[Kilala Mikal]

Hoop dents bother me... I didn't know that there were other frames available other than the round ones. Or at least working frames. Or is that what you're referring to?

My mom was doing some spring cleaning today and found some kits she's gonna bring my way. I'm excited to see what she has for me. <3

[Kilala Mikal]

Not that anyone really visits in here anymore, but I've made more progress on the crib bumper turned blanket! I've definitely learned that it's easier to sew in my tails as I go along instead of trying to sew multiple in after I've stitched everything together. *nod*

[Vincent]

Crib bumper-turned-blanket? I'm very interested in how a crib bumper turned into a blanket. XD

It's really nice though, lovely pattern <3

[Kilala Mikal]

I started doing the granny squares and stitching them together to make a bumper so my daughter would quit poking her arms and legs between the slats in her crib while she was sleeping. Well, she stopped getting her limbs stuck, so I decided to keep going and make it into a blanket for her. <3

And thank you. ^u^

[Vincent]

Awwh. x3 That sounds pretty sweet. haha.
You're really good at it. x3 Anything else you have in mind to make or just focused on that atm? :3

[Kilala Mikal]

I have so many works in progress it's ridiculous, lol.

But since we're trying to cut back on data usage, I've been working on the blanket the most. I've got about 18, maybe 27, more squares to crochet and stitch together and it will be done!

This will take you to my mostly completed stuff. I keep saying I'm going to open an etsy, but I can never seem to get anything finished up (and kept away from the kids) to put up for sale online. Some of the pics aren't the greatest quality though... >.>'

And I usually make whatever catches my attention while I'm on Ravelry (online crochet/knit pattern site).

[Vincent]

Pshh. xD Don't be startin everything and leaving them undone. D'8

Well at least you have that prioritized. xD Soo that means it's almost done? O: You excited? XD

I see o~o; What's an etsy? O:
Haha. XD do the kids take it and keep it? (my blankey D8<)

Ah. XD no wonder. If I was on a site like that and crochet/knit, I'd be making like one of everything. P:

[Kilala Mikal]

LOL I'm really bad about not finishing things I start... I can't tell you how many hats, blankets, scarves, slippers, etc. have piled up over the years in my yarn bin. ^.^'

It does and I am! It's 9 squares by 5 (maybe 6) squares. I've got the first 3 rows of 9 done. This is actually a really big deal for me. I'm over half way done with it, and it looks like (if I keep working on it like I have been this last week or so) I'll be done with it by the end of next weekend. <3 I'm beyond excited!

Etsy is a nifty shopping site. They sell a little bit of everything, but it's all supposed to be user made. They're really great, and I've heard a lot of good things about it, both from the selling and buying ends.
And basically, yeah. The orange and green flower is a teether, so that was meant for the baby. But the blue/purple one, and some of my granny squares have been sacrificed to my munchkins. They've been chewed on, slobbered on, and kicked around.

Ravelry is where I got the granny square pattern, and the flower. The dice bags were something I came up with myself.

[Vincent]

Wow. XD Hey you can always start a new fashion trend and try them on regardless. XD

That's so awesome. 8'D That's good, as it's a good motivator to get you finished with it. XD Then you can be all proud of it and call it blankey mc blanket. C'B

Ah. o-o So it's like a crafter's amazon. Sounds pretty good, though not something I'd use, seeing as I don't really make anything. x'D
Wow. XD They're like 'these lovely threads amuse us, bring us more BI'
idk. XD

Dice bags sounds and looks so cute though. XD <3

[Kilala Mikal]

Most of them are only a few inches long, and not much of anything... I think the furthest I got with my son's blanket was maybe 8 inches into it, then I moved and it mistakenly got put into storage... D: I've gotta see if I can find that pattern again. It was really awesome.

And you know it will prolly be dubbed blankey mcblanket, lol.

Basically. I've come across some really cute jewelry and plushes that I want to get. Patterns too. <3
And yes! My daughter LOVES to get into my yarn stash and tangle it all up. She's more than happy to chew on the actual yarn, instead of the nifty-ness I've made her, lol.

I think I'll probably wind up making more like what's in my album to sell first. It takes maybe an hour or so to whip one up, so they're super simple, and it really doesn't take a lot of yarn either.

[Vincent]

Ah. :c That would probably be me, though. XD If any art thing takes more then one or two days I get bored and start up something else. x-x
I tried cross stitching once in school. I actually went all the way through with it and made a pillow. XD So yay me.

xD I'm so creative with names, I know.

Plushies on there ought to be interesting. :3 Probably some famous stuff from shows or games that don't get officially made. XD
Jewlery, too. x: Must be good for cosplay stuff as well. XD

xD It always seems like they want what's not for them rather then the stuff you DO make for them huh

Ah. x3 Must be nice to make stuff and sell it. Or interesting. XD
My sister makes these really extravegant bows/headbands and sells them. o: Thought that was interesting, but still I couldn't really see myself doing stuff like that. XD

[Kilala Mikal]

I'm the same way. I've started a cross stitch sampler for my family, and I've finished the inner dividers, the outline of the border, and the 2 of the pieces for the corner squares. I was working on it while I was hanging out with my sister-in-law a few weeks ago... but when spring break was over, and she had to go back to work, I didn't have anyone to really talk to and gossip with while I was working on it, and lost interest... That, and the pictures I took of the graph/pattern were blurrier than I realized, so I need the book again. DX I draw too, and if it takes me more than a day, I'll put it up, saying I'll come back to it, but I hardly ever do... D:

<3

I came across some MPL plushes (I think the shop is nerdyknitter?), and she had the patterns posted for free in her blog. I crocheted and stuffed all the pieces for Twilight Sparkle, but I haven't sewn her together yet. I'm stuck on her mane and tail. ._. I can't seem to create the right texture for it. And I don't feel right putting her together if I don't have everything made...

And it does. My kids are the ones who would rather play with the box than the toy that comes inside it. (Prime example being the toy box. It's an old cardboard box, maybe a foot long and a foot tall, maybe eight or nine inches wide, and they'll dump the toys out of it and play in the box itself.)

I haven't actually sold anything yet. Although I've had several people tell me that I make stuff to sell online. So I've been trying, I just haven't made any real progress yet. Although I've got just about everything set up. Etsy, paypal, wordpress... even a facebook page. I just haven't had anything to put up yet. DX

[Vincent]

A cross stich sampler? What's that? O: Aw t-t that sucks. I sorry. You can stitch and talk to me? 8'D
What happened to the book? o-o Did it also get lost in the move?
xD I know right. I feel like I just say 'I'll come back to it' to give myself closure. BI /gets shot XD

Ah. x3 Do you have any MLP Plushies yourself? O:
Awh. :c Well can you think of what would do good and buy some or look it up online or look up other twilight sparkle plushies online and try to see what they used? O: Idk.
I know right. XD I'm the same way. Must be hard for you if you had to make a Frankenstein doll. XD

Yesss it's a fort. 8D Or a kingdom. (and whatever came inside was what was left over from the kingdom's last owner, yes. BI)

Awh. Dx Why not try starting with small stuff first I guess? x3

[Kilala Mikal]

The one I'm (kinda) working on is a 3x3 grid with different pictures in the squares. Think of a tic-tac-toe board. I'll take a pic of it tomorrow and post it so you can see it.

thanks for offering, but it's hard to stitch and type. I've tried, lol. Technology sucks me in, and it's almost like I have tunnel vision or something. I become completely unaware of my surroundings. :C
It's my sister-in-law's book. So instead of wasting paper, I took pictures of the things I wanted to cross stitch... Unfortunately I was a little inebriated at the time so what I thought were satisfactory pictures turned out to not be, lol.

The pattern was actually on the wrapper of the skein of yarn I'd bought. I came across the unfinished blanket and yarn while I was going through the stuff that was in storage that's now in the basement, I just didn't set it aside. So now I've gotta go find it again. ~n~
Exactly.

Nope. I've only just recently started watching MPL:FIM within the last year or so. I wanted to see what all the hype was about. It's adorable and all, but I can't really see what the big deal is. *shrugs* However, I have a friend that's a "brony?", and her faves are Twilight and Rarity, so I decided to attempt to make her a plushie. I know how I want her mane to look like, it's just sooooooo tedious to sit there and make it. x.x It's not crochet, it's more like braiding or possibly weaving... and you have to be exact with your lengths, because you can't cut it once its made.

My daughter (11 months old) like to pull everything out and put the box on her head. Her brother (almost 4 years old) likes to dump everything out and try to sit in it. She fits, he doesn't, and the poor thing is almost dead, haha.

And that's really what I need to do. I think after I finish this blanket, I'll make some dice bags of various sizes and put them up. (Now here's to hoping I actually go through with it)

[Vincent]

Ah. xD That sounds like an interesting one. Where are you drawing the inspiration for the pictures from? Or are they just random pictures you think up? XD

xD Ahh. Yeah I get that way too. It's like 'I'm sposed to be doing something but 'oh hey look at that' XD
Lmao. XD That didn't work out well huh. That sucks though. :c Maybe you can buy your own sometime? x3 Idk

On the wrapper? XD wow.
Well but that sounds like treasure hunting. 8'D
haha. XD

Ah. o.o' I still havn't watched it, probably never will no matter the hype. XP lmao.
Woww. o-o' So I guess it's a complicated type of stuff. One that you really need to devote your time to. XD -spawls out on the floor- nope, not happening. XD

Awh. They could have a little system going. He dumps it out, hands her the box, she puts the box on her head as he sits on the stuff, then go to the next one. XD Hopefull for you that doesn't happen.

Psh. BI I can nag you til you do it.
xD haha.

[Kilala Mikal]

They're pre-designed items that remind me of my family. My hub's is a computer with a mouse. My son wanted a teddy bear. Mine is a gameboy. My daughter's is a heart with a crown (one of her nicknames is Princess).

It's like I'll be writing, even talking sometimes, and I'll see something out of the corner of my eye, and completely lose focus. Almost like Doug the dog from Disney's Up (SQUIRREL!).
I'm not too worried about it, I know that I can find similar patterns online. Plus my sister-in-law lives like 10 minutes away, so if push came to shove, I could like walk over there or something.

Yup. Nifty thing about buying yarn, most of the time (on Red Heart brand at least) they include a free pattern for purchasing their yarn.

I figured I could get away with it because of the kids. I mean it's cute and all, but I wouldn't be all *fangirl squee* over it. It's not really that complicated, it's just time consuming. And that's how I've been feeling about it. That and I'm missing the really dark purple for the single stripe of it that's in her mane and tail. (I just realized I've been misspelling mane. *facepalm* Looks like I'm about to go do some editing, XD)

That's kinda how it goes. He'll dump it, she pushes the toys around, after I fuss at him for trying to sit in it, she'll pick it up and put it on her head.

Seems like I might need it, lol. I'm such a procrastinator, lol. I've been on here for a year, and still haven't finished trying to set up my quest thread. ^.^'