Part Of The Cat Is Out Of The Bag!

As posted in the Zombie Hand Productions shop last night, part of the Secret Sushi Project is complete. I've started a line of plushies created using vegan yarn and Eco-fi felt. The felt is a material made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic water bottles! The series will include the "topping" made from the Eco-fi felt with hand-stitched detailing and stuffed with polyfil. The "rice" and "nori" are both knitted and then all components are assembled and lovingly sewed together.

A real piece of Tako Nigiri Sushi

My crafty vegan plushie take on Tako

The first four pieces are all Nigiri Sushi [literally 'hand-formed sushi'] consisting of a mound of sushi rice and then draped with a topping. Toppings are bound to the rice with a thin strip of nori. For my very first item, I chose to create Tako or Octopus. The other three Nigiri pieces will be in production soon! These will all be listed in my new section:

The other parts of the cat still in the bag will also be in production soon, if not already. I have a lot of irons in the fire right now so I'm staying busy and having fun creating which is what all of this is about.

As for the Twin Peaks series, I'm learning that by watching more and more of the second season I think I'm in turn liking it more and more. We'll see though. Don't want to jump the gun on any split-second opinions!

Blogger Seems To Be Under The Weather...

Blogger isn't letting my comment back so I'll do it here!

Music: Thank you on your congratulations for my Etsy shop 2 year anniversary. That was very thoughtful of you!

Blogger is also acting funny with placement of widgets and pages. Maybe I should make Blogger some soup or some other comfort food. Probably won't do any good as it is a computer platform that shouldn't be spoon fed liquids :(

It is Tuesday, September 14th. The weather is gorgeous here in San Diego this morning. I am pumped up for some crafting and ready for some experimenting. Like the Hulk. And his experimental scientist counterpart, Bruce Banner.

I read too many comics

As I'm still working on the Secret Sushi Project, my hands have been all over the place, working fast and furiously between knitting up pillows, cutting, pasting, sewing and constantly asking Chaz to critique my work. That last part doesn't work so well. He just kind of looks at me and says "It's good" in a very monotone voice. I can't get anything else out of him. Maybe he's afraid of triggering a reaction if he says the wrong thing? Probably playing it safe.

Is it wrong I sometimes see my husband as Krusty the Klown?

Anyhow, it can be frustrating when he's the only person I know here in San Diego. He's my go-to guy. We're both busy people. I could make time to meet others but as any Etsier knows, now is the time to start building stock for the holiday shopping season. I learned this the hard way last year. I was not prepared and I missed out on a lot of sales.

So I guess I'm just going to keep on doing what I'm doing. I do have to keep telling myself that it takes a little tweaking on an item before you get it just right...and it may never be as perfect as you think it should be. That's an artist's dilemma. Perfection is essentially unattainable. But getting as close as you can, is not :)

Have a BEAUTIFUL Tuesday everyone!

And don't forget to enter the New Filling Contest & the FREE Custom Hand Knit Sushi Roll Pillow© Giveaway!

Announcement!

My first Hand-Knit-Sushi Roll Pillow© in the state of California is complete!

Chaz got a call that training at his new job has been pushed back ANOTHER day due to problems acquiring business permits. So he decided to take a nap.

I saw this as the perfect opportunity to get some real work done. It's difficult when you're in vacation mode, but to have your husband asking you to watch movies and go exploring in your new town makes it even more difficult.

I finally finished a large pillow with Ninjin [carrot orange], Tamagoyaki [egg yellow] and Ebi [shrimp pink] fillings. It will be nice to see my shop filling back up again.

My new sushi project is still in the beginning stages. I've already hit a few snags which is to be expected when working in unfamiliar territory. All in all, however, I feel this will be a success.

I'll take actual pics of the pillow and post them tomorrow as I dislike the way flash makes things look. I prefer natural light.

'Til tomorrow...