Day Two and Three

Ladies, when it is a certain time of the month, do you ever find that someone will say or do something that just seems to touch the right nerve and you feel as if you're having a simultaneous brain aneurism/heart attack? That's how my evening was last night as I was e-mailing back and forth with one of my CD swap partners trying to get her not to give me bad feedback. I've never EVER received bad feedback on a swap and it just pissed me off so badly that she wasn't satisfied no matter what I said. Obviously I misinterpreted the swap directions when it came to describing my favorite artists/songs, which I summed up in a sentence while others (although not everyone that I received from) wrote paragraphs on the topic. I was so bummed out all night that the making of the coffee cuff that you see pictured was very trying. (P.S. In the end she ended up giving me a 5 - plus a heart - the highest rating that one can received. Death by period rage averted again.)

The first challenge I had making this cuff had to do with the velcro. This is stick on velcro, but I thought that I would go the extra mile and sew it down for extra stability. That was a wrong move! My needle immediately became gunked up with adhesive and no matter what kind of cleaning solution that I soaked it in it would not come off! A perfectly good needle wasted I loaded up a new one and sewed my fabrics together. After I had finished that I matched it up to the template and saw that I had not left myself enough seam allowance, and that it would not go around a coffee cup. It's now a lovely cuff bracelet in progress, but not a coffee cuff, gah!

After throwing a slight fit, the second attempt went much, much better. I'm so pleased with how it came out that I definitely want to make one of these little babies for myself. Save a tree, right?! I free handed the embroidery and voila - tout fin.






My item for the third day of this swap are these two little meeces. Aren't they cuties? They're little cat toys (my partner has three)that I knit up using a pattern from Stitch n' Bitch Nation. They're sooooooo easy to make and super cute. Definite mindless knitting which I haven't done lately because my socks have remained unfinished, and I promised myself no new knitting projects until the day that that happens. Which is possibly when hell freezes over. We'll see!

I'm having so much fun with this, but 10 different, quick things, is tough to come up with. Does anyone have any fast crafting suggestions?

Cheers,

S