Don't Mind the Arrow

23 Days to Finish

As I posted previously, I've been working on wedding-related projects. I just counted it up, and 23 days remain in which to finish my stole, among other things. *Gulp*

That's the middle part of the pattern. I'm enjoying working on it, but also a little worried about finishing it (and the other projects, and the things for my swaps ...). It's the first time I've done a project that incorporated beads.  Here's a closeup where you can see a few of them.

I chose light blue ones, and I think they're perfect - you can tell they're blue, but they don't draw attention away from the pattern at all by being too high-contrast. I'm trying to keep myself on track by working on other projects during the day and knitting at night while we watch tv or a movie. So far, so good! Watch this space for panic as the days dwindle, haha.

 

Making Flowers

I've been busy crafting, but it's mostly been wedding-related. I've been trying to keep the wedding stuff from taking over every aspect of my life and online presence, but there are places where the crossover is appropriate. For instance, I'm doing the decorations myself.

I've been toying with various ways to make flowers, and have so far found a few methods I'm really enjoying. One of these is crochet.

I was a little skeptical about it at first because although I don't need lifelike flowers, I also didn't want them to just look vaguely flower-like. So it was with only mild anticipation that I tried crocheted carnations. At various points in the process, I stopped and squished it together, trying to see how it would end up. And it wasn't doing much to push aside my doubts. Somehow, when it was all done and put together though, it looked remarkably carnation-like.

So much so, in fact, that I made another one.

I'm going to make a few more, and then branch out (no pun intended!) to a couple of other types of flowers. Hopefully those experiments will be as successful.