and some more

i actually started this one before the one i posted yesterday, but then got "crafters block" or what have you after stitching on the flowers and some of the buttons. so i stuck it on the mannequin head and let it sit for a few days... we had quite a few late-night staredowns, let me tell you. meanwhile, got the idea for the bird as seen on yesterday's, so i drew up a smaller stencil in a different size and here we have it.



i really like the black yarn i used for the hat, though i can't remember the name of it at the moment. i got two skeins from the a.c. moore clearance bin last week on my First Yarn Shopping Trip In Months, since it was down to $3 and had been sitting there since december. it's acrylic/something/something, kind of the same feel as lamb's pride worsted but a lot lighter.



two different kinds of houndstooth material make up the base of the applique (from two different thrifted skirts, both of which i would have saved to wear had they fit me). buttons are from my mom's preschool craft stash. the red flower is just a regular old flower, but the green one is one i attempted to felt last week. it basically just got fuzzy and KIND of drew up but not much. i'll give it another try sometime, but i do like how it turned out... for this project, at least. oh, and the bird is craft store black felt, just like the one from yesterday's. hat.

katy has requested one with an owl, so that among other things will be coming up soon.

time to go to my "real" job now. ha!

(ps: seriously, say hello if you read!)

pictures, as promised...

...just a little sooner than i thought.



i basically sat here all day, sewing + ripping music to iTunes. i either need a real workroom so i don't have to work on my bed, or a real bed so maybe i wouldn't be tempted to treat it like the floor. i'm afraid of losing a needle somewhere and finding it in the middle of the night...



fruit of the labor. I LOVE IT. i'm going to make more, now that i've perfected my bird silhouette drawing skillz. (the bird = sketched on paper, traced onto felt, cut out & sewn on.)



detail: blue yarn = scraps from the stash basket, cordurory = from a skirt thrifted last week for this very purpose.



so freaking cute. mom, if you see this... you're probably creeped out. but thanks for letting me pilfer your living room accessories for the photo shoot.

so, now you can kind of see where madeye is going, for now. this is definitely the vein i'm going to be working in, at least for the next little while. i thrifted a ton of skirts last week to cut up and use for appliques, which work like the crocheted disc appliques that are on a lot of hats on the site. i really like that look, but i was getting tired of crocheting every little bit of every little thing and wanted a bit more variety in the patterns and textures. so here we have it.

thoughts? share them! please / thank you!

numero dos

what made me make the move from livejournal? as with many things these days, i'm not entirely sure, but it felt right. i really just woke up one morning and said to myself, "hey self, let's move that madeye thing over to blogger." and then i said, "sounds like a good idea, self." i guess it was something about telling people to "check out the madeye livejournal!" that seemed a little too cumbersome for my liking. having a really real for real blog just makes me feel so freaking hip and with it. operative word, there: feel. whether i am or not... well, that's just the mystery of my life.

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so until the other day, i hadn't crocheted in almost two months. i hadn't gone yarn shopping in... i don't even want to think about how long. suffice it to say that it was a long damn time. the hiatus was largely due to school and school-related things, but really i do think the fact that my yarn basket was full of ugly scraps didn't help much either. i started throwing stuff on top of it in my closet so i wouldn't have to see it. damp bath towels, dirty socks, books, anything that needed to be tossed. seriously, there's this one ball of bright neon green red heart kids yarn that i got for some custom project that never came through that is so putridly hideous that i still experience an acute adverse physical reaction to it every time i see it... nay, think about it.

and let me tell you, i am usually a fan of ugly green things. (see: the avocado naugahide couch i recently salvaged for my apartment next year. ugliest thing EVER.) so the fact that i was physically repulsed by this says a lot, and none of it is very encouraging or inspirational. so instead of blaming my lack of crocheting (nocheting?) on Life, i'm going to blame it on that fuglyass ball of yarn which singlehandedly (single-balledly? oh man) managed to drain me of all recognizable desire to craft.

DAMN YOU, UGLY GREEN YARN. DAMN YOU.

fortunately, i've come out on the other side relatively unscathed. i've got two sacks of new yarn and i've made two and three-quarters hats in the last week. i'm also working on some new styles to sell, and i'm really excited. REALLY excited. and really vague, apparently.

less vagueness + photos coming soon.

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in other news, this morning i finally bought the boygirlparty shirt i'd been wanting foreeevvvverrrr: starry owl! i love me some boygirlparty. not that i needed another shirt with a bird on it, but... eh... well, who am i kidding? i can ALWAYS use another shirt with a bird on it.

eyeblog update numero uno

moving over here from livejournal... more to come soon!