Archive for For sale!
Six Reasons to Love Amtrak
As maybe I already mentioned, I recently made a quick trip up to Yosemite to visit my dear friend Genny, who I met in Ecuador last year. She taught me how to crochet as we dodged water balloons and raw eggs on Carnaval! Anyway, I took Amtrak up there. Miles and miles of this!
It was actually quite gorgeous, if monotonous. So, I crocheted. Yippee!
1. Deliciously Soft Purple Wristwarmers
2. Small Black Wristwarmers with a Gray-Pink-Burgundy Flower
3. Pink Afghan Crochet Cuff, or Woolen Bracelet
I absolutely love the way this stitch looks. I can’t wait to get a proper Afghan crochet hook so that I can make more than just bracelets with it.
4. Black Arm Warmers with a Pink Flower
5. Black Wristwarmers with a Gray and Pink Flower
6. Smaller Black Wristwarmers with a Gray and Pink Flower
These are all on Etsy, too! Actually, you can reach their pages by just clicking on the pictures. I hope you like them!
Black Wristwarmers with Brown-Blue-Green Flower
The latest addition to my Etsy shop (I know, I’m really slow on the whole creating inventory thing), these are black wool wristwarmers with a cotton blue and brown flower stitched on with green cotton.
They’re four inches tall, and seven and a half inches in diameter.
And, just in case you were wondering, they cost $8 and there will be a couple more photos of them up on Etsy in a matter of minutes!
Balaclava Update
I made this balaclava while I was in the UK, for myself, and I was very delighted with it. I still am, but I have decided to list it for sale on Etsy.
Why? Well, first of all, I still have a lot of the yarn I used to make it, so I can always make another one for myself and anyway, it’s a long way until winter. But the real reason is that when I posted a picture of it to Flickr, I noticed something curious. Where all my other pictures got one, two, three, four views, the pictures of this one had twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine. Where all my other pictures were, in large part, not commented on, pictures of the balaclava drew a number of admiring comments from strangers! Someone even favorite-d it, but I think it might have been some horny guy with a mask fetish… oh dear.
Anyway, I’m hoping the balaclava phenomenon doesn’t boil down to horny guys with mask fetishes, because then it’s unlikely that it will be very successful on Etsy. But, I’m listing it up there as an experiment to see if there is indeed a market for balaclavas — maybe this could be my niche! And I could become a balaclava factory! Now this would be fun.
I’ll let you know how the experiment turns out!
Green and Purple Arm Warmers
Speaking of me breaking the bank at Imaginknit, there was some other delicious yarn that I bought there that fateful day with Emily. This was Drops Eskimo yarn, in Bordeaux and in Yellowgreen. They are both very aptly named, I think. Anyway, I used these yarns to make some arm warmers, partially on Muni and partially while watching an excellent Star Trek (DS9) episode about Dr. Bashir and some other genetically modified humans. Yay for Dr. Bashir!
As always, there are more pictures of these on Flickr! And, they are also for sale at my Etsy shop 
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Brown Handwarmers w/ Flower
Here are some handwarmers I made just the other day out of some cotton yarn my mom had lying around:
This is the flower up close:
And here’s what they look like on.
There are, as always, more pictures on Flickr, and these handwarmers are also for sale on Etsy!
Black Hat w/ Brim and Blue Stripes
I made this one up and down the highways. It was my first time making a hat that was all single crochet, and I think it turned out pretty well.
Lots of firsts! It was also my first time making a hat with a brim.
This is what it looks like on:
And it is also for sale on Etsy!
Set of 2 Pale Yellow Potholders
My first Etsy listing! I made these in Santa Barbara and on the way down. They’re made out of cotton yarn.
Luckily, I figured out how to shape them correctly, so these ones do not look like stingrays.
