Bobble Blanket: He'll use it when he's twenty....

In other words, this blanket is no where near being done, and I'm less than two weeks away from delivering this baby!

I'll just get straight to the point. I have not worked on this thing half as much as I should have been. I started on January 18th, and now it is almost three months later. I don't know how long it took the original maker to finish a whole blanket, but I thought this would be much faster as it is baby sized. Boy, was I wrong...

BUT all is not lost. I haven't given up on this blanket. I've got at least a third done. I just hope I have enough yarn to finish it! I'd hate to have to add some weird colors at the end. But maybe I could find these colors somewhere... Now that I've started my maternity leave I've had more time and have been working every day for the past week.

I had two rows in my first post about it... now I think it's around 16? 

I can get about a row done each day without driving myself insane. So that means I ought to have at least 10 more rows by April 16th, which is my due date. Since I made the original length for a toddler and not a newborn, I'm not too terribly disappointed. He'll still be able to use it for a long time. 

 I actually didn't have a pattern in mind when I began... but a pretty nice one made it's way out!

Here's my big 38 week belly. When I started this blanket I still fit into my normal jeans!

In my last post I said "Wish me luck," but I guess nobody did! Or maybe my procrastination is just too strong for the powers of wishes. Anyway, I don't need it anymore, because I'm going to go work on it right after posting this!

Some summer crafts...

As I said, I didn't have my computer for a lot of the summer, so that made me pretty busy!
I have the nicest neighbors upstairs, two retired twins, Janet and Judith O. They're so cute! Anyway, Janet crochets A BUNCH, she's really good. She gets a lot of practice crocheting afghans for her 7+ grandchildren every year. She's given us a few gifts of her creations, and over the summer she gave me some yarn, needles and crochet magazines. I saw she had the perfect colors for chocolate-chip cookies, and I busted these treats out in a day. I gave them to her as a gift, and really need to make more. They were so easy but came out so cute! Here's to this years Christmas gift...

I just sort of free-handed the design, making simple circles of different sizes. Then I sewed 'em up, stuffed them with yarn and fabric scraps and they were ready to eat! The "chips" are actually just glued on in little spirals. I free-handed the bowl too, it sort of starts of small and gets wider at the middle.

I'm also thinking these would make really great key chain charms on their own. I have never seen (at least that I can remember) key chain pieces at the craft store... I must find some!

There were some other things I made over the summer, like some great clothes and a bicycle bag, that I need to take some pictures of. Coming soon!

 I've known for some time that I have very low chance of getting a "real" or steady job in this economy and with my lack of experience, but it really sunk in recently. My only experience is working at a haunted house! Scaring people only works one month out of the year. Anyway, I sold this zombie-deco mirror in August for $20, and it really encouraged me to try harder and sell my creations/tutorials on how to make them. Hopefully this works out and I can start making a bit of money! I want to use my blog and youtube to make more tutorials and things, and etsy (at least at first, then maybe create my own website) to sell some things I make.

 

 This is something I made last week. These were first just brains and bows separately, for deco, but then my boyfriend said the most wonderful thing, "Are you going to put those bows on there?" This is much better than having them seperate! The brains are zombie-eaten... I can't get enough of zombie stuff! I'm thinking these would make really cute necklace charms or rings. They're a bit too big for using a lot as deco pieces. They are not baked yet, but after I'll paint on some blood and other good stuff like that. Cute! Or is that gross? Whatever.

So I'll keep an update of how my "business" is doing. Hopefully it starts doing something soon! 

Love, 

Lily Aurora