Thing-a-day.com

Saturday the Ninth: Long overdue, I worked on a mitten meant for someone for (last) Christmas! 

Sunday the Tenth: I started making mugs for my valentines to go in.

Monday the Eleventh: Piper and I dyed tissue paper, after I saw the idea in an old Martha Stewart Living mag I found at the self-help for 25 cents. The colour turned out totally pastel, and I was a bit grumpy while we were doing it, cos I was trying to keep Jasper from tipping over the bowls of dye (ridiculous, I know, to attempt projects like this with a crawling baby around, but oh well!), but Piper seemed happy enough when I took the photo (admittedly a day or two later!).

Tuesday the Twelfth: I worked on the mitten.

Wednesday the Thirteenth: I finished the valentines for girlfriends that I began on the weekend. Hearts sewn onto teabags, fitted into cardboard mugs, with name/note attached. I’m happy with them, even though they’re a bit over the top! If I’d had smaller stamps, I would have made the names smaller, but oh well…

I’m making a new pair of mittens, did the first one today. They are for my roomie.

These ones not only have the flap for the main fingers, but they also have a small flap for the thumb. I think they are hilarious.

I have several days of posting all at once. I find that making the thing a day isn’t the hard part. It’s finding the time to upload it on the computer that I can never find time for !

So, Friday I made the pattern for my next plushie… an owl:

And then yesterday I just got started on a new pair of mittens, this time for myself. Yay for knitting things for me.

I’m not sure quite yet what I’m going to do today. I could just keep on making my mittens… or get started on the owl, or maybe take a few pictures. Actually… I might just bake today since I have more time on my hands.

Last week, I bought two pairs of plain white mittens at Target on clearance for a dollar. I was trying to make them less boring and came up with these bunny mittens, haha. They have felt eyes and noses, felt ears that stick up, pompom tails, and a string that connects the two so you don’t lose one. I’m not quite sure what I’m doing with these yet.

I had to go down to UCLA for admittance auditions today (I’m applying as a music major, and I live in the Bay Area- six hours’ drive north of LA), so I spent the majority of my day on cars, planes, and shuttles. But, I managed to finish what may possibly be the cheapest mittens ever: cut from two pieces of those cheap felt sheets that are $0.20 each at Michael’s. With embellishments, I suppose the materials cost about fifty cents. I added yarn to connect the two because I always lose my mittens, and added an R and L because they were really plain. And because rights and lefts are still confusing, haha. I think they look like oven mitts, but whatever it was a bumpy plane ride.