Skyrim Stormcloak Banner

Yay! It's finally done. So I lost the cord for my camera (not my video camera, my regular camera), so I can't put up any pictures, but here's a video I made of it. Hopefully I will find it soon and I will upload actual pictures. 

Now if you're interested, I used:

Lion Brand Yarn Hometown USA

6 skeins of San Diego Navy

&

not quite 1 skein of Los Angeles Tan 

I thought I was going to use 4 skeins of blue and 2 of the white, I estimated horribly. But I guess it doesn't really matter much because I still have a whole skein of super soft white yarn that I can make something with ^_^

Skyrim Cross Stich and Fondant Baby Hulk

Here's a cross stitch I did. I made the black background using Tunisian crochet, which sets up a good piece of material for doing cross stitching into. This took me about three days to make. I don't have much experience with cross stitching so this was kind of a simple learning project for me. And I don't know if you can tell but the little x's at the top are straighter and more consistent than the ones near to bottom.

Some one had asked my mom to make a cake for a baby shower. And of course since my mom is now living with me and she knows how crafty I am, she asked me to make a baby Hulk. I just used store bought fondant and it was butt fucking ridiculous. I was so frustrated working on this. I like the way cakes look with things on them made out of fondant, but I hate working with it and it's probably because I haven't used it a lot.

Here's a picture of the finished cake:

Geek Pride Day

So in honor of Geek Pride Day, I've decided to share with my Peeps the Stormcloak banner I am actively working on. I am knitting it because I like the look of knitted color work to that of crocheted color work, not that I have much experience with either. I just looked at a bunch of pictures.

It is a little bit wider than what it looks in the picture, just because I didn't want to stretch it out too much off my needles and lose my stitches. I have 17 rows done, then 19 more rows before doing the actual color work. 

Here it is charted out in Minecraft because I didn't have any graph paper big enough:

For those of you who are interested I'm using Lion Brand's Hometown USA in San Diego Navy and will probably use either Natural Cream or Neutral Beige for the bear, I haven't decided yet. I'm also using size 15 needles. And I don't think I'll take any more progress pictures of this project because after I put all the stitches back on, I realized I put them all on backwards :/

Baby Sandals

I girl I work with is having a baby girl, and she requested that I make her some baby sandals. These aren't that actual one she wanted, but I used the same colors (pink with white flowers).  So, these were the most butt-fucking ridiculous things I've ever tried to crochet. I took me two and a half hours to finish just one sandal. I consider myself to be a fast crocheter, but it took fooorever to just finish one of them. And I was having such a hard time following the patter, like I don't even know what I was doing because I either had too many or not enough stitches in the previous round. And in conclusion, I, Sabrina "Bena Babysox" Becker, with never crochet baby sandals again. I don't care how much you beg. I don't care how completely adorable your child is. I don't care how much you pay me. I will never make baby sandals again. I will make blankets, hats, jackets, bootie, but I will not make sandals. Gah! It wasn't even that bad, but I just never want to make them again. I do suppose if you offered me enough money, I probably would make some lol.

Update on Rainbow Dash

So here's a vlog I did showing off Rainbow Dash. She has a little bit more hair now since this video is now a week old. I've been trying to do daily vlogs, but I can't find the charger for my video camera!
I've also started a pair of baby flip flops for a girl that I work with. They're going to be pink with white flowers. I'm planning on making her a pair of black flip flops also with pink flowers. I'm hopefully going to get some pictures up soon of those, but my camera's been acting goofy again. And I don't really feel like typing anymore so have a fantastical night.

Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash starting to get her mane attached. It looks pretty wild, but its quite easy to move the hair around. I've almost got all the green strands done, just need to attach those, then I can start on the blue and purple strands and begin working on the tail. Hopefully it goes pretty quickly and then I can attach her wings. Then it'll just be the little details like eyes and cutie mark. 

The next pony I will start will be Pinkie Pie just because I have left over yarn that happens to be the exact pinks I need, then Fluttershy because I also have the colors to make her.

Well....

So here's the deal, I'm not moving to the Wisconsin Dells anymore, because I got in a stupid fight with my friend I was moving there with. So I've been working on some small crochet projects, just so I can some posts up for my peeps to read. Kevin is trying to eat my fingers while I type this.

This is going to be Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I'm working on her mane and tail at the moment which is pretty time consuming, for me anyway. Sorry I don't have pictures of that, I might take some.

I made some cute little butterflies, its about the size of a tea-light candle and I think It's absolutely adorable.

 The black one is Kevin, and the greyish one is Matt Cat. Matt is a girl. Kevin is a boy.