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Cubeecraft: Darth Vader

Willow — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:18:07 +0000

Darth Vader

I really liked how Sam & Max turned out in cubeecraft, so when I noticed this one I just had to make it too. Darth Vader, including helmet and light sabre!

Knitting: Cthulhu Dice Bag

Willow — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:56:05 +0000

cthulhu dice bag

I finished this quite a while ago but I thought I’d still post it here: my cute knitted dice bag. Thanks to Faragon I was able to start right away, since she gave me wool and the pattern for it. I think I knitted the pattern a bit tight but it’s not a disaster really. All part of the learning process :)

Cubeecraft: Sam & Max, Freelance Police

Willow — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:17:59 +0000

The other day I was clicking around on the interwebs, and found cubeecraft.com. You can download a pattern for a cubic version of your favourite character, print it out (on thicker paper), cut all the lines and then put it together, no glue or tape required. Yesterday I decided to try it out with two of my favourite characters: Sam & Max. It takes about half an hour to an hour per character and the directions for putting it together are quite self-explanatory.

Yes, I realise I have no life right now. This will change, as I’ve set up my own freelance business and my first job starts in June. Glee! ^_^

Pixelhobby: Mario

Willow — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:57:48 +0000

Recently, my mother opened her hobby shop. One day before opening she got an offer from someone at Pixelhobby, and she decided to sell it along with the stuff she’d already stocked. Pixelhobby now accounts for a large part of her profits.

But what is it? Well, remember Ministeck? Pixelhobby works the other way around: you have a piece of plastic with pins on it, and you push little square pieces of plastic with holes in them over the pins. Where Ministeck had pieces with 2 or more pins (think tetris blocks), Pixelhobby only has pieces with 1 hole. When I looked at this for the first time I had one association with it that wouldn’t leave my mind: oldskool gaming! Therefore I decided to go with one of my favourite games from when I was young, which is Mario 3. This is the result ^_^

Look here for a closeup.

Edit: I’ll give a more detailed description of how it was made. First I got the picture off the internet. Then I used a program called Pixelhobby Designer to make it into a pixelated picture (it’s downloadable from their site, Windows-only afaik). I bought the colours and the plastic boards I needed, as was detailed by the pattern I printed out. Then I put a plastic board on the pattern, which looks like this, and I filled in the squares, circles, triangles and crosses with the four corresponding colours. After that, I put the board on the next pattern. It takes ages and you have to be careful not to mess it up, but it’s worth the effort :)

Knitting: Fetching fingerless gloves

Willow — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:26:11 +0000

Even before I finished my first project, Liessa gave me cute wool and this pattern: Fetching fingerless gloves. This looked like a big challenge to me because it featured knitting in the round -and- knitting cables. Also I was really unsure about how the thumb of the glove should be made. But I thought, what the hell, there’s always someone to ask if I get stuck.

It turns out I never got stuck at all. The pattern is very clear and I did every stitch myself, including the cable cast on, the special bind off at the top and picking up stitches for the thumb. I taught myself all the stitches (cables, casting on, knitting in the round) using YouTube videos. I love the internets!

So this is the result, cute innit? ^_^

Knitting: Phone Pouch

Willow — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:51:33 +0000

A while ago the knitting virus hit me too, and I bought some cheap wool to start off my first project with. As I was knitting it in a cafe in Amsterdam, some girl talked to me and suggested (only a million times) that I should make it into a phone pouch. I liked that idea, and here it is.

My mother crocheted the cute flower on the front, and the buttons are from my mother’s and grandmother’s infinite (no really, infinite) button collection. The regular buttons are just for show, since I attached a press stud (‘drukknoop’) behind the flap. I think it looks awesome for a first project!