Final Exam Avoidance

So I went home this weekend for the last time before final exams, and I'm not ready for this semester to end.  So instead of working on my 10 page paper and french presentation I was rearranging my room to fit all of the stuff I'll be bringing back from my dorm room and making this collage!

I made the whale for a presentation in high school and it's been in my art folder ever since. I found it when I was going through my closet and wanted to put it on my wall but didn't have anything to go up with it, and hence this collage began.  Nothing is glued down though, so when I'm tired of it my frame will once again be repurposed.  Before I made this the frame held movie tickets.

I also started crocheting circles to start making my first afghan.  I fell in love with the Fairy Tale Blanket on Le monde de Sucrette's blog and I'm currently working on one of my own.  I don't have nearly enough colors of yarn at the moment because I only recently started crocheting in earnest but I hope to rectify that soon.

First Completed Project Ever

So when I decided to sign up for my crafting class I wanted to ensure that I was actually capable of completing a project, any project, so I set out to make a hat.  I ended up following several patterns at once and watching a lot of crocheting videos on YouTube.  I was so excited when my it actually started to look similar to a hat.

So I kept working...

and it turned out I forgot to count my stitches pretty much at all which is important, so it seemed like my hat was going to be a bit big. But, I figured out how to reduce and finally managed to finish my very first hat ever. And I'm super proud of it, even if it has a larger than necessary hole in the top and it's not winter.

Hello World

So this is my first endeavor in blogging so here goes nothing.  I recently signed up for an honors crafting class for the fall 2011 semester that's about the history of handcrafting.  I've decided to use it as a reason to finally get my but in gear and actually complete all of the crafting projects I've ever wanted to do.  Over the course of the summer I'm supposed to learn to knit or crochet.  I personally only have the most basic of crocheting skills.  My grandmother attempted to teach me, but since I'm left handed a few things got lost in translation.  I've decided not only to learn both knitting and crocheting this summer but to attempt to finish at least one project every other week untill classes start in the fall, so wish me luck!