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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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.
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.
Cameo little swatch book
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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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?
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.
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