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When it comes to making accessories for Lolita outfits my favourite is sweet. Gothic is a difficult to get right and I sometimes find Classic styles a little bland to make but sweet gives me licence to encrust whatever I am making with as many buttons, ribbons and such things as I like.

For example this head bow I knitted to go with my milanoo skirt:

cavity inducing isn't it?

I have two fat quarters of different pink fabrics that may be turnd into acessories yet o(^v^)o
Head bow knitting pattern from Innocent World in the english G&LB.

Part book reveiw part nefarious plot

I've been kind of busy recently but in the down time I've been really bored so I got this book today.

They are all really small projects and worked in DK so they shouldn't take very long or take up much space if I'm knitting on the go.  Another reason for getting it is to leave around various places just to see peoples reaction on seeing a slice of pizza, a burger or some sushi sitting where they wouldn't expect it.

The projects include: Burgers, Sandwiches, Pizza slices, Bacon, Fried eggs, Pitta breads, Hot dogs, Sushi, Ice creams, Cupcakes and several types of pies.  Most of the projects are knitted in parts which makes it very easy to transfer bits between projects (such as knitting the bun for the burger but putting bacon, egg or chips into it rather than the meat).

I haven't made anything out of it yet but it only a matter of time before I do just wait. Keep checking back and you may find pictures of weird coloured foods (like a purple and pastel blue burger) when I can't be bothered finding the right colours.

I got the book in Waterstones for £4.99 and it can also be found on Amazon.

Sewing Cravings

I know this is impractical and liable to cause procrastination but I really want a sewing machine of my own to sew things.

I don't have my own despite all my waffling about the stuff I made over the summer. I was using my mum's machine but as I am back at uni I no longer have access to it and I still really want to sew clothes and bags. Near the end of the summer I sketched a few designs based around modification of the pattern used to make the skirt in this post.
I'm planning on combining the three teirs of the skirt into a plain gatherd skirt of three or four panels. The good points of this is that I can use fabrics with bigger prints and theres less work involed as there's only one gathering session needed for it.  The bad points is that with fewr areas of gathering any mistakes would be more obvius, it would need a much greater amount of lining and both the gatherd fabric and gatherd lining would be on the same seam meaning very heavy going for the sewing machine when it comes to sewing the lining.
Another possability of this modding would be having a skirt like the one above but with a ruffle at the bottom of it with a slightly shorter main body.
These two designs have near limitless potential for decorations like embroidery onto the skirt itself or sewing on fabric patches and applique of felt or ebroiderd Aida fabric

Just a quick note

My summer has properly finished now and I am back at uni so theres gonna be fewer posts unless I'm procrastinating but that might not work as well as it does for some others.

I'll probably do more stuff on scenery or little things about the place.  I may even do some more on knitting and other such stuff.

Koi-Koi anyone?

I have a set of hanafuda cards from Nintendo.  They came with a set of instructions for the game Koi-Koi and now I really want to play a game with someone.

Nintendo originally started as a company manufacturing hanafuda cards in 1889 which seems so far from what most people associate with Nintendo now.  Hanafuda (flower cards) cards are divided into twelve sets of four each representing a month with a different flower.  The images on each card are different so almost none of them exactly match.

I got my set through the points exchange with club Nintendo and they had specially redesigned sixteen if the cards replacing the traditional designs with Mario characters such as...

Mario, Yoshi, Luigi (and Waluigi) and Lakitu

Blooper, Paragoomba, Donkey Kong and Boo

Toadies, Piranha Plant, Wario and Peach with Toad

Koopa, Bowser and the club Nintendo logo

Koi-koi is played by trying to obtain sets of cards usually the four cards to make a whole month or other sets like the "five lights" or "moon viewing" where you can either end the round there or call koi-koi if you think you can collect another set before your opponent to earn more points. In each game there are twelve rounds and the person with the most points  at the end of the twelve rounds wins.

So... anybody up for a game?