20131130

Needle felting lesson

Since finishing Lalupe (who's now happily sharing a windowsill with her older brother Dagobert), not a lot has happened on the dry felting frontier.
Until, two weeks ago, my friend from Brussels asked me for an introduction. I showed her some techniques (round, flat and long thin shapes, face shaping, basic eyes) and invented a new one for tiny rattie paws.




20131126

Draggins!

Somewhere on the intarwebs... a picture from an etsy shop got reposted.
As a knitter, my first thought was, "I can do this!". But I know myself, and at the moment, starting a project is easy, finishing is not. So I decided to knit four mittens at once, one pair for a friend, one pair for myself.

This is how it started out:
shot by Ameria for Naaldzang

This was almost finished (I had switched to my pointiest circs for ease of cabling):
shot by Ameria for Naaldzang

And this is the result:
shot by Ameria for ravelry
shot by Ameria for ravelry


shot by Ameria for ravelry

So glad I was able to finish them, so happy to have them off the needles. So green.