Amigurumi Books

My awesome little brother gave me an Amazon gift certificate for my birthday.  I couldn’t quite decide what to spend it on, but with my new-found crochet fascination, I finally decided to get some amigurumi books.  The first one I picked out seemed pretty standard.

So, on the cover it looks like a chichen, an owl, bunny, lion, turtle, and is that a hedgehog?  Anyways, seriously cute, indeed!  I’m excited to start making them.

But then… I saw this……..

I cannot wait to make a zombie army!  OMG, it is going to be so awesome that the entire world might implode!!!!  Zombies, ninjas, robots, oh my!

Both of these books should be arriving today, so I can have the weekend to buy some supplies and get started on my zombie army!  Brains….. yum…. must eat brains…….

Honey Lemon Fruit Salad

After the mass amounts of junk food intake at the graduation last week, this week I’ve really been craving fruits and vegetables. I raided the produce section for all of my favorites and decided to make this simple fruit salad. It has watermelon, apple, nectarine and kiwi, tossed with a simple one to one mixture of honey and fresh lemon juice. It is so very delicious, and since it has the lemon juice it keeps well in the fridge for a few days without the fruit turning brown. This is so perfect for summer!

Playing With Dirt

It doesn’t look like much right now, does it? Soon it will be twelve tiny cucumber sproutlets. In about two months they should be yielding delicious ripe cucumbers, which are my favorite thing about summer! Watching cucumber plants grow is absolutely amazing, they climb so fast and attach themselves to things so strongly - sometimes I get a little worried that they might try to take over the planet!

Also in the planting queue for the balcony: basil, lemon basil, leaf lettuce and green onions. Yum!

Pattern Sale

Butterick patterns were on sale this weekend for $1.50 each. The top two were impulse buys. I might make another pair of jeans from the first pattern, the version on the far left. And, it might become the summer of the skirt based on the second pattern - they are so pretty.

However, I was really coveting this last one, particularly dress B. They had this dress made up in the store with a beautiful blue eyelet material. So, naturally, I wanted that exact dress! I found the blue eyelet material, but decided to pair it with a cream lining to give it a little depth, instead of trying to match the color exactly. A cream ribbon will pull the whole thing togther, and it will be beautiful to wear to a summer wedding! Here’s the fabric with the cream lining underneath:

Monster Bash!

I was thinking a bit more about these monsters, and I sketched out a few the other day while in a seminar that wasn’t particularly thrilling to me. (You might want to ignore the few random sketches and the word circled in the middle - I still haven’t gotten around to looking that up, but I swear I will!) Click on the picture for a better resolution view!

I think I’m especially enamored with the little guy that is all head, with his eyes on tentacles and the little sad face. I’m picturing him made out of some left over royal purple satin type material. Ooh, that could be a nice pillow if made big enough I think!

I also like the cyclops, as he reminds me of Mike from Monsters, Inc. Now that I look at it a little more though, I’m not sure he needs legs - maybe just really long arms that can be fastened with Velcro would be awesome.

Monsters

I’ve been seeing a lot of people making crazy stuffed animal monsters lately on the craft circuit.  I think I might start using up my gigantic bag of scraps and poly-fil to make up some of these.  They look pretty fun!  Not quite sure what I’ll do with them, but I can figure that out later!