Slouch Hat

I crocheted a slouch hat for my friend’s birthday back in March and then decided to make one for myself [and yarn was on sale when I went to buy a skein for her hat :D ]

The weather has been crazy this week in the Tampa Bay area, but after the crazy rains yesterday, today was beautiful! The night was semi-cool so I figured it’d be a perfect time to wear my hat. My parents said I looked ridiculous, but I like to think I looked pretty good ;)

My nom nom nom-ing isn’t very photogenic, but the sushi was DELICIOUS!

And, just for kicks, my little sister’s doodle of me.

Happy Friday [&April Fool's Day]!

2011
04/01
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Bad planning?

The temperature fluctuates a lot here, so I planned on making a 3/4 sleeve tee. I was going to combine these two shirts to make a baseball tee…

…but after chopping off the sleeves of my shirt, I was lost. I quickly realized that the polka dot sleeves would need to be wider to make a baseball-styled sleeve.

So what to do with a sleeveless shirt like this?

Fold in the upper portions to make tubes and sew, of course! I also revisited the Sesame Street fabric [from my Asian New Year project] and cut out a strip to make the straps of the new tank. Thread those through the tubes and BAM!

New tank top for the now ridiculously hot weather…but not really. When I checked the weather this morning, it was high of 83 :] SCORE!

Except it was rather windy outside…

But luckily winds don’t penetrate into the library. Yay for uninterrupted studying!

Side note: My microbiology professor states, “All great scientists have pictures of themselves staring intently at something.”

Case in point: Joshua Lederburg & Edward Tatum

[If only I had real agar plates handy...]

2011
03/29
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More Ruffles!

Like last week, I was in a ruffled shirt mood, so after searching google on ruffle shirts last week, I had a few sites bookmarked.

This Homemade J Crew tutorial looked really simple and, lucky for me, I had a long sleeved shirt handy. When looking at the real J Crew shirt, I saw that the ruffles extended on the collar so I decided to follow that instead of the tutorial–I just thought it looked odd not attached to the top of the tee :P

P.S. This works better when you use a well-fitted tee since the ruffle makes the front heavier. The shirt I used was made to be loose so the front sagged and looked weird with the addition of the ruffle. Simple solution: take in the sides to make it a tighter fit using pre-existing tee as a template.

P.P.S. I forgot to take a picture of this shirt when I was out and about so the lighting is so-so.

—-EDIT—-
I did have a picture of me out and about. I watched a film from the Gasparilla Int’l Film Fest at a fancy movie theatre, CineBistro. Lighting is still meh, but I must share because that chocolate cake was DELICIOUS!

Happy Friday!

2011
03/25
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