Nyan Cat All Over The Place!

So this isn't entirely new or anything, I just wanted photos of nyan cat all over Jon's sculpture 'cause it's so serious looking all the time.

I am also in the process of making more nyan cat scarves for some friends, and as soon as that's done I'll try to have some for sale for anyone who wants it :)

So on that subject, I also don't mind trying to make things you request to put up for sale either. Some suggestions I've had were yip yips, Charlie Brown hat, R2D2 hats and a couple others. Suggestions are more than welcome here :)

Nyan Cat Scarf

Nyan Caaaat!

Made me a Nyan Cat Scarf the other day and I loooovveee it

The scarf is actually about 7' long. A little bit longer than I expected, I was just aimlessly crocheting across and just ended up keeping it a length that I thought was fine that I had judged while sitting... I probably shouldn't have done that, but oh well 

I also probably should've started with shaping the head,  the face, then the poptart piece first. Since I did the actual scarf first, it made it more tricky to shape the cat the way I wanted it to.

So I have this hat, that comes with "arms" which have pockets to put your hands in. I plan on making a similar one, so that's why I'm not posting a reference photo for this. Just trust me when I say it comes with arms and pockets haha. Anyway, since it comes with a pocket, I wanted to transfer that idea to this scarf (I love pockets. I don't like carrying my purse all the time since I don't really have anything but keys, phone, and ID basically). Soooooo here's the pocket part

Yes, what you see there is Darth Vader in, what looks like, Nyan Cat's butt...

Companion Cube

So I got really bored one night and randomly decided to make a companion cube. My boyfriend loves portal and I wanted to make him something (since most of all the other projects I've made were mostly just for me and my own fun). So companion cube away we gooooooo.

This project also took me a little bit of time, seeing as how I didn't really have a pattern to work off of. There were 6 panels, 6 circles to go on each panel, 8 corner pieces, and 12 center pieces. And by "center pieces" i  mean the little piece that goes in between each corner pieces. Aka there are 12 edges of a cube, and there had to be 12 thingies strapped to each edge. Anyway....

The panel was a little tricky and had to be redone several times. The first attempt was done in rows and in the shape of a square. But when I placed the circle piece on top, it just didn't look as nice and neat as I had wanted. One piece was round and the other piece was in rows and it didn't look very nice. Sooooo how can I blend the two together? Work in the round to make a square? Work in rows to make a circle? I tried the former figuring it would look too warped if I did the latter. So how do I turn it into a square from working in the round...

Luckily me, I had recently learned how to do a triple crochet. Yarn over twice, hook through loop, pull through first two loops, yarn over hook through next two, yarn over, hook through remaining hooks... At least that is what I had remembered. So if it was wrong, oopsie because that's what I did to make this anyway. Too late for corrections at this point. So I figure for each corner, I would make a tc (the rounds were done sc in each stitch while also increasing to a certain point), in between each sc. But that made the corner look too odd and not quite a square. This time I didn't have to redo the whole thing, just figuring out a corner. Long story short, I eventually figured out the right combinations of sc's and tc's along with the right number of sts in each round to make a nice corner. 

Another tricky part was also making each corner pieces. This didn't take as long as the panels though, the best way to cover 3 edges: a triangle! I used that as the basis of my pattern to make the corner pieces.

Eventually all pieces were made and sewn together and bam! A companion cube is made.

I purposefully did this without a pattern because I am in the process of learning how to make my own creations. I just want pieces that I make to be of my own original work and from a pattern that I've created myself. This is to not to say I won't occasionally look up a pattern or a how-to to help me along the way, but it's purely a guide for me to use. 

But with that being said, I think the amount of crochet'ed pieces I will be posting in the future may come a little bit less as it will take me longer to try to figure it out and get used to being able to see what it is I want to make and break it down to different geometric pieces. I'll still post as often as I can, I still sew, knit, etc, so there may be a couple of those as well. 

So for now, here is my latest creation, the companion cube :)

What better way to represent a companion cube, than with han solo and his buddy chewbacca

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Hm... by "companion" did they mean friend or life long partner? Should it have been Han and Leia???

Gotta Catch 'Em All! Pokemon!

Here is a little something a buddy of mine had linked me. I've seen a couple of pokemon amigurumi things before, but these were just absolutely adorable. This is definitely going on my list of things to make.

Movember

Wikipedia says

Movember is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches/facial hair during the month of November

Otherwise known as No Shave November.  I've known about this for a little while, but it wasn't until I started making this blog that I found out that there are actually rules! Here's the pdf for any of you who wants to know what the rules are for Movember.

Well this all started when my boyfriend Kiiiirrrsss, wanted to do this for fun. I am also a full believer that by "fun" he means to see how long I could handle the whole idea of him not shaving for an entire month. The guy has super Germanic blood in him! I could also believe he has Viking ancestry also.( I call him my Viking). He can grow facial hair like nobody's business. He is in no way a clean shaven guy, he's just kept his facial hair all neat and trim. And I like it like that. But he decided it'd be sooo hilarious to grow it all out just to see how I'll handle it.

Aaaannyyway, what ended up  happening was I got bored one night and decided to have a bit of fun myself.

This little crafty project was pretty fun to do. By now I've gotten preeetttyy good at making beanies (seeing as how I couldn't stop making hats because that's all I knew how to do... work in the round..) so this project was pretty non-hectic. No patterns needed. No real thinking needed. Just crochet away. The mustache was a little tricky to figure out, but a simple combination of sc, dc, hdc, and tr I was able to figure it out in no time.

Funnily enough, it was also getting chilly so after I was done putting it all together, I got to wear it for the rest of the night...

Well sort of..

So this is my own take on Movember :)

Bomberman

I wasn't able to sleep tonight, so this is the product of my inability to sleep.

Story Time!
A friend of mine, Veena,  recently got a new job at Game Over. In gist, it's a video game store that mostly sells retro games. It is a new love of mine. Anyway, while on this trip visit to Veena, she suggested I made a Bomberman Hat. Now, I don't think this is the type of hat she had in mine, but this is what I have so far.

This was made with a N hook, worked in round and blah blah. Made a little ball out of red yarn, then back to white yarn, I made a "stem" to connect the red bulb to the hat.

In retrospect I think the N hook came out to be way too large, so either I'll find someone with a large head to wear this, or I'll eventually take it apart and redo it with possibly a J hook. At least I will if I continue to make a hat double crocheting (dc) the whole thing. I've made a hat/mask similar to this one using a N hook but instead of dc i just single crocheted (sc) the entire thing and it fit a bit better. Hats are probably a little more tricky for me to do only because I feel like I have a smaller head than average and I only have me to test it on most of the time. Trial and error is the way to go for me. So if any one has suggestions as to how I can fix this, it'd be great. I'm open to any suggestions to fix, or even suggestions for additions to the hat.

Isang Litrong Liwanag

I think the direct translation of "Isang Litrong Liwanag" is something along the lines of "A Liter of Light" or "The Solar Bottle Bulb."

I was just rummaging around the internets when I came across this website http://isanglitrongliwanag.org/

Well honestly I saw this video first which brought me to the website

This is one of the coolest things I've seen and look at how much it has helped people!
The video takes place in Sitio Maligaya which is in the Philippines I think. The area is very poor and very cramped. The homes are very dark and they cannot always afford electricity for their homes. So this guy, the Solar Demi, brought light into these people's home with a simple hole in the roof/ceiling, filled with a plastic bottle filled with basically water (and other things) and ta dah, the folks have light in their home.

I suggest you watch the video since I probably didn't explain it all too gracefully. So http://isanglitrongliwanag.org/ is asking you all to help out. I only just found out about this right before I started this post so I'm not 100% sure how to help. If any of you find out, let me know! There are buttons for donations, volunteers, and how you can help on the website, so click on one and see what it is you can do.

How to make a bottle

You will need...

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Fill the bottle with water and ~10 mL (2 capfuls) of bleach

Those are the general steps, there are more instructions here at instructables

Save your plastic bottles!!