I Aten't Dead

Oh wow. Blog neglect much? Oh well, I'm back and I'm still making shit! Here's my latest project, please excuse the terrible dirty mirror pictures:

So today my boyfriend and I drove by an estate sale, and good thing we stopped! I wish I had taken pictures of the adorable midcentury house the sale was in. I'm talking green shag carpeting, a mint condition hi-fi for $25 and adorable cross-stitch samplers on the walls. My boyf got a couple plaid flannel shirts and I got this awesome XL shirt with WOLVES on it and a nerdy old-school board game called Shadowlord! (Their punctuation, not mine.) I knew as soon as I saw this shirt that I needed it. I was originally going to just cut it down to my size and keep it a shirt, but after I took in the side seams and tried it on I realized it was long enough for a dress! And who doesn't need a grey flannel shirt dress with wolf silhouettes on it?

RAW MATERIALS
1 XL men's flannel wolf shirt

CHANGES
I moved the sleeve head up toward the shoulder about 2".
I took in each side seam about 2" and the sleeves about 4" each
I added 2 buttons (taken from the cuffs, which I always roll) and buttonholes to the placket. Otherwise it would have been indecent to wear!

TIME
Two episodes of Archer, so about 45 minutes.

COST
A whopping $2!

All in all, a great success!

Knitted Mitts

Hello!

I have some lovely cozy warm knitted mitts to show off today! These are my first finished project that isn't an easy hat or scarf. And they're my first attempt at cables! I am super proud of them and I wear them in my icy cold office and while riding my bike.

The pattern is One Cable Mitts by Valerie Teppo (Free and available here!) and I made them with bulky yarn and size 10 dpns because I wanted them big enough to fit over sweater sleeves. They turned out exactly how I wanted and only took a weekend to knit up. I added some vintage green glass buttons on the "up" side so I could tell which was right and which left. 

Oh, and my roommate's kitten Loki was extremely helpful throughout the entire process:

Here she is keeping my yarn safe...

And helping test the size!

Next time, a peplum top and the joys of tracing Burda patterns...