50/52: Halloween costume (#38)
I was Skeletor for Halloween, and nobody saw except Bill and the internet.
The blue pants and shirt are pajamas. I made fake purple boots with legwarmers.
The purple harness/hood thing was a white hoodie. I dyed it purple, then cut off the arms and bottom to make the harness-looking part. The excess fabric became the belt with the hangy bits and the crossed-bones badge in the center of the harness.
It's hard to see, but my face is covered in yellow eyeshadow with black eyeliner lines.
I made a ram skull to attach to the top of a plastic kids' wizard staff:
..this was awesome and my photo was posted on Regretsy.
50/52: Ham ornaments (#35)
Every year I sell a few felt ham ornaments on Etsy. This year there were only two, but that's OK.
50/52: Travel sketchbook – Iceland (#34)
When I was in college, my department would draw names to do Secret Santa style gift giving at the end of each semester. One time our department head had my name, and she gave me a small sketchbook. It's leatherbound and filled with handmade paper, because she said she had never seen someone who drew quite as much as I did. I don't buy leather things, but I couldn't possibly refuse a sweet gift. Its size makes it perfect for taking on trips, so over the past few years I've brought it along to various places. Here are some drawings from Iceland.
50/52: Linus Shrinky Dinks (#33)
I was looking around for something in the craft store when I ran across Shrinky Dinks. I know a lot of people on etsy sell shrink plastic items, especially since a lot of the plastic is inkjet printable. BUT I really like hand drawing everything, so, there you are.
Everyone really likes the shiny white plastic, but I find it very hard to work with because most markers have tips that are too thick to get the kind of detail I want. I prefer the textured translucent plastic that works well with colored pencils. (I have way more than pictured. Still trying to decide what to do with them exactly.)
50/52: Finished sketchbook (#32)
I posted a whole lot of scans from my sketchbook already.. But I finally finished out the first volume of the year! I think that filling out every page deserves a spot in the 50 crafts roundup. It was a really nice handmade sketchbook, too!
I'm already about 3/4 of the way through my second book of the year.
50/52: The non-Linus painted scarves (#31)
I used print paste on a bunch of scarves aside from the Linus ones.
There were a few blobby messes like this:
And a few that had drawings of different stuff:
It's a lot of fun to use this stuff, and it works VERY well on the rayon. If the rayon scarves go over well when they're painted like this, maybe I will end up getting some more to draw on..
50/52: The quilt blocks (#30)
This is kind of a cheater post, because I don't really have any pictures.
My grammom is making a quilt for one of my cousins, who really likes a certain college football team. My mom helped Grammom out by trying to find fabrics that were printed with the logo and stuff.. They had a really hard time with it. My mom searched the internet and found someone selling quilt block kits that were themed with the college. She bought four.
But! They were applique kits, where you fuse all the pieces down and satin stitch around the edges. Grammom uses a 50s Singer that doesn't do a zigzag stitch. I have the monstrous Janome, and can do one million stitches, so I volunteered to do them for her.
I should have done them more quickly, but I found working with the kits INCREDIBLY BORING and let my ego get in the way, and procrastinated, and made it take several months. But they're all done now, and safely shipped off to her so she can finish the quilt. I didn't take pictures because I wasn't super into the work I did. BUT STILL: a project finished.
50/52: Linus scarves (#29)
I had some print paste left over from the spring when I had some people over to paint on things. I bought some little squeeze bottles with long tips so I could easily draw with the goo.
What to do, what to do? OH THAT'S RIGHT, PUT LINUS ON THEM.
There are a bunch more, but I think I like these the best, because of the polka dots.