Sunday 24 February 2013

Star Coaster

Here is the howto for the second coaster. This one is just one sheet. The difficulty is just a little bit higher than on the Heart coasters. I'd advise using a drop of glue or double sided tape to hold it flat to extend its life length a bit.

This design looks great in a paper with different colours on each side. A 6" inch square is needed.



Modular Heart Coaster

After the previous post I promised a friend to make a how-to for the coasters. I will actually provide a how-to for two different coasters, one modular and one single sheet! Because I am procrastinating from doing chores.



Saturday 23 February 2013

With paper as building blocks

Kate asked what I was doing, I answered "Modular origami" and she went Whut? on me. So I took some photos of a few things I built today.








This is mostly toys. The flat things in the middle are coasters and I wear those out and make new as needed.

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Squirrel!

I made a squirrel last weekend. It's name is Wayne, named for Uncle Wayne the Squirrelman, obviously. I will pack it up and stick it in a box and send it to him shortly.

Here's a bunch of photos, I will try to fix the layout when I am less sleepy. For now this will suffice, yes?

I experienced some hilarity when the cat decided the squirrel was the enemy and need to die. He can normally be left alone with pretty much anything and behave nicely, this was out of character for him.














Wednesday 6 February 2013

Designwork

I am  trying to go back to knitting all the ideas in my head. That means a lot of unravelling, tinking, problem solving. The beta knit of my hat got done sunday morning after I slept on the problem for a few hours, and I am now really pleased with it. The first attempt shall be frogged and hopefully reknit according to the working model.

The test knit of the pattern is underway, then I need to write it up prettily.

Peek:




Tuesday 5 February 2013

Sunlight

I haven't been outdoors in actual sunlight (not just grey filtered daylight) since.. uhm.. october?
This saturday I went for a walk in central Sthlm with Daniel, his hubby and the twins.

There were birds among the ice floes in the sea.