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Hook & Needle Craft – (The Court of Grandmothers)
I know this could technically fall under hobbies, but it feels like we could overtake it pretty handily (and Chi’s interpretation of CoG not being Crimes of Grindelwald is too good to pass up).
For now, a quick listing of related topics:
Mystery Stitch-along (cross-stitch)
I made a number of things! (cross-stitch patterns from Manji and myself)
There’re also some photos of some filet crochet banner/pennant things I made hanging in the AGP office
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And I made a thing that will be added to my cross-stitch queue.
It’s 150×231 as far as actual rows/columns with stitches, but I left an empty space all the way around so it says 152×233.
I feel like that page is a community favorite (and definitely one of mine), so…
8/13: I nudged the F a bit to the right, and the link is updated to reflect the change; also switched to new screenshot.
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!! This might become my favourite thread! “Indeed” is everything I didn’t know I wanted, and @Cj_Heighton you did very well in accidentally naming us.
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oh no. You went and did it. You madmen.
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OH NO. You went and shared that Liquid Fralm pattern, and I have too many unfinished projects, but I NEED IT!!!
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I’ll be tweaking it a smidge in the morning, so hold off on saving it just yet! (The placement of the F is bothering me)
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I finished blocks 31-40 of my temperature blanket (my current big project), the most diverse set of ten so far. (The flash seems to wash out the color in the Aspen and Spring Green in the second row center and far right)
Technically they’ll all be lined up as part of the same row, but I figured it’d be easier to see concept/details grouping them like that.
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yells “Allonsy!” and dives headlong into the madness
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I made these socks for a friend who just had a baby this morning. I’d meant to make something larger but the baby came a little sooner than expected so I sort of rushed to make these.
I’m actually really impressed with this pattern, so I’m going to link it to this post.
You don’t need to leave a hole and then come back afterwards to finish the heel, instead you crochet continuously from the toe to the cuff, working a few short rounds in between to make the heel, and then continue stitching in the round with no pesky joining.
The pattern is also written well, and the stitch counts are all accurate, so I didn’t have to adjust anything to make it come out like the ones in the picture.
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sounds like a great project
Sounds fun
Maybe after the group project is done, it could find a home at the office of a certain publishing company?
Finally hit the point where I had to move my hoop so I took the chance to snap a picture of my project. I’ve made quite a few mistakes, but so far I’m very happy with how it’s going!
I’ve never embroidered lettering before and it’s definitely been a trial for me. I fully expect this project to take at least a year, especially with how bad I am at sitting down and working on it.
Here’s what it’s going to look like when it’s finished (there’s some blood, if you’re iffy with that):
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This is so gorgeous. I love the design!
Oh wow, that is an ambitious design! How do you find stitching on denim? I’ve only done suede and silk.
I’ve rather fallen off with my knitting and embroidery over the last few years because…well, life. But I did a huge Viking braid blanket for my husband that took nearly a year and something like 40 skeins of yarn. And I desperately need to finish the present I started for a friend in the UK. It was originally a wedding gift and they just had their second anniversary.
@Viviane thanks! I’m hoping it looks as nice embroidered as drawn ha
@Sorrel Personally I like stitching with denim, I find it holds up to more of my abuse than other fabrics. I have a tendency to rip holes into thinner fabrics, which is why a lot of my projects are on hold until I get myself under control. The hardest part of this jacket is getting the seams into my hoops. I’ve never done suede, though, which sounds like an interesting project!
Because I shaved my hair off, my head has been cold and I needed a hat. So I sat down to crochet one at maybe 8pm, and kept telling myself “One more row and then I’ll go to bed” but I didn’t finish until 4am and didn’t even notice the time passing.
Then I thought it looked too plain, so I pulled out my embroidery things and decided to make an eye out of some felt. I figured it wouldn’t take more than ten minutes or so, because I was only going to use flat colours and basic stitching. I got over ambitious and ended up using 3 different thread colours for the iris and that made things take even longer. Still didn’t think I was taking that long.
By the time I finished with the eye and sewed it to the hat (with a little stuffing for realistic curve), it was 6:40am. So basically I accidentally spent the whole night making things and now it’s time to be awake again. I don’t regret it, as it looks cool and it’s comfy, but I really need to work on my awareness of time while in the middle of a project.
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I absolutely love that hat Sel! It’s super cool!
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Loooove the hat, the eye is such a cool detail!
Who’s on Ravelry?! I have the same username there.
I’m on Ravelry as chameleonarcher, but I don’t really do much with it other than collect patterns every now and then. I haven’t been knitting or stitching much recently.
Buuut I just found out my best friend is pregnant, so I’m going to be hunting for nerdy baby blankets to make!!
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Congrats to your friend!
And I’m not sure if her free patterns are on ravelry or not, but I know Yarn Geek Makes (once Two Hearts Crochet) is currently four or five letters into a knit/corner-to-corner crochet alphabet nerd blanket that looks to be small human-sized when finished… (and plenty of folks are designing their own options for letters that cover fandoms that aren’t their thing and sharing them on the Facebook group).
I’m aerosimmy on ravelry, also a pattern hoarder.
I may have just purchased another previous Steotchalong pattern (bought one the other night for a gift for Ashbro).
Specifically, the Star Wars “Home Sweet Home” one is going to be a gift, and the Samuel L Jackson a la Pulp Fiction one was another one I thought he might like that I also just really want to make.
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