okay, so i finally joined ravelry! it is kind of shaming to see how much yarn i have that i haven't done anything with. and i have only input a small portion of my stash. and that's not even counting fabric and lumber and seeds and everything else. bad, bad, bad.
but!
i am thinking maybe i can unload some things which have been hanging around unused for far too long.
that, or i can actually get to work and get some stuff made. this weekend i pulled out the recycled sari silk i got via a swap (i think? i can't remember even, it was so long ago... all i really remember is that i got it from an individual stash-addict as opposed to a store) and i'm close to half-done a little sweater. so there!
24.3.08
17.3.08
so near and yet so far...
for years i have this vague image in my mind of the ideal man: dashing, squinting into the distance, a lovably rascally look to his curling lip, arms folded across his chest as his scarf blows in the wind, pencil moustache...
moustache?
okay, i have to say i have no love for the stache. except, of course, on clark gable, the sexiest man ever to have lived. well, at least he's near the top of the list.
so when my lovably rascally baby boy started eating his hearing aids regularly, turning him into a dashing aviator seemed the obvious option!
but this would be no average balaclava helmet. this one would have special features for my little guy: mesh over the ears (no point in putting expensive hearing aids on a kid and then covering up the microphones), and a button at the back (out of reach!) to ensure that the hat could be snug enough that he can't take it off, but still put-on-able and get-off-able with a parent's help.
i thought about it how to begin, measured my guy's head, selected my yarn (kroy socks - wooly warm, durable, washable) and began. i should have thought more. the mesha was loosey goosey, the hat was all over the place. i frogged and began again. i got something that looked like it might work, but after a short time on an actual babyhead, got all stretched out of shape and was soon backwards, and the aids were getting chewed once again. then i frogged and ended up working on the wrong sized needles. more frogging.
finally, i thought i had it sorted. i switched to smaller needles for the mesh bits so they weren't so floppy. i ribbed around the hole where his face would go, to have a snug firm edge. finally, it was done! i put it on, and it was snug. really snug. but doable. and maybe it would stretch? or not. i have the perfect hat for a baby the size he was six months ago. yeehaw. so do i frog and start again? or say to hell with it and forget about it until the fall?
meanwhile, i did manage to keep it on his head for one little walk:
the matching mittens he's not so keen on.
moustache?
okay, i have to say i have no love for the stache. except, of course, on clark gable, the sexiest man ever to have lived. well, at least he's near the top of the list.
so when my lovably rascally baby boy started eating his hearing aids regularly, turning him into a dashing aviator seemed the obvious option!
but this would be no average balaclava helmet. this one would have special features for my little guy: mesh over the ears (no point in putting expensive hearing aids on a kid and then covering up the microphones), and a button at the back (out of reach!) to ensure that the hat could be snug enough that he can't take it off, but still put-on-able and get-off-able with a parent's help.
i thought about it how to begin, measured my guy's head, selected my yarn (kroy socks - wooly warm, durable, washable) and began. i should have thought more. the mesha was loosey goosey, the hat was all over the place. i frogged and began again. i got something that looked like it might work, but after a short time on an actual babyhead, got all stretched out of shape and was soon backwards, and the aids were getting chewed once again. then i frogged and ended up working on the wrong sized needles. more frogging.
finally, i thought i had it sorted. i switched to smaller needles for the mesh bits so they weren't so floppy. i ribbed around the hole where his face would go, to have a snug firm edge. finally, it was done! i put it on, and it was snug. really snug. but doable. and maybe it would stretch? or not. i have the perfect hat for a baby the size he was six months ago. yeehaw. so do i frog and start again? or say to hell with it and forget about it until the fall?
meanwhile, i did manage to keep it on his head for one little walk:
the matching mittens he's not so keen on.
9.3.08
almost there
well i can't seem to upload photos today on either of my blogger sites, grr. but, i am just about done something i have been working on for ages. i have knit and frogged and knit and frogged and knit and frogged and i seem to have finally worked the bugs out and am close to finished! it seems almost impossible with the amount of frogging i have been doing, and i can't offer any photographic evidence at the moment, but i swear it is true...
11.2.08
shameless plug
okay, i did take a moment today while the baby was napping to dig out some half-finished projects, so there will be some real filmcraft content posted here soon.
but for now, allow me to present jill murray, author of break on through, which is being published tomorrow! jill and i used to co-host a reading series in toronto, and we've read various versions of each other's unpublished novels, so i am extremely excited to read an actual published-by-a-big-publisher novel. amazon had better deliver tomorrow, or i will be pretty mad.
also, if you're in southern ontario, tune in tomorrow (that's tuesday 12 february) to cbc radio 1's here and now, where jill will be doing interviews. i nearly had a heart attack when i randomly heard the promo for it on the weekend.
go jill!
but for now, allow me to present jill murray, author of break on through, which is being published tomorrow! jill and i used to co-host a reading series in toronto, and we've read various versions of each other's unpublished novels, so i am extremely excited to read an actual published-by-a-big-publisher novel. amazon had better deliver tomorrow, or i will be pretty mad.
also, if you're in southern ontario, tune in tomorrow (that's tuesday 12 february) to cbc radio 1's here and now, where jill will be doing interviews. i nearly had a heart attack when i randomly heard the promo for it on the weekend.
go jill!
22.1.08
i met the walrus
one of the shorts we funded got nominated for an academy award! woo hoo! it's called i met the walrus and all the info is available here. it's screening at sundance this week, too. i sense a busy month coming up for bravo!fact...
the story behind the short is interesting - when he was just a kid (14 years old), jerry levitan talked his way into john lennon's hotel room to conduct an interview. that tape is the soundtrack for some gorgeous animation. huge congrats to jerry and director josh raskin for their awesome work!
(edit)
while i'm at it, here's the trailer:
the story behind the short is interesting - when he was just a kid (14 years old), jerry levitan talked his way into john lennon's hotel room to conduct an interview. that tape is the soundtrack for some gorgeous animation. huge congrats to jerry and director josh raskin for their awesome work!
(edit)
while i'm at it, here's the trailer:
19.1.08
a new year, a new start
well, looking at all of my posts so far, i realise two things:
1. my favourite title for posts is "whee"
2. i got nothing done once wee h came along
and so, in an effort to get myself in gear, i've decided the best inspiration to do more work is to give myself more work to do! so, i'mk going to redesign this blog, since it looks pretty dull. and since i'm too cheap to go pro with this site, filmcraft is moving to blogger. so - today a new url, and renovations to follow shortly!
1. my favourite title for posts is "whee"
2. i got nothing done once wee h came along
and so, in an effort to get myself in gear, i've decided the best inspiration to do more work is to give myself more work to do! so, i'mk going to redesign this blog, since it looks pretty dull. and since i'm too cheap to go pro with this site, filmcraft is moving to blogger. so - today a new url, and renovations to follow shortly!
5.1.08
2008 already?
well, i was planning for christmas 2007 (aka "the christmas of extreme poverty") to be the christmas of unfinished craft projects (i.e. finishing them and giving them as gifts), but a combination of thing - the unexpected moving, packing, unpacking, being unable to find things, mostly - meant that didn't happen. at least i have the sewing table put together! although at the moment it is just a repository for laundry waiting to be folded.
also, i am back at work, and that + babysitter pick-ups takes up a lot of time (no surprise there).
all of this blather to say there are no new crafts, and no new news, except for this irrelevant item: a year ago, i posted on my long-abandoned vox blog about a weird thing i saw at the florist. well, i randomly discovered what it is! it's a member of the nightshade family.
also, i am back at work, and that + babysitter pick-ups takes up a lot of time (no surprise there).
all of this blather to say there are no new crafts, and no new news, except for this irrelevant item: a year ago, i posted on my long-abandoned vox blog about a weird thing i saw at the florist. well, i randomly discovered what it is! it's a member of the nightshade family.
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