IT WAS IN FACT SAVED odd number rows are either knit (in the round) or purl (back and forth) | = knit < = left twist > = right twist
also! the pattern I posted a picture of here has gone live: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/guarding-tree-gloves
i should absolutely NOT start a new needlepoint project when i've barely begun my huge fish-and-lilies pillow, but... i really kinda want to do a lil 'night vale' sampler that says, "Hey! Watch us, moon!" because i think that bit is so cute.
i've finished the first round of baby gifts for my best friend! it's the same pattern that @spockandawe made a few months back! i have had a really hard time getting photos that really show the texture, which is a lot more visible in person. i had a blast making this, this is exactly the kind of pattern i love in a blanket (ie, different every round and a variety of different stitches.) bonus pic of Dalton helping to make it: (see in THIS one you can see the texture! that's what it looks like irl) the baby's room is elephant themed so i made this and mounted it in a shadow box frame! my embroidery skills are very rudimentary but i still think the faces came out really cute :D b(ear)flap hat with removable lining! i didn't follow any specific pattern for this, it's just a Basic Crochet Hat with bits added on. (well, technically two Basic Crochet Hats, one of which goes inside the other.) i did look up a few different bear ears patterns and picked one i thought would look cutest on the hat but idr where i found it now. i went a little overboard, but it's my best friend's first baby so i gotta. i have a couple more things i want to make still but the baby is due in a week and a half so those will probably be christmas presents instead.
to use up the rest of the yarn from the baby blanket, i whipped out a little cardigan this week! pattern. i tried various fasteners, including a couple different color buttons and a couple different types of ties-- including teaching myself to do a 5-strand braid and re-learning how to crochet an i-cord-- before deciding it looks best as is. (but knowing how to do a 5-strand braid is its own reward!)
Literally exactly a year ago and then today :D I'm gonna try to do all the plying this evening! (My spindle projects are incredibly slow - and even then, I have up and did that biggest storage bobbin on my wheel.)
behold the cute stitch markers i got! so seasonal! also the yarn and measure frog. loot pile gloato (a photo for gloating):
so i just did some measuring and the skirt hem i wanna embroider is 6.75m long (a little over 22ft). That means that the panel i wanna do, which is 25cm long if I include a little bit of separation space between the panels i gotta do 27 panels rip my wrist? Does anyone have any tips for idiots like me who wanna find out why handembroidered anything is so expensive
My only real advice is to not get overwhelmed, and to plan on it taking a long time. If you can, figure out what the longest period of time you can comfortably embroider for is. For me, it's about half an hour, but I have kinda janky hands and wrists from larping. Set aside a period of time for it every day you can, and make it part of your routine. Get a rough idea of how much you can embroider in that time, and plan out about how long this is going to take.
I started on my new (MASSIVE) embroidery project! the pattern (which I'll have to repeat 27 times.....OTL) In retrospect, i should not have gone for embroidering a fabric that's that light but Fuck It. Spoiler And the first progress by making three rosehips and learning a new stitch (The french knot) Spoiler
