Card mailing!

I hate life so much right now I decided to focus on goodness and fostering connection. So I got cards for my cards! 

Ended up sending maybe 23 out.

Happy to mail cards by request to anyone:)

Cow for hunter uncle

Edit: I have been so sick I didn't actually get to wrap and mail it until literally the last day of April 

Made my signature bow out of the same wrapping paper lol 

Ready for shipping!

Actually used the space between two fish stickers on a sticker sheet lol waste nothing

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Gonna saran wrap it and make a Lil fake usda beef label or a Bessie label with a little cow drawing to stick on it lol....gonna be so cute!!!

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 Need to make a little cowbell to go in the Styrofoam tray as well

Sort of a Part 2 of this first gift which I never liked the way that it was wrapped by my messenger. 

Doodle

Was thinking about a simple possum line drawing for business cards but too complex a shape. Khyeeee (hiss noise)

New yarn!

 Arroyo arapey and one rosalinda for dream pop vibes! Went to ESK

Graduation cap for student

Custom Order: New Grad wanting to celebrate his schooling almost being done

Used a little fireplace slime ember as a model. I'm only gifting the cap tho

Red is the school color

Cooking

Fairy for co-worker

Custom Order: To be gifted to a dental worker

Wings looked much cuter after I folded them over. I like the wings now!

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Feeling very Hannibal lecter about this picture

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Wing x2
CO 8
Leave margin of 2 and k1, m1. Stockinette 2 rows. Repeat until desired length reached. (43)
Work one half at a time
P22, turn, co 1, k2tog, k until last 2, ssk x 2
Do the k1, k2tog
Do the k2tog four times on inside end, k to outside, CO 1

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Someone saw the gift I made for the dental hygienist when she handled my panic attack and asked for a tooth for her own dental office. 

I told her it would be kind of psychotic to give a model of my own actual tooth to a total stranger and equally psychotic to stare at her mouth for the same amount of time it would take to make a model of her own tooth 

 I asked if a tooth fairy would be good and she agreed a tooth fairy would be sweet (no real sugar lol).

Hyper realistic flowers for florist

Custom Order: a floral wreath!

Finished just in time for Easter! Happy Spring!! 

04/03/2036-- I had to stop because no more flowers would fit on the frame. In a way, I took notes on all 12 but clearly started with the flowers I wanted to try the most so maybe it's okay to not do the rest....I will have to move the rest of the undone flowers to a different post later without breaking the hyperlinks.

6-Peach Rose

Design notes: I count a total of: 11 exterior wide petals with a center-notch, 9 medium rolling petals, 5 interior cone petals. Really good bud close-up on wiki. 

Greens: serrated edges, pinnate. Just can't forget the thorns!

Inside (4-5)

Middle (9)
Work a 2x4 swatch, live stiches longways and start CO either side to create a point. Cut off and sc from where center points to the side to cut seam. Add to central base.
Swatch of CO 14 below
Exterior(11)




8-Gladiolus (Orange)
Design Notes: This beautiful orange one is just so pretty. Fuller blooms on the bottom with progressively unopened but color showing tips on top. 

Greens: Very thick stalk with frond things on top. make at least one extra length full length leaf/sheath(lol sword pun). 

I am NEVER doing this one again. Turned out great but such a pain. Also made an ugly sheath leaf.

3-Daffodil (Yellow/Two-Tone)

Design Notes: Apparently daffodil pieces come in as wide a range as hand buttered popcorn! Six overlapping petals, close to tulip petal texture. Duck-bill orange center and daffodil yellow outside :) 

Greens: wide, very dark green stem, brown top right below bulb

Inside cone of daffodil done. Gotta do outside of it now.

Conclusion: I am DEFINITELY making more of these with the same weight as the light yellow. The dark goldenrod was too heavy and clunky.

2-Violet (Indigo)

Design notes: Holy Moly there are so many kinds of violets. The more pink side of the spectrum captioned here as a variant since they tend to be not as pink-ish. The petals are almost very leathery/folded tissue paper texture. 

Greens: leaves glossy, heart shaped

7-Water Lily (Lavender)

Design notes: Some pics have way more petals than others. Some Not really sure if it's a species thing, or what. Greens: Lily pad. No other greens.

Construction notes: Extremely clumsy and clunky to make each piece individually but needed to start somewhere. If I ever do this again, will make a disc-base of a circle of petals and then add petals above and below the disc. Would also create a more natural ruffle texture than what I did which was essentially double stack all petals. Must redo if I have time. 

4-Daisy (White/Yellow)
Design Notes: Oxeye daisies are called oxeye because the center goes in! I am not going to bother with a sunken construction and I think the full-on puffed bobble of a classic English daisy would be more fun. Extremely, extremely thin petal. 

Greens: surprisingly easy-going stalk, like a dandelion

Construction notes: CO and sc immediately into chain x sc 8 for Whites. Sc yellow half circle, into back loop only to create more of a spiral/pebbled texture.
Extra Note: This was actually a lot of fun and easy. Maybe adapt into a sunflower design.

5-Lily of the Valley (White)

Design Notes: So interesting that these also, the lower ones tend to bloom first. I guess it's just a stalk trait, like how the gladiolus does it. 

Construction notes: Knit bell and crochet tips. Knit rectangle stkntt, draw all loops closed and weave in end for perfect curve.  Sc curved tips facing knitside to pop out--purl side facing out. Makes too many ends to weave in. Not as much of a pain as the gladiolus. Can improve on the bell curve if I ever do this again by swatching the stckntt. 

Greens: Actually need a lighter green to hang the bells off of, and a darker green where it joins the rest of the main stem.

Extra fern experiment

Do by October!

First big hobby lobby trip 03/20/26 bought a floral frame to hang them all in! First hardcore google sesh from 11:16am-3:31pm on a weekend lol