Senior Projects: Day 13 and 14

On the last two days of senior projects, I finished my small sleeping mat and filmed two more videos for my YouTube channel.  After I finished the mat, I felt very accomplished and also relieved that I finished on time.  Now I am working on my presentation and my senior project poster.  The picture below is of my final products and all the work I did these past three weeks.

Senior Projects: Day 11 and 12

For the past two days I have been working on the plarn sleeping mat.  It is getting bigger and bigger, but hopefully it'll be the size of a yoga mat by Friday.  I have uploaded two of my videos on YouTube and will upload more tomorrow.  I will also film more videos and upload tomorrow.  Below are pictures of my mat and the current length.  The sides are decreasing, but I will fix the sides in the end.  By the end of the week I will buy the supplies and type u the instructions for the care package.

Senior Projects: Day 10

My sleeping mat is getting bigger and bigger! But sadly the mat is not straight; the rows are decreasing so it sides are uneven.  I have only finished 4 scarves within the last two weeks because last week I have been focusing on this sleeping mat.  This upcoming week, I am going to finish this the sleeping mat and make more videos.  I have made three videos so far: and intro to my channel, one that teaches how to start knitting, and another that teaches one how to knit.  Below are the videos that I have made.  

Senior Projects: Day 9

As my plarn sleeping mat gets bigger and bigger, I can't fathom the idea of how cool it'll turn out.  I have been working on my sleeping mat for two days and so far I have used up 25 garbage bags (the garbage bags are not like the Safeway sized bags, but the big white trash bags).  I have been slowing down on knitting my scarves because I have been working on this plarn project.  As of right now, I have 4 finished scarves.  On Friday, I will officially start my YouTube tutorial videos on "How to Knit".

Senior Projects: Day 8

As the days are quickly passing by, my hands are getting more and more tired from knitting.  On Tuesday I had a softball game and during the game the ball hit jammed thumb.  Right now it is a bit hard to knit, but I am able to continue on with my project.  Today I did more of the sleeping mat and also knitting the scarves.  I am half way done with my fourth scarf.  In the last picture, that was my progress for the day; that alone was 15 big white garbage bags.  Tomorrow I will cut up more and keep working on the sleeping mat.

Senior Projects: Day 7

Today I focused on how to crochet the plarn together into a sleeping mat.  I went into school and Ms. Ferrara taught me how to crochet the plastic bags together.  Since this is my first time crocheting, I hit a couple of obstacles, but in the end I got the hang of it.  Again in my free time/breaks I continued knitting the scarves.  Today I worked all day trying to figure out how to start and crochet the plarn and I also spent some more time knitting.  Below are some pictures I took of my work on crocheting the plarn.

Senior Projects: Day 6

On day 6 of senior projects, I spent the whole day continuing on knitting the scarves.  So far I have three finished scarves and am working on the fourth.  I worked over the weekend trying to cut up more garbage bags to add on to the ball of plarn.  Today I started at 9am and ended at 6pm.  My main goal today was to focus on knitting the scarves.  Tomorrow I will head to school and Ms. Ferrara will teach me how to crochet the plarn into a sleep mat!