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I had hoped to have this finished for this final day post.  However, the other things I did cut into the time spent on this project this month.  This is an afghan crocheted in a ‘filet’ or net form.  (if you look, you can see some of the colors in the lower layers peeking through the holes in the net looking like bad shadows in the picture).  The plan is to weave yarn through the net in the same black and red pattern as the horizontal to turn it into my family name’s tartan pattern.

All I was able to do today was to get the yellow cross weave in.

I knit these socks, which were designed in honor of the Deathly Hallows release, in honor of the designer’s recent passing. This pattern, which is unavailable until the designer’s family decides what they want done with her patterns, is called Bellatrix.

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A little woven bookmark.

Took an old wooden serving tray - painted it red - and covered the bottom with old wine corks.  I really had not realized how differently sized wine corks could be.  It was a bit more of a puzzle than I had expected.  The hot glue and pushing them in place helped some but there are still variations the result in little holes.

been working on these for a while, and i’m getting ready to start finishing up  =)

these are 4×6″ frames with red and black houndstooth, being shipped to a large university down south this week!!  roll tide!!

Been trying to keep up with making stitch markers. I’m getting in that stage that I’m wanting to do everything but. It’s okay though I’m just having a hard time thinking up combos of beads I like. I made the ever famous Fireworks set but this time for knitter. Then I made caramel which I’m not sure how I feel about yet.

A Valentine card for Daddy. A collaborative project between Huck (age 17-months) and myself.

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red! paint! on drawers!

painted these drawers and 3 more of their friends, and the chest they reside in at work.  (i love my job!)  red is a tough color to work with.  not only is it blaringly obvious when you get it on the carpet or your clothes, it takes MANY coats to make it not look streaky.  i’m not sure if it helped or hurt that the paint itself is probably at *least* 6 years old.

i left the mess for christy to tend to when she gets in this a.m….. well, the paint wasn’t dry yet!!  (hi christy!!)

And my submission is — a valentine’s day card for my sweetie

Happy Valentine’s Day sweetheart.

experimenting with an ir filter:

i don’t think i entirely know what i’m doing, so i’ll probably read up on ir filters a little more, ask around, and practice some more. but i thought it was kind of cool/funky-looking… the photo came out too dark, so i adjusted it a little and added a little bit of a vignette that i thought helped the composition of the image.

Scarf completed:

Margaret approved:

I got the idea for this from: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/01/how_to_make_a_noknit_scarf.html 

My school’s choir does “Singing Valentines” every year - students buy grams for their valentines or just their friends and write their class schedule on the card. The choir splits into 2 groups of girls and 2 groups of guys, and we find them in their classes and shower them with obnoxious affection in the form of song and dance while wearing ridiculously pink outfits. Oh, high school.

My group of 8 girls’ outfits consist of pink and red plaid pajama bottoms and white wifebeaters with candy hearts with different phrases (QT 3.14 might be the most creative, ever) ironed onto the front. The back has the name of the singer and the year. I ribbon-ed the shirt/pants up and made tags with washing instructions. (I should probably be doing my homework, haha).

More food y’all:

Pan-fried steak with carmelized mango, shallots and avocado “salsa”(?) on top.  Served with more grilled shallots and red bell peppers on the side.  Also a salad with raspberries, apple slices, almonds, shaved parmesan, avocado, parsley and cilantro on top of all the regular players.  I was hungry, thus portions were pretty mountainous today.

I’m also just starting a scarf that isn’t knitted, but held together with knots because…  I can’t knit.

As you can see, there were 4 main strands tied together to create a scarf with a little less width than I normally like.  So, now that I’ve taken this picture- I’m going to pull it apart and start all over with an extra two strands to hopefully fatten it up nicely. Here goes..

My friend just enrolled her son in one of those really earnest preschools where they’ve got very strong views on childrearing (i.e. no television til age 7). At the school they don’t write or label their names on anything. They use symbols to identify their belongings and their work. My friend’s son is Mushroom. So for Valentine’s day I designed these heart-bedecked mushroom cards for him to give out.

I ended up liking them so much I might make some to give out myself I think they’d look great placed in a tray of grass.

Day 10 already. Can you believe it? So I tried something different today. I broke out the watercolors. I call it “Waves of Faded Love” - what do you think?

For those not familiar with Etsy, this might need a bit of explaining. Etsy has a feature called the Treasury that is a collection of user curated 12 item galleries. People can pull them together based on any criteria they like, and they are ranked based on popularity (judged in several different ways). However, unless there are less than 333 active lists, you can’t make one. That sounds like a lot (and it’s plenty to dig through!) but it means long waits to get one. As a bit of a consolation prize, they created the poster sketch tool. Anyone can put items into the Treasury format, but the lists are not put into the main collection for others to see. And, since Etsy admin picks Treasury lists to feature on the front page of the site, it also means that your list has no chance of being on the front page.

Since I’ve pretty much given up on getting a Treasury, today I took the poster tool for a spin and created this. I call it “Primary Desires” and if it were an actual treasury, I think it would make the front page. Alas, I will never know for sure. : )

So! It’s the Year of the Rat (that’s my year!) and so I needed something red to wear. I have my Equality Now Red Bracelet which will be my everyday for most of the year, but sometimes you need something different. So I crocheted myself a headband. It looks awesome! Here are some photos; First is the headband on my desk (ignore the junk and WoW in the background…) and the second is me with the headband on.  I’m incredibly proud of how this turned out.  Yay red! Yay rat! … now it’s bedtime.

This knit sweater is for my niece for Lunar New Year. Welcome to the Year of the Rat.

Pattern: Minnowknits China Doll by Jil Eaton
Size: 1 year
Yarn: 1.8 skeins Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in 935 Salmon Berry Red
Supplier: The Knitting Room (now closed)
Needles: US 5 / 3.75 mm

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I finished the card last night but I didn’t post it so here it is! All done! Right now I will be working on some earrings to post for today’s thing. Hope everyone is having fun!   -tracy 

I have some Tupperware and “Deli” containers that are roughly the shape of Bento Lunch Boxes. But, they are just random containers unless you have something to hold them together in a stack. So, I made some straps from black elastic and added some felt decoration to cover the seam.

a heart

and a leaf