02.24.08
Ren’s Dice Bag
I finally finished up Ren’s dice bag! I needed a project to work on during gaming, a couple of weeks ago, so the darling hubby suggested I make a dice bag for him. I asked him to pick some yarn from my stash, and he picked the zebra. =)
So I happily knitted throughout playing an Amber session with our friends, and one of them, Leo, was a bit fascinated, and I offered to make him a dice bag too. Ironic, since we were playing a diceless game at the time. XD So he requested it in shades of blue, which I don’t have yet, other than my precious blue/brown, so I get to make another wee stash run! Woot!
I just did a k2 p2 ribbed stitch for a long swatch. I stitched up the sides today, and added the drawstrings. Really simple & fast.
Ren likes the ribbing, and loves his new dice bag! He poured ALL his dice into it (see pic) and it all fit — the ribbing expanded to accomodate them… so it’s perfect! I don’t even think it needs a lining!
I still want to find some great ribbon and replace the yarn drawstring with that. Also, think charms. 
So it can be considered “finished” per se, but I still want to fiddle with it.
And hopefully Leo’s will be fabulous, too!
02.20.08
Stitch Markers by Me
Here are the stitch markers I made for myself!
I adored the beads when I saw them at the craft store, so I grabbed ‘em! I knew they would become stitch markers, hehe. =^-^=
The wire’s a bit soft, but it’s what I had (I didn’t have pliers handy, either). The seed beads I’ve had for ages, and I used some very thin wire that my friend Michelle gave me a couple years ago (I haven’t been beading much) to thread the seed beads on. If they snag or bend or whatever, so be it, I can probably repair them, and deal with snags. I’ll probably end up with a collection of stitch markers anyway! *Ooo shiny!*
It was a quick, easy, and satisfactory project, and I can’t wait to use them!
New Stash!
I finally picked up a bunch of new yarn! So all my yarn has labels, and I was able to enter them all in my stash info at Ravelry. =)
Bunch of Red Heart & Lion stuff for now, but in the future I want to get into hand-spun and hand-dyed artisan wool. As for these store-brands, I love the Caron ones, as they’re more special than the run-of-the-mill Red Hearts. =)
We saw one bin of small skeins that had fur… but they were $28 per skein!!! I never expected to see a price like that LOL!
So I can’t wait to find projects for all my new lovelies. My faves are the blue/brown one (I *heart* turquoise with brown) and the fluffy jade Caron and the mossy Caron fling. And of course the nameless shiny one in the basket, which didn’t have a label.
I also picked up a pair of bamboo, size 8 needles, and a bamboo “J” crochet hook. I tried to sit down and learn crochet in an hour with videos, but it was tricker than that. =) I’ll keep at it, though.
For now I need to finish up my husband’s dice bag, and make another for a friend who requested one. And finish my stash photos for Ravelry… my camera ran out of battery power before I got through them all! =D
