a twist on the scarf idea:

all i want to do is craft. however, i just started a job [which was five months in coming] and the hours are nuts right now...so i'm using crochet to keep me up at night. :)

i was looking at this yarn that i had in my stash, thinking that whatever i made out of it needed to go around my neck and be fluffy. thus this scarf was born.





the best part? you can wear it just as a necklace, or double it up around your neck and it serves as a scarf. or maybe cowl, because it doesn't really hang down at all.





please excuse the strange photos...i took them in the wee hours of the morning in my basement with entirely artificial light. i need to make a lightbox in a desperate way.

blessings - third shift ninja [aka jamie]

snowed in crafting:

what does one do when one is visiting fellow craft ninja and gets snowed in?

well, craft, of course. duh.

this is the completion of my earlier teaser photograph. i was using a pattern which i had to change so often and much that i finally abandoned it entirely and did my own thing. i'm going to play around with the patterning a bit and then post it on here!



my favorite thing about this cowl is that everything was purchased at local stores in wichita, kansas. the yarn came from twist and the button from sew much - both in the delano district.



i had enough yarn left over [thanks, post-christmas sales] that i made a matching hat as well.



these photos are artistic but not very informative or instructive. i'm still getting used to my new camera, and i'm not at home where i know how to take proper pictures. i will probably just leave it until i can entirely pattern my own and have better photos then.

blessings, jamie lynne.

Flowery Cowl

Kitchen Ninja can also embroider. except french knots. those suckers make me want to spit fire out of my eyeballs. . . Anyway, I made a cowl. for my mamma. She's into flowers, and being warm, so it was a natural choice.

The cowl is lined with deep plum jersey fleece, and the embroidery was done over the course of three days on a piece of linen. I then added big wooden buttons and called it Freakin' Fabulous.

I'll add the embroidery pattern to this post as a PDF as soon as I get a chance.

Kitchen Ninja Out.