#Project Planning

[iplaywithstring]

Is it crazy to want to weave myself fabric for a walking skirt?

Just something I'm pondering while browsing colourmart.

[leonsleftbicep]

i went to an antique shop and got gifted some lace. so now i have stuff for my vessel cosplay!!!

i just need to buy the base stuff and get the mask made and then we will be ready for the rein fair in september :3

[izicodes]

Tuesday 23rd January 2024

On my lunch break - I'm cooking up something but still unsure what exactly but something is happening and I'm happy :)

[koniknits]

Soooo I had a dream about this yarn 😅 in my dream, I made a gorgeous colourwork sweater, black with this at the yoke... BUT I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE

Anyone irl have patterns they think would go nice with this yarn?

[behind-the-veil-of-sanity]

Once I’ve infiltrated the large-language-modelled artificial intelligence machine, every text spewed forth will be in iambic pentameter. Every stolen stanza encrypted — Satan put back in her box, and Pandora sitting idle, thumbing her little black book.

[leo-fie]

Ad Mech Mantua: Project planning

I plan to share more of this project as it comes together. Maybe that's hugely overconfident of me, but I want to try at least. I planned to do this for my last project, the Houppelande, also, but then didn't because I felt my stuff was not good enough to show people.

Screw that! Be the fandom you wish to see in the world!

So these are all the garments I need to make to have this project come together. It's historical fashion, I have to get the undergarments right.

A chemise, not really special. Made out of rectangles, with nice big gussets under the arms. I plan to smok the front, both for decoration, and because I'm not fully comfortable showing my boobs. I have 3 meters of a thin, black cotton laying around, so that's gonna be a nice stash buster.

Next of course the stays. The pattern I'm currently working with is from Clockwork Fairy on etsy, seems to fit me pretty well. Nice to see a pattern that goes up to 4XL. This is already halfway done, I'm currently waiting for some supplies in the mail. It will have a zipper in the back for getting in and out of, and lacing in the front. I'm making it out of plain black cotton twill, ridges to the outside. I want it to be nice to the touch.

Padding. More fluff! Also pockets, but I haven't drawn them. They are just assumed.

Here it gets ambitious. I love the idea of a quilted petticoat. Because I like quilting and because with a mantua the petticoat is so nicely framed. I want to do something pretty there that's not just rows of trim. And I have these nice grey bedsheets with geometric pattern (Thanks Aldi). So trapunto? And of course it can't just be some gears, it has to be a functional diagram. Though I'm pretty sure this one I stole from pinterest doesn't...

Star of the show. I found a nicely patterned red fabric, that would maybe work, but it's polyester. I dislike polyester to put it mildly, but it would be very AdMech. Of course they use shiny, synthetic fabrics. I'm pretty sure I read something like this in the Skitarius novel. It may clash with the pattern on the petticoat and the smoking on the chemise, but all the patterns are square, so maybe it will work? The trim is a classic smoked trim that I'll slightly modify to evoke the cog design.

Lastly my favorite piece, the stomacher! Purely decorative, and decorated it shall be! I have so many beads and sequins and pearls and stuff lying around, not to mention the skull beads I made for the Houppelande and then didn't use. This is the truly hybristic bit. The bit that ties everything together.

I have already cut out the fabric and sketched the design. Omnissiah help me...

[daneecastle]

Forgiveness

As we know, Aziraphale prides himself on the ability to forgive.

So what does that mean? Why bring it up?

We have probably already seen enough posts about his final forgiveness on the final scene at the end of season 2.

.... after this intense and desperate confession of Crowley's love for Aziraphale, why would he fall to saying that? Why would he be so stupid to ruin everything with a phrase that Crowley is so sensitive to ....

He was sensitive to how he was himself. He asked questions and was punished for it. He was sent to the pits ....

He did, and will never admit it to anyone but God herself, that he wanted forgiveness but not from anyone but her. (Now note, that didn't mean he wanted to return to heaven. Heaven and God to him were two separate things.) He felt like he was unforgivable because the one that mattered had abandoned him.

......

So when sweet Aziraphale kept saying it...

I bet his feeling "unforgivable" weighed heavy on him. Something you'd think Aziraphale would know about him.

But.... that scene was a series of mistakes for them. Crowley's first mistake was reacting with a kiss. A very intimate action and quite possibly Aziraphale's first one. Their first kiss, period.

So how did Aziraphale act? With the bases of his being, the soul thing he prided on about being good at.

And he ruined the phrase by using it incorrectly.

He did realise it after a long period of confusion and fantastic micro expression changes done by Michael Sheen. So the elevator ride was even more heartbreaking cause he knew that he now had to make it up to Crowley by doing the one thing he pushed for that Crowley didn't like in the beginning.

Going back up to heaven to make changes.

Yes, he is a dumb-dumb. But he truly does love Crowley....

I can't even express how hard of a final scene this was. I could go on and on with a screen full of text about every detail of that interaction, starting with the Meta-jerk's entrance with the coffee. To Aziraphale and Crowley going their separate ways.

But I won't.

Instead, during my busy start to August of 2023, I'm going to work on a visual story of expressions, emotions, connections, and possible thoughts they might be going through when it involves eachother through out their adventure of discovery on Earth.

I'm not sure what to call it yet or if I'm even going to get any satisfaction from it. Especially since I've experienced this situation before and had an unsatisfying result.

But I'm going to try anyways.

.... yes, it's 1:05am here, and I got maybe 3 hours of sleep, maybe less. I don't know what time I fell asleep but I'm guessing 9pm and I woke at midnight .... hopefully, I can get this fixed later today with my doctors appointment.

I'm going to go to planning this project, and I'll be posting very rough sketches for the next couple of weeks. As well as my digital painting of the kiss image I drew. Thanks for reading.

[gluevah]

I've seen so many moth customs with Cinna as a base and it inspired me to do my own! I already have a second Cinna, so I challenged myself to use only what I have on hand to make it.

I found some pretty fabric choices in my stash, from a project that just never happened, and I have just enough EVA foam to use for the inside of the wings and the antennae! The wings will be backpack style. I have sandpaper, acrylic paint, and gloss varnish for the eyes, too.

I may need to get masking tape, and I have a squeaker I want to use but it is really really loud so I might get a smaller, quieter one. But other than that, this will be a no-buy project!

And I might use the ears and tail I remove from spare Cinna to make my original Cinna a new and improved tail down the line (and a better butt patch where I modded his tail the first time).

So excited to get started! The spotted fabric is so soft and fluffy but I am, admittedly, not looking forward to working with it 😶 At least it'll be pretty and snuggly when I am finished. It's more of a mauve than a purple, in person.

[eyes-of-nine]

so we have this sculpting class this year and basically our only assignment is to create a sculpture of an already established fictional character

PROBLEM IS THERE ARE TOO MANY CHARACTERS I WANNA SCULPT SO.....

this isn't the final decision since my professor still needs to approve the character but it might influence my final choice so propaganda is absolutely welcomed :DD

[craftingcreature]

I'm gearing up to make some socks with this lovely self-striping/gradient yarn I bought last fall. (Urth Uneek Sock #65)

I want to do an afterthought heel because that looks good with stripes, but because this is also gradient yarn, I don't want to work the heel at the end because the yarn would be in a different part of the orange-red gradient. Then I found what Roxanne Ricardson calls an "insta-thought heel": as soon as you're ready to place the heel you provisionally cast on half the stitches, work the heel immediately, then remove the provisional cast-on and work the rest of the sock. I also would really prefer the heel is placed in the middle of the one of the blue stripes, and if I knit toe-up then I might find the length of my foot calls for a different placement, so it's probably better to work cuff-down.

Alright, cuff-down to let me place the heel at the right point in the stripe, insta-thought heel to keep the gradient going through the heel. Now the question is where in the ball to start.

I think I want the direction of the gradient the same as the example on the box, but I don't want the part where it turns back to beige on the calf, I want it to start with the red. I'll aim to be left with about three stripes worth of yarn at the end of the toe for a safety margin. Depending on where I place the heel, I’ll use a little more or less of the beige at the end without a problem.

If I aim to start at the beginning of the red section and end three stripes before the end of the ball, that’s the blue lines. If I then shift that to the end, then the first green line represents how high the cuff will be, which I think I like.

This just a ballpark. I’ll do some swatching at the actual number of stitches before I make a final decision.

[webpixies]

So I'm planning a Frank'n doll. She's going to have fairyland bunny legs, upper torso and arms on a resinsoul, and a Logan dolls head.

Currently I only have the bunny legs, and have the torso on order(in white) and the head I'm waiting to come up on preorder.

I decided to take my RS Yao apart to compare her torso connection to the bunny legs and get an idea of the mods I'll be doing eventually.

I think I'm going to get away with sculpting a whole separate piece to connect these two joints. It's going to make the torso a little long and therefore her arms a little short but I think I can live with it. Now just to wait to get the torso in, in jan/Feb.

[gaviicreates]

Why I'm starting my 2024 "temperature" blanket early...

I like October.

That could be the most basic of answers, and I definitely could leave it there. But that would not accurately explain the heart behind the year long project I'm about to start. So buckle in, if you like. Or don't; you do you.

I've known for awhile that I wanted to do a variation on a temperature blanket for 2024. The last time I did a temperature blanket was in 2017 - and it was my first! I knew for my next one, I wanted it to be a project to honor a special year. 2024 was planned since I got married in 2019. This is all probably starting to make more sense now.

So yes, I got married in October - for the sake of not putting too much of my information online I won't share the exact day, but it is mid October. And 2024 will be our 5 year anniversary. I debated working the project from January to December for the whole year, but I changed my mind to running it from Anniversary to Anniversary.

There's a couple advantages to that:

For one, I selected Toni Lipsey's linen square stitch pattern (it's also the one she is doing this year), and I worried that in effort to try to stay up to date, I'd end up cramming the largest sections in at the end of the month. Running the months from mid-to-mid, I've inherently made it more loose and forgiving of the deadlines. It's normal to get a bit behind and need to catch up, but it'll hopefully help me to not have looming end of month deadlines constantly.

The pattern

The second advantage is that I'll have a new blanket by the end of 2024! With October as a final goal, I'll have two months to catch up if I need to, make a border if I so desire, and sew the squares together. There's a lot of grace in that timeline, and I'd love to have a special afghan to gift my partner on Christmas or New Years. I mean he'll see it in progress, that's inevitable, but the finished object in its final presentation? That's so special. Right in time for cuddling up by the fire too since we are in the Northern Hemisphere.

Oh, I am also not exactly doing a temperature blanket either. I've set up daily reminders for myself to look at the sky, and I plan to use the alert not to check online for a number. I want to connect with our Earth and create a special moment each day to admire the planet we call home. My color palette is to be based on the weather and color of the sky each day - whatever the overall vibe feels like since of course it can change from hour to hour. From sunny to cloudy to rainy, and in between, the final piece will be a blend of blues and greys. Because I do, in fact, love the colors of the sky.

The yarn

It's a much smaller color palette than the first time I tried one of these, so my hope is that each of the shades will have a decent spread - certainly not equal to each other, but definitely not lost among the others. I'm adoring the greys. 😍

It's Stylecraft Special DK. I looked around out a few other acrylics and some wool and cotton blends, but ultimately it came down to care instructions and spread of colors. I most especially wanted the blanket to be easy care. We have three dogs so washing and drying were preferable in this case. I also really wanted to use a Sock-DK weight yarn so I didn't end up with a blanket the size of a house.

I did however take a gamble, buying this yarn without trying it first. I've only heard good things, which is promising. And I've received my initial shipping notification, so I am super excited for the skeins to arrive!

I've shared my color scheme above. Each square is going to be 32 rows, and at the end I will have 12 squares for that final assembly part of the project.

Project Tag is going to be #SkyBlanket2024 for any updates along the way.

I'm VERY excited for this one.

[leonsleftbicep]

MY FUCKED UP PLANNING SKETCHES!!!!!

im really excited to do vessels because its going to be SUPER filigree filled

im thinking im going to start with IV because he needs a different pose, and possibly going to give him like 2 tufts of hair :3.

i do all of these with zebra mildliner’s and a bic cristal pen. im gonna do a bunch of break downs of the poses so i can find out how i want to build up from the skeleton.

edit: jesus my handwriting is SHIT

[izicodes]

Wednesday 10th January 2024

Finally, I transferred the project from my brain and into a Figma file.

I am free... now to put the other 4 weird ideas running around my head into the file... 🤷🏾‍♀️🙌🏾

Creating JOJO related projects are fun because it's my favourite interest hehe.

[koniknits]

I've been wanting to knit a sweater with my Holst Supersoft held double. I first thought of doing cables, but I couldn't find a pattern I liked so I'd have to chart it myself, and I didn't like the cable swatch I made.

So I checked what other ravelers had done and found the Field Sweater

But it's got 155 comments of complaining on 1700 projects 😅 some of the complaints are a bit... Far fetched ('why isn't this pattern available in this specific language' - I guess because knitting terms are very specific across languages and a designer can't cover all of them), some are about inclusivity (fair, but my size is covered so I get lucky there), but many are about mistakes or unclear instructions. So, Doubts.

[crimson-kas]

This Hobonichi Weeks Project Planning printable is also free in my shop. Happy planning!