Christmas Presents

A bit of a late post on this one. Rob and I decided to make toy boxes for our niece and nephew. He constructed them from his own design and I painted them and sewed a cushion for the top. I also made the niece a crocheted koala. They and their families really liked the toy boxes! I don't think we'll do it again though unless we have children of our own. It was a lot of work and took up way too much space in our little basement suite.

Cross-stitch Stockings

I've been working on these for a couple of years now. They're almost finished, just a bit of backstitching to do. Then I can go back to working on my cross-stitched tulips for a change.

Dragon Sculpture

A while back I sculpted a dragon. This was a lot of work. I spent easily 24 hours on it, and it still isn't the greatest. Apparently it could use a good sanding.

I first constructed a very simple wire frame upon which I stuck wadded-up tinfoil. Then I added the polymer clay and sculpted from there. The head I had already sculpted entirely from polymer clay. I got a bit tired of it once I got to the feet so they have very little detail. I think next time I'd make them entirely from clay and not try to sculpt them into clay-wrapped foil.

Perhaps it's not the type of dragon usually seen, but it came out precisely how I draw them, so I was pretty happy with it. It is not finished; I'm in the process of painting it, though I need a bit of help from my husband. He's used to painting 3D objects and I just don't know where to put the shadows and highlights and make them look right.

Socks and more socks.

This year I've decided to make one mystery sock pair per month. So far, so good.

January:
I wasn't too happy with this one. It turned out way too small and I screwed up a bit. Plus, I'm not a big fan of having to work back and forth on socks.

February:
Nice and classy pattern.

March:
Loved these, but I think my contrast was not good enough with the colors. My mom loved them though so I gave them to her.

It's been a while.

I kind of stopped blogging for a while but I think I'll pick it up again, just to show things I've made.

Here's some recent WIP:

This is a scarf that will take a year to make. Each line records the temperature of one day. You can see the warm streak in January by the yellow-greens.

This one is a pattern I'm developing. Some of it will change but I like the results so far.

And finally, a mystery sock pattern titled Eisern. It's my first time doing stranded knitting (properly, anyway).