March 14

More fun with pouring medium.  I managed to get some squeeze bottles so I can control the pouring more than just out of the side of a plastic bowl.  It was fun.  At one point I had a bottle in each hand and was just swirling all over the place.  I felt like a kid.  After I had all these colors I got a toothpick and started swirling within the puddles.  It's a psychedelic mess, but it was fun.  I painted the background white this time because when I painted on black I learned that the medium makes the paint dry slightly transparent so the colors seemed a little dingy.  When the paint on this dried the places that hadn't been mixed were bright, but it seems as though the colors that I swirled with the toothpick continued to blend together after I was done.  Those colors still seemed to dry muddy, but the unblended ones remained very bright.  More fun to come later.

March 13

It's been a little bit since I painted.  Overall I'm happy with this.  When I was painting it I couldn't figure out what about the water/land line that was odd and not sitting right.  As I sit here I realize that there is no foreground background change in the line, it is just a solid vertical line.  I think there should be an angling off.  Time to study some more images.

March 12

I started this a while ago as a surprise for a friend.  The applique didn't come out as well as I would have liked, but I hope she likes it when it's finished.  Which will hopefully be soon.  :-)

March 11

I continued working on my seed stitch piece.  Messed up several times because I wasn't paying attention.  Which means I got to practice pulling stitches back out without dropping stitches in the process.  Looking at the part I did yesterday versus the part I did today there is a big difference.  The stitches are not as even and there are mistakes that I didn't catch.  Oh well, on to tomorrow.

March 10

 

I gave up on the green yarn for now.  It was seriously frustrating me.  I'm not sure if it was the size 7 needles or the single ply yarn or both.  Anyways, I got out size 9s and some random white yarn I had and started seed stitching again.  It's coming out much better this time.  You can actually see the pattern.  I still have a hard time getting an even stitch in the first couple rows after casting on, but otherwise I think I'm doing pretty well for someone who has been knitting for less than a year.

March 9

  

Weaving Day! Natalie let me give a table loom a try.  I was a little intimidated at first, but once i got the hang of it it was pretty cool.  This is a weft-face weave.  After she saw I had the hang of it she showed me how to weave with two colors.  After that is was all about patterns.  I had so much fun.  This is the finished project with all the ends woven in.

March 8

 I am a potholder making machine!  I'm probably having more fun with this than I should, but I spent 2 hours last night just weaving potholders.  That and rather anally separating all the colors into their own baggies.  I was getting frustrated by hunting down my next looper in the massive bag of assorted colors.  Now I can just grab the colors I want and not worry about it.  Of course if I keep up at this pace I'll run out of loopers really quickly.