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!!
how to alpaca: wash! dry! giant rolag! spinnnnnnn! (bonus: toad who helps me wash by eating all the ants that flee the soapy flood)
hat I'm making is too goddamn small and I'm big peeved because it's samoyed yarn, so it's special and bluhhhhhhh bluh bluh!
right after this i had to stop because my brain fog was making me fuck up, but i'm really enjoying this pattern!
took a break from alpaca to dye some knitpicks sock blend for the beamish boy’s beamish bf, who has no winter woolies at all. of course my pride as a knitbear won’t let that stand! so here is an autumn rainbow i plan to spin as a long shift gradient and navajo ply. bonus screen porch fiber pileup: a couple nights ago it rained sideways so a full fleece that was almost dry got soaked again. :P eta: the ‘black’ is a deep plum.
