Once again...

... I can't believe how long have passed since I was last here.

So many things have passed also!!!

I guess the thought of sitting down and write about all that have happened is overwhelming and have been stopping me from doing it and made me procrastinate and extend my absence. Well, I'm back once again, you have to start at some point, right??

I'll be writing in the days to come, things I want to share and I want my blog to have, not necessarily in order, and obviously not right after they happened...

For now I'm off to the farmers market to have breakfast with my sweet MG, and then to the yarn shop!! lots of things happening today! the big annual sale (15-50%) in all the yarns!!!! and there is 2 craft festivals this weekend in town... hope we don't get a lot of rain because we're supposed to get cats and dogs...

Have a great Labor Day Weekend!!!! (or regular weekend if you are not in the States!)

love... see you soon!
S.

Crocheted sea growing...

I've been working and working on it and it had grow a lot... I'm happy with it. I won't be able to show it to you today, because I left it at the shop and I don't have a photo of it.
It's starting to be too big for me to carry back and forth from home to the shop and viceversa... and it's not that it is THAT big, but that I'm using several balls of yarns of all sizes and textures and that takes up a lot of space, and it's more difficult to carry.

Today I'll go out to measure it to the tree, and then I'll be ready to move into the beach and sunset... I imagine something like this... (Don't mind my little sketch please.... I made it in 5 minutes in paint... and I don't have a very good mouse or any painting skills or tools)

All of it is free form as I showed you the other day... and it's all formed out of different yarns in sea-like colors (blues-greens and ocasional purple and so) in lots of different textures and stitches.

I'm not sure how the beach will be, still thinking in that... but the sunset I think it'll be all horizontal lines, to give it a different look from the crazy sea...

Once I have the base, I'll add the fun details on top!
I'll show you later!!


Oh!! I'm super super happy, excited!!!!!!!!! I found out yesterday that I'm having visits tomorrow!!!! My dearest uncle and friends are coming for a week!!!!
I might not post a lot!

See you soon!
S.

New Project.... Freeform crochet sea

I don't know if I've talk about this before, but there is an ongoing project in my town to raise money for the Middle Way House...
Since our last yarnbombing infront of the shop, there was a great response from the people and Middle Way House came up with this idea and asked Yarns Unlimited to partnered with them to lead  the project of yarnbomb all the trees in the downtown square.
The idea is to get businesses to sponsor a tree, and volunteer knitters and crocheters that would make sweaters for the trees.
The theme is free and each volunteer is welcome to do as many squares as they can, in any stitch, technique, yarn and color as they want. Then, they'll be all put together in bigger pieces for easy assambling on the trees. The sponsors will have their name in the tree.
We are thinking about puting them up on the Gallery Walk on October. Gallery Walk is a Friday night in which the galleries stayed open later and offer specials and snacks for people to visit and enjoy the exhibits. The Knitting to Heal project, will be like a life performance during that day when we'll be dressing up the trees. I think the sweaters will be up until March or April 2013.

I loved being part of the last yarnbombing and see my stitches in a tree for a while... But this time I thought I would do somehitng bigger, so I'm attempting to do the sweater for a whole tree by myself.
My tree will be sponsored by the yarn shop, and I decided to go with a maritime, sea, organic, life project theme...
Here's what I had after the first day:::

And after:::

I'm loving the greatness of freeform crochet... it's really fun and the freedom of doing whatever is great! although some time you have to think about what the next step will be.

I'll keep you posted with the progress...

See you soon!
S.

More wire jewelry...

I looove this earring so much that I had to keep them for myself... I made all the curly-cues with my pliers in sterling silver wire and got the bead a long while ago in a little bead shop. They are hand blown beads in blue and green with a thin black line... they remind me of peacocks::

This are little studs tha lie flat on the earlobe...

I like to do simple lines in wire... I love how they can look intrincate and playful or elegant.

This are some of my favorite earrings... so simple, but I like a lot how they look. The beads are resin and I bought them several years ago in Barcelona...

Kind of corkscrew earrings... look great when you are wearing them and I love it when some times people just stare at them trying to figure out how to wear them and put them in and out.

Simple lines...

And more resin beads...

See you soon!
S.

A sad pie... Strawberry pie....

Aren't those strawberries gorgeous??? We got a huge box, I think it is 4 lbs of strawberries...

So I decided to make a pie... last week, when MG was out, I had more food that what I needed and I a lot of fruit that would have gone bad if I didn't do something (I think that's totally bad written, but I couldn't think in another way to say it). Any way, last week, I made a strawberry pie and took it to the yarn shop. And It was Awesome!!!!
Delicious, sweet, pretty... total strawberry explotion! I took this picture before we finished it... everyone at the shop loved it...

So this week, I thought about doing a strawbery pie for the kids in the lab (not really kids, they are college students, but they happily eat all my baking adventures).

It came out nice and good looking, as last time.

So MG and I tried it before he took it to the lab, and it was AWFUL!!!!!!
Last night, before I made the pie, I had been preparing dinner and part of it included onion and mushrooms.
I washed the cutting board and knife and I made sure to scrub it really good so I could cut the strawberries....
Well, I don't know why but the pie was totally onion-y and horrible...
We agreed that it wasn't good or nice to take it to the lab like that. So we had to get rid of it. It was super sad!!! So no strawberry pie for now...

Here's the recipe I used... I totally recomend it!

See you soon!
S.