Posts Tagged as ‘green’

November 11, 2009

Fingerless Gloves

By Annie
Fingerless gloves are one of the hot items this winter. I like them because my iPhone won’t let me text while wearing regular gloves, so I don’t mind sacrificing cold fingers for the sake of texting.
I need to get moving on making a few pairs for the winter. Here are some that I like:

October 10, 2009

Looking for Some Sunshine?

By Annie
I’m not sure about how the weather is wherever you live, but in Chicago it has been disgustingly terrible the past few days.  Rain, cold, wind – it’s enough to make a girl want to lock herself in her apartment all weekend (and write in her blog…?)
So I think it’s time that I unveil [...]

September 25, 2009

Felt Leaves and No Bright Ideas

By Annie
I’ve been making a lot of felt leaves lately (I use the term “making” loosely because all it really involves is cutting out two leaf shapes and sewing them together).  But the problem is that now I’m not quite sure what to do with them.

The original intent was that I was going to make [...]

July 7, 2009

Strawberry Purse

By Annie
I haven’t been knitting much this summer (as I’ve been busy with trivial things such as working) but last week I spent some time rifling through my stash of half-finished projects that I hadn’t touched since I moved to Michigan.  After much careful thought about which project to pick up, I decided on this [...]

June 30, 2009

Snazzy iPhone Covers

By Annie
I am now the proud owner of a new iPhone (by that I mean I’m still waiting for it in the mail, but I paid for it already so I guess that means I own it).  I’ve been thinking about what kind of cover to make for it, since I’ll obviously need something to [...]

June 8, 2009

Flower Earrings

By Annie
Summer is almost here.  So why not celebrate with a pair of summery flower earrings?

These were pretty simple -  I made them all within the last two days.  All you need is crochet thread, beads, wire, and some earring hooks.  As you can see, there are so many different ways to make them.  I [...]