Finished Coral Reef Display

             Here is the final coral reef display  The last thing we added were the words coral reef project, the yellow seahorse, and the contributors sheet. The words did get a little wet, because of the rain and my not rain proof back pack. 

              Hope you like it =) and if your a student or alumni at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Metropolitan Campus, you can go take a look at it. It is right across from the front reception desk in the library and it looks much cooler in person. 

 

I'll post again soon. Feel free to ask me any questions in comments =)

Added More Reef Items Today

I added a crab, a purple fish, and a pink coral today =) You can see pictures below 

                        

  
                         
 

Crocheting Seascape Mostly Put Together

I finished hanging 4 jellyfish and 2 fish yesterday :) I also added one small yellow and pink coral(made by my friend Michelle). To be added still is 1 giant seahorse, 2 more coral, a fish, and a crab. I also have to add a legend to show who made what, but it is mostly done :) I'm so happy with the progress that the crochet club made

Fabric: Coral Reef Display

Found this fabric at the auction near me. Next I just need to buy some clear fishing line so I can hang some fish and jellyfish. I think it has the possibility to be very cool when finished.

Crochet Starfish Pattern

Magic Circle

Rnd 1) Sc 5 in ring (5)

Rnd 2) Sc 2 in each around (10)

Rnd 3) *Sc 1, 2 sc in next* (15)

Rnd 4) Chain 5, skip the chain closet to the hook and sc  in the 4 stitches down , continue around round the direction you were going, *sc 3, chain 5, sc in the 4 chains down* sc 3

Rnd 5) going up point , *hdc in next two stitches, sc in next 2 stiches,

(sc, hdc, double crochet, hdc, sc) in top stitch of point,

going down point, sc in next 2 stitches, hdc in next 2 stitches,

sc in next 2 stitches*

Fasten off

 If you have any questions feel free to ask the in the comments =) The more questions I get the clearer my pattern writing can become.

Catching Up

      Wow guys =) It's been a while. This semester has been crazy semester, but I guess that is the life of an engineering major.

       So what's been happening to me...well I started a crochet class/club in the library. We meet once and week and I've taught about 20 people to crochet in the last couple weeks. It's been exciting and a great experience. We are currently working on our end of semester project which is creating a seascape in the library with sea creatures and plants. I made a pattern for some starfish and a pattern for tube coral so far. The exhibit is in about 3 weeks. So I'll post pictures and tell you more about that when that happens.

      I also just finished making a movie for Campus Movie Fest. It was a crocheted movie and I pretty much just sat at my desk for a day and videotaped what I did. That video will be on their website in about 2 weeks so I will give a link when I can.

      On a similar note I started a youtube channel called, my life with yarn. It doesn't have any videos yet, but I already have ideas for my first 3 and plan to put the up really soon. The planned ones at the moment are   1) the magic circle      2) the granny square     3) starfish. I'm really excited about this and I can't wait to share. You can subscibe now if you want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPo7s78YMU. That way you will know the moment I upload a video =)

     Well I think that is all for now. I'll post again soon =)

Decorating My Dorm Door for Christmas

So I started decorating in early December. I just didn't get to post about it until now =) studying for finals and all. So the first thing I tried was to make a yarn Christmas tree. I planned after it dried to cut it in half so that I would have two that have flat backs so I could put one on either side of my door. 

 Turned out that using newspaper was a bad idea. took forever to detach it and I couldn't get all of it =) but this could easily be fixed with a little glitter. Would make it look purposeful and sparkly, because the newspaper would a perfect spot for glitter to stick. 

 Supplies:

                 This little snowman is the one I made. It is just printer paper. The nose is a piece of a orange box, the face is sharpie, and the buttons are pennies. the scarf is actually crocheted =) its two squares, the bottom one has the top corners attached and tassels attached to bottom.

This is Cristina's =) This is also printer paper and she used cut outs from magazines to make all the features 

We change the steering wheel's cover to match the Winter theme and because we did not have a red and green we used and shades of blue. You simply start anywhere and just wrap over the end and then continue around. I then used tinsel string to tie tiny Christmas balls to it.

           These is the finished trees. I cut them in half and then glued the backs to green construction paper. They didn't really fit in with the rest of our decorations. So our friends, who also happen to be our next door neighbors, let us put them next do there door. They said they would decorate them sometime soon, but finals have slowed that down a bit =)

              You can see in these pictures the newspaper that I could not get off. I later looked it up and found out the styrofoam works better, but newspaper is free =)

           So that's all for now =) See ya soon. Post after finals, they've been crazy. Btw all of these supplies were things I had on hand, so all the projects were totally free =)