Meet Sarah Kramer

Hey everybody!

I want you to meet a very awesome person, who has done a lot of awesome stuff in the name vegan.
Her name is Sarah Kramer, and here she is!

...wait... that's not right...
Here she is!

Ha ha.
In case you were wondering, that first picture in indeed Sarah too, or little Sarah as I have dubbed her.

I made little Sarah for Sarah Kramer because I love what she represents in my community.
In a lot of ways, what she represents for me, is chocolate.

-laughs- See, I wasn't a fan of chocolate (being lactose intolerant I wasn't so keen on milk chocolate) so finding vegan chocolate bars made of dark chocolate and awesomeness was a new start with me a chocolate. We're much better friends since this discovery.

But Sarah's place (down on Pandora by Solstice cafe, between government and wharf st) has tons of amazing products that you just have to see to believe.

And many are done my local crafters and artists. Sarah believes in supporting the community.
All in all, Sarah Kramer is awesome. And that's why she deserves a cute lil Sarah doll.

...guess next I will have to try making a fergus : )

Thank you so much Sarah for being apart of what I love about Victoria, B.C.

More spider webs

I am loving this weather!
It's making me forget that I have to get ready for things like International Yarn Bombing Day.

It is however, getting me really good at making spider webs.

This one me and my friend Michelle installed on the walkway down to the beach.
What I love most about these pictures is being able to see the ocean in the background.

And then we installed this orange one on some drift wood over by the log that had the red and rainbow spider webs installed.

Together, that section of the beach is getting colorful.

And here's a little picture of Michelle with the tie that she crocheted after I taught her how to crochet. Hopefully, once she gets the hang of this thing called crochet, she will help me with yarn bombing! I've always wanted my own little yarn bombing crew.

Addicted to the beach

Today was beautiful.
The sun was shining. I could not stay in bed. So I convinced my gf to come down to the beach with me.
It was warm, and the slight breeze was nice instead of being overwhelming.
And I made a slew of spider webs to bomb on the beach.

We found this perfect location by these odd log that had metal hooks in it and metal rope wound around it.
And these odd grooves that allowed the webs to sit perfectly in.

First, I did this rainbow-esq one.

Try and imagine the kind of spider that this web came from.

Then I did a set of the red spider webs together. I like the look of more than one web in a space.

(this is my favorite shot of the red spider webs)

And lastly, a shot of both of them together.

I had a lot of fun at the beach today. I want all summer to be like this. Hot days, people in sundresses and yarn bombs on the beach.

I will leave you with an awe inspiring view of the ocean from the end of my road and the knowledge that I am about to go and enjoy my pizza cupcakes.

Spider webs down by the ocean

Spring rolling around again means I am much more likely to go to the beach.
And going to the beach means I am very likely to yarn bomb.

I'm not sure what it is that I love about yarn bombing the beach, but I very much do.
Yesterday's yarn bomb at the beach consisted of this lovely red spider web.

I wrestled for a couple days with making spider webs. I watched some youtube videos and asked someone who had made so amazing ones how they did it. A lot of that was confusing, but I think I have managed to get the hang of it.

This might not have been the best location for the spider web, but I really wanted to do a bomb while I was hanging out with my friend Daphne.

And this log stump was the best thing around.
It was super fun either way. I love learning a new skill set for crochet.

3KCBWDAY7: Crafters Balance

Today's topic talks about a balance between crochet and knitting. For me, I only do crochet.
It's not that I have something against knitting. I mostly just find it complicated, and I get more than what I want out of crochet, so why would I want more complicated.
For me, balance means making sure I don't spend all of my time crocheting, and spend some of it painting.
While crochet has become the love of my life, painting was my first love, and I do not wish to abandon it.
So on that note, as Knitting and Crochet blog week draws to a close, maybe I will go get some painting done.

(Tardis painting hanging in my living room)

It has been a lot of fun to work on this project this year! I really hope to do it against next year, and special thanks goes out to Eskimimi for organizing this awesome event.
I hope you all enjoyed it.

3KCBWDAY5: Video Yarn Bomb

Hello!

Today's topic for Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2012 was "Something a bit different".
I decided to go with something I have never done before!
I got someone to video myself yarn bombing.

Remember the fishing pole?
Well, seems it was very successful at catching fish for awhile there. But since it hasn't caught anything for awhile, turns out it caught a shoe!

Here is the video of my yarn bomb.

Here are a couple pictures of the shoe picked up on the fishing pole. 

I hope you like the video. This was my first try, as I said. But I really liked it, so maybe I could make more videos of me yarn bombing in the future.

And if you feel so inclined, you can nominate me for prizes in Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2012

3KCBWWC: Wildcard entry - Perfect Day

So the wildcard entry asks bloggers to talk about their perfect craft day.

I know what I want out of a perfect craft day, because I have tried to create it.
For my birthday last year, I asked all of my friends to get me yarn. And then I wanted to spend the day with them making various swatches and then joining all these swatches together into and epic yarn bomb!

...sadly, things did not quite play out this way.
People did bring lots of yarn for me.

(all the yarn I got as gifts and the one swatch that got completed by guests... rather, guest)

But getting people to crochet (or knit, I wasn't forcing anything but yarn craft) was a lot harder than I anticipated.

So, my dream crochet day would be me, a group of awesome people that I care about, and bags full of yarn.
We would eat snacks, drink beers, and crochet and tell stories, until we had a huge pile of swatches in front of us.

(attempt to draw fantasy crochet day by me and paint)

Then we would all slip on our bearded hats and sneak out into the twilight and bomb something obvious with our giant swatch blanket.

After taking pictures of our glory, we would then return home and look at the photos recounting the glory of our yarn bomb.

That's what I really want out of my crafting. A sense of community and belonging that seems to come naturally to the fuzzy world of yarn craft.