Anyway. It’s sort of on the small side. I can wear it but I have small wrists. Might be better on a small child’s wrist? I’ll probably give it to a friend with a daughter or maybe to my neighbor for her son since it’s just a practice, but I definitely like this pattern! It’s fun, even if doing the “back-four” knot takes some getting used to if your right-handed. For anyone else wanting to learn the zigzag, just watch this video from BeyondBracelets on YouTube!:
Technically, I should be in the midst of re-sleeving my hoodie like I started to do a couple nights ago…and…then I got distracted by the idea of suddenly wanting to learn friendship bracelets. /o\ I don’t quite understand my brain sometimes. (And actually, I should be searching for a textbook so I can do homework right now but shhhh. I’ll get on that in a moment.) So I hit up that goldmine of information–YouTube, natch–and I found the channel of user BeyondBracelets, who has quite an extensive collection of tutorials on weaving bracelets neatly organized into playlists ordered by difficulty. So far I’ve practiced the Candystripe, which is what this video teaches–
–and wound up tying it around my brother’s wrist, so he wound up taking it back to school with him. Not bad for a first attempt, though I need to work on finishing them better.
I honestly thought that weaving friendship bracelets would be a lot harder, but provided you just observe a few basic rules, it’s something pretty much anybody could do. And since I have four giant spools of crafting thread that I recently dug out of the garage during spring cleaning (which prompted this sudden interest in bracelet weaving), I have a good feeling I’ll be making lots of them! Which means there might finally be some new products in the WCFT Etsy store.
I am ridiculously excited that I found this. You have no idea. True, sitting in a wheelchair means not many people will actually see the ruffles…but I’m not necessarily making it for the viewing pleasure of others! I have wanted some ruffle-butt undies for quite sometime now because I think they’re adorable and I think they’d look adorable on me. Trouble is, they’re often a tad out of my budget. Looks like now they don’t have to be!
Well, now I have hope for finally fixing my MCR “Dead!” hoodie the way I want to! And also gives me hope towards modifying a number of my other shirts before putting them on eBay or something to make a little extra money. (Does Etsy allow modified shirts? I’ll have to double check what their rules are.) Now the new question is: Do I go with a solid color or drive myself nuts by ambitiously attempting striped sleeves?
I know. I am horrible at updating. Very, very horrible. /o\
That said, I was intending to search for tutorials on making mini top hats and found this one from YouTube user TanyaBubzee instead. It’s almost as if I was meant to find it, considering that it makes a reversible hat out of a panda AND a Totoro–two of my favorite things! Might be time to break out the sewing machine once again…
I’m part of the university’s Asian culture/anime club, without whom I might not have actually re-learned how to fold paper cranes (and, thus, not have started The Crane Game in the first place). We’d kicked around the idea for a while of building a giant crane out of recycled paper squares for a while, but last Thursday we finally jumped into action and did it. I got the idea to film it on my cell phone (yay, Blackberries!) so that I could show Patricia (our president) what we were up to, because she was at home terribly sick. The voice you hear sort of narrating the whole thing is mine.
I have a feeling this attempt is only the start of something bigger.
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