Yarn Bombing My Unicycle

         I've had my unicycle for a couple years now and I still can barely ride it. One of my goals is to eventually ride it as my main form of small distance transport. Unicycles are awesome becauase they are light, small, easy to transport, safe, cool looking, and fun. I was looking at it today and decided he needed decorating, if i cant ride him he might as well look awesome. So I took my two of my favorite things and combined them.

Before

 

During

After

 

      Uni is now all dressed up with yarn and beautiful. I hope to be practicing as soon as weather allows. 

Baby Gift for my Cousin

           My cousin was expecting his first baby. So I wanted to make him a nice gift for the baby. Normally it would be pretty simple, a pastel or rainbow colored baby blanket, because where I live and where most of my family lives it is a useful gift. When I suggested this to my Aunt she reminded me that he is stationed in Hawaii and that even though they may use the gift it would be very rarely.

           I was then thinking of making a crocheted mobile, but this posed problems, because I did not know how they were going to hang it and my Aunt did not know what theme if any they were using for the nursery.

           I then set my sights on making some sort of toy. This is a little harder, because the did not intend to find out the gender of the baby. This ruled out any blue or pink stuffed animals. I then thought maybe I'd use that interesting camo yarn because my cousin is in the military, but I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. So that idea was also out.

           I was almost about to give up the whole idea when I thought of just making a simple color cube. Colors are good for brain development so I always try to make baby items colorful and I think this fits the bill. It also has a rattle in the very middle, so it makes noise as you shake it. I placed the sides so that each of the secondary colors was next to the two primary colors that produce it. This is easy to make because you only need 6 squares of any color(s) which you then stuff and sew together.

           Over all a very simple baby gift that I hope my cousin will like.

(This is a post from a couple years back that I never posted . He now has two children, but I still wanted to share the simple idea.)

Yarn Bombing

               I've been wanting to yarn bomb for a while. So about 3 weeks ago as a birthday gift to myself I finally did it =) I started by picking a target, a pole in front of the building I live in. This way I would see it frequently and so could everyone else. Unfortunetly, since I live on a campus there is not any time when everyone is asleep and the coast is clear. Because of this I had to change my plans last minute and change to a more secluded location. The pole I measured was slightly thicker than the pole I eventually used so the yarn bomb was a little loose when i got it on.

                 This is a few pictures of me working on it right before I finished. I didn't take any pictures before this point because I forgot =) This is me sitting on the floor, on my yellow rug =)

Then I attached a note to it. Its just a folded index card that I punch a hole in using a hole punch. I then made a slip knot on the card and then made another slip stitch on the actual yarn bomb itself. This way it could not be removed as easily unless you have scissors which most people don't carry with them around campus.

You can see what both sides say above =) It rained two days after

 it was posted it and the note fell off, but i found the note

 and had 5 yes's in the like collum!!  =)

             


This is a picture of it all finished just as I'm getting ready to go attach it. I brought with me one long piece of black yarn, that I was doubly sure would be enough cause it's better to end with extra then to run out in the middle. Also I bought a large tapestry needle, that was already threaded and two friends =)

       These are all pictures of it as soon as it went up. Just a Tip: You don't wanna wait until morning, even though it gives better pictures, because it may not be there in the morning and then you may not get any pictures at all =)

              And this is the next day in the sun light so it's a better picture =) The yarn bomb is still up now and its been almost 3 weeks =) I may take it down to wash it and move it to a different pole soon =)

Rainbow granny square update :)

These are all the squares I have so far. And the green blanket is the size I'd like the blanket to be at the end. :) I think it's cute so far.