Christmas Kickoff!
always kick it off with some custom fair isle on this little cotton rabbits site.
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I don't actually remember when I started knitting this year. Just remembered now to post something now lol
Baby Cocoon For Co-worker
Always wanted to try one.
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ears were fun. regular increase decrease nothing fancy. k2 in same stitch, k2tog, ssk, whatever I felt like.
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Since it's for a baby I was concerned about materials/choking so I decided to do a yarn paw instead of like pieces.
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Design! Design! Design!
Modified tube
Deer Plushie For Co-worker
Have I ever told you how I hate doing amigurumi. Just really tight and tiresome.
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Realistic Deer Mount for FIL
Somehow I always end up making deer stuff for my in-laws.
7. Make the plaque to mount the bust.
We bought the wood and the stain....but we haven't done it yet...will we do it...will time run out....stay tuned! lol
6. Attach the antlers
Mentally placing the antlers (lol see what I did there)
Against the hobby lobby model
5. Assemble the head
5c. needed a wire skull. i was just so surprised how much wire made a difference. I only did a nose wire thingy so the....snout(?) Muzzle(?) Would stick out right
5b. Stuffed and it just looked wrong but i figured it out
4. Antlers
The length of each spoke was also not what I wanted. They were supposed to be more varying but my calculations were wrong because when the tubes were stuffed their lengths changed naturally as it widened, which I knew, but evidently did the math wrong still.
3. T panel
I had to sew the side of the T panel aka top of the snout against the head sides. Little rudolph red nose. Made an opening halfway through on each opposite side to put in eyes. I made the pupils lopsided kind of on purpose since it's "dead" and hunted and mounted. Husband thought it made it look cuter/made more sense.
2. Ears
Sadly I don't have any pictures but the ears were very challenging. First I had to make the "doughnuts" of the ears, brown on the outside and white on the inside. Then I made them like a pillow to wedge in stiff wire to make the ears kind of stand up. They still flopped way too much. But hey it's not a live deer. Quality taxidermy would make them stick up still...but that's not what I'm doing LOL
1. Measurements
This was by far the most technical piece I've done. I bought a fake deer at hobby lobby and took measurements off of it. It was very intense. The model was not super big so I had to multiply by a very large factor.
Matching Shawls
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12/14/2020
Just got sick of it. Bound off and doing two separate shawls.
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Ugh so much more to go. The white panel looks waaaay more awkward than I thought it would and I can tell it still will be when it's done.
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One ball. About 36 cm or 14 inch by the 29 inch needle.
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Nice and even stitches! These addis are pretty a-okay. I didn't like them at first and I don't remember why. Gauge done.
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STOP DROP AND ROLL
The construction of this pattern is not what I was expecting. Its created by two long rectangles seamed together bottom up in the center of the chest and in the center of the spine. I could easily do a section like the two tones below but unfortunately I wouldn't be able to do a perpendicular to the ground line of color without extreme .... engineering.
I will do the left of this image below.
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I was thinking two tone. But I also wanted to use some pink that I bought.
Brainstorming with husband we thought maybe like a kimono would be nice and then I can monogram our wedding monogram onto the center?
Ice pack holder upper for tennis elbow
Hubby hurt his elbow in the stupidest way and I told him the way he was icing it he'd probably hurt the other arm too and he didn't listen and bam. bilateral arm discomfort. Here you go.
Tapestry Oedipus and the Sphinx
Kylix "tapestry" wall art oversized piece
Completion Date July 2020
Start Date April 2020
Almost completely sewn down. Circle is improved but still flawed by a human hand. Looks flatter already though.
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Sewing backing before we get it framed
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June 14 2020
All knitted! Unfortunately I didn't get it super perfect circle. Just needs backing, weaving ends, and framing!
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The Growth of the Soil
Sharpie for scale
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These are four panels sewn together. I plotted it out to be 4 ft x 4 ft
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There was a very long and arduous process to figure out how I was going to map/chart out the pattern. I ended up
1. Blow up the picture with fine detail with paint
2. Download a grid imposing software
3. Swatch for measurements by inch
4. Impose a grid of stitch by stitch
5. Impose a grid of inch by inch
6. Impose a grid of 2-4 inches by 2-4 inches.
Queen 'vid
I didn't post this at the time since there was that whole scandal that COVID is not a joke and COVID product won't be allowed. Like Etsy even banned COVID products from being sold on their website. Like hot damn.
But I made one.
My parents got COVID before the vaccines even came out so they had the VID vid. It was actually really terrible. Dad was ok but mom almost died and still has long term side effects. Enough years haven't passed to really study that but that's a thing so not-coolio.
There are so many financial, social, and broader global problems with self-quarantine but if you want to be alive, I hope you're still alive.
Edit 2026: Post published in 2021 but created Mar 2020 or so. Moving publish date.
Stuffed Christmas Tree Tabletop Size For MIL
We bought a star and painted it and I sewed tinsel into it. I went three strands of sewing with knotted invisible sewing and I was like bro I can't take it anymore and realized I didn't have to sew strand by strand. I could just cut the tinsel from the top in strips that were one piece and sew that into the tree.
Star was painted by husband. Two coats of some kind of gold. He was very specific about the color. There were two sizes of star and he said the smaller one would be right and I said this bigger one would be right, but it came in packs with both sizes anyway so it didn't matter. I used a wedding name card holder leftover to crochet the crown of the tree around, and then have something to glue the double sides of the stars to at the top of the tree. Pretty genius use of leftover wedding table place card holders and this is my second or third time using them. Definitely don't regret that purchase at all.
Finished product! I think it was like two weeks and it was uncoooomfortable.
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Otherisde. Almooooost.
I ended up making way more chevron strips than originally I thought I would because it made it look so real tree like to have the irregular branches even though it would take longer.
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Ft. my kindle and....either bourbon or single malt....looks like bourbon??
It was really kind of interesting; the more I did, the more I had to remove the cardboard spine. I hardly had any cardboard in at the end, just to keep it upright and not floppy and over-stuffed.
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I didn't take any early pictures that I could find so it's strips of chevron with a built in bobble stitch. Made them seamless and it was surprisingly hard to figure out where the colors wouldn't overlap too much. I aimed for no more than three dots of the same color visible on all sides and it was pretty tricky since I could only do maybe 8 bobbles at a time and they were irregular branches, not a regularly segmented circular wrap.
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Rush job for mother in law. Christmas tree. This was actually crocheted.
Bought a new stitch book while I was at mother in laws for Thanksgiving.
Grumblebeeson and GrumbleGrandson and Queen Chubbee
This is not the finished picture, it is so dang cute I wanted it to be the thumbnail LOL
The antennae! Held by happy husband. You can just see his mustache lol.
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I mad a little pollen/whatever flag on the last two legs inspired by the hair on actual white-tailed bumblebee legs. It would look way too clunky to do on all three pairs, and I actually made the front pair a little skinnier to add a bit of delicate design. I also found out too late that I may have placed the first pair too much towards the butt and just barely crowded the second and third pair into the stomach.
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Aww yiss. The effects of properly aligned legs.
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And look at that little grey and white boo-tay.
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And now the antennae!
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First pair of legs! Doesn't he look like a fond little angry idiot.
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Then the wings! I crocheted two colors in one magic circle, then folded/triangle folded for one wing.
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I tried hard to pay attention to the tapering black/grey/white of the tail. It didn't work out exactly how I thought but I think how slim the grey is actually kin of makes it work better. I used short rows to go back and forth and create the ball-curve. I remember when I first was trying to use short rows I was like damn this is frustrating but now they are so vital to making 3-D or stuffed animal type projects.
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And then after medium deliberation on how exactly to get it to look grumpy, I did the grumble mouth!
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The grumblebee's basic body!
I'm not actually when I started this. This first picture I took was....Feb 11th?
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And the grumblegrandson!
I sacrificed artistic integrity of the limbs and usual pipe cleaners for stub-stub legs as it's for toddlers and I didn't want an unfortunate thing to happen.
It was hard to decide what color to do the eyebrows and mouth since the face is not all one color.
The lesson I've learned is that if you decrease each row you will get a flat circle and not a sphere. I just hate stopping a rhythm.
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Grumblebee needs a wife
Wings!
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We decided to do pink instead of black/yellow just to be funny but now she really doesn't look like a bee....looks like a fat strawberry peppero or something
Stupid little fond thing
Make a bee family
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