Crown Jewels

I've made some more jewelry recently.

 I bought this pig at a tag sale last fall. I screwed a metal screw+jump ring thing (I don't know what they're really called) into his head and now have a new favorite necklace!

 My coworker gave me a floppy disk and challenged me to make something with it. I made a pendant with some hot pink wire and a nice blue rock. I even made a matching ring.

 This was almost too easy to call "jewelry making." I bought the silver bracelet and super glued the teal rock on. An emergency trip to buy nail polish remover and unglue my fingers and I was able to admire the final result.

I made these pig earrings out of US Bank pig keychains. A little nail polish remover to get ride of the US Bank logo, 2 hoop earrings and done!

I've also bought some new jewelry over the past months:

A great neon green snap bracelet watch, a triceratops necklace, a pig in a wooden box necklace from my friend Matte, 2 wire wrapped rings from my friend Breezy's etsy store and a massive and intensely awesome neon green plastic wire mountain of a ring.

The problem will now be that when I move abroad again, I will have to get rid of some jewelry. I have a lokum box and 3 dresser drawers full of earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets. I love my life.

Jewelry Inspiration

My good friend Breezy recently opened an etsy shop. She makes awesome jewelry! I was lucky enough to get a one-of-a-kind necklace from her as an exchange gift to the purple hat I knit her in November. We went to Michael's together, I picked out beads and she did the rest. It turned out amazingly.

Her etsy store got me looking in other etsy stores, and 4+ hours later (boy, is etsy a time-suck), I decided I wanted to try making some rings of my own. I went craft supply shopping yesterday and already have 4 rings to show from a productive morning.

I been searching for months for ring blanks, rings with a flat top that things can be glued on to. I finally found them yesterday! The coin is 2 Algerian dinar with a cute camel, and the map of Minneapolis was a free gift from an etsy seller. There are so many more things that would be awesome glued onto rings, so I'll now be on the lookout when I'm out and about.

Wire rings are a lot harder than I thought, because the wire bends easily, doesn't lie flat and gets unruly when it's long. But considering it was my first time, I'm happy with the results! It seems like an addicting (but expensive) hobby, so I'm sure I'll have many more fun things to show off!

Cowl

Last night I finished a big cabled cowl for my friend Nick. Hopefully I can get a picture of him wearing it, it would look a lot more stylish that way.

Carrot Top

Just finished this hat, a gift for my mom. Powering through project after project, yay winter!

Little Multicolored Riding Hood

My dear friend Matte was in town for winter break and she loved the blue hood I knit a few weeks ago. I decided to make one for her, so we went yarn shopping. We got the discount yarn store to open especially for us on a Monday night and we found beautiful German variegated yarn for the tassel and regular black for the hood. It turned out great!

2 weeks, 2 head coverings

Even though it's been Christmas and a trip to San Francisco, I managed to get 2 super cool hats done over the last 2 weeks. Fun!

Little Blue Riding Hood! A great hood with a cabled band.

The same pattern I used for my friend's purple hat and the Ultralingua penguin hat, a really soft grey 6-cable hat with ear flaps and pom-pom.

So glad I have found ways to make winter fun and stylish :)

Cowl

I wanted to tackle Moebius knitting (a circular scarf with a half twist), but didn't have a circular needle long enough to put in the twist. Instead, I just knit a scarf in the round. It works as a hood and a thick scarf. Great for cold days!