2010 March | Perpetual Tea Party

March Is

30 March 2010 Written by Kyoko 2 Comments

March is my favorite month in terms of crafting because it’s my birthday month, which means to me that crafting budget stretch a little and I get something special! I often use this month as an excuse to get tools and supplies necessary to learn something new (last year I got spindles and really nice fibers to learn spinning).

This year, I wanted to further my recent adventures in sock knitting, so I made Todd promise me not to get me anything else for my birthday because I wanted this super extravagant set of needles in size 2.5 mm (which I decided was a perfect size for making socks — if I only get to have 1 set…). It’s made of aircraft grade aluminum with surgically precise points. And it’s really really really nice, a whole lot easier to knit with than other needles I’ve tried, I really think that good tools make a world of difference (besides, these will last forever unlike the bamboo ones that are notorious for breaking, and my other stainless ones that keeps getting bent…not to mention BLUNT!).

…now I just need to get better at knitting! Here’s another start of a sock. I’m trying out stripes using yarn that gradually changes colors. I have no idea how the colors/stripe will turn out yet, it just might not work out at all but we’ll see!

Bubble Tea and Salt Shakers

27 March 2010 Written by Kyoko 0 Comments

Here’s my Birthday treat (it’s next tuesday, but that’s a silly day for a birthday so…): very yummy bubble tea from Tea Chai Té and [was] a piece of carrot cupcake.

We found these mid 30′s salt/pepper shakers today. I love glassware from depression era for their intricate patterns and very pretty translucent colors. Apparently they aren’t worth much these days since everyone saved them thinking they’d be worth something and the antique market is now flooded with them (good news to me!).

Growing Things

25 March 2010 Written by Kyoko 0 Comments

We started some seeds on our window sill a few weeks ago, and they have sprouted! I put some of them in lanterns hoping to protect them from our cats. The one in the glass lantern is cucumber!

Here’s the basil sprouting in the green glass oversized goblet thingie (…which we got at thrift shop for $1.50).

I’m totally loving the color green lately. Very odd thing since I’ve never thought twice about green. It just might be a spring thing.

Plastic!!

21 March 2010 Written by Kyoko 0 Comments

I got immi some vintage/recycled (sounds much better than “used” doesn’t it?) plastic beads, and I thought they were quite cute in faux sparkly and obviously plasticky sort of way, so I made some more stitch markers. I thought that these plastic beads would be great for this purpose because it’s light weight even when they are quite big. My previous version of stitch markers that I had made (after some research for best stitch markers designs!) are totally great in that they don’t get in the way and are completely snag-free…but they are so small they are difficult to keep track of!

I’ve been knitting a lot more than I have to show for because I’ve been doing as much unraveling as knitting I’ve unraveled the above start of a sock too.