Captain Rainbow Underpants!

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I usually name all the elephant soft toys I receive. This is the first one i made.


( Captain Rainbow Underpants! )



Crochet question

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I have two patterns for a Yoshi toy. Would it be possible to sort of splice the patterns together so that I get the head from this pattern on the body of this pattern?

Cross-posted to crochetcrochet.

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[emolicious1.livejournal.com]

Hello my fellow crafters!

Mother's Day is coming up & I'm looking for inspiration. I have this glass vase & some blue beads that I'd like to do something with...



My main craft is crocheting- I've already crocheted her a few things for the house, but I'm drawing a blank on what I can do to make this a worthy gift. I thought about crocheting a flower bouquet, but decided against it as my mom isn't really interested in that.

It's finals week so I can't take on too much.
So I ask you, crafty people, what would YOU do with this?

Decorating with Flowers

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( I decorated my living room in flowers )

I did two sessions of summer classes at uni last summer, so I was on campus. They put a lot of money into landscaping for there only being 10% of the people around! I got a lot of daffodils this spring, but a lot of the spring flowers are hard to dry, since they hold so much moisture. I tried to do an iris but it just got nasty. Does anyone have any advice for drying flowers? The reason these are all upside down is because I don't have a lot of silica gel or sand (or patience) to dry them, so I hang them upside down in hopes that the heads won't bow down that way, and any color will seep to the bottom.

So, a friend asked us to buy some beads at the bead show...

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

...and we thought we'd put them into a, uh, necklace for her.


Can you go wrong with a black flocked heart?

( Click here for whole picture! )

The goal is for it to be a little too much, a little over-the-top, but not so much she'll know right away. We're wondering if we can get her to wear it at least once before we admit it's just a joke and we mean for her to take it apart and use the beads. So, I ask you - is your reaction one of befuddled 'am I supposed to like this?' or have I not gone far enough, or is your reaction 'that is hideous' and I've gone too far? Please note she's a belly dancer so she does like large, flashy jewelry, to a point. I have very little ability to judge because I'm a very dainty jewelry person, so this is uncharted territory for me!

I do think that, even though it's supposed to be temporary, I need to further secure the large ball to the necklace part, but I was wondering if it needs anything else? Or anything removed...

Thank you!