Slideshow Video of Current Projects

Sackbot has a face

Because my oldest son thought that the sackbot (wooden robot sackboy) was to dark, he wanted me to add a face to it thus turning it into a sackboy.  So I went to the craft store and found these buttons, which I thought were awesome, and sewed them onto the sackbot.   

My son said that it was strange.  Not good strange, not bad strange, just strange.  At least my husband likes him.  My son did take him and added him to his collection.  I think the eyes make him look dizzy or hypnotized.  While at the store I saw some 3D horn buttons.  Now I want to make a devil sackboy.

This cozy, which now houses my phone, is not new.  I made it sometime last year.  There is no pattern either.  I just garter stitched it and decreased it for the amount that I needed for my phone.  I'm sharing it today because the button is new.  It had no button closure before.  There is a braided loop that wraps around the button, and then you pull on the knotted ends to tighten it.  This is a temporary cosy while I make the iPhone hoodie.  I figured out why the iPhone hoodie looks to small.  I am using to small of a needle.  The pattern calls for size 3 needles and mine are smaller than that.  I think that they might be a size one.  Thats what I get for not checking the needle size first.

ATC, Hoodie, & Sackbot

I made this artist trading card the other day using watercolors and a black pen.

It was so easy to make that I made 8 more to trade.

I've been working on my iPhone hoodie / cosy today.  Its my current on-the-go project.  The picture on the left is where I left off yesterday, and the picture on the right is where I am currently at with this project.  My concern right now is that it might be to small for my iPhone.  I might need to use thicker yarn for the next one.

Its a little late, but I finally finished the sackbot sackboy for my oldest son.  I used cardboard from some CapriSun boxes for the inside instead of my usual plushie stuffing, that way he would be more blocky.   My son thinks that it is to dark and that he doesn't really look like a sackbot, so now he wants me to add eyes to it.  Not a problem.  I'll just add some wooden buttons to it. 

I found this little guy in the sandbox today.

Birthday Crafting

Thank you for coming.

I made this artist trading card last night.  I'll make copies of it and put them in my son's birthday goodie bags.  That way I won't forget to say thank you to all of his birthday guests for coming.  

Last night I finished making the body of the sackboy / sackbot, and now I'm working on the head.  I finally figured out how to read the pattern.  I know that sounds weird especially since I've made about 7 of them already.  Its a British pattern, and where it says "inc" what it really means is "k & inc1."

I just thought that I would share 2 things that I saw in my yard today.

Watch out, he's a jumper!