Bombed! [Part 2]

A few next-day shots of the April Fool's day yarn bomb. Unfortunately, some of it got taken down before I got around to photographing. This was more of a decorate-the-trees-with-scarves kind of thing rather than a full yarn bombing. We didn't quite have the man/woman-power to really do it right, but it was still fun. I just wish I could have seen some of the reactions of the students when they saw the trees with their cozies.



Note: Blogger was having a bit of a hissy fit (and still is about picture uploads) when I actually wanted to put this post up, so here it is several days later :[

Bombed!

For April Fool's my crochet club STITCH (Students Taking the Initiative to Crochet Hats!) yarn bombed the quad area the Thursday night before. Unfortunately, it got taken down pretty quickly, so there are only a couple of night shots via cell phone camera. When I get around to editing some of the next day pictures, I'll sort through and post the good ones.

Ellen sewing on the tree "skirt"

Even the railings got some yarn love

We even made a nifty sign for the big tree that said "Let's hook up!" I love crochet puns :]

I Scream

Oh dear, it's been a while.

My club has a little ice cream social coming up for the members where we'll be meeting up with our ASL mentor pairs for the first time. And fast forward, we needed some flyers to post up about our event. Fortunately, the internet is a wonderful thing. Now we have some really lovely cards to hand out to our members.

Illustrations by Tricia-Rennea at trillustrations

Also, on the crafting front, two things. One, we had a great little yarn-bombing prank for April Fool's day (pictures to come). Two, I seem to have lost my only yarn/tapestry needle and as such, I haven't been able to work on any of my yarn crafts. Perhaps it will show up somewhere, but I fear that it has been left behind during our yarn bombing.

Nifty Spools

Does anyone else do this to their spools of thread? I find it particularly useful with the spool of "invisible" thread that I have since I can't exactly see where the end of the thread is all of the time. I also like when I get the chance to use my many sharpies even if it is only one tiny thing.

Crooked Teeth

Meet my dryer. This is a crude approximation of it. I made this happen in my artistic ability.
Isn't it charming?

The latest victim: a beloved Silverstein zip-up hoodie. Fortunately, it wasn't too badly mangled by my monstrosity of large home appliances. The problem was that the zipper slider somehow managed to fly off the end, even with zipper stopper firmly in place! I decided to put to work my 8th grade home ec skillz and fix this.


Here's the zipper stop that needed to come off in order to thread the slide back onto its track.


After some wrestling with an extremely rusty pair of needle nose pliers, I settled on cutting out the offending zipper stop. (See my notes in the background? That's because I should be studying for my final in Human Nutrition. Tangent: I've been eating Nutella out of the jar with a spoon. Something tells me that studying for that exam might be a worthy pursuit. Perhaps I should learn what I should be eating by doing the exact opposite? A tasty proposition.)

The lonely zipper slide. This would be the orientation for putting it back on the track since I have to slide it down from the top.

And, after some minutes of trickery and cajoling, tada! I used a spare jump ring and sewed it in place of the cut out zipper stop.


And here it is all zipped up. I'm inordinately proud of myself right now.

Diamonds in the Rough

Here are a couple gems while I was grading papers today. Apparently, when you give them questions that we haven't learned the material for yet, they come up with some rather creative answers. I'd like to see them draw me pictures next.





Teaching is such a rewarding experience.

What's black and white and round all over?

This guy:
Who looks startlingly like this frog balloon from the original Shrek movie:

Shrek and all associated characters belong to Dreamworks Animation

This is a lesson in "not everything that can be made round, should." Case in point, this penguin started out adorably and with good intentions. However, somewhere along the way he went from chubby to Rubenesque. And from there, it just got worse.

Also, the picture itself vaguely reminds me of those "Dog" photographs/art pieces that were quite popular a few years back. The ones where the dog has its nose shoved curiously into the lens, lending an overall fish eye quality to the image.

In any case, I think this little fella is headed for the charity pile. Or perhaps to be relegated to the closet with the creepy five-legged octopus.