tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78462159075309858692012-01-19T22:31:06.897-08:00Craft and crafty musings...Azureh Changohttps://profiles.google.com/114320177670203663692noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846215907530985869.post-23682632540693677572011-02-10T15:12:00.001-08:002011-02-11T09:38:26.361-08:00

Umm, let me amend that, I’ve Got a Single Abnormal Buko, heh.  I suppose it was a much too ambitious plan for me to do for my own made up sewing project.  Way too many curves and way too many modifications :/  I hope when I get more proficient at sewing and can come back to this one and perfect it much more so I can at least not feel embarrassed to give one away :D lol. 1. Buko 1, 2. Buko 2, 3.

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So since my mother hasn’t been wearing her house shoes I decided to try them out.  I opted not to line them before I gave them to her because, judging by the scrap fabric I had on hand, I thought everything would be too bulky to line them.  I had already deviated and used a hook size too small since I had yarn too big and thought that would compensate, plus my mom has small feet.  But alas, it

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So my mom had wanted a neck pillow for a while now and no one knew where to get it.  I think she really needed one because she ends up sleeping while sitting up a lot, both in the car and at home lol. So, I decided to make one :D Notice, it’s crooked, lopsided, and lumpy x3 I don’t have a lot of experience sewing and sewing curves seems to be my breaking point right now.  The lumpyness comes

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Amigurumi Optimus Prime Tribute Doll Originally uploaded by voxmortuumFound Craft on the Web: Optimus Prime Awesome Transformers amigurumi by awesome crocheter voxmortuum. It's probably the best one I've seen, but then again I haven't seen a lot of them :p  Check out his/her(?) other works, Pennywise is a creeptastic favorite of mine. It always amazes me how creative people get with their

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So I didn’t exactly make a craft for Christmas (btw I hope everyone had a Happy Holidays o/), rather I had made some things for my mom that I gave her for Christmas. First off here’s some house slippers, otherwise they look a lot like adult booties. 1. Mom House Shoes 002, 2. Mom House Shoes 003, 3. Mom House Shoes 001, 4. House Slippers WIP Yarn Used: Lion Brand Lion Wool Solids in Cocoa &

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So my first ever conceived softie is a buko.  Or a young/tender green coconut you cut open, stick a straw through the hole and drink.  So far I have my paper mock up, pattern pieces and fabric that looks way too light for buko.  I’m contemplating looking for a darker green or just going with the lighter one. Bleh. Now the question is, if I get new fabric should it be solid or a patterned green?

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I have bought two more craft books :p あみぐるみcollection Volume 7 : another amigurumi book.  I especially like the Kappaxile’s armed with toothpick wepons :D and the alligator. てあみのクローゼット-カーディガン&ジャケット (Let’s Knit series) : A knit book of cardigans and jackets.  I’m in love with the raglan cardigan on page 20 In another update, I wanted to crochet something in my かわいいレース編み (Let’s Knit series

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So yeah, I haven’t exactly been keeping up with my updates /understatement.  I’ve been busy getting my life in to order, and thankfully that I’ve been able to incorporate crafting into it :D One of the things that happened is the hiatus (yet again) of my Godmother Shawl I dropped some stitches and had no idea how to pick them up.  To be specific they were “sl 1 k2tog psso” stitches and I figured

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I realize this has absolutely nothing to do with crafting, but it is something close to my heart, and something I think is important. I made a post about the Philippine typhoon flood on my other blog, if you’re interested in donating here’s some info   Typhoon Ketsana, aka Ondoy, swept over the Philippines and dropped over 455 millimeter into the Manila area, 341 millimeters of that rainfall

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Technorati Tags: Plushies,softie,marshmallow,candy corn,pickle,craftyI hate marshmallows, but I adore plushies 8D  These are tasty plushies by an artist I found via Plush You!  You can find some of her other work on her Flickr photo stream, she goes by Scrumptious Delight. I love the fact that they’re actually in a marshmallow bag, plus they’re just uber adorable!  The nutrition facts and

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Technically my mom did :p  And the winner(‘s) is(are): Falling Leaves Wrap by Dory Brown for my Godmother, because it’s a large lace pattern and because I fear teh lace D: I have a backup pattern, which is the Eva’s Shawl by milobo.  Judging from some of the comments and looking at the time it takes for people to complete, I don’t think I’ll have a problem.  I also really want to do the lace one

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So I found the address and phone number of my Godmother from this post.  I was thinking of sending her something for Christmas and thought making something would be a perfect gift since she used to make me things.  Mom has been fishing for a shawl ever since I started picking up crochet again, and especially since I learned to knit, so I decided why not make two, one for her, one for Godmother. 

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I love me a good giveaway :D one of the best reasons to scan crafty tweets, and this one  was tweeted by Craft Critique. Pickled Pear Lane is giving away a stack of 16 fabric quarter’s (from a yard) from Patty Young’s beautiful new fabric line.  Thanks Marianne Johnson!  I’ve also found another Etsy store to bookmark :D If you want to join in the giveaway frenzy check out Donna Downey’s

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I saw this post from Craft Critique encouraging crafters to send butterfly’s to the Holocaust Museum of Houston for their Butterfly Project. I have two photographs of a Monarch I took a couple of years ago, and although it isn’t technically Handmade I think I’ll send a print anyway. Of course the one I’m going to send won’t have the watermark, and I’m thinking of taking off the text at the

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The Pattern: Just in case you forgot, I used Evangeline (fingerless gloves) by designer Michelle Szeghalmi-Shirley. I actually really liked the way this written.  Considering the fact that my knitting skills are near to none, that I’ve only been reading actual patterns since August of last year, and that these are my first freakin’ cables (yey!), these were pretty clear.  I do have to admit

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Granted it took me way longer then it should have, but they’re done lol.  It think I started in like March or April, frogged, frogged, frogged, knit, frogged, forgot about=, buried it in under yarn, took out in August, knit, frogged, knit, frogged, frogged, knit, knit, knit, went “oooh, that's not as hard as I’ve been making it!”, knit, frogged, knit, knit, knit, finished, and posted 8D 1.

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I posted some toy stuff on my other blog an thought the DIY toys were craftacular (yes, I said craftacular…).  If you’ve never heard of them they’re toys that come blank, which allowed you to customize them in whichever way you want.  Two of the more famous DIY vinyl’s are Kidrobot’s Munny and Dunny.They usually come with an accessory, like an ax, banana, car, and just something that’s seemingly

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So I have 3 plants on my desk, one is a miniature Phalaenopsis Orchid and two are Palmeria’s.  Don’t mind the bad photo :c the the sun was setting so the room was dimming. I’ve had one of my Plumeria’s for about a year now and I’ve recently gotten the second one.  After getting the second one I transferred both into larger pots so they’re both a little wrinkly from the move but the little one

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I was watching a documentary on KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) World about the ramie makers in Korea, they showed how they harvested the fiber right from the plant and all the way to garment making.  Towered the end of the short docu they showed how Korea was using the ramie in different and more modern styles to keep the fiber industry thriving.  While I was watching this my mind kept

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Since this is a craft blog I thought I’d cross post a paragraph or two from my other blog since it’s pertains to the craftyness… ness… *ahem* … godmother crocheted for me when they brought me home from the hospital as a newborn.  In fact the requisite baby blankie every child has, and makes threadbare, is a baby blankie I now use as a throw (as in blanket, not “Here, catch this ball of cotton

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Dear Left Fingerless Glove, I understand you have a desire to be just like your right handed twin, but its better for you to be an individual. Just because Right Fingerless Glove lasted a month for me to painstakingly knit does not mean you have to give me the same problems. Just because I ended up with five perfectly fine cables on Right by no means makes me some kind of expert on knitting

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So a couple of weeks ago (or something *ahem*) Beadsandyarn mentioned she was looking for a pancit recipe on the Pinoy Ravelers group on Ravelry. She was looking for a thick noodle one and my mom makes it sometimes so I figured I’d get the recipe from her, I was planning on writing down her recipes anyway and I figured why not wheedle her into making pancit canton so I have the recipe and I can

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Soooo~ It’s been awhile o_o ahem… KNITTING~ I haven’t knitted in almost two months TT__TT One of the reasons is because my fingerless gloves have been frogged so many times I just got tired of them. Buuuut~ after 2 months I decided I was finally going to finish them :p and I’m halfway done, I already got through with the right hand (minus the thumb gussets) and now I’m starting on the left.

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Because I have nothing else to write about, I will announce that my cat is secretly plotting to kill me. I think it was all that talking about having Roasted Cosmo for Thanksgiving >_> he must have heard... Exhibit A: Look at those eyes, o_o he's watching me... it's like he's just daring me to grab my yarn back, but nooo, I'm not falling for that trick >: I know what those claws can do.

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So I frogged again :D Only it was one of those going overboard type of frogs. I made a mistake a couple of stitches on my last row and, again, I wasn't really paying attention and I frogged way too much XD. It wasn't until after that I realized I didn't really have to do that :/ I kind of like frogging, except until I realized I didn't even have to x_x hehI think thats what I love most about

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I have a problem with reading patterns when I'm not paying attention x_x why, oh, why do I knit when I'm preoccupied? I had to frog the rows I already finished because I miscounted my stitches >_> see, see, this is why crochet comes so much easier to me. It's easier for me to fix my mistakes in crochet then it is in knitting :/Problems with worrying about the fires in SoCal + watching CNN +

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So I missed a couple of days in my NaBloPoMo quest, the first day I excuse myself because I made a post on my personal blog :p *points to post title* but yesterday I just wasn't feeling so well and totally forgot NaBloPoMo :/ ... and because I'm lazy. So now onto some of my WIP's. For some reason I tend to start and finish crochet projects more easily. Maybe its because its what I started out

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So I had some yarn I wanted to use up and decided to make a scarflette (have I mentioned that yet?) and realized some of my needles disappeared in the move (I moved house about a year ago @_@). I was missing size 13 and 9 (US) straight needles which I never really noticed since I mostly crochet. And I remembered Clover supplies were on sale at Jo-Ann's (spree, YAY) so off I went. I decided to

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The Softies Kit and Book by Theresa Laskey First off what's the diff? Both have some of the same projects, both have instructions on individual projects, both have basic embroidery how-to's and both come with patterns, but that's about it. There are 25 projects in the book and 15 projects in the kit, only 5 are the same in both. Two of the projects they have in common are Treeling and the

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So I finally finished my creativeyarn puff hat :3 It took me a while but Tada~ I'm still not %100 sure about how it would fit on my head but. I still need to get a hair cut, my hair is just too afro like for test fitting right now XD But I'm happy I'm done~ all those puff stitches ate up the yarn lol so it was super annoying to unravel, redo, check, unravel, redo... well you get the idea...

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So I realized my head is abnormally big :D Rather if you were able to felt my hair into a ball it would be equivalent to an adult sized head, with hair to spare (creepy visual o_o). I ended up finishing the Hat Numero Two hat and realized how cute it was. So I decided to try it on only to come to terms with the fact that it doesn't fit my head ;_; More then that, it didn't even touch my head,

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So I had bought The Softies Kit a little over a week ago at my local Jo Ann's store (yay for coupons) and decided to try out a softie. The kit came with 2 pieces of felt, a pink and a white, matching embroidery floss, an embroidery needle, patterns, an instruction booklet, and project cards. The first project you'll see when you open up the box is a simple pink Party Cake; the felt and floss

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XD I changed the name to my craft blog lol why? I don't know \o/ and the new name is craftychango.blogspot.com :3 because I'm a crafty monkey? o_o I bought new yarn too, 1 skein of three colors Country... 75% microfiber and 25% merino wool = teh softness Spy... 75% microfiber and 25% bamboo = teh interesting The background fabric (a.k.a. the comfy reading chair) is super distracting

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So I started another hat a while back :3 I got the pattern from creativeyarn so cute~ And a lot of her other stuff is nice, the cowl neck capelet is on my to-do-NOW list. I of course have to modify things a bit, considering my head size, and the shear amount of hair I have (I swear its about the size of my entire head right now x_x). I'm making it bigger my using a larger weight yarn and a

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Since I already have a WordPress blog I decided to use this one as a crafty blog, and the WordPress one as a personal blog. Lately I've been really into making crochet items, and since I just started sewing I've been looking at things to sew XD A several weeks ago I decided to make a hat from a pattern I found on craftypants' blog site. Since this would be my first hat I decided to use some

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This post is actually from a post on my WordPress blog that I decided to repost here ^_^ I'm on a total plushie binge right now :3 sewingstars' makes the CUTEST things! I LOVE her crying eggboy and some of her newer stuff are the pumpkins to celebrate Halloween I guess. One of my other fave softie makers is ElizabethD from Gourmet Amigurumi. She has a book out if anyone is interested. She

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