pipe dreams

i have so many crafts to accomplish before wednesday.

wednesday is the birthday of my dear friend, yeti, and i'd like to knit him a delightful Yeti. fitting, no? we'll see.
yeti has been a dear to me, and i feel a great need to express gratitude through delightful knitted toys. last year, i crocheted a little Boognish for him. apparently, it was a big hit. i didn't get to give it to him (i passed it on to his neighbor, the fabulous e-rock), but all reports are that of surprise and delight.

i also need to finish up greyson's birthday guitar (which promises to be quite adorable, if i ever get off of my ass and give it a face), and i am thinking very seriously about making him a cape.
i'm thinking something sewn from a t-shirt, so nothing terribly serious. should only take a few hours, if that, and it will be machine washable (unless i suck at sewing --very possible-- and it is shoddily constructed). i'm trying to think of a Symbol to applique onto the back of the cape... maybe just a "G."
that's "G for Greyson," folks. write that down.
noah suggested race car cookies, and i think that is a stellar idea. greyson would, however, be enormously disappointed by a lack of cake.
maybe a race car cake? yeah. probably not. a Michael's in boone has been very freeing, craft-wise, and maybe a race car cake is not as much of a daunting impossibility as it seems right now.

tonight, i think i will be tackling the attachment of the neck to the body of the birthday guitar, and maybe beginning the process of imagining/cutting out pieces for a face.
i am both terrified and excited at the embroidery portion of the project... i've had a deep love for embroidery for a long time now. a co-worker came up with the brilliant idea to embroider "Greyson" a la Gibson, to really personalize the project... brilliant, but maybe too much so. noah has a Gibson, so maybe i can use that as a reference.

easter is rapidly approaching, and i have half a mind to knit an adorable reversible toy that starts out as an egg, and flips inside out into a little bird.
i definitely have easter colors (i would knit the egg in several colors and delightful patterns, if i were more ambitious... probably just one though, because i'm not) in my shamefully large yarn stash, and i could probably make that happen in a day or so. i'd like to knit two (one for greyson and one for emily), and that is probably do-able before easter, but the prosecution will note that it took me a YEAR to finish a reversable cat/mouse.
in my defense, the knitting was done. it just needed a face.
it stared at me, eyeless, from the kitchen table for a long time.

oh, sweet, sweet crafts...
i wish and wish that i could commit to you.