Craft exploits

So I’m always looking for new fun things to do in the world of crafts. When I got a newsletter from one of my favorite stores here in Columbus, Wholly Craft, saying they were going to have a beginning origami class, I was like hell. yes.

Uh, yeah, so I took that class (with a friend). I made some origami stuff and then asked if I could take a picture of everyone because I’m creepy and like to take pictures of everything. The teacher was like, oh no, are you one of those bloggers? I didn’t realize bloggers were such feared creatures but yes. Yes I am and I will eat your children.

For some reason I find this hilarious.

We made some paper cranes, a box, a balloon and some random notes. There was an obvious winner from this class for me and that was the shiny paper crane necklace that we made. Because it is the most perplexing bling I think anyone could ever have and I love its little face off.

Some other things that I’ve done lately are that I taught a former co-worker how to knit. She paid me in baked goods.

At least, I tried to teach her when Shmoo wasn’t getting in the way trying to be all cute like she does with strangers. Here’s a story about Shmoo. She does not care what’s going on until at least two people are involved. Then she’s like, oh, there’s a party?? I’m invited, right?

She did eventually leave us be and as you can see, my student got a real pro-stance. I don’t even hold the yarn that professionally. I’m more slobbish when I knit, just sort of throwing it around, hoping for the best. But this girl was an overachiever. Her goal was to learn how to knit cables, even though she didn’t know how to knit because she was tired of trying cables in crochet. (Can’t blame her there- I didn’t even know you could cable in crochet, it seems so… wrong.)

Well, she got what she wanted! This is her finished project and there are the cables that she knit. I was really impressed.

I’m hoping to have some finished stuff to show you soon but things might get a little hectic… since my birthday is coming up!

Oh yeah and I also got a new banner for my blog here- what do you think? Crystal is so incredibly talented you should commission her to make yarn-y designs. I think she draws yarn perfectly. Also, don’t forget, you can still ask me anything you want to here.

What do you think- did I throw enough links at you?

“would you like to purchase a care plan for your sneakers?”

I have been such a bad blogger, I’m sorry. In my defense… well I don’t have one. But knitting has been happening and I’m kind of close to being done with some things. Maybe. Depends on how slackery I get. Although I don’t feel like I’m being slackery because I feel like I’m reading books but then I don’t have any books to prove my point because I am a slow reader. So when I say I’ve been reading books, what I mean is I have been reading one very intense book. Called Cloud Atlas. Which, if you come to my library you will see that it’s on the recommended reading list for summer.

Anyways, here are some pictures that I finally got off of my phone and wanted to share with yous alls.

Last week I taught my friend Heather how to knit. Look at how much fun she’s having! Although I’m pretty sure that she already knew, otherwise she’s one of those genius people who catches on at light speed.

Speaking of Heather, sometimes during lunch we go to the Cupcakery and make some cupcakes. This one I was proud of because I didn’t go completely overboard with it:

Aaaand because you come here for the yarn and not the cupcakes (well maybe you come for the cupcakes too because cupacakes ROCK!) here is a picture from a trip John and I took to Medina:

This is a yarn shop called Studio Knit and it was a lot of fun to check out.