My Etsy has been updated and restocked with a whole bunch of new stuff!
A little preview:
You’re all intrigued now, aren’t ya!??! Head on over to Molly Knight Crafts on Etsy. Buy stuff, tell your friends, etc etc.
08/13/2010
SoWa Open Market!
Guess What?!? I’ll be selling at this Sunday’s SoWa Open Market! YAY!
My friend Melissa of Little Pancakes graciously offered to let me share her booth. I’m so excited! I’ve been working on building up a good selection of stuff over the past month and here’s what I have:
A whole flock of birds, some hearts, a bunch of necklaces and three dolls in varying sizes. As well as a photobook of “custom crochet” in case anybody wants to order anything special.
I’m so excited for Sunday. Selling in a craft show was one of my New Years Resolutions this year. I never keep those! If you’re in the area, please come out to visit!!!
07/20/2010
Little Ladies
I’ve been working on a few dolls recently.
The first will be up for sale soon. Her name is Calliope and she’s quite spunky. This is her second set of hair as the first just didn’t look quite right. Now its quite luxurious. Let me say “quite” again. Quite.
Her body/dress is made of Berroco Suede. Her hair is as well, actually. The hair color is “Belle Star” but the dress color seems to have been discontinued which is really too bad. Its a neat variegated colorway that reminds me of the ocean. I like working with Berroco Suede especially for my little friends. It ends up really nice and soft. I usually see it in the clearance bin at Windsor Button and scoop it up.
I came up with a different technique for the doll hair that I’m really liking. I basically make a cap out of the yarn hair, then weave some pieces into that and sew the whole thing onto the head. This makes the hair look more full and so you can’t see the “scalp” underneath.
The second doll I just finished is for a friend’s little sister, who loves to figure skate. My friend sent me pictures of his sister in a recent competition and I tried to duplicate her costume and hair style. Here she is:
If there were a gold medal for cuteness, she would so totally win.
HOW ADORABLE ARE THESE SKATES. I’m just gonna go ahead and pat myself on the back for these. I kept trying to think of the best way to make the actual blade part. Pipe cleaners? Maybe, but I didn’t have any silver/grey ones. Metallic paper? I have that, but how to attach it? Then I remembered the sad, lumpy robot I had knit for my boyfriend and that I still had some silver metallic yarn. Voila!
Since I wanted to make the hair a little more lifelike for this one, I used a sock weight (very thin) yarn and did the same technique as with Calliope (a cap, long pieces woven in, sewn on)
Apparently, this is gonna get my friend a “Best Big Brother” award. Whatever I can do to help, man.
06/29/2010
In which I say “inventory” 5,238 times
The process of building an inventory has started. So far: one doll (without hair at the moment), four birds (one of which I made while watching The Bachelorette last night. Every show I watch is a guilty pleasure), a couple cowls i made in the winter, and an iPhone/iPod cozy (or should I say smart phone/mp3 player cozy? Please don’t sue me, Steve Jobs). Its so hard not to advertise and get more custom orders but I really have to focus on inventory for the next couple weeks.
I’ve also started making a new “product”:
Crocheted Beads! These will be strung onto a silver chain and sold…soon. More colors will also be available. I’m trying to make this inventory completely out of yarn I already have (do you realize how difficult it is NOT to buy new yarn? I’m breaking out into hives here.)
06/26/2010
Blog? Oh yeah! I have one of those!
My excuses for being a horrible blogger and not posting in months:
1. “Personal issues”
2. “It’s not you, it’s me”
3. “My dog ate my internet”
Etc. etc. etc.
To be honest I hadn’t gotten much crocheting done in the months since I posted either. BUT that should be a-changing. There is more free time opening up in my near future and some projects planned. ALSO there is an exciting possibility that I may be selling at a local craft fair in July. Details on that later.
I’ve been tossing around the idea of making this blog not just about crochet and make it more a personal thing (see: more free time coming). While I know I’m not the most interesting human on the plan, I could probably think of more interesting things to talk about than JUST crocheting. Plus, as I try to build up an inventory, I’ll be making a lot of repeats of what you’ve already seen. Plus plus, I think it will make me update more often. We’ll see.
Now, on to the (very) few projects I have done recently:
oink!
What do pandas eat? Uh they eat bamboo! (If you know what this is from, lets be best friends.)
BFFs
Cupcake Mobile made for my friend’s cousin’s baby (got that?)
With sprinkles!
