Moonstruck Crafts

More stuff I've been doing instead of working on my costume.

Will my drawing and colouring skills ever evolve beyond shoddy attempts at My Little Ponies? Will Fluttershy ever get given a mane and tail? Will my weird glassy eyed doll in mourning ever get the rest of her face?

Probably not. I go on mad crafting sprees when having episodes and nothing ever gets finished because I lose interest.

For anyone who's interested, the gloves are a modification of this pattern

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lovisa-armwarmers

The pony (and her unpictured, even more unfinished siblings) is from this pattern

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sparks-pony-pattern

And the doll is a modification of this pattern

Two legs!

One of the things I've been doing instead of making Victorian costume pieces is designing my own knitted doll. It's a surprisingly gruesome, seeing all the body parts littered about, and gives me weird dreams.

My plans involve knitting her replicas of our Victorian costumes and many other historical and fantasy outfits besides. Because, you know, I like to make my life difficult and knitting bustles seems like an excellent way to do that.

Kind of productive today? It's for a Christmas gift so it counts as important?

My own design, smaller.

Behold my extremely large police box earring (this one took hours, not made the second one yet). I took a close up so you can see the loose beads there. I have much in the way of beading skills still to learn!

I got the design from http://www.threadabead.com/index.cfm and I think it looks pretty impressive but I may design my own, much smaller and probably two dimensional because I feel a bit of a doink wearing such huuuuge earrings. They're nearly as long as my neck!

And another thing! I managed to smudge the ink as I was drawing pretty badly on that one.

My scissor skills haven't started improving yet. I think they've actually become worse on this one.