Crochet Cactus #2

I just completed another cactus and I think this one came out more realistic and cuter than the first one =) This one includes a blue flower with light blue details and yellow filaments. The person who requested the pot provided the terracotta pot which she had painted gold.

Pokemon Go Team Mystic Shirt! DIY

I love Pokemon and Pokemon go is a dream come true for me. I have met tons of people while playing and the first thing people always ask is "What team are you?". So I made some Team Mystic/ Blue Team spirit wear. I have nothing against any of the other teams, I have close friends and family on all the teams, but Blue aligns with me because I love evolution. This shirt has a sort of distressed look to it, which I like. The final image doesn't have a perfect edge, but is definitely clear enough to tell what the object is and helps with the distressed appeal of the shirt.

Here is the finished product:

**The round bubble blotches are from before I started the project. I carried everything home from the store in the same bag and the bleach leaked.

The materials you will need include:

• A Shirt in the color of your choice
• Freezer Paper
• Piece of Cardboard 
• Bleach
• A Squirt Bottle
• An Iron
• Some kind of cutting tool. 

*Optional: Silhouette machine, Transfer paper

I used my silhouette machine, but that is totally optional and this project can be completed with scissors or an exact-o knife.

Transfer paper is also an optional tool which just makes it easier to transfer the freezer paper to the t-shirt but is not necessary.

The first thing I did was make my design in silhouette and cut it out:

I then spread the transfer paper over the freezer paper and pealed the unwanted parts of the design away. The image below shows what it looks like up to this step:

I then put the piece of cardboard inside the shirt and flipped the transfer paper over so that the wax side of the freezer paper was against the shirt. 

I then ironed it and pulled the transfer paper off, leaving just the freezer paper:

I then sprayed the shirt with bleach using the squirt bottle and waited for the desired level of lightening:

I then filled the bath tub and rinsed off as much of bleach as possible:

I then removed any of the remaining freezer paper that was still attached:

and tossed it in the dryer:

Here is what it looked like at the end:

Crochet Challenge!! Day 14: Blue

The theme for today is blue =) and as my friend Cristina mentioned in here post from today it is a wonderful color to crochet and I also have a couple shades of it. Today I selected a scarf that I made for my sister. She is going to school to be a meteorologist so I made her a scarf where she could change the weather: Sunny, Cloudy, Raining, and Snowing. They are connected with buttons and the scarf looks neat even without the weather. 

        

Here are some other random projects that I've made that are blue:

If you would like to join the challenge you can find it on usscrafty's blog: