Recent Projects

Here are a couple of projects that I've finished recently.  First is a crocheted cat purse I finished a couple of days ago.

This is the pattern I used.

First I had to make a base.  Then you crochet around to make the sides.  I added stripes.

When you're done you fold it in half and whip stitch to the base. 

You sew on the other parts you made( 4 paws, 2 handles, head, tail,  flap to cover the top, and button to keep top closed) and you have a cat purse!  I didn't put in a lot of detail but it's pretty simple.  I got the pattern at JoAnn Fabrics, but I'm sure other places like Amazon.com has it if you want to check it out.

Last night I finally finished the chainmail bikini top I started in a class at GenCon, August 2011.  I had put it away and never had the chance to finish it, mainly I because I'm always getting myself involved with too many projects.  Since finishing the cat purse I decided to take the time to finish the chainmail before I started anything else.

The class was a lot of fun and I probably would have finished sooner but I measured wrong.  I think this was the group that had the class, http://chainmail-legion.com/ .  This website has some great tutorials http://cgmaille.com/tutorials.shtml\  A great website to buy rings and scalemail is The Ring Lord .  

GenCon

Here are the other things I made at GenCon.

Chainmail dicebag                                            Scailmail bracers 

And I didn't make the sculpture but I painted it.  The are a ton of great crafting classes at GenCon.  I hope to take many more this year!   I have some scales left from the bracers I might use to decorate the bikini top and extra chain links I might use to make some jewelry.