The writing part of the necklace is in sterling silver wire, hand bended, with a red heart bead (glass). I couldn't find a chain I loved at the local bead store, but I kind of like the idea of it looking like a functional chain, like you are binding the message to your person... I've also uploaded some more pictures of the necklace as results...

(hopefully this yarn will eventually become a circle and hearts lace scarf... but in the meantime:) )

I don't know if anyone remembers shrinkydinks (I used to make jewelry out of it all the time when I was little), but grafix makes shrink film that you can print on! The possibilities are endless. Originally I just wanted fractaldusts' version of again phi heart as a pendant, but then I got to thinking earings and and... and... this happened. There may also be buttons for my next sweater in my future.

I've uploaded my photoshop file that was the best use of one sheet I could figure out (and then you'd get the sizes I made – of course, through my trial and error, I discovered that the shrink plastic I used shrinks disproportionately in width and length so circles became ellipses, so then I changed the image size from 3300 pixels to 2800 pixels and that solved the problem (although I had to move most of the layers to avoid overlap after that), so you might want to do a test run).

So to make your own, get some shrink film, print it out, cut out your shapes, use a hole punch to make your hole for hanging, follow the instructions on the shrink film, and then use a jump ring and ear wire/cord/ribbon (I used old guitar strings for two of the necklaces) and any beads you want. Also, I tended to have to nudge the shapes slightly into perfect circles/even hearts in the 10 seconds of malleability after it comes out of the oven. I also took videos of some of the shrinking action (first time using the video setting on my camera) so you can see the magic. I've uploaded them as results.

Ok, so this is my first ever stop motion anything... but I thought that knitting would be a cool way to show creation of things (cont'd).

So here is yarn becoming a story/circle (actually unravelling, but I reversed it). I was thinking this might be a neat way to show singing things into existence – the end of yarn coming out of a mouth? Which means I (or someone else) would need to edit the ball/tangle of yarn out... the light didn't really cooperate, but I'm hoping the white background could be masked out as well...

Advice would be cool, as this is a totally DIY set up made of books and a piece of cardboard with a hole cut out for the camera (I really need a proper tripod for the next time I do this, cause I know it shakes too much)...

Or any other ideas about knitting things into existence or out of existence would be welcome. If anyone wants a zip of all the images, I can totally pass that along too...

mostly vintage buttons (a hitRECord pin snuck it's way on there too, as did several buttons of hR symbols I made out of shrink plastic, and the big circle is several layers of sheer red fabrics I sewed together). I also designed and sewed the skirt (stretchy corduroy).

The pics were taken by my friend deb, who I am trying to get to join hR:)

mostly vintage buttons (a hitRECord pin snuck it's way on there too, as did several buttons of hR symbols I made out of shrink plastic, and the big circle is several layers of sheer red fabrics I sewed together). I also designed and sewed the skirt (stretchy corduroy).

The pics were taken by my friend deb, who I am trying to get to join hR:)

mostly vintage buttons (a hitRECord pin snuck it's way on there too, as did several buttons of hR symbols I made out of shrink plastic, and the big circle is several layers of sheer red fabrics I sewed together). I also designed and sewed the skirt (stretchy corduroy).

The pics were taken by my friend deb, who I am trying to get to join hR:)

thanks to crispyfuller for the idea and cacheth for the red yarn<3

I was slightly frustrated with the line of yarn going across the text for the knitting version, but couldn't figure out how to fix that using knitting so I decided to go with crochet (which I hadn't done beyond the edging of a sweater since I was about 7) and then I tried moving the camera (first attempt doing that in stop motion – it sort of worked?) and there were beads and things...

thanks hitrecord, for encouraging me to (re)learn new skills:)

and again thanks to crispyfuller for the idea and cacheth for the yarn:)

they glow in the dark! If live action filming happens for the end of "a new hev'n" with people as urth/hev'n, I would be ever so happy to make them jewelry of their former selves... made for (and with encouragement of) sexymoustache

fimo, with glow in the dark eyes:)

Considering the number of colours and shading, I figured the likelihood of this being made into a t-shirt for the store is slim... but I wanted one. So took matters into my own hands with fabric pastel and fabric paint, free-hand:)

Second picture so you can see the whole thing, see the first pic (in resources) for a description:)

Immediately upon seeing wirrow's gorgeous “mountain tops are lifting,” I couldn't get the idea of doing it in stained glass out of my mind (I also thought it could be cool as a quilt... anyone want to take that one on?). Anyways, I most desperately wanted it hanging in my window. And now it does:) And I only bled a very little bit in the process (glass, as one might expect, is rather sharp (as are the edges of the copper foil tape, which was more of a surprize)).

Making of video coming soon! is here: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/494472

This is my first time doing true video editing... so applogies? I'm hoping I managed to communicate some of the magic that is making stained glass. There's stop motion! I would most definitely welcome any ideas to make it more interesting/remixes. Hope you enjoy!

I was spinning yarn with some wool in shades of blue which reminded me of the cover of recollection, and remembering thimbles' amazing felted jewelry, I was inspired to go buy some needlefelting needles and see what I could do...

And I am hoping that finishing it will help persuade the canada post dieties to speed the delivery of my copy of recollection: )

I love how these three paper cuts work together! also, thimbles, how do you get your shrink plastic to be such perfect squares?

This time I spun and dyed my own yarn (kolaid 3:1:1/8 cherry:strawberry:grape somehow is almost identical to the rec button colour on a cream coloured base yarn). The main part of the scarf is a modified version of the sunspot stitch (from one of the Barbara Walker stitch treasuries) – it knits up a lot faster than v1 cause it's worsted/aran weight on size 8 needles and has a repeating stitch pattern.

And this pattern shouldn't be that difficult to write up if anyone is interested in making their own... please let me know and I will do that and add it as a result:)

I'm still debating embroidering “hitRECord” with one letter in each circle... but I think I might leave it as it is to be more subtle... or maybe knit it again without the heart and then do that...

i went for stabby motions rather than anything resembling even stitching. It also hopefully fits in with the feminist narrative : )

Instructions and the first pattern page (charts 1 and 2) can be found here: http://beta.hitrecord.org/records/663230 and in the resources tab.

Ok, so when I said it wouldn't take me that long to write up the scarf pattern... I underestimated a lot of things, including how much work charting patterns is. Sorry! But I did it, and here it is! My first properly charted pattern! And I would love, love, love to see you RECord any scarves you knit from it!

INSTRUCTIONS:

It's charted in three charts (increase, body and decrease) and a legend, which I've combined into two image RECords for ease of printing. The second one can be found here: http://beta.hitrecord.org/records/663223 or in the results tab.

This pattern is modular, so you can knit as many repeats as you would like, and you can also make it as many circles wide as you like – just keep repeating rows 27-38 and adding the 12 additional stitches in each row of the repeat section of the increase chart each time you do that, until you are satisfied with the width. Then you can move on to the body chart (where you also repeat the repeat section as many times as needed, ie once more for each circle added to the width). The decrease chart is a little more complicated to explain – knit rows i-vi (repeating the repeat section as many times as required) and then go back to the body chart and knit rows 45-50 (using as many repeats of the repeat chart as required) and then return to the decrease chart and repeat. Each time you will do one less repeat section until you have two circles left and then you can continue on to row vii-xxxi of the decrease chart.

You can use whatever yarn strikes your fancy – anywhere from super bulky to lace weight, just make sure to use the needles your yarn suggests (with smaller needles giving you a denser, less open fabric). I used 200 grams of an aran weight on size 8 needles for the one I knit. The size of your scarf and the size of the circles will, of course, be dependent on what yarn weight and needle size you choose.

You begin by casting on three stitches, and then work the scarf on the diagonal, starting at one corner and ending at the opposite, much like a parallelogram. Start with chart 1, continue to chart 2 and finish with chart 3. Then break the yarn and pass it through the last stitch, pulling tight. Weave in the ends, then give the scarf a good blocking. I embroidered the download and add button on mine afterwards with a small amount of white yarn, using chain stitching and then filling in the holes.

I think that's all you'd need for instructions, but if you have any questions/problems, do let me know and I'll do my best to help. There are lots of great instructional videos and tutorials on the web for knitting that would be a good place to go to as well. And if you find any mistakes, let me know so I can fix them!

I finished knitting the first form and function fingerless glove! (though am having thoughts about redoing "form," it's kind of crooked) There's cross stitch and felting and embroidery (oh my!). The other hand's glove will be more textural to reflect the circuitry design - cables, lace, and more embroidery, maybe even beads... (I have to make it first). I'll try to get some better pictures up soonish...

I can't believe I finally finished this – I've been working on it off and on for nearly 10 months. Let's just call it my second love letter to a new hevn. And my first go at claymation.

this size might make a good coaster... probably eventually going to try to make a larger one for a bag, and embroider the recycle arrows on it...

more fun with fabric paint! Love Lydia's shirt in her little red drawng and wanted one of my own, so I made one (if I were to do it again, I'd space the save your self a little lower).

Happy two year hitreCord anniversary to me! I wanted to have something more finished to post to celebrate, but actually posting another in progress crafts picture does embody a lot of what hitRECord has given me in the last two years – a break from my all or nothing and perfectionistic tendencies.

I came to this wonderous, encouraging environment after a period of depression, where I had been creatively null and void for far too long, and gained the courage to try new things, to pick up guitar and viola again with less concern for whether anything I did was good and more concern for the attempt and the journey (I still fail at this all the time, but that’s ok too).

Thank yous for everything and to everyone here (discovered and yet to be so), for being a part of this journey with me, for giving me the chance to be a part, and future thanks for everything that continues to be <3