Slippers and/or hot water bottle or other kind of warmer covering would be delightful. Matching mom and baby slippers would be adorbs
i've finally got the spoons to start processing the vast amount of alpaca @Kurloz38 gave me a couple years ago. i'd been spinning little bits of it when i wasn't feeling too awful, but my old spinning wheel had a stretched-out drive band and my new one needed the foot pedal tinkered with, so between that and my general spine doldrums i wasn't very motivated. but the new wheel's fixed up, i'm on better pain meds, and the weather's a DREAM, so the past few days i've been washing huge armfuls of lovely cinnamon colored fluff. from an alpaca appropriately named Cinnamon. :3 my porch is absolutely populated with racks and sheets covered with drying wool, and my drum carder is ready. feels good man. feels organic. edit: for those who don't know, alpacas aren't greasy like sheep, but they love to take dust baths. i think i have washed half of kurloz's farmyard down my sink. :D
AAAAA THANK YOU. also, you can get the pattern via hassling me to write it down!! I found a cable stitch I liked then adapted it into Larger Size gloves, still working out some of the bits and pieces of it...I'm also considering adding some "grass" or "shrubbery" to the ground around the trees, but I haven't decided yet might hop to my own thread to talk about the process, I'm pretty proud of how these turned out
i would love a chart! i don't need a full stitch by stitch pattern if you don't want. i'm familiar with how mittens work. just like, how many stitches it's worked over and where you put the thumb, and a chart for the cables. though if you do plan to work up a full pattern and sell it somewhere, i'd happily be your pattern tester!
THANK YOU I AM MESSAGING YOU the original place I found the cable bit on was...kind of inaccurate and also hard to read, no charts involved, so I need to Make ONe thank you oh FUCK that's good to hear!!
thirding, that is an excellent pattern and one I think I may be able to tackle one I work up to gloves.
I'll keep everyone posted! atm I'm in the process of writing up the pattern and sending it off for a test knit, I have to revise e v e r y t h i n g because the original pattern was poorly written and had no chart so I partially worked off the picture (if anyone has suggestions on what I should price it at I will happily take them and send everyone in this thread a discount code)
okay after advice I'm making a group DM for pattern tester type people, if you're interested, please let me know!! you'll get the finished pattern for free as soon as it's Done Done but the Real cost is putting up with me as I attempt to learn how to write patterns, you know, legibly
i’m going back to school soon so i don’t know how reliably i’ll be around, but i am interested! (obviously if i get swamped by coursework and disappear you have no obligation to give me the finished pattern :P)
I am not able to do pattern testing, but I am interested in buying it once it is done! Cozy hand time
Update on the cardigan I was knitting before! It's done! And she loved it! Spoiler: I am bad at taking photos but here they are anyway Not pictured are the pockets I also knitted and sewed into the sides, specifically made big enough so they can easily fit a phone in them. Because what is the use of a pocket if it can't carry you phone? I also spent a while making a scarf for another family member in this diagonal rib stitch, because I needed something simpler and chunky to work on when my hands were bad. Next up... Continuing my Bee Vest! Spoiler: buzz buzz
on the one hand, i kept thinking "no, you get a specialist to do that, hire me to spin your damn cotton!" and the like, because frankly in a pre-industrial situation specialization is the only way anything got done. "you don't grow a sad handful of cotton in the north, you import it from the south, there are entire cultures based on long distance textile trading, come on!" my silk road traveling ancestors were shaking their heads slowly. but on the other hand, goddamn is this an impressive effort. i came to ignore the fussy optimizer thoughts. the whole point is learning to do the thing, and doing it badly is the first step on the road to doing it well. the cotton yarn he had his weaver friend weave in the end was as fine and even as anything i've spun, and i've been doing it for years. maybe he didn't mordant his cochineal properly, but that lino print was ART. big respect for all of it. and a fun look at how complex a process clothing really is.
https://bullhorns-and-fairywings.tu...25/elizabethlovatt-bee-quilt-the-material-has this is so dope holy hell!!
