What I have been up to... (crafty bits)

[susie_flo]

Hello fiendlets,

What are you all up to on this fine Sunday evening?
 
I am on cat feeding duty for a friend this week so will be popping over there shortly armed with curry and Angel DVDs...  oh yes, dear friends, I do live the high life.    But who am I to argue with people who have cute cats, really big TVs and huge squashy sofas?
  
Over the last couple of weeks I've been posting a few bits to my craft blog so I thought I would pop in here and give you the edited highlights...    (well, mainly just a few pics, if you're interested.)
       
First of all, I have just finished making this little confection...   (due to become a christmas present, and don't worry - I am already slapping myself for bringing up the C word!)   It's made from the softest, most divine yarn known to man, and that is no lie...  
 





Full details and a few more pics blogged here... http://susiefhandmade.blogspot.com/2009/08/angora-lace-pretty.html   
 
 
I've also beeing having a bit of fun experimenting with yarn dying...   using, of all things, a radioactive American soft drink powder called "Kool Aid".   I can only assume that some knutter discovered this by accident, but it seems to work very well and the colour is permanent and wash-proof.  
    





More details on the process and results are blogged here...   http://susiefhandmade.blogspot.com/2009/08/kool-aids-so-bright-i-gotta-wear-shades.html     and here...   http://susiefhandmade.blogspot.com/2009/08/kool-and-gang-part-2.html
 

Anyway here's the really new thing...   it is Sunday evening and I don't have a feeling of all encompassing dread at going back to work tomorrow.  Yayness!  I have gained a little distance from The Mong Collective and things are already on the up...  
 

Comments

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

Cats who demand curry and trash TV... :-)

That knit is gorgeous.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh! Yes, it's all for the cat, that's what I will tell myself. Not to satisfy my own, gluttonous, lowbrow needs, noooo, not at all.

And thank you... (about the knit)

:-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Scarflet is very nice.

The kool aid colours are really groovy, escailly the orange and the pale teal. But given what it does to wool, I wouldn't recommend using kool aid for its original purpose.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Yes I had the same thought! I wonder if it turns your wee technicolour?
I might make some very bright socks with the groovy yarn...

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Very pretty!

Don't try that trick with coke - you won't have any wool left ;-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you... and yes I shall be avoiding coke for anything other than cleaning old pennies (or is that a myth?)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It works - we did it at Primary School. But the tooth thing is rubbish.