I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

For the last day of the NAtional ARt MAking MOnth, as I usually do, I made a banner for naarmamo.
( Read more... )

I've been playing with my new toy, a deluxe spool-knitting gizmo, which I bought on Friday. I don't think it will be quite as portable as my crochet stuff, because it doesn't appear to be quite as amenable to shoving into a bag when one's bus stop arrives; it's designed to be put down on a table when one needs to pause in working. That's okay; it being the weekend, I did get quite a bit of working in.
( there be jewellery and pictures )

More craft, that is. Today I managed to do the finishing touches on the corkscrew-spiral crochet necklace I've been working on for a while. There was a point when it felt like it would never get finished, because there were a LOT of stitches to do, and the yarn was really thin and the crochet hook was really small (1.25mm), and I would sometimes get cramps in my hands because of that. But it is now DONE.
( more stuff, and a picture )

I have sent my SSHG Exchange story to the mods! Yay!

I'm thinking I might do naarmamo this year after all, since vilakins suggested that I didn't have to stick to really small projects, just so long as I did something every day and posted about it. There's certainly a lot of art-y stuff I am itching to do after buying all those craft books earlier in the year. Like teaching myself crochet. And then bead crochet. And wire work. So I might do that.

Still havent seen HBP2. So I'm avoiding discussion of it at the moment. Planning to see it with my brother on Sunday.

And naarmamo is almost over. This one has whizzed past, and I did cool stuff! Here's today's, which is an emendation of yesterday's.

Today's Art is revealing the icons I made for icon_style earlier this month. Yes, I think it counts!

Well, okay, so nobody wants to do the Pay it Forward meme. (sigh)

However, I'm still doing naarmamo this month, so, in the spirit of the meme, I'll still do stuff for people, though a bit more limited. Here's my offer: the first 3-5 people to comment with a request, I will make an icon for them. I will definitely do the first three, but I may do up to five. No strings attached.

naarmamo continues. Today's Art is more messing around with following tutorials. This one was for water droplets on a surface:

Yes, my naarmamo art making is still going. Today I followed a GIMP tutorial I've been itching to have a go at. And I'm pretty pleased, I must say.

An art icon, done for naarmamo, based on the previous stone egg, and some lovely moss. Though I kept on changing stuff around, been working on it a few days.