Craftgrrl - Where Crafters Unite! (original) (raw)

My neighbours and I put on a community Halloween party this weekend and I had the great idea of making selfie signs. We did buy some selfie prop masks from the dollar store, but the kids ran off with them, LOL!

I bought Halloween window clings from the dollar store but didn't realize they were window clings, doh! I simply cut around them and glued them onto the white sign. Same for the orange sign. The orange sign lost its witch and the white sign is a little beat up, but they did the job :-)

I bought a punch needle kit on sale from a most unusual place--a drug store! The kit is by Kikkerland, purveyor of quirky goods and crafts. It was the perfect thing to take on vacation. I made some mistakes, had trouble telling the front from the back, but overall I would try it again! It was a few hours worth of fun considering I paid $9.99 for the kit.

Fibre arts festivals have become a real thing here and I'm so happy about it! It started with one and grew and grew and now I can shop hand-dyed yarns in person!

Mom and I went to Knit City the other weekend and it was amazing! I bought a budgie bag and filled it with the goodies you see here! Knit City is usually held in Vancouver, BC or Toronto, ON, but now it's going to rotate between Calgary and Vancouver. Yay!

One can never have too many and I just loved this set of three small looms from Michael's store brand, Loops and Threads.

Hubs is a lucky guy--here's the second sweater I made for him on my Ultimate Sweater Machine. I avoided the mistakes I made in my first sweater, but also made some new ones, doh! I have to adjust the length of the arms and then it will be done done.

The yarn is Premier Anti-Pilling yarn in spruce and pine. The yarn looked more "green" on the website, but it turned out to accidentally match our couch.

As I like to say "Late for this year, early for next!"

I bought Mom and I a Lumos neck light for Christmas. I was going to buy a cheaper one, the Lizard Light, but a lot of reviews complained about the battery life. This one comes with a USB cable to infinitely recharge and also has three colour temperatures in addition to being totally adjustable. I can't say anything bad about it after a month of use. It's great for dark coloured yarns, as you can see below! This yarn is dark navy.

They had a Black Friday sale, so you may want to stay tuned for other holiday sales! There's no shortage of YouTube reviews if you want to check it out.