PALCHEMY #1

I'm participating in a project through etsy.com called palchemy. On etsy they have something they call alchemy. You can post what you are looking for and people make bids on the cost of making said thing. Someone then took the idea and decided to pair people up as pals. Either one person sends to a maker, or both are makers and senders, or some are just senders. I decided to do all three since I'm a packrat and have things to share. So I got paired with a lovely girl who's shop you can view here: http://ashabee05.etsy.com . She's got amazing yarns and beautiful knitting and crocheted items as well as jewelry. Check her out!

So this is a picture of the items she sent me. She sent some beautiful satin fabric (still not sure what I'm making with this... I think a doll will come from some of it, and then I don't know what will happen to the rest. Some nice faux pearls and a great skein of lion brand chunky yarn. So here is what I've come up with so far from the yarn she sent me. Meet Baasil Lamb. Isn't he cute! Another random amigurumi thing where I just crocheted along until a form came out. I think he turned out rather well. It took me a few tries to get his legs to match up properly. I never count as I go (which I should really learn to do) and that makes it a bit difficult. I should really start writing patterns down as I go so I can make things again when I want to.

I've got the amigurumi bug though. I absolutely adore Beth Doherty from GourmetAmigurumi. I think this is my favorite so far, but all of her stuff is absolutely adorable! My favorite:http://www.flickr.com/photos/38635695@N00/134858635/in/photostream/

Well I think that's all I have to say for now. I'm exhausted and work has been kicking my butt as of late. I'm hoping that things will calm down in the next week and I can actually get some art done!

Lion Complete and some snow..just a little

Well here's the completed lion. He's all done stitched together and ready for loving from my little two year old nephew! He'll be so excited! At least I hope he will! This lion started out as a scarf, and once I saw the gold and orange together it begged to be turned into a lion. I'm now getting into amigurumi. That's just now come into my radar though so it'll probably be awhile before I post anything with it. So here he is Ra-Ka the lion. Oh and the snow from yesterday's snow fall. I wasn't home to catch today which was even more close to blizzard conditions. These pictures are shortly after I noticed the fist sized snowflakes coming down. By the time I had grabbed my camera they had already turned smaller.

Green Gregory Ra (that's his name according to my nephew who's his owner now)

half way there! :) My little lion toy. He'll be able 12 inches or so when done.