Haiti auction items

[vilakins]

Good news, everybody! [/Professor Farnsworth] I seem to have formatting and icons back on LJ! At least, they've been here for a few hours, so I'm optimistic that they're staying. :-D

Since I finally finished the last of my help_haiti commissions, I can post about them.

I raised US$85 (thanks to some kind bidders paying more than they actually bid) with the following (click to see full-size):


This necklace and earring set (the ones on the left)


These ninja mitts, at least ones in the same yarn


This scarf, knit to order


And this pic of blind Avon and seeing-eye wolf (for kalinda001, since many of you will have recognised the theme). :-)

I'd have bid for some items myself if I had a job, though the custom plushies would have been way out of range.

Comments

[reapermum]

Nice stuff.

Glad LJ is back in NZ, it's simpler.

[vilakins]

Thanks!

But you answered here!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Glad things are working again. Beautiful picture!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[azdak.livejournal.com]

You make absolutely beautiful stuff. Quite breathtaking.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! :-D

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're lovely... and welcome back!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to be back! I could read posts, but comments were hard because they weren't indented by thread.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Those are very beautiful!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh look, you're using the icon already! :-D

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Oh, all of these are fantastic. I especially love that scarf. A manly pattern AND colors (apologies if the bidder is female!), which are combos you so rarely see.

Avon looks awesome too. I love the shading.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The scarf is for a woman. I love that pattern and have made it several times now, and offered it with the bidder's choice of colours. She wanted autumn ones, and I gave her a choice of a couple of yarns I found. I'm tempted to make it again for me.

I'd make you one in colours you'd like, but I doubt you'd ever get to wear a scarf.

Other scarves I've made that are OK for guys are:
- This one (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3507265314_eea5632f94.jpg) and this one (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3533429176_f662a79dc9.jpg) for Greg
- This one (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3506457479_9553082e5b.jpg) (same pattern as the Haiti one) for me
- Maybe this wove-look one (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4145827137_a44aabc8e8.jpg)?

I've always preferred unfeminine or androgynous styles myself.

[trixieleitz]

Good to see you back :)

That scarf is funky, I love it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's good to be back!

I love the way it turned out too. :-)

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Oh they're gorgeous. I love the Avon and the wolf pic. And it's so good to have you back on lj.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to be back!

I'm quite pleased at how it came out, rather like oil paint. :-)

[viciousdisorder.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, hope the issue has been resolved and stays that way. I'm trying to work out the pattern for the scarf. Is it basically k1p1 with just changing the colours throughout?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The scarf pattern is dead easy: all garter stitch with an increase and knitting two stitches (SSK) each end of a short row (and knitting back the other way). The yarn is one that changes colour itself, so the effect depends on the yarn you choose. This is the pattern here (http://douma.net/Karen/knitting/Accessory-Scarves/Multidirectional_Diagonal_Scarf.htm): really so simple and you don't even have to count stitches as you can tell when to to the SSK. I use the alternate ending.

[kerravonsen]

Lovely. That scarf is a really interesting pattern.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's a very simple pattern (garter stitch short rows); the effect is provided by a yarn that changes colour. Here are three others I've made in that pattern:
- self-striping (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3377303030_5f01b0c723.jpg)
- much more subtle changes (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3506457479_9553082e5b.jpg)
- slow but big changes, and flamey-looking (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303/3550930874_ed3f84db00.jpg)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Glad you're back! And those are all very attractive.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Glad to be back! And thank you. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad to have you back! And your stuff is all terrific!

I haven't even started on my help_haiti fic, what with being sick, and I'm not going to have hardly any chance to work on it in the near future, either. :( But fortunately my recipient is very understanding.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

All I have hanging over me now is some scanning. I keep intending to scan in and iconise those Star Trek calendars, and also a guy on the Lyst who can't spell or work out how to use the past tense wants the old B7 videotape covers scanned. Sigh. As Greg pointed out, that's self-inflicted.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

The coloring on your knits is just gorgeous, love the picture too. And hooray your lj formatting is back!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The yarns worked well for those patterns.

Yes, yay for being able to read comment threads again!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Man, you made some AMAZING stuff. The bidders will all be thrilled, I'm sure.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hope so! The scarf is on its way, and I sent the jewellery a while back and I haven't heard anything from the bidder in the US. The mitts went at the same time and got there about a week ago. :-P

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's good to be back! :-D

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. :o) Your auction items are amazing! I especially love the mitts and the necklace is gorgeous.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Sadly that yarn has been discontinued and I'm now out of it. There are some nice self-striping yarns around though if you fancy a pair. I'm thinking of using some leftovers to do some funky stripy ones too.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Lovely work, all of it!

I especially love the gauntlets and the picture. You do some beautiful artwork. Love the dog's hair and the little wrinkles and folds in Avon's jacket, and also the shadows and highlights on his face.

Good to hear you're able to be back on again and that at least lj mostly seems to be working for you. I don't know what the hell they've been playing at but I was actually in tears of frustration over trying to put a post up on Friday :-(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It's a wolf, from Kal's fanfic. I'm quite pleased with that picture; it looks a little like oil paint but for the rendered clouds in the background. :-)

As for the mitts, I'm happy to make them for people if they pay for yarn; they're easy and I can post them in stiff envelopes. That particular yarn however is discontinued and I don't have any left now.

You had problems in the UK? They all seemed to be here with a few in Australia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Ooh glad you are back and the artwork is great.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks to both! :-)