New
year, new life. That’s right - Liz got a plant. Historically, Liz
doesn’t know much about caring for plants and often doesn’t have the
right light/water schedule worked out, so when she learned about the
easy-to-care-for Jade plant, she decided to give it a go.
Jade
is a succulent and needs watering only once every week or two. It
likes sun, but not too much. Due to the plant-interested kitty Lola,
who has eaten several of Liz’s plants to death, Liz had to get creative
about getting the plant exposed to enough sunlight but away from the
cat. That’s when she remembered a tutorial she saw and had posted to
Pinterest about making your own plant hanger with yarn - an alternative
form of the macrame plant hangers made popular in the 1970s. Here is the tutorial that Liz used, and here are pictures of how her plant hanger turned out:
Liz
had to be a little careful about not damaging the leaves with the way
that the pot nestles into the hanger. Overall, she is thrilled with how
it turned out, and Lola can’t get anywhere near the plant. This
project was quite simple and only took about 20 minutes to complete.
Apparently, Jade plants can get pretty big so look out in the future
for a post on the repotting and creation of a larger plant hanger, so
long as Liz keeps this plant alive.
Sam has been toiling away on two time consuming projects. The first is a hat for her neice Evelyn.
We should start playing a game called “How many cans of Lacroix are in Sam’s knitting pictures.”
The
hat has a cable and is pink and purple. Evelyn will have a baby brother
in March so be looking for some new baby gifts as well as some big
sister gifts. Sam will take pretty much any excuse to knit for the kids
in her life because before too long they’ll be too cool for Auntie Sam’s
knits. In fact, Sam better finish this hat up before Evie’s head grows
too much!
Sam
has been traveling a lot in recent weeks and makes it a personal
practice to never travel without knitting. However, Evelyn’s hat is a
little too complicated to take on the road. So Sam started a project
designed to be fun, easy, bust her stash, and fulfill her love of
stripes.
It
looks like a ruffle right now, but it will actually be a blanket. Sam
is intending to keep it for herself, although her cousin Jess tried to
lay claim to it saying it would perfectly match her living room. We’ll
see about that. Sam hates weaving in ends, so she’s been carrying the
yarn up the side between small stripes and is planning on adding some
kind of border to cover up the carried yarn. This is one of those great
WIP’s: no deadline, easy pattern, just for fun. It did, however start
out with a small mishap: Sam was knitting away on her circular needles
when the yarn started catching at the join of the needle which can
happen when there’s a small piece of needle that snags the yarn as it
goes over. As Erica was reaching for a nail file to try to smooth the
join, Sam realized it was not a snag as much as her needle BREAKING away
from the cable. Erica was kind enough to lend Sam some needles to
continue on with, but in the words of Craft Night friend Heather:
“Thanks for a new nightmare!” To all of you who will tonight have
restless sleep with visions of breaking needles and large projects
falling off into oblivion, we say, “You’re welcome, and we’re sorry.”
Erica
has not crafted much this week. Unfortunately, she still hasn’t
finished Kevin’s mittens (which in this cold weather would really come
in handy!) She did go visit friends this weekend, and they headed to the
North American International Auto Show, where Erica picked out her Christmas present for
this year. Start saving your pennies, everyone! She took some awesome
pictures, but her phone decided that Erica can’t actually do anything
with them. Which is frustrating. She’s getting a new phone in 10 days,
so that’s the good news! The bad news is, you don’t get to see Erica and
friends living the dream in cars they will never own.
And that's what's keeping us busy! What crafty endeavors have you been up to in the new year?
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