Crochet Sweater!

Its finally done! My first crochet sweater! Check it out...

and the pattern was completely free and easy to understand from Drops!

I'm Back!

I'm back from UVA! During this amazing college trip I met some super artsy people-about whom I'll be writing my next couple of posts.

Featured on Stash Tea Facebook page!

Hey! I'm excited that my art is getting a little bit of appreciation. Stash Tea, which is by the way absolutely the best bagged tea in the world, featured some of the art I made from their tea packets on their facebook page!

Pop Can Belly Dance Belt

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I found this at Cut Out + Keep and am absolutely in love with it! I could totally make a belt, bra, bracelet or necklace for my next performance like this!

Recycled Bottle Hearts

Here is a small tutorial on how to make plastic bottle hearts. I made a necklace I'd like to wear on Valentines Day.

• Cut of the bottom half of a coke bottle (or a water bottle) and spray paint it pink (or any other color.)
• I sprinkled the drying bottle with clear sprinkles for some sparkle.
• Cut out a large square from the bottle once its dry.

• Draw a heart and cut it out.
• Cut lots of little ones too.

•  Using a burn tool, or a heated needle poke a hole through the top center of each heart.
• Take a blow dryer and heat the hearts up while holding them down with a pencil or a weight. This makes them curve out a little.
• Grab some pink string and knot through the big heart.

•  Make a knot at equal intervals on both sides of the yarn and slide on the little hearts.
• Make more knots and slide on more hearts!

I've made many ornaments for Christmas but did not get any pictures and instructions taken till after New Years. I hope I will remember to post them next year. However for the upcoming cold months I've created this ear warmer or headband crochet pattern.

This headband consists of 12 repetitions of a flower pattern that is 7 ch long, to make the headbangd bigger add equal numbers of ch to each end.

Pattern:
Ch 86, turn
Row 1: hdc across, turn.
Row 2: *dc, ch5, incomplete puff st 5th ch from hook, incomplete puff st in the next hdc st, skip 3 st work 1 incomplete puff stitch in next st, yo and draw through all loops on hook, ch5, work puff stitch in the top of previous puff stich, dc in next st* (12 times) finish with dc, turn.
Row 3: *dc, work puff st in the top of previous 4 puff st, ch 3, work puff st in the previous 5 puff st, dc*(12 times) finish with dc, turn.
Row 4: hds across, finish.
Stitch the ends together to form a headband!