by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 4, 2011 | Craft
There are some craft projects just seem to drag on forever *_* This time last year I found 2 balls of the prettiest rainbow yarn on sale at Spotlight for $2 a ball. At the time I didn’t even like rainbow stuff but this reminded me so much of a rainbow Paddle Pop that I had to take it home!
With the first ball I made myself a nice easy garter stich scarf. It was finished in 2 nights ready to wear as soon as we arrived here in Melbourne.
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The second ball was put aside for a matching beanie that I was planning to knit on the drive down here. Best laid plans and all but I ended up being too concerned with trying to take photos and I only got this far XD
Pretty much all the photos here were taken on my phone so sorry for the quality!
After we got down here I was really pre-occupied through the rest of Winter so I gave up and it got moved to my “some day” pile.
A couple of weeks ago I found it while cleaning out my stash and decided that since Winter was coming again it was time to finally finish it!
I moved it over from my double pointed needles to circular ones and the race was on 😀
Because of the crazy amount of ribbing it took a really long time >_<
That said the second I was past the ribbing I finished the whole top section in one night XD
Folded and with a pompom added to the top it was finally finished! And it only took a year for me to get around to it XD
I made a couple of heart pompoms for the top but in the end I think the big floppy one works better with the design.
And now we have my new favorite winter accessory 😀
It’s massive and super soft, perfect for days when you can’t be bothered with hair and even more perfect to cover up a couple of weeks worth of re-growth 😛
I think I have an obsession with hats, I just keep wanting to make more and more! Is there some kind of hat lovers anonymous program I can join for this problem??
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by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 3, 2011 | Notices
Evening all!
Just a quick note to say that I will be moving servers tonight so if there are any hiccups with the site that’s the reason. Most likely you shouldn’t notice any difference other than a couple of broken links but just wanted to keep everyone up to date ^_^
This should clear up the issues the site has been having lately and make everything faster (hurray!) and I will have a lot more room to play around with extra features. If all goes well I’ll be able to start having things like downloadable patterns for crafts and all the other plans I’ve had on the backburner due to space/load issues 😀
Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly and see you on the other side!
<3 Violet
Update-
The move is over now yay! I will be testing and making improvements over the weekend so stay tuned for that. My email went down briefly over night but it’s back now so if you tried to get in contact with me it’s back now!
If you left a comment here in the last 12 hours it will have disappeared because of the move but I will be copy-pasting them individually when I get home this afternoon so it’s all good.
It’s James’ birthday today so we’ve got lots of fun things planned including a very large cake 😀
Thanks for your patience!
<3 Violet
by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 3, 2011 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial
After discovering how easy it was to make heart pompoms James suggested the most awesome idea: strawberry pompoms!!
This is what I ended up with on my first try, with a little tweaking it could be perfect 😀
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What you need:
- Red yarn
- White yarn
- Green yarn
- Something to make it on, I’m using an eyeshadow palette
- Small sharp scissors
Wrap the green yarn around one end of the palette. This is going to form the leaves at the top of the strawberry so only use a bit of yarn and keep it down one end like this:
Using the white yarn wrap it around the other end of the palette a couple of times:
Then wrap around a layer of the red until it’s all covered…
Then wrap the white around a couple more times…
and more red…
Basically you want to keep alternating and layering the white/red until you have a decent amount.
Pull it off the palette and hold around the middle.
Tie some yarn around the middle and leave a tail if you want to hang it somewhere.
Cut all of the loops and you should have something like this:
Start trimming! Cut the bottom into a point and then cut the rest of the yarn to be uniform.
After trimming mine looked like this!
Cute!
I want to make a whole pompom garden now hahaha!.
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