Posted in Crocheting on 07/06/2010 04:57 pm by Jacci
Awhile ago I crocheted/loom knitted a couple random things. First I made Yoda ears for a girl at the office.
It was a very simple design just a headband with two triangles on both sides. It’s not the best work I’ve ever done but it made me happy to be crocheting again. At the time I hadn’t crocheted in months because of so much chaos going on in my life. I never realized what a stress reliever it is to crochet.
Next I made a mohawk hat or Mr T. hat as some people call them. The hat was made on a knitting loom then I just cut the yarn into 3 inch pieces and looped them onto the stitches.
If anyone knows of an easier way of making the mohawk let me know. I have to make a unicorn hat next and I’m dreading making the mane lol
Posted in Cooking/Baking on 06/05/2010 09:31 pm by Jacci
For Thanksgiving and Christmas I am normally put in change of making a good portion of the desserts when it’s held at my parents house. This year for Thanksgiving was different, I made 4 different desserts; 2 pumpkin pies (1 graham cracker crust, 1 oil pie crust), 2 chocolate pudding (1 graham cracker crust, 1 oil pie crust), 1 pumpkin cheesecake and 1 chocolate pumpkin cheesecake. Also my brother’s fiancee brought this awesome apple pie.
Thankfully, I didn’t try to leave any of the cooking till the last minute this year and made all the desserts the day before because at about 11am my parents electricity went out. In fact most of their neighborhood was out. We ended up rushing the food to my apartment to finish the cooking process. Getting the food there wasn’t an issue, I live under 5 minutes from my parents home, just the lack of space I have in my tiny kitchen.
In the end everything turned out well, the 15+ family members sat around in candle light telling stories from their childhoods and fond memories of past holidays till the power came back on around 5:30pm. Had an enjoyable meal and left with plenty of left overs.
Working on catching up on posts I saved from the holidays. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll be posting about the different cookies and treats I made but first I’ll start with what I did for Halloween.
For Halloween my sister asked me to make her an angel Halloween costume for a party she was going to. We ended up finding a white dress at Goodwill. It had the right silhouette for what she had in mind and was a little a couple sizes too big so we had plenty of fabric to work with too.
Sorry this is the only picture I have of her in the tutu
Originally I was going to make a petticoat to go under the dress to make it more poofy but my sewing machine is old and it doesn’t like a lot of fabrics(including tulle). So I searched around and found a no sew video for a girls tutu on YouTube. I linked to the video below.
My sister ended up feeling the girls tutu was the best part, so the dress became more of a body suit that went under the dress. It was shorten and an elastic band was added to the bottom, also I added a fake corset to the back to make it a bit more form fitting.
The tutu had to be the easiest part of the whole costume. Since then I’ve even made two smaller ones for my little cousins.
Our “kitten” Hobbes has started to chew on fabric at night when he is locked up in the bathroom. So far he has destroyed 1 pillow, 2 blankets, a bathmat and a towel. We know he’s doing it mainly because he’s cranky about being locked up, but since he runs around at night which causes our neighbor to get cranky we needed to come up with something he could sleep on but not chew on. LT and I decided a pillow that was made out of a tougher material and rounded might hopefully keep Hobbes from eating it.
I had some canvas material laying around for making grocery bags so I decided to try using that. So far he’s had the pillow around a month and has bit it once but never chewed up it. Our other cat Doomy ended up getting jealous of Hobbes’s new bed so I made him one a couple weeks after that.
Since the first one was so successful with the cats I decided to take a few pictures of how I made it.
Here’s Doomy helping me with the pattern. I made a circle out of cardboard with a 22 inch diameter then I traced it onto the fabric I had folded over so I could cut out two circles.
After I cut out the two circles I measure a long rectangle for the center, I made it 8 inches wide and about 70 inches long. At the time I didn’t measure the length I just kinda made a circle with the fabric around my cut out circles to guess the length needed.
After it was all cut out I just sewed the circles onto the edges of the rectangle and added stuffing. Here is Doomy modeling his new pillow.
Both pet beds turned out really well. I’ll probably make more pillows shaped like this for the couch next.
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/13/2009 06:48 pm by Jacci
Originally I was going to just start updating my Livejournal account again but I just don’t feel like going forward with that blog anymore. It had a good run but I just want something different for a different phase of my life. I plan to keep it open to continue to keep track of the happenings of my online friends I just won’t be posting in it other then maybe to link to a new post here.
I haven’t been crafting as much as I’d like to, I have also been letting this site sit and collect dust for way to long. I love working on sites and learning about new things in the web design/development field so I decided to remove the old project I had up and put up a blog to encourage me to start crafting, working the sites and just keeping me motivated all around. I think it should work out pretty well. I’ll just have to watch that I avoid going into hiding like I did in Livejournal. All is well over here with me, LT, our cats(Hobbes & Doomy) and Filburt the tortoise. We are working on moving to a new apartment soon, we don’t have one lined up yet but we still have a month and a half. My job that we moved here for is still awesome and I hope it continues to be
Sorry this is the only picture I have of her in the tutu 
