Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

Second shrug

I still had some neon yarn left over after making Umbrella Dress 2, so I decided to make another shrug to go with it. Same improvised pattern, but it took longer to run out of yarn. 

I finished it while I was at the theater and had to photograph in the public bathroom again, so there you go with that. 

It was easier to attempt to photograph the back in a two-mirrored toilet region, though.

And here it is at home, with the dress it's intended to go with.

Looks better with that. It's a weirdly colored garment, for sure shrug

And THEN I WENT OUT AND GOT MORE NEON YARN.

Lambtown 2024

Photo album over here.

It's okay to learn that way!

I made a presentation for a work class on why it's okay to use fidgets (such as yarn) in learning, or meetings, or anywhere really. I'm pretty proud of it. Here's the PDF's of the slides and notes, and a handout of my research links.

Download Fidgetpdftest

Download Fidget Handout

Sloth Gloves

Pattern is Connectivity from knitty.com. I note that Loops and Threads Heather Tweed is simply the best furry yarn I've ever worked with because you can actually pull it back out (relatively) easily if you make a mistake.

Costume continued from here.

Priscilla the sloth head

Continued from here, here is the second Ravellenic Games project. I've decided to do a Priscilla costume, and here's the head. It's a balaclava (Ravelry link only) with fur hair added with a crochet hook around the edges. 

St. Expedite

Previous saint work here. 

Here is St. Expedite, made with this Roman soldier pattern and adapted a bit. I have now submitted it for my Ravellenic Games medal.

St. Expedite REALLY came through for me and made sure I landed my job just before it would have been shut down for a hiring freeze, so here's a tribute. 

Here's a picture of St. Expedite, for comparison. 

 

More saints

Per conversations with a friend who's missing some pets, I made her a St. Francis (the one with the giant cross and bird) and another St. Anthony. I'm not as happy with the browns I found to make more being so chonk, but oh well.

So she gets saints and pie for her birthday at some point.

Umbrella Dress 2 is done

I did end up making a second dress, converting the pattern and combining two fingering yarns. It looks delightful.

Probably still too hot to wear unless you are in AC all day, but maybe next week. 

Sweet cherry pie

Pie purse (found here, Ravelry link only), made for the friend I made a pie for previously here. 

This is made in worsted yarn rather than DK per the pattern, so it's sized down, i.e. I only had to do about 13 rows before hitting pie shape size, and the bottom is made like the smaller purse pattern.

More Lego

I thought I was done, then Mom gifted me with some 3-in-1 kits. 

 

 

Under the sea

Continued from here.

Here's what made it into the show. The stalactites don't have the cute bottom decor and are now hanging from the ceiling, so no photos of that. 

St. Anthony

Per this post, here is the St. Anthony I made.

He's based off this pattern, but I had to change the yarn size to worsted (that's what I had in the house), and customize a bit and simple it down since I found out about the feast day on June 12 and I didn't have much time to get it done. I put drink lids in his head and at his feet so he can stand up either way, har har. 

Lego cacti

I got the Lego cacti collection. I made it at work.

Set building again

So we have an set designer on this show (Little Mermaid) doing this for her grad school portfolio. OMG we have sooooooooo much to do.

I spent all day paper mache'ing stalactites and stalagmites.  Alllll daaaaaaaaaaaaaay. I was SO covered in glue.

Priscilla the sloth from Zootopia

I got a new job! On my first day, I was told that the sloth from Zootopia was the mascot. Someone has a stuffie of Flash above their cube and I was told there were photos of Flash traveling.

Then I remembered, hey, Flash has a coworker/lady friend, and she has a ...certain resemblance...to me with the glasses. Per Internet photos such as this, I got the bright idea to buy my own sloth and then decorate her and make her clothes to be Priscilla. 

Glasses: I bent a chenille wire into the glasses shape, then crocheted purple around the edges and sewed them on at the sides. I cut a few pieces of pink yarn and used a needle to insert her colored hair. 

I found a teddy bear dress on Ravelry and then made up my own crocheted stars to sew on it. I chained 30 stitches in DK yarn and then positioned them into a 5 line star and sewed them on. The cardigan I basically had to make up myself, but it wasn't too hard. 

She even has an engagement ring.