tentenknits

new toys!

i'm so excited to have found the poladroid. it's pretty freakin' awesome.

otherwise, i'm all moved in and cannot wait to get back to our regularly scheduled knit blogging!

that's what friends are for

I have a fantastical blogless friend named Dana.  She knows my love of all things crafty (such an enabler that girl is).  So when she sent me this link, I couldn't help myself.

I've been trying to think of more ways to incorporate the letter H (my new last name initial) into crafty things. Granted, pillows with initials on them is not a new idea but hmmm, what if there was a font I really loved and wanted to make into a chart without much fuss??

Thus we have the Easy peasy way to make fun decorative Initial Pillows (or sweaters, or blankets, or ..)! 

You do need to have some sort of photo editing program like Photoshop or Serif Photo Plus.

Step One: Go to dafont.com.  Proceed to drool over all the really beautiful and creative fonts there.  After downloading about 5 for yourself, pick one that you like for your pillow.  Should be thicker so that the intarsia isn't too much of a pain. (but hey I won't stop you! ;-))  I chose Leaf!

Step Two: Download and install font to your computer.  Open your photo editing software and open a new blank document.  I just put one large H in the middle of my box.  Crop around your letter and save as a JPEG.

Step Three: Go to microrevolt.com and upload your Letter jpeg to their KnitPro.  Also notice while you're there what cool girls they are spreading awareness about sweatshops and the companies who abuse them. (Right on!)

Step Four: Save PDF to your computer, print out and begin to knit to your hearts content.

Here's what mine looks like.

Step Five: Realize, why stop at just one letter when you can probably write out a whole beautiful pillow in a poem or love letter in that gorgeous font and knit the whole thing up?  That's where you're me and just CRAZY. Hee!

Of course I'm piled under a ton of boxes at the moment and haven't even begun to cast on for such a wonderful idea, but I thought I'd share the wealth!

Thanks Dana!

counted.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
- Bob Dylan

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