Some Neck Stuff

Hiya from a,

A couple things for you today.  The first harkens back to my last post.  Remember how I showed you the yarn that I dyed and spun in three days?  Well I then took that yarn and made something from it in 4 days.  I turned fiber into object in one week.  Now I want to be clear, you are a bit of a dumbass if you try to do something like this on a regular basis, but it was fun to push myself to see what would happen (I don't plan to make this kind of turnaround a regular habit).  Here is the small shawl I made from Christopher Lee is free:

You can see that the yarn is darker than it looked in the other photo I showed you.  I even blocked this project because the yarn was rather bouncy so it needed to be pulled out a bit.  Here is a close up of the stitch pattern:

What I am really pleased about (aside from the fact that it came out pretty) is how the colour really came out in subtle stripes.  That was not especially my intent, but how cool is that?

The next thing that I have to show you is also really cool, but in a more geeky way.  The FLBs always meet on Sunday Mornings at the Spyhouse on Nicollet.  The girl working knows us well as she has been there as long as we have, and when I went to get a coffee, she flipped over what I am about to show you and was all jealous that I had this:

My more nerd friendly readers will know right away who these two heads are, but for those who don't (hi Mom) this is Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers from the Scott Pilgrim comic books.  The books are awesome and the movie that came out was crazy cool too.  Anyways these charms were a thank you from a friend for watching a neat cat.  What I did was use guitar string to make the silver loops/hanging apparatus that you see (it makes sense as one, I have an abundance of guitar strings floating around the house, two, scott is in a band in the books).  Then I crocheted up the chain, making two different strings so that Ramona hung above Scott (which makes total sense if you know the books).  Add a loop and a button at the back and you have a necklace.

As you faithful readers know, I tend to show you finished projects, instead of stuff that I am in the middle of.  I decided though that since I am working on a really huge project right now, I'd show you the various stages of making it.  This stage is about 12% done:

Some of you know what this is going to be, but it should be fun to what it all come together.

Take care.