Amazing

I really want to see this movie now.

MAC Hello Kitty!

MAC Cosmetics came out with a Hello Kitty collection this month. While sitting here drooling over the collection pictures I got the idea to crochet my own "MAC Hello Kitty". I used the basic components of the other Hello Kitty I made, but reversed the black and white and improvised a dress and bow. The dress was really hard for me, I had never really worked with switching colors so much and I had little patience for it so I just rushed through it instead of forcing it to work out the way I envisioned it. But I think it still came out really well and I am excited about it. A comparison:

See the rest of the promotional photos here http://www.temptalia.com/mac-hello-kitty-collection-promo-photos

Naturally I had to order myself some of the makeup... ;) (http://www.maccosmetics.com/)

Twinkletoe frogging and calorimetry

Frogging. Think of a sound that a frog makes. Riiiiiiipit.....rrriiiiiiiipit. Yeah...

So last week I decided I wanted to make something out of my handspun "mandy" yarn. After much research, I settled on the "Twinkletoes" slipper pattern. I took the project with me over the Superbowl weekend and worked on it while at my mom and dads. Yesterday I had the first slipper finished and the second one finished but the trim... and I decided I didn't like the way they looked and fit. Well crap. Really the whole point of me making these was to have something I would get a lot of use out of and would have plenty of opportunites to look at my handspun yarn all knit up into a creation. But if I was never going to wear the slippers, it kinda defeated the purpose. So I frogged them. Then I wound the yarn back up into a ball.

Then I sat around annoyed, thinking I really wanted to make somethng out of this yarn. So I decided on "Calorimetry". I printed the pattern out months ago and knew that I wanted to make it sometime. I worked on it last night and today and when it was finished... it was too big for me. Meh. So in the spirit of not giving up, I decided to make a second modified Calorimetry. With the second one, I cast on 1/3 less stitches. I got that one done in a couple hours tonight and it turned out well and fits me more like what I imagined it should.

I still have the too-big calorimetry. I might frog that one and make the yarn into something else, some fingerless gloves perhaps. We'll see.