Someone got video of me fighting in the tunic and put it up on tiktok. It moves super nicely and fits really well. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRM6EUFs/
My next project is going to be this blackwork bat I can't decide whether to do it in hot pink or lime green, does anyone have any opinions? (the fabric is navy blue, if that helps)
Lime green! Because navy blue. Back when I was a wee child, with a new coloring book, I decided that the ultimate in coloring excellence was to color all the spaces with nile green and to trace all the lines with navy blue. I persisted until the green crayon was worn to a nub. This may not be relevant to your decision. Also, I like bats. Petted one once. The Amphitheatre at Chautauqua was open, and during evening concerts bats would be flying around above the heads of the audience, which paid them no mind at all. Presumably, preferring bats to mosquitoes.
This delights me so dang much. Bats are such good critters! And I’ll take a swarm of cute flying babies over even one (1) mosquito ANY day, thank you very much.
new sewing project: DRESS ALTERATION. starting material: ivory colored, ankle length, close cut dress from the 80s. Polyester. Cheap lace at the bottom hem. Carmen collar with decorative flounce, satin ribbon halfway up the skirt and around the flounce. has a tie-around belt with plastic beads on it. problems: bad color, doesn't fit at the waist (too tight) but fits at hips and tits solution: chopped it in half to make an ankle length skirt and a crop top, used the space where the zipper lived and the fabric from the removed waist to insert some fabric into the top. Inserted an elastic into the top hem of the skirt, hemmed the croptop (all of this done with help from mum, who found the dress in HER mum's wardrobe). Removed the cheap white lace (mum kept it) dyed all three pieces black bought nicer, simpler, black lace. edged the skirt, the top flounce and the bottom edge of the top in lace future plans: Add some beads and/or rhinestones to the top edge of the flounce add a Trachten-buckle to the belt, then fixate all of it firmly on the skirt in arches with some decorative beads involved. Current state of the project: Spoiler: large
*pokes head in* Hey, does anyone perchance have any recs for sock yarn for beginners? I'm getting tired of buying cheap socks from department stores that fall apart quickly and aren't all that comfortable, but I don't know enough about yarn to know which brands are likely to be scratchy. I've done crocheting before, but not knitting,
My coworker was gifted these embroidery supplies, and had no use for them - but she'd seen me embroidering on break, so she gave them to me! :D
finished crocheting all my holiday gifts! a shawl for my best friend: (i had to take a panorama to get the full thing in frame, my floorboards are not actually that wonky lol) a skull shawl/scarf for my sister (actually a doily pattern, but i made it with yarn instead of thread): and a stuffed elephant for my other best friend's baby:
The shawl I have been working on on and off for like three years is moving along! Every winter I go "okay, time to crochet!" without really thinking about it. It's cold out! Crochet time. You can tell where I stopped modifying the pattern... Soon it won't fit in its little basket.
So it took me about three hours, collectively, to completely redo this trilobite. I just didn't like the yellow on the first one. The stitching isn't quite up to my usual standards of neatness, but I will live.
Done! The border I freehanded, so it's a bit wonky, but it has been pointed out to me that that is in line with the GG art style, so i am content.
