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Final Works: Fiber Crafts and Art

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Fiber Crafts

This friendship bracelet by LetoLeGaosaure on pillowfort

A free crochet pattern for a small shoulder bag inspired by the character Dante from the video game Limbus Company, by studio Project Moon. https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3746332 

A knitted cardigan sweater, by Ginneke (no public post)

A doll shirt with an apple and striped sleeves by Swilly (no public post)

Three crocheted goblin dolls by AngelMay (no public post)

Two crocheted sling bags by AngelMay (no public post)

Doll tights by Swilly (no public post)

Cookie Monster beanie by AngelMay (no public post)

Art

This Genshin meme by garden-archives

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Current WIP! Started 3 weekends ago, now powering into colour 4 of 10. Using a set of gradients shading from yellow through to purple.

We’re finished with the oranges now, and starting into the pinky hues of the clouds under a sunset sky via coral.

Pattern: Ribbonwood Blanket.

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The WIP grows ever ever on... Sleeve 1 finished but for a round or two more, sleeve 2 about 25% done now.

once that’s all done, I get to start on the yoke...

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The blanket embiggens! Now at the end of Chart D, about to start Chart E. We are currently on colour 5/10, and Colour 6/10 (sat in the bottom right corner there) is waiting to enter the fray.

Pattern: Ribbonwood Blanket.

[Image: a handknitted blanket-in-progress is draped over a bench.]

And shades of the actual sunset as I walked home after taking this picture:

[Image: The edge of a sunset shining on clouds, captured in a break in tree cover.]

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Playing around with an idea. Approx. 30 seconds after taking the third picture, I frogged it back to nothing. (Got some modifications of the pattern I want to try. Still need to do a straightforward stocking-stitch swatch at some point.)

Base pattern is here. Yarn is “sublime lustrous extrafine merino dk”, a merino (67%) and nylon (33%) blend. Label recommendation was for 4mm (US 6 / UK 8) needles. Here, I’m using 4.5mm (US 7 / UK 7) needles.

The nylon is what gives the yarn this silvery shimmer. I think it’s similar in construction to blown yarn -- no ply (that I can see, but I haven’t dissected it), the nylon forms a kind of net around the wool fibres and holds them in place, there’s a slight halo where the wool fibres escape the nylon.

Naturally, it’s discontinued. Boo. I was lucky to grab 10 balls of this at a real markdown price. This first swatch was useful for testing how the yarn behaves (and how it works with lace) -- further pattern experiments will be on scrap yarn, so that I don’t wear out my limited supply.

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Soon - oh, so soon - the colourwork will start anew... (end of second sock sleeve syndrome.) (my RSI absolutely hates me.)

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My first jumper is officially underway! Pattern is from Garnstudio, knitted with Drops Lima (DK weight, 65% wool, 35% alpaca)

(free online pattern here)

I cast on last night, and I have already reached the final row of the bottom colourwork section. Note: this is a modification. Add stitches so that you cast on a multiple of 6, and adjust your first increase round accordingly.

For example: To knit the size Small, you will need to add 2 stitches to your cast-on, and increase by only two stitches in your first increase round; To knit the size XXL (pictured), you will need to add 4 stitches to your cast on; therefore the first increase round can be ignored completely.

I’m really looking forward to how this project continues!

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WIP Wednesday! Midway through Leaf #18 of a projected 26.

After Leaf #20, I am due to start the decrease rows. Can I get 8 leaves done tomorrow...? It would really be quite magical to complete this in a week. But even with the decreases, it might just be a bit too much to hope for.

...Still slightly distressed over the colour pooling. Had to be talked out of ripping it back and snipping out sections of the yarn / felt-splicing back together (which is easy enough to do with this Malabrigo) to forcibly disrupt the colour pools.

As it goes on, though, I’m finding it easier to Just Accept That As Charm.

(tell yourself something enough times, maybe it’ll become true.)

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It begins.

(Malabrigo Worsted in colourway Emerald Blue on 6mm (US 10) needles)

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A commission!

Below is a glove that has lost its friend. Said glove’s owner approached me to see if I could create it a new friend. Sadly, finding the same colour yarn was an impossibility, so guess who’s now knitting a pair of gloves using the survivor as template!

I really really like the detail on the cuff (alternates between 3 stitches of 1x1 rib, 3 stitches of moss stitch around). It’s just that little bit different.

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Unfortunately I was not able to convince my mum that her jumper comes as a kit.

Pattern is the “Joyride Jumper” from Garnstudio (ravelry link here). The pattern called for their Karisma yarn, but after taking mum to a yarn store she much preferred the added softness from Lima’s alpaca content. Fortunately, I could approximately colourmatch all of the Karisma colours within the Lima range.

I plan to repeat the pattern at the sleeve cuffs on the bottom hem of the jumper; I’m not sure that I have enough of the ruby red, though...

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Pictured here, at the end of its brief 24 hours of existence: the motif that belongs on the royal robes of Kouka, as shown on King Il, Soo-won, and promo-art of Yona.

101 stitches by 101 stitches.

(Knitting it flat is really not working, so instead I shall need to figure out increases so that it can be knitted in the round. or learn double-knitting. or maybe treat it as a cross-stitch?)