.Icky Knits

Baby Blankets For Friend

I didn't have a lot of time. I really killed the tension....it's the thought that counts LOL

Two different sisters pregnant at the same time it'll be so cool to have cousins the same age.

Christmas Knitting 2020

Christmas Kickoff!

always kick it off with some custom fair isle on this little cotton rabbits site.

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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paw in the making

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.

Lol little lump deer

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Here is the pattern I found on ravelry

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

5a. Laid flat.

4. Antlers

These turned out way bulkier than I had intended and I am actually the most displeased with this part of it. Had to mark out where to add the horns so they weren't all gathered oddly but I kind of feel like that would have been better. I tried to evenly space them sort of.

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.

Cameo little swatch book

Cooking

Matching Shawls

Finished! Mom wearing it!

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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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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.