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Craft Days

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For the last year or so a few friends of mine and I have been getting together for Craft Days! We try to have it at least once a week and it's a day that we devote to whatever craft we have going at the time. Some of the activities we do are: drawing, paper cutting, clay sculpting, knitting, crocheting, or even digital art as long as it's creative we allow it.
I decided that it would be nice to share this idea with everyone and so I'll post pictures of our craft days and talk about what we did and what we might have learned.
If you do this with your friends feel free to comment with a link to your craft day gallery and we can share in the fun of getting off the computer and out into the world and maybe make something cool for a day :)

Here's the link to my gallery
www.flickr.com/photos/craftyri…

Enjoy and
Happy Crafting
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Well the holidays were a blur for me. Two of my roommates moved out, work was super busy, and everything happened just so quickly.
I started and finished a scarf for a secret santa gift and I was very pleased with how it turned out. I'm still working on the baby beanie I'm about 3/4 of the way done with it. The Jayne beanie however hasn't been touched hehe.
I hope everyone had the best of holiday cheer and best wishes in 2010!!
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Well it seems as though a weekly corner isn't working out. I'm going to make it a monthly corner so I will have the time and the resources put together to really make a quality journal/blog. I want to set up a place where new knitters can find helpful tutorials and where experienced knitters can give suggestions and help others. So I will work hard to make this knitting corner the best it can be.
Thank you to all who have viewed my corners and please if you have any suggestions or if there is anything you would like me to find or make a tutorial on just leave me a comment or note :)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know I did. I love spending time with my family and friends and the food was excellent too :)
Check back with me soon for the unveiling of the new Knitting Corner!!
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Hello there :)
I got so caught up in getting ready for Thanksgiving that I completely spaced that yesterday was knitting day! I did get a lot of good knitting time in this week though so here we go...

Current Projects:
1)Jayne Cobb Beanie
2)Entrelac Baby Beanie

1. Jayne Beanie
I finally made it to the yellow portion yeay!! One tip I've learned when switching colors is to start weaving in the tail of the new color at least 5 stitches before the switch. To do this just wrap the tail of the new color over your yarn before you knit in-between each stitch. It's hardly noticeable on the inside and invisible to the outside and you don't have to tie any knots. If you're a loose knitter you can start 10 or more stitches early just to make sure it's not going to pull out if you're making something extra stretchy. I'm hoping to get up to the decreases by the end of next week, but till then it's just knit knit knit..
New picture: coming soon
Close up of new color change: coming soon

2. Etrelac Baby Beanie
I've finished another rectangle and only have a couple left before I start the next round. It's looking so nice I hope it doesn't end up being too bulky for her little head.
A bit of progress pic: coming soon

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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Happy afternoon all!
I had a wonderful and busy week but I got some good knitting time in. I worked a bit on both projects this week and I'm super happy with the progress. I hope everyone had a wonderful week as well. Thanks to DA for letting us non membership users have journal skins through November. What do you all think of this one? I'd like to make a knitting skin sometime in the future any ideas? Ok on to the knitting :)

Current Projects:
1)Jayne Cobb Beanie
2)Entrelac Baby Beanie

1. Jayne Cobb Beanie
I didn't quite get to starting the yellow section like I was hoping but I'm only a couple rounds away from it. I looked at more pictures and measured the orange section I have so far and it just feels like I need a couple more rounds to get enough orange. I let Isaac sort of try it on and it's going to look so good :) I'm thinking about making a tutorial on how to keep those pesky ladders away from the DPNs meeting places and also on how to change yarn colors in a neat and tidy way. Would anyone be interested in seeing those? Would a video or just very detailed picture and word combo be enough for the tutorial? Comment and let me know.
Here's the updated pic of the project: craftyrisa.deviantart.com/art/… .

2. Entrelac Baby Beanie
I'm super excited with how this beanie is turning out. It's soo adorable and I'm just envisioning it on her little head looking so cute hehe. I finished 2 more rectangles and am about to start on the next needle full of triangles. I had previously bent one of my needles from this set and was relying on the other 4 (thankfully I had bought sets of 5) but when I picked up this project to start it this week my 4th good one was missing. So resorted to wrapping the bent one in tape so the bamboo wouldn't catch the yarn. It looks bad but it's functional. So pay no attention to the black tape in the pictures hehe.
Here's the updated pic: craftyrisa.deviantart.com/art/… .

I'm thinking of making a tutorial for this project as well on a nice clean way to pick up stitches if anyone is interested. I would like to make these journals as helpful to you as all my research has been to me, as well as maybe inspiring some of you with the projects I do. I'm a self taught knitter so anything I can do you can to :)

Happy knitting all and I'll be back again next week!

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