I'm so very sorry

I have been woefully neglegting this blog for the last few weeks. My whole course at uni went a little crazy because of the assesment load that ment there was five assesments due in the last two weeks of term before the exams.

I have been more active on tumblr by doing live blogging revision and being caught up in the fangasm that has been the Avengers. I was so happy I got to see it before it came out in America and I will not spoil it for anyone (other than the fact you should go see it, like, right now). What I am even more happy about is the fact that I'm going to see it again tomorrow and possibly in IMAX... (insert uncomrehensable high pitched fangirl noise here) I can't stop grinning when I think about it.

I have got an idea for a post in the very near future: a star jar tutorial and maybe I'll finish the Dublin trip post that has been sitting in draft form since november...

I just realised as I was typing this I have ben blogging here for over a year!

Happy (very belated) birthday to surrounded by pretty things!

I will be doing more posts in the next few months as I have some projects that I want to do and several book reveiws that need finishing.

Dee-con report

sorry this has taken so long I've had an assessment avalanche at uni but I finally found some time to sit down and write this post.

I didn't take many pictures because I was in a really crowded area of the dealers room/artist alley so I couldn't stop people without causing a huge blockage.

I did however get a picture of my table (but then again this was a little difficult because the table opposite me was incredibly popular even before the doors opened)

you can see my battalion of cream egg chicks on the right

 
I managed to sell the Knives chau scarf (don't look at me like that, I was never going to wear the thing) I also know for a fact it's gone to a very loving home.

I think I made a couple of mistakes with my table layout as people tended not to buy things from the stands I had... which I felt was kind of a shame as when I showed people the things from them they generally reacted positively rather than with polite disinterest.

I bought a little red octopus keyring from sakurasweetcake (It's just too cute!) she then bought one of my rose headbands.

I had so much fun doing it and I have already got ideas for stuff I want to do for next year (I'm gonna be diversifying).

Dee-con

I'm going to Dee-con on the 7th of April (this Saturday!).  I have a table in artist alley again this year selling similar things and a few new things.  Please come by to say Hi and buy some knitted accessories.

I will also be doing quick repairs for things bought last year (things like buttons or pins coming off or snags in the knitting).

There will be a lot more of the cream egg chicks and some more flower headbands but no bow headbands as well as a selection of fingerless gloves.

I'd love it if people who got something last year tell me what you think of yours a year on.

Maybe see you there?

Book Reveiw: Eco-Friendly Knits

Eco-friendly knits by Emily Blades is one of the twenty to make series and contains patterns that are knitted with yarn (or plarn as the book calls it) made from plastic bags.

This is an interesting form of recycling that takes an item that is known for being a visible pollutant and dangerous to animals and turns it into a much nicer looking, easier to store and useful item.  I find plastic bags an irritating thing to store as they just fill up drawers and are never taken out to use again. The 'Plarn' made from the bags is a little difficult to knit with (I have yet to attempt crochet with it) as it has a tendency to stick a little when being fed through your fingers but it creates a firm 'fabric' that can be ironed to fuse it into a ridged structure without completely loosing the texture of the knitting.

I haven't done any of the projects in the book as of yet but I'm finding it fun just to make plarn (especially in public) from as many different bags as I can (so far there's been bags from tesco, co-op, Superdrug, boots, the factory shop and several coloured bags from independent shops). One of my main problems is that from a regular sized carrier bag you only get a tiny ball of plarn and to do anything remotely big you need a lot of bags.

Some of the projects given in the book are a little weird such as the heart necklace. It is far too bulky and looks clumsy when worn in the pictures for the pattern. A lot of the projects are nice and I could see them being put to use. The drinks mat and waste paper basket are just some of these.  Then some of them are a nice idea but would be as good at their given purpose as a chocolate teapot. The electronics cosies fall into this category because for me the purpose of those would be to protect the item from scratches while it's being carried about but all I can see is them causing more scratchies than they would have prevented.

Bloggers Block?

Recently I have found that I start blog entries and then after writing a little I leave it in draft form and can't seem to finish it. I currently have seven posts that are sitting in draft form waiting to be finished.

Five of those are book reveiws as well as the Dublin post that has been mentiond more than once.

In other news since I get the first two zelda games and Four swords for my 3DS I have been trying to at least play every game in the zelda series (except the cdi games *shudder* if you dont understand why they provike that response watch this video).  So far I have managed to play all of them apart from the oracle games and I have finished Four Swords (the main quest at least).  I have made it a large chunk of the way thorugh the Minish Cap, Wind Waker (I like to think so) and Ocarina of Time. I haven't played very much of Majoras Mask and I keep dying in A Link to the Past.  Skyward Sword has been severly neglected (Scaldera scares me)

Crafty news! the knives chau inspired scarf is finished! it comes in at just over 3m.  My knitting for Dee-con is going good and I will definatly have more headbands than last year.  I'm also knitting a variety of chunky mug hugs and travel cup sleaves in coffee clolours so my table isn't all girly accessories.
The chicks are comming back big time (as in more than twenty of them). I might have acutual jewelry that's not knitted.

I'm amazed that this post has made it out of the draft stage.