Commision time!

 Made a cute keychain sized Groot as a commission request from Wendy.

I hope he is everything you wanted!  He will see you as soon as quatrain is over.

Its been a while...

 Its been a while since I have picked up a hook.  It feels good to make a project again.  I went with my default chibi dragon because I know the pattern well. 

 Since I felt stiff making the smaller pieces I decided to embroider details on instead of making the small horns or ears, I did this before with my Magma Dragon but this time not in quiet as much detail.

Out side of crochet, I have been doing alot of sketching and watercolor as its easier on my shoulders and back.  

Also been organizing my crochet stuff as it has gotten a bit buried and lost due to not being able to use it.  Some of my favorit hooks are still missing, and some of the eyes and other attachments but I am hoping once I get a dent into my craft-mountain I will be finding all the things I keep looking for when I have an idea for something to make.

I also got 2 project bags over christmas that I love and have been slowly filling up with the items I always need on the go with a project as I find them.  I also got a cart for crafts that helps keep my colection of hooks all in one space.  Its a bit wobbly if you put to much weight in it but it holds up and gets the job done -- would defently recommend if you can get it on sale or 50% off.

This time I mean it

 So I went back and worked some more on this guy.  I am not sure the differences are as visible to others as they are to me.
I bulked up his head a bit more to give him more of a brow line.  I trimmed him up a bit around the ears. 
He will be going off to Animeggroll this weekend to find his forever home.

Is this the end...?

So Falcor is tentivily finished.  Its been a long long process.  I feel like something is still 'off' with him but I just cant put a finger on what I can do to improve him so for now I am done working on him.  I finished adding all his belly fur, and felting his ears, nose, and face.

I know the photos do not show him off to his best angles, I might need to go in and trim some more around the face.

Update!!

I am still crocheting, just going at it very slowly!!
This is my current progress on the Falcor project.  It takes forever to brush out the yarn and felt it in, been working on it for 3 hours today and only got about an inch worth of the belly done.

Out side of this, I am doing Inktober -- but in cats.  Its keeping my creativty going.

I know this is a short post but I have not posted in a while and wanted to do an update.

A little creativity non fiber related + Lowcarb cake at the end

So one of the things I can do with out alot of pain (still get pain if I do it to long) is draw.

I had been watching a lot of videos lately on drawing, while taking a break from doing all the long and very tedious felting on my Falcor project.

It seemed like everyone was playing around with Posca paint markers, and shrink film.  So I wanted to do the same.  This is my first test batch  of keychain/zipper pulls.

In the first image is the unbaked pieces, and a six inch ruler.  The second image is of the baked pieces with the same ruler to show the shrinkage.

I baked them at 300 (the package says 300-350) for two minutes.  There was a ton of curling, and Deadpool had flipped completely over by the time I pulled them out.  I did have to press them flat from some curling,  Deadpool also kept a bit of concaveness if I had a heat gun I might be able to blast him and press again to get him flatter since I dont want to reheat the oven for it.  The right edge of the pokeball also curled in some what and I just wasn't able to uncurl it where it touched itself but it still came out nice.  Also Pikachu's eye shine did not seem to shrink at all making his eyes look almost all white, not sure what happened there as the white for Deadpool eyes shrunk nicely.  Happy's foot snapped off while I was pressing on that piece which means if I do more pieces with smaller details I need to leave some of the clear around  them like I did with the whiskers.  Happy also did not shrink as well as the other pieces, but he was the largest, and possibly should have been left in longer -- learning lesson for me. He is a bit wavy and after snapping on foot off I didn't feel like I could finish pressing him till flat without damaging him more.

Out of them all I am loving how the Hyrule Shield turned out it has a bit of buckling to it but it came out just as I had thought it would.

Now that they had cooled off, I wanted to seal the painted face's with mod podge.  That was a mistake. 

I did not realize it right away as the mod podge I use is opaque while wet, but the black, and the yellow both reactivated when the MP went on smearing them both.

Its not as obvious on the shield but I did the Pikachu first and some of the yellow transferred over.  Luckily non of the other colors on the shield seemed to bleed.

Deadpool is taking quite a while to dry, but it looks like he did bleed over a bit as well which is sad, I was pretty happy with him.  The black was the only part that smeared all over.

Outside of that I am also baking a cake today -- its my Hubbys birthday!! 
Its a low carb vanilla cake, they fell just a bit while cooling, but I am hoping they are tasty.  I used a keto pancake mix (1cup) as a sub for sugar and 1/2 of the flour, coconut flour (1/4 cup), real butter (1/3 cup),  4 eggs, 1 vanila bean scrapings (as well as a few splashes on extract), 1 box sugar free vanilla pudding mix, and 5 splashes of milk (till the batter looked 'right'). 
I mixed all the wet +vanilla scrapings+pudding, then shifted in the dry and threw it into a 350F oven for 25 minutes, it two 6in round backing pans lined with parchment paper on  the bottom, and sprayed with coconut oil on the sides.
I plan on icing the outside with a Cool Whip+SF Pudding mix, I plan on putting a layer of SF strawberry preserves between the layers.

Finaly finished!!

Lace Wrap (pattern by Marly Bird)

So 3 skeins of chroma, and roughly 6 months of working on it through the pain, and its finished.

Its been storming off and on for the past few days so I did a photo inside, the colors are a bit washed out but there was nothing I could do about that.  Its way more vibrate, but I am happy with it and glad I have finished it.

Now I will just have to focus on working on my Falkor.  I have done so much brushing of yarn that I feel like I have breathed in yarn fluff any time I get my kit out that I have been keeping the project in.

I am currently up to felting fur onto his rear legs, and along the sequin section on his back I will update on it when I have made more progress.