Chilly day.

We don't get much of a winter where I live. Or much of any kind of season. Or weather.

From day to day, our weather is much the same day to day: Chilly in the mornings, hot in the afternoons.

It's not even a question of what the weather is doing when you get dressed, you just know, it's the same.

So understand my joy when I woke up this morning and my toes were chilly. I opened up my yarn drawer and pulled out all of the chunky and bulky thick soft yarns in my stash. All of them. They were wonderful, I sat in bed with them for fifteen minutes looking at all of them.
I finally decided on a beautiful baby blue one, no label anymore, so I've got no idea what it's made of and by whom, but all I know is that I love it!
I sat down with all of my recorded shows on the DVR from the last week and busted out a scarf with it within two hours. And that's with pulling out 2/3 of it to redo it.

 Partway through, Zoe came in and decided that it was a great place to lay down.

Good thing she's cute.

Okay, I know it looks a bit silly with the holes in it,b ut bear in mind it doesn't get very cold here so this one keeps me from overheating.

I love my scarf, but that sad part about crocheting in a place with no actual temperature changes to speak of throughout the year, they're impractical. As with nearly anything that I make.
Oh well, I'm glad to have the beach and the nice weather we have.

Homesick

I haven't been making any posts recently. I either don't have the motivation or don't have anything to post.

But that's ok, because I'm pretty sure that nobody actually looks at this blog.

And that's ok too.

But, I do have inspiration now an something to post about, but I'm stuck with only my iPod to take pictures with and to write with. But I'll survive, my photos just aren't going to be the same quality.

But that's ok.

I'm on a trip to Colorado right now with my extended family. It's really very beautiful here, and I love the town we are staying at.

It's a small town, the year round population is less than the population of my middle school. Everybody is very nice and the town itself is beautiful, with wilderness for miles around.

We got here a few days ago, and it was a few days of driving to get here, through Navada and Utah. We stopped at Zion national park and Arches national park, and saw a lot of spectacular rocks.

To get to this town, we had to drive in on a dirt road through miles and miles of beautiful forest.

We've gone fishing at two beautiful lakes and seen a stage of the US Pro Cycling Challenge while here.

So it's been a good trip so far, but I also miss home (yeah, already. It's only been a few days) I miss my dog and my bed. I miss my friends (I really really miss my friends). I miss having the peace and quiet of my own room, and I miss being able to get up in the middle of the night for a midnight snack. I miss living with three other people instead of seventeen other people. I miss having people my own age to talk to.

But I know that when I leave, I will miss the wide open spaces and the small town and the clean air. So I'm enjoying this while I can, and all of that stuff will be there for me when I get back.

Zoe

My dog, Zoe is a big part of my life.

She is nearly two years old and still acts like a puppy. A lot.

She chases reflections of light from my iPod or phone and runs around the house when someone new comes.

One of her favorite things to do is lay on my bed and watch the street from my window when I'm on my computer, staring at the people who walk by.

When I'm feeling under the weather and want to take a nap, I'll often wake up with her snuggled behind my legs or at my feet.

She can sure make trouble sometimes, but most of the time, Zoe is a real sweetie.

She is a good doggy and I don't know what I would do without her. Also frequently my only model for me to practice taking pictures, because she will sit still if you bribe her with treats.



T-Shirt Yarn

I love T-shirt yarn. Whenever I go to a garage sale, I always look for the really over sized shirts without seams down the sides or designs on the front to use. It's really easy to make, and you can do some cool things with it.

To make T-Shirt yarn, you need Some shirts without seams on the sides, scissors, and free time.

It's really that easy.

I got these shirts at a garage sale, for next to nothing.

First, you lay out the shirts and cut straight across just under the armpits and straight across on the bottom, cutting off the lower seam. The part in the middle shouldn't have any decorations or seams on it, if it does, making the shirt into yarn will be too hard.

I couldn't fit the whole shirt in the shot, but up top is the sleeves. Sorry.

You can do whatever you want with the top halve, I just threw some of them out. I can't figure out something to do with them.

Next, fold the middle section, which is basically a knit tube, nearly in half side to side, so that there is a bit of space where it isn't double layered.

Now cut the part where it is doubled into strips, leaving the space that is not double layered uncut. I made my yarn a bit larger, so my strips are wider, but you can cut a variety of sizes. If the strips are under 15mm or so though, the yarn will break too easily.

After all of your strips are cut, unfold the part of the shirt that was not doubled.

And cut diagonally from strip to strip. I couldn't think of a good way to explain this part, so I made a kind of really bad little diagram. The black lines are what you have already cut and the red lines are what you are cutting when you cut diagonally. When you do this, it becomes one long strip.

After that, pull the yarn tight. It will go from looking like a strip of cloth to looking like more of a curled tube.

 This is that last step in making your yarn. Just pull the whole thing until it looks like a big pile of noodles and roll it into a ball.

You can make a bunch of them and make some cool things. With mine, I made a school bag.

But I don't have a picture of it yet. I will soon!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Lily

Introduction

I figured I might as well start out by introducing myself. Call me Lily. Or 'You there, the one on this blog' would even work. I am a teenager living somewhere in the general area of America, though not a normal teenager, considering I crochet and watch Doctor Who for fun. I'm a bit awkward and sometimes I just say things that make sense to only myself. I've never had a blog before, so I've got no idea what I'm doing. It seemed introducing myself would be a good first post.

This is me and my camera, Jeremy. He is a Canon 30D and I use a 50mm lens most of the time.

I am a very big Harry Potter nerd, when I was little my dad read it to me right out of kindergarten, and it has been part of my life ever since. I am an admin on a successful Harry Potter page on Facebook, which you can find here. 

I am also really really into Doctor Who, which has translated into crochet most out of my fandoms.

This is my Weeping angel and TARDIS. I love them.

I also love LotR and watch Charlieissocoollike and Nerimon and The VlogBrothers on YouTube. DFTBA.

...And I read Homestuck, but I'm not really very far into the fandom yet.

As far as crafty things go, I will try to figure out pretty much anything as long as there is a good tutorial and I don't have to buy a bunch of new things for something that I'm going to do once. I crochet, draw a  bit, write, knit (Though I never bothered to learn purling and increasing/decreasing so I don't do it much.) I can sew, but don't do it a lot. Oh, well, I also take pictures a bit.

So yeah, that's me. An okay introduction I guess.