Crochet projects galore.

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I have been quite the busy bee. That's what happens when you have class three days a week and you just quit your job because you'd never see your family who lives 500 miles away on the holidays otherwise. *Big Breath* Okay, so I have been making tons of stuff lately. I went to my local JoAnn store yesterday, too, to find some dark orange yarn for a hat I wanted to make my boyfriend's sister who lives in Germany and they were extremely low on stock. I was very disappointed. So I went online and ended up buying $76 worth of yarn...did I mention not having a job anymore? Oh well. I tell myself that I'll end up selling that much worth of stuff, so it's okay.
Right now I'm working on what I hope is a medieval-looking sweater/tunic. I am only crocheting the collar, cuffs on the bicep and cuff on the wrist as well as a corset-type belt thing. Then I was going to sew some kind of fabric (a knit, probably) for the actual shirt. I made two cuffs and the collar tonight with some dark brown wool-ease and some oatmeal-colored acrylic SuperSaver yarn. I am a little sad that I went with a synthetic, and not even a high quality one at that. But the color was right and it has tweedy flecks of dark brown and gray in it that I thought was wonderful. I'm taking a fiber arts class in the fall that includes wool dying and yarn spinning, so I figured this shirt could be my first and I'd perfect the pattern, then perhaps use some of my handmade things in a few months to make one of a different color.
You'll have pics of the finished sweater in a couple weeks!

peektures now!

The coolest scarflette with fringe:

This bag has fringe, too!

superlong purple and gray scarf

this cool neckwarmer/capelet. I adapted the pattern from a lionbrand knitted one I found online.