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 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.
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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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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.
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
Grey and Pink Argyle Blanket
I cannot bring myself to make a single panel more. It's just so big. Maybe cannibalize it into pillowcases or something some day.
At last....argyle
July 10 2020
Alternate panel
Nov 2019
Argyle panel.
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Design! Design! Design!
Tip: Make blueprints of your own
I use a bunch of different things. Microsoft paint, grid paper, blank paper, word document, formulas. It may not seem like it when knitting flat, but you are still making a complex, 3-D shape.
Here is the argyle worksheet I made for myself
Tea Cozy For Friend
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Split for spout
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The fair isle wasn't too terrible but only because the work was so small. I could stretch out each row as I went.
Different Knee Warmer
The tension was really terrible around the bee.
I decided to be brave and do all around fair isle but it did not do well. Very mixed tension.
The bee was also really terrible LOL.
I also didn't expect the yarn to be such a glaring color. My mistake.
With them both on. I knew they wouldn't match but they REALLY don't match LOL
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Tip: Beee wary of scale distortion!
To design the bee I messed around with some graphing paper on Amazon we got. It was really good and bad. It was really difficult to use because the graph on the paper doesn't match up with the gauge on the live work. So the graph LOOKS very very skewed compared to the work. Kind of annoying to wrap your brain around. Not hard. Just annoying.
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