished!

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Nice cup of tea

I’m back with another update of projects I made for a Craftster swap. The theme was tea time. I found some really cute tea time related charms at the crafts store and decided to make matching earrings and ribbon bookmarks.

The earrings were really simple, just a colored bead and then the charm. I ended up making five pairs:

I made the matching bookmarks from ribbon, and attached the charms and beads with wire. The ribbon I liked only came in the wired variety, so I had to pull those out before making the bookmark. I made four bookmarks (with a closeup of corresponding charm at end):

I also made a recipe book full of recipes involving tea. On every page I put a picture of a different interesting-looking teapot that I found online. There were ones shaped like turkeys, frogs, Conestoga wagons, ladybugs, and tons of other interesting shapes.

I also made a small tea wallet. It’s basically a wallet with pockets the right size for teabags and sugar packets. There was even an elastic in the centerfold to hold stirrers!

And here’s what the inside looked like! The orange rectangles were actually Post-It notes with labels for what flavor of tea was in the pocket, since I sent it with teabags already in the wallet.

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Shiny!!!!

All of these are items I made for a Craftster geisha swap in January 2007.

The purse looked much better than I expected, especially after I closed up the gaps for the straps a little bit (by hand). It’s reversible, so I took pictures of both sides.

The red side:

The black side:

The fabrics were really beautiful; so much so that I had to take swatch pictures of them (these are without flash because that caused a weird glare).

And here’s 3 pairs of kanzashi hair clips made to go with the purse:

I also made these earrings as one of the small items:

My favorite of all the things I made is definitely this barrette. I might even make one for myself in colors I wear more often.

Closeups of the flowers and the trails:

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