Mele Kilikimaka

It's the thing to say, on a bright, Hawaiian Christmas day!

I hope everyone's holidays are proceeding with excellent excellence. I have been doing masses of sewing myself, but wont be uploading anything here until after the holidays. There's a couple examples of holiday things over on DeviantArt , if you're really bent on having a sneak peek.

I've also been baking a little here and there. All I can say, is that these are the best cookies I have ever made, ever. Possibly the best cookies I have also ever eaten. I've made them twice with cadbury white and semi sweet chocolate chunks, and I really can't stop eating them. Tomorrow (or later today), I am embarking on the baking of these for my folks to enjoy over the days leading up to Christmas. I'm pretty stoked about them, except for the cost of the booze.

Anyways, I suppose this is farewell until the new year. Have lots of fun, eat well, get together with old friends and celebrate!!

Bender the Offender

I made this for my dear friend John for his 19th Birthday.

SNEEK PEEK!

Christmas!?
What could it be?!

The Cube of Josh

I did this one for an old friend of mine! I had a couple of issues. One, I made the cube too large, which resulted in a small decrease in awesomeness. I also spelt 'Cucumber' wrong, which is embarrassing.

Birthday-ness for Eli

So here is felt birthday card number two. This one took me FOR EVER to do! Especially because of the metalic thread. I had never used the stuff before... it's like stitching with tinsel and it caused me a considerable amount of rage. But it did turn out pretty nice, though I think the felt could have been darker or the thread could have been lighter. The blanket stitch around the edge wasn't supposed to be yellow, it was supposed to be red. Unfortunately I misjudged my embroidery floss stocks, thinking I had red, but ended up having every other colour!

Birthday-ness for Amanda!

So last week I had an idea to make felted/embroidered Birthday Cards. After two of them I decided they were a tremendous amount of work... but they do look pretty awesome. With this project, I have CONQUERED THE BLANKET STITCH! Thank you internet!

Mass Production!

Over the summer, I had my first three sister's feltie for sale at the book shop I was working at. A woman came in one day and requested that I make three of these for her. I finally got around to starting them last night on a large scale. I had to actually order in felt because the felt I used for the original was no longer available! The felt is slightly a darker colour, but it looks excellent! I can hopefully be done these in the next couple days and ship them to her by the end of the week!

Wee Scarf!

I made this for a previous co worker instead of a feltie, because she has her own special stuffed animal named Lenny! So I decided to make him a delish accessory! This is the second complete thing I've ever knitted. I just used a basic knit, as I have not yet mastered any other stitch. I made the L's out of felt and put one on each end of the scarf, with a mirrored L on the back. And the recipient's name stitched into one of them.


So many L's!








Modeled on my Build-A-Bear frog!

Bar of Felt Chocolate!

Awesome!


Chocolate Bar!


Wrapper without bar inside of it.


Back of wrapper. Buttoned up! I realized, only after the fact, that there were much better ways to put the wrapper together. But live and learn, I suppose.


I stitched the recipient's name onto the bottom corner.


Chocolate peeking out! I just realized I didn't get a picture of just the chocolate bar. But I made a simple rectangular wire frame for him and stitched on a wee face and seems where squares of chocolate would be!


Finished product! Chocolate bar & wrapper! Constructed from felt!

Buttons!!

Secret Project 2!

OOOoooo!! So Secret!
I'm doing this one by hand and not with the sewing machine, because at this point its actually FASTER to hand stitch it. I'd end up wrecking like... 7 of them by using a sewing machine.
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Crash Course in Sewing Machine Education

My mom bought me a sewing machine as my moving out gift! It's awesome, except I have no idea how to use it. A couple weeks ago I sat down and taught myself the basics.

This was the most solid thing that came out of that day. Whale. There was a much less succesful whale before him. He got canned. Haha.




I do enjoy this whale, as he is pretty awesome. He serves now as a pincushion and perhaps I shall make a more refined version of him one of these days.

Oranges, Sir!

These photos were terrible. I did them in a hurry and we are all aware that haste makes waste. I made this for my dear friend Lauren as a late birthday gift. She told me her favorite colour was orange, and her favorite fruit, an orange. So, I made an orange orange with a mustache. The original plan was to include a monacle, which I tried for hours to construct, but alas, I was unable. Lauren's name is tramp-stamped in cursive on his back lower regions.

Crooked Hearts

I was trying to develop a small, cost effective thing. These are them. Super boring though, haha.

On sale HERE.

Goldfinch & Secret Project 1: COMPLETE

The tail!


A close up on the strange, annoyingly annoying head. It just didn't work the way it was supposed to.


The whole thing!

Bird!!

No Braaaains!


No eeeeyes!


Eye!!


WITH EYES!

SNEEEEK PEEEEK!

What could it be!!

FINAL ZOMBIE PANDA!

At last! The last stitch has been stitched and the blood and gore has been splattered! Here is Zombie Panda, awesome!! He truly is the life of the party.


Panda be in your head, eatin your brains.



The creation and the creator!



The recipient!



He's a creeper.