Disappointment...

I feel SO uncreative these days. I am disgraced that I have a blog all about being creative when I feel incredibly uncreative.

I haven't drawn, written, sewen or down anything interesting in a very long time.

I am still half-way through that doll.

I am still half-way through some yarn bombing.

I am still half-way through that cross stitch.

But I am completely unmotivated to do any of that stuff... Perhaps I shall have more time in the holidays coming up.

Although, I did wear those long gloves to a school mufty day yesterday. I felt very pleased with my once-creative skills :)

Some of you may remember my bit of yarn bombing that I did a few months back...... well, when i just put it up and it was still looking great, it looked like this:


However, now the colours have almost completely bleeched out, and I would've gotten a picture, but it's raining (yay for rain!!)

So anyway, my mum asked me the dreaded question - "Do you think it's time to take it down? It's supposed to be adding to the environment after all, not detracting from it."

JEEZ, thanks!! But I get her point. It looks disgraceful now, and it does seem like a pathetic attempt. However, it was my first go, and I had never ever considered that it might be me that cuts it off eventually... it would be very sad :(

Meanwhile, I've started a new bit of yarn bombing... not so interesting this time, just two colours in a patter, but I might add some writing afterwards :)

GLOVES!!

At last I have created myself a pair of long gloves!! Sadly, they do not have the triforce imprinted on them so I could look like Princess Zelda, but maybe next time!

I did make two, but one hand was busy taking the photo, so you can only see one in the picture :3 The pattern was based on one by http://sweaterscapes.com/glove-pattern.htm but I altered it to make fingerless gloves.


They came out far too tight though - I guessed the amount of stitches because I was using different needle sizes to those suggested. They still fit, but are a little tricky getting on and off!!

This was my first project using double-pointed needles (see my last post) so that was a challenge! I feel quite confident using them now, after making such long gloves!! Can't wait to wear them tonight when I meet up with my family :)

Gloves and WWII

I've been knitting long gloves recently, I've nearly finished one of them but here's a photo of when I started it - my first proper time of using double-pointed needles, it was sooo confusing at first!!!

But I got the hang of it - the only problem was when I wanted to switch back to normal needles and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would :S I wish I could just follow the pattern... but I can't help twigging it for my own flair, and it causes annoying problems!! For instance, the gloves are surprisingly tight, but that might've been because I ate so much over the weekend...

Yeah, so this weekend I went away to Kyck, a Katoomba youth convention where we learned about the book of Ecclesiasties and how meaningless life can be without Jesus. Fun weekend :) Bring on Kyck 2011!!

Anyway, I'm doing a personal interest project at school, and I've decided to research women's roles in WWII, and I shall be interviewing some of the older women in our church and collaborating their stuff into a book! So if anyone has any resources, such as women's weeklys from the wartime, or any wartime knitting pattersn, please let me know!! If it all works out how I want it to, I might include some war-time projects in the collaboration and even put it into a book to give/sell (havent decided yet ;)) for our church's anniversary later this year.
Yay!!

Angel

Back from a great holiday, with a strange feeling that I've delved further into my family's past than ever before...

Haven't progressed at all with my doll :( I'm in still confusion of how to do the face...

I spent most of my creative hours away continuing in this angel cross stitch which I've been working on for quite a few months... check it out so far.

I feel in a very strange mood to play computer games again... perhaps I took my dad's comment that I used to be more adventurous than I am now too seriously, and am now returning to old habits ... hmmm.

I love how long cross stitches take! I can rarely take much pleasure in a project that's completed quickly. If you're wondering why there's a gap in sections of this one, particularly at the base of the underskirt, there's going to be a sort of wreath put in... I'm just finishing the wings first.

Continuation...

So - I've been continuing my doll. I thought the sleeves were horrible, but people tell me it's okay, and it's beginning to grow on me... I'm at a loss of how to do the face... and I haven't even begun to worry about the hair!! I sewed the belt soooo neatly on the back, then I rushed the front, and it's all wobbly stitching :( I wanted to properly hem the sleeves and neckline, but it was getting super tricky with the small stitches, so it ended up becoming a feature. If you click on the picture to get a bigger version you'll probably be able to see the stitches more clearly. I tried looking for blue thread for ages, but I couldn't find any so in the end I just used white. I think it worked well...

Anyway, I've been working on another surprise present for my sister's birthday, but I can't show it just yet in case she reads this before her birthday... but what do people think of this wool? I think it's quite nice.


Meanwhile, I've come back to my Aaron Finder (still need a new last name >.<) book which I started last holidays - I didn't get any time during term to write it! On reflection, the story seemed a little dull, but then I started writing some more and got fully back into it! I want to get this finished by the end of the year and sent to a publisher, hopefully. I know I've said this before, but I'd really like to do it before I leave school, I know I'll probably be rejected, but I want the satisfaction that I sent a book!!

Preportions...

Well, I have been working on making a doll - and it was going SO well until I realised the arms were too skinny, so at the last minute I changed my pattern for how I was making them and... well... it's not very well preportioned anymore >.<

It's kind of embarassing :( I was doing so well!!!! they're too long or something... just not shaped enough to look right compared to the rest of the body.
And since taking this photo I've started on the top half of a dress, and it's a MESS!!! I'll post photos when it's done... :(

It was a lot of fun making though!! I absolutely love hand-sewing stuff, I don't know why...

Anyway, I need suggestions - how should I do the face?? Detailed? Plain? Sewn? Drawn? I have no idea so far!! And I don't really know how I'm going to do the hair either... I'll finish the dress first.