Christmas is just around the corner, so what does that mean? It’s time to bust ass on your crafting projects so you can be done in time to give them out to all of your appreciative family and friends. I hadn’t knit anything in a while until recently when a friend asked me to teach them how to knit. I’ve been working on knitting projects every day since. I just thought I could write up a quick post and show you guys what I’ve been working on lately!
So Thanksgiving is a few days away, so what am I posting? My finished Halloween costumes of course! Sorry it took forever to get these photos, my sister took them and she has been quite busy with school so it took her a while to send them my way. Well, better late then never!
So I’ve been pretty busy with crafting especially with Halloween right around the corner, and thankfully I’ve actually managed to take some pictures for you guys to see! I was meaning to make this post earlier but time caught up with me so here we are. Sorry about that! To make up for that, this is pretty much going to be three posts in one! I have two parts of my costume I need to show off as well as a semi tutorial on how to make a wand for my sister’s costume.
So here we go!
For Halloween I decided I was going to be Poison Ivy from Batman. I needed green tights, and of course the one time I need them, there aren’t any green tights at all. Frustrated, I bought a pair of opaque white tights with the intention of dyeing them with food coloring. I had seen people dye yarn this way, what would be the difference?
Here are my materials: white tights, food coloring (I used green and yellow), vinegar, a stainless steel pot and a measuring cup.
I taught myself how to knit, so I've never been really adventurous with my knitting projects. I pretty much only knew how to knit and purl so all of my projects were scarves, and even then I can probably count on one hand how many of those I've finished. So what got in my head about knitting some socks? I think it was when I was digging through my yarn stash and came across a bag full of alpaca yarn that my boyfriends parents got for me while they were in Peru. To me it looked like it was the perfect weight for socks and I had just found a few sets of double pointed needles. It was obvious, I had to knit some socks. I had to. I only had sets of 4 dpns all in different sizes, but almost every pattern I came across called for a set of 5 dpns. Finally I came across Silver's sock class. Using this pattern successfully made my first sock!
Unfortunately it was a tad too big. I used the directions for sock weight yarn. I decided not to waste my time and yarn making a matching sock for that one. Instead I jumped right into another much more advanced sock making technique. I had heard about people knitting two socks at the same time, one inside the other on dpns, and I was determined to try it myself. I took some progress pictures along the way so I could share them with you all!
Humble beginnings.
I was lurking around on the internet the other day and came across these viking shoes. As I scrolled through the post, I saw it was a tutorial on how to make them, so of course I had to make some myself. I went out to my craft store and bought some leather remnants for less than$5 and hoped there would be enough to make a pair of shoes.
Before I cut into the leather, I made a pattern out of felt and put it together. I made some modifications to the original pattern to try to make them into flats instead of sandals and I wanted to make sure it would work.
Here’s the pattern all put together
So yesterday I posted my huge failure in trying to bleach my Sex Bob-omb shirt and today I promised to show the spray painted one I ended up making and wearing instead. Luckily I had another black shirt hiding in my closet, so I whipped up another stencil…
With this stencil I decided I’d try out bridges, because I saw someone use bridges to make sure everything was lined up correctly, and then carefully cut them out with an exacto knife.
Here I am, cutting them out. If you do this, be VERY careful not to cut your shirt.
All cut out and ready to paint! I stuck cardboard in this shirt just like last time to protect the back of the shirt. I’m using some Krylon plastic fusion hammered metal spray paint because that’s all I had on hand and I didn’t feel like going out to buy a whole can of paint just for this shirt.
I’m a pretty big fan of the Scott Pilgrim comics and I was super excited about the movie, nevermind the fact that I love Edgar Wright movies. So when I got the chance to enter a contest (hosted by Ain’t It Cool News) to win two tickets to an advanced screening last Thursday I knew I had to at least try. All you had to do was enter a picture of yourself rocking out and you could enhance it in Photoshop if you so desired. So I made my little sister (who was the one who would go with me if we won) put on her Gideon shirt that we made the other day and jump around with her ukulele while I took pictures. After I picked out the best picture I added in some effects that fit in to the movies style. And guess what? We won!! 
Here’s the winning picture:
Immediately after hearing that we won I knew it was time to make my Sex Bob-omb shirt. I wanted it to be a black shirt with the logo bleached on, so after scouring the internet for tutorials on how to do such a thing, I ended up with a roll of freezer paper, a black shirt and some diluted bleach.
I just made this shirt yesterday and I couldn’t help but post it up here right away!
My older sister is always getting me in to comics and graphic novels, and most recently she got me on Scott Pilgrim. If you haven’t noticed, they’ve made a movie based on this series – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Because of my excitement for this movie, I decided to make a shirt from Vol. 6, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour. I had been wanting to make it after I finished reading that volume, but the other day I saw some footage of Comic Con where they were screen printing a whole slew of shirts, the one I had been thinking of making being one of them. So obviously that made me get off my butt and make one for myself!
Ta da!
I’m in the process of making one for my younger sister. I also want to make a Sex Bob-omb shirt as well.
Check out my other tutorial on how to make stencils for your own shirts!
I’m Filipino-American so I know a few silly Tagalog words here and there that my mom says now and then. My little sister and I like to combine some of these words to make completely nonsensical phrases. One of these gems is “Ay sus ginoo, sapatos puwet kugmo!” Any Tagalog speaker now should see that this doesn’t really make any sense, but that’s the point! “Ay sus ginoo” is an expression.. kind of like saying “oh my god.” I’m often greeted with that expression from my mom when I’m just goofing around the house. The rest of it is literally, sapatos= shoes, puwet= butt and kugmo= booger. So yeah, as you can see, it makes no sense. Spanish speakers may notice the influence their language has had on Tagalog.
Anyway, the point of this post is that my sister and I wanted to make shirts with this phrase on them. We would always talk about it, but never really do anything, so randomly I decided I was going to make mine at least… I didn’t know what shirt she wanted to use, and I didn’t know if she approved on the final layout of the letters.
Here’s the printout.
