Past Crafty Creations

 

July 11, 2021 ~ I am trying to get my business back on track. After the fabric facemask run, a family of crickets seemed to have moved into my site store! I am working on new products and discovering some pretty rad stuff! I made this wall clock using an old vinyl record. Yes...epic!

 

 

 

June 7, 2020 ~ With this horrible pandemic upon us, I've been trying to make as many masks to donate to folks.  I feel everyone has the right to protect others as well as themselves.  This mask is a sample that I made for the summer hires at work.  Of course, I would never don this.  Ha!

June 4, 2018 ~ I've been working on this wonderful charity called the Mother Bear Project.  I had wanted to knit for this organization for such a long time, but I never got around to it.  I'm working on a new promotional item for my biz, DinaripperCreations, and I wanted to make a project bag that other Mother Bear knitters and crocheters could purchase, but a portion of the sale of each bag would go towards the Mother Bear Project.  Well, I needed some bears to put with my finished bag photos, and I'm having so much fun (finally) making them, I'm going to keep going! 

May 24, 2018 ~ I've been working on this themed Mystery Knit Along (MKAL) through Jimmy Bean's Wool. It has clues that are tied to Season Two of The Handmaid's Tale on HULU. I don't watch the show, but I do like the cowl this MKAL is creating!

May 13, 2016 ~ Warning!!! I've got Man-hands!

I can't believe that I haven't knit in such a long time! Gasp!! What's wrong with me?? Nothing!!

With my retirement from the Army, moving, and trying to get the house back in order, I haven't had the urge to knit. A lot of this is because I've been doing so many manual labor projects in and all around the house, my hands are so dry and unattractive. My skin feels like the "hook" portion of Velcro. So, every time I attempt to knit something, my fingers snag and stick to my yarn. Not cool!

However, I have put all of my yarn into my studio though. Funny thing, I had only a few skeins before we left home in early 2012, and now I have enough to start up my own small yarn shop! Once I get my hands back into "baby's bottom smooth" shape, there won't be much time that I won't be knitting!

September 12, 2015 ~ I've been knitting up myself yet another sweater. I've developed a pattern specifically for me, and I love the finished sweater. This one is about a third finished. It's usually a v-neck collar, but I think I'm going to alter the pattern yet again to make it a crew neck. That's a rounded neck for all you clothing term illiterates out there. As I look at the picture, I'm seeing an interesting pattern from the yarn dye. This is called "pooling" when certain tones seem to knit right up next to each other, row after row. Hence, the interesting tiger-like stripes. It should be an interesting FO. That's finished object for all of you knit illiterates out there! ;P

May 29, 2015 ~ I've been working on this cardigan called "Chance of Showers." It's been going well, but I'm not sure what I think of the style or the color. Cross your fingers for me that I'll like it enough to want to wear it when I'm finished!