FOX & FEATHER
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Love,
R & H
Setting: Autumn in the Rockies
Characters: Mary, Nick, Winston, the Broncos and myself.
Plot: I fell in love with this pretty awesome Berroco Campus yarn in ‘Latte’ at a yarn shop I had never been to before called “Yarn” (how creative) in Durango. I’m not the biggest football fan, so every Sunday night I would knit while “watching” the Broncos game with Mary, Nick, and Winston. These mittens and headband are a product of those nights! I love them. I found the 4 double sided needle mitten pattern on Ravelry.com, and if you are a knitter OR crocheter and haven’t taken a look at that site yet - head on over! They have tons of free patterns and a pretty powerful search engine. Its a great resource. The headband I just kind of made up. Super easy: its all garter stitch, cinched with a yarn I braided together.
-H
While we are on the jewelry topic…
Setting: A Pinterest inspired afternoon.
Characters: Myself, a friend from high school
Plot:
A good friend in high school gave me my first set of real pearls for my 18th birthday (Or was it a graduation present? I can’t remember). Her mom even helped me to string them myself. Unfortunately, about a year or two ago, these dear strand of pearls broke. I couldn’t let these go to waste, so I updated them and made them more modern using ribbon, wire, and silver beads according to a necklace I saw on Pinterest.
ALSO featuring: the hex nut bracelet trend - my own version using fabric and string.
-H
Setting:
In between Winter and Spring semester, most of friends graduated and/or went home = bored and lonely
Characters:
Only me and birds chirping outside
Plot:
I can never throw old stuff away, so I have drawers full of material scraps, and broken jewelry. I took a strip of material (long enough to be a decent-sized necklace + some extra to account for knots), sewed it into a tube (wide enough to fit beads inside), and turned it inside-out. I then stuffed the beads in, starting with the middle one, and tied knots on either side of the beads to keep them in place. On the ends, I threaded the tube through the beads, because I wanted these ones to show.
I think the original tube of fabric was too short, so I took another strip, twisted it, and then tied it to the ends of the tube with beads already knotted in it.
-R
Setting:
Hot, summer, beach day.
Characters:
Just me.
Plot:
My mom and I had just finished making window treatments for my bedroom and there was some leftover material. The weather was perfect for beach-combing, which inspired me to use the leftovers for a beach-type dress. I cut off the top of an old tank top (one that was too short and had a stain at the bottom) and sewed the curtain material to the bottom. Voila!
-R
Setting:
End of summer, beginning of spring. In front of TV watching 30 rock.
Characters:
Myself, Jack Donaghy, Liz Lemon etc.
Plot:
I found myself with a surplus of old T-shirts. Heather had knit a rug during winter out of T-shirt yarn so I snatched the idea and made t-shirt yarn to crochet a rug. I tried to make a circular rug, but I ran into the same problem as the last time- the middle kept bumping up. I gave up on the circle and made a pentagon (much easier). I did not completely tie off the end because I may want to keep adding on when I get more T-shirts.
** I didn’t have time to make up my own tutorial for how to make “T-shirt yarn” but here’s a good one: T-shirt Yarn
-R
Setting:
Winter, christmas time, digging through mom’s closet
Characters:
Mom’s shirt and me
Plot:
I was browsing through my mom’s closet when I came across a blouse that I’m always borrowing. I decided I would make a blouse of my own using my mom’s as a template. I made my very first pattern, using the original as a guide, and used fun, sheer fabric to construct the new one. (I will try to locate the original blouse to compare it to the new one)
-R
Setting:
Beginning of summer, in my mom’s garden
Characters:
Mom and me
Plot:
A friend of mine had given me a “carousel-style” picture frame eons ago, and it was still empty. I was brainstorming what to do with it (because I don’t have pictures that tiny) when my mom gave me this idea. I used my favorite blooms from the garden, and pressed them for a few weeks- then stuck ‘em in the frames.
-R
GIFT WRAP
Setting:
Crested Butte & my cabin’s front porch.
Characters:
A friend living in Rome. Myself.
Plot:
A good friend of mine is studying abroad and I have been meaning to send him a little something for ages. I finally got around to putting something together and really wanted him to have a taste of my life right now and what I have been doing. I also wanted to cover the ugly mason jar box I was using - so I grabbed a hiking map I had saved from a recent trip to Crested Butte. It made for some great wrapping paper. I taped a few golden aspen leaves that I found on my front porch on to the box and voila! A taste of Colorado ready for USPS.
-H
TREASURE MOBILE
Setting:
Colorado Rockies - Pagosa Springs - Camp. Snow is just beginning to melt after our October storm.
Characters:
Me plus some people who have given me little treasures.
Plot:
Today some young ladies I know made me some really awesome origami. They are pretty talented and their work is beautiful! I kept their gifts in a basket and thought that I should do something great with them. Looking around my cabin I realized I had other little treasures here and there. Things people have given me, maybe something I found on a trail, or just outside my front door. I strung two aspen twigs together and used twine to make a treasure mobile. As I was making it I thought it would be interesting to make other themed mobiles: mobiles of autumn leaves, mobiles of interesting stones, maybe one of old or broken jewelry…etc.
- H
