The Mario Mushrooms Paradox

So this is the first of quite a few new blogs to come. See I was going through all my old pictures and found a whoooooole bunch of stuff I havent made blogs for yet... So I figured now would be a better time than any to create some new blogs, maybe get some new viewers in, and pretty much just show off my awesome talents....

Now when it comes to Super Mario, I'm a big Luigi fan. I dont think he gets enough credit... he does just as much work as Mario it's not his fault he usually only gets to come around and be "Player 2"...

But saying that aside, we're here to talk about the mushrooms! I made 4 of them, the mini,extra life, growth, and giant ones. They're really simple and easy to make, you dont even need a pattern for them!

Here's all you need: material/felt in respective colors, cream colored felt, white/orange felt for spots, and some black paint or a black fabric marker, a needle, some thread, and some stuffing. How much of each one you need will depend entirely on the size of the mushroom you are making, though (hence why I cant really give you a pattern)
Now to the right here is a picture of the mushrooms from the game. The four that I have made, Giant, Growth, Extra Life, and Mini. I can give you step by step instructions:
1. Grab something round like a bowl or a pot or a hoop and trace around it on your material or felt.
2. Cut it out, cut a smaller circle of the same color material or felt, this will be to cover the bottom after you stuff it.
3. Stitch around the edge of the big circle, when you have made it all the way around pull it tightly so it makes a sort of ball.
4. Stuff it as much as you want but be careful not to break your thread or  you will have to start over again.
5. After you have stuffed it as much as you want pull the thread tight and tie it off.
6. Using the smaller circle of the same color material or felt cover the gathered edges and stitch closed. This will give you a pretty finish.
7. Cut a circle from the cream material/felt and cut a strip long enough to go all the way around it.
8. Sew the ends of the strip together so you have a sort of tube.
9. Sew the tube to the circle so you have what looks like a cup, and flip it inside out so the seams dont show.
10. Attach the cup to the mushroom top by sewing the cup to the circle you stitched on earlier on the mushroom top to cover the gathered edges. Sew halfway around and then stuff before continuing to sew around.
11. Cut out some white/orange spots that would be proportionate to the size of the mushroom you are making and stitch them around the sides of the mushroom top. (You will probably need 5-6 of them)
12. Using the paint or fabric marker draw on two lines for the eyes on the cream colored material/felt.

Viola, you have your very own Super Mario Mushrooms. 

Lots of Loving,

*Rah~Rah*

 

All good things must come to an end....

Relax, I don't mean my blog!

Unfortunately my laptop has chosen this week to die... *Insert a bunch of crying here*

I have this kind of mood right now...

I love that laptop, not because it was the best thing ever, but because my Lewy bought it for me... It had all my wedding planning stuff on there, all my harry potter planning on there, all my music and my books for my kindle... a whole bunch of movies I hadnt had a chance to move to my portable hard drive yet, and the worst thing of all:

All the pictures of our house from the day we moved in until now.... I'm utterly devastated! Lewy said he thinks it may just be the motherboard that has messed up, it wasn't a very expensive laptop after all, and the thinks we may be able to salvage some of the stuff off the hard drive.... but at the moment Dr. Dad is having a look at it to see if he can fix it up for me.

Mr. & Mrs. Bears

Mrs. Bear with her tiara and veil

On a different note:
My Mr. & Mrs. bears are almost 100% finished!!!!! Mr. Bear is sporting a light blue knitted tie, a felt top hat and moustashe, and will soon be sporting "the old ball -n- chain" bit on one of his legs (providing it looks good) Mrs. Bear is sporting a white knitted veil, complete with a little jeweled tiara, fabric paint red lips, and a small bouquet of silver roses. All

they need now is their eyes and they will all be done!

I am still hoping to get up a pattern for my Mousy Beanie that I put up a while ago, but the pattern was on my laptop and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was exactly... So for now I beg you all to bear with me (no pun intended) while we work to salvage what we can off my poor departed laptop....

Now many of you have seen people writing about or heard them talking about something called a Bucket List.... I'll be a sheep and say I have one too, mine might be a little bit short, but after all it is only supposed to be things that are really important to you:

My Bucket List:
1. Learn to play the violin
2. Have a well trained dog, one that actually listens to me
3. Go on an exotic cruise somewhere like the Pacific Islands or Alaska
4. Marry the Man of my Dreams
5. Have a baby
6. Sometime before I die I want to hold a baby sloth and a baby chimpanzee
8. Own our own house
9. Get a job I actually love doing
10. Do a world traveling Holiday
11. Visit Japan
12. Learn to speak a different language fluently

As you can see I have already marked off two of the things on my bucket list! I think I am doing well for some one who is only 25... We are currently training Sade to shake her paw, she can already sit and stay, so we are on our way to marking that one off. Lewy has been trying to teach me Italian for the past 8 years... and I am getting it slowly... some of my words dont sound right because I am unable to roll my "R's", and today my mom sent me an early birthday present.... A BLUE VIOLIN!!!

I love it already!!! It's all set up and now the only thing I need to get for it is one of those electric tuners so I know if I'm playing the right note XD

She also got me three books on how to play it and I have endless amounts of youtube videos to watch on the matter but hopefully within the next year I can mark yet another thing off my list!

Now I am off for a while, hopefully will be able to update some of these patterns soon, wish me luck for getting stuff off my hard drive!!!

XxXx,

~Rah Rah

Knitting yourself Centered ^_^

So I may have mentioned before that I had started a project for Lewy's Christmas present, if I haven't then I'm mentioning it now!

It's a very special project, if you are familiar with Reiki and Chakras then you will know what it's all about.

I searched for ages trying to find some patterns for the symbols to knit a wall hanging with or even some
pillows with but there was nothing, so I took it upon myself to make some and share them with the world.


You can use these patterns in any way you like, but please PLEASE dont try and sell these patterns anywhere. They were created to be shared for free to any one who would like to use them.
I used them stacked on top of each other for a wall hanging, but you can use them any way you like. Pillows might make a good thing or even use them a squares in a throw rug or something!

1. The Base Chakra, this one will be red. Now I have done them so that the symbol stands out against the background, the background being the main color of the chakra.

2. The Sacral Chakra, this one will be orange.

3. The Solar Plexus Chakra, this one will be yellow.

4. The Heart Chakra, this one will be green.

5. The Throat Chakra, this one will be blue.

6. The Third Eye Chakra, this one will be light blue or violet. (I made mine light blue because I didn't have any violet yarn available and I didn't want to go to the shops just to get one skein that not even half would be used)



 

7. The Crown Chakra, this one is supposed to be ultraviolet, but since that's out of our color spectrum you can use some iridescent yarn if you can find it, I chose to use white only because I had some available and it is an appropriate color to use for this chakra.







I hope you have found this interesting and that you will use them!!! As always more work available on my Deviant Art page! and FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK!!!!  And brand new please visit my Ravelry Shop!!Hope all my lovely followers have had a very merry Christmas and an extra special New Year. Hope 2013 brings you everything you hope for and more!!!

All the BAGS!!!!

So we have finally come to it, the last of the bags and scarves!!!!

We'll start with the awesome set of Harry potter bags found HERE!! Now when and if you try these yourself here are a few tips:
1. 1 normal ball of 8ply yarn will make a bag as large as the Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw/Slytherin bags in the photo (the black thing in the background is of course my laptop just for a size reference) Of course you can use any size yarn you like and the bag size will vary.
2. You don't have to have the fringe at the bottom, you can sew the bag up and it will still look nice.
3. Because of all the yarn crossovers on the inside, if you actually plan on using your new bag for anything it would be best to make a lining for it. (I just used a Flat Fats from Spotlight it was enough to do both bags I made in each color with enough left over for a third bag if you choose to make it)
4. The colors I have used are the actual colors recommended in the pattern but you can make them whatever color you like!
5. The patterns also tell you to knit in the round, now I myself am only a novice knitter teaching myself, and I havent quite grasped the ability to do that yet. These bags can be knitted conventionally on two needles and stitched together on the open side. It's barely noticeable.
6. We all make mistakes, I made several when making these bags. I forgot a stitch or missed a color, but here's the thing, at first glance you wont notice at all! So dont think that you need to start completely over just because you accidentally made 6 stitches in the main color instead of 5!

Over all I know it has taken me FREAKING AGES to complete all of these, and considering that I have only done 8 bags it really has been a bit too long. But when you consider we have moved house and had to unpack, as well as remodeling and actual real life work that took me two hours to get too and from every day and working weekends, I really hope you all dont hold it against me...

Now for the scarves!!! I am admittedly still completing these but I have finished the first set (hence the photo)

Now I cant take full responsibility for these, The pattern that gave me the Idea can be found HERE!! but as you can plainly see they dont look alike. All I did was google "Hogwarts House Scarves Images" and there were two types of scarves. The one with chunky blocks of color (as seen in the photo) and then one for the older students which has large blocks and smaller stripes (this is the set I am still in the process of making).
As you can see in the photo the scarves tend to roll up in themselves after you make them, easily fixed by ironing them flat! I have decided to mix it up a bit and only add a fringe to some of the scarves and leave others with a plain edge.

Now for the next item on my to do list: Making the wands! This one's gonna be messy folks!

Country Kitchen Flair!

So my favorite pair of jeans ended up getting a hole in the thighs. It couldn't be fixed with sewing or even a patch, and I didn't want to throw them away...

Bright idea? Turn them into my very own cooking apron!

So here's what you need:

• old pair of jeans (not too ratty you need to have the legs in decent condition)
• seam ripper
• scissors
• 1.5-2 meters of lace (optional)
• 1 meter of thick strapping
• sewing machine or needles
• 1/2- 1 meter of your own chosen fabric

Now for the steps!

1. Take the seam ripper and rip apart the legs of the old jeans. (you can also cut them apart if you are in a hurry or don't want to waste a lot of time trying to get them apart.)
2. Cut the legs off the front of the jeans, I cut mine off just at the crotch because of the holes in the thighs.
3. using the legs from either the front or the back you need to cut out the top part of the apron. I had a slight flair to my jeans so I cut out just under the knees and measured to the top of my chest. But you need to cut them long enough to cover from your chest to your waist.
4. Decide on how you would like the top of the apron to look and cut the shape out accordingly. I chose a heart shaped top for mine you you can have a square top if you like.
5. After cutting out the shape for the top, sew one side of the legs together, this will be the top of your apron.
6. Open the legs, using pins attach it to the waist of the jeans. Using your sewing machine or by hand sewing, sew the top to the bottom of the jeans. Open it up and this will be the front of your apron.
7. Pin your straps into place. (make sure they are long enough to tie around your neck and waist. Stitch these into place.
8. Pin your lace around the front of the apron, it can be any color you like and any material you feel comfortable working with. Or if you choose you can NOT use lace at all
9. Using your sewing machine or by hand sewing, attach the lace to the front of the apron.
10. Cut out the shape of the apron from the material, if you have enough left over you can make a pocket to go on the front.
11. If you make a pocket (or wish to put on an applique of any kind on the front) do it at this point.
12. Sew the material to the jeans, right sides together. I didn't leave an opening around the edges because I left the zipper open to turn right side out. (If your jeans do not have a zipper or you have sewn it shut then you will need to leave an opening to turn the project right side out)
13. Turn the project right side out and sew up any holes you have left.
14. Iron over the seams to make the project flat. 

TADA!!! That's how it goes! Now you know how to make your very own apron using an old pair of jeans. This is also a great project for children, since its machine washable, you can use it for art projects, painting, or having the little ones help you out in the kitchen.