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This week's Great Yarn Challenge is something wearable. I ended up adapting this pattern (Ravelry link) into using i-Cord and then ended up braiding the ends too. It's out of HiKoo Simpliworsted, "Pretty as a Petunia," i.e. fancy yarn I only had 140 yards of so had to do something small.
Found this video/pattern on the Internet as to what to do with scrap yarn, so there you go.
It'll probably be a yarn bomb somewhere. Would have worked well for the week I failed The Great Yarn Challenge, but it at least reuses the yarn from that.
I did manage to enter this week's The Great Yarn Challenge (yarn bombing) by making a heart out of the leftover O'Go Yarn I had left over from the peplum sweater.
Continued from here.
I didn't draw this, but will carry it in the show.
I didn't do the graffiti either, but I love it.
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I love it when someone manages to slip in an insult to the director! (Who would be into it.)
On a related note, other than gluing trash, this was my main project this weekend:
"This is URINETOWN! Your ticket should say URINETOWN! No refunds here at URINETOWN! We'll take that dough..." (actual lyrics.) A four second joke, but worth it.
And then, there's the TOILET BRIGADE. I wasn't around for its construction, but holy shit, the graffiti.
Can't wait for the actress playing Tiny Tom to see that one.
"Roger Roosevelt, kept a cup beneath his belt," and here it is, up close.
I'm attempting to do both the Ravellenic Games and The Great Yarn Challenge AND BEING IN A MUSIICAL at once, which is only going so-so well. I missed the first week's challenge because I had whopping craft fail trying to figure it out and not a lot of time to figure out that mess, and heck if I know if I'll make week 3 (kinda in progress), but I did finally get in an entry for week 2, the babies-and-pets week. Obviously the closest thing I have to that are either my fake cat or Baby Yoda, and clearly there was a reason to go with the latter recently:
I did not write down a pattern, per se, to create over-the-clothes Beskar armor (that little coat does not come off and I had to make it up over that), but here's approximately how I made it up:
(a) Crocheted a chain to fit around the collar of the coat, about 65 stitches.
(b) Rows 1-2 were double crocheting in every other stitch to make a mesh look. It's NOT in the round because otherwise you can't put the coat on--I ended up just lacing up the back later with another crochet chain.
(c) Row 3, I did 2 dc's in every other stitch to make it wider at the shoulders.
(d) Rows 4-6 were straight up "dc in every other stitch" again.
(e) Row 7: I pinned together the approximate gap that went around the armhole (around 35 stitches), skipped those 35 stitches, and then crocheted straight from the back to the middle, then did the same for the other arm. Basically, that's how I made the sleeves.
(f) Rows 8-12: just dc'd in every other stitch again.
So I am in Urinetown, a dark comedy/parody of all things theater, taking place in a world where there's 20 years of drought and you have to pay to pee in public toilets. We have set construction EVERY WEEKEND on this one, I'm very tired. But I figured this show had enough entertaining things that I can show off the craft work I've done there.
The Secret Hideout sign, subtle like a trainwreck. Original design by the director, my execution, me and others painting.
The protest signs. I did "Protest Sign," "Do You Hear The People Pee," "Hi Mom," "Hell No We Gotta Go," and "Get Your Boots Off My Bladder." That one ended up with footprints on it, so I rolled with it.
Can I show you what I'm proudest of? The orphanage THE TRASHED SET, i.e. Public Amenity Number 9, the worst bathroom in town. I initiated collecting trash and gluing it to the set. I'm particularly proud of what I call "The Producers Shrine" on one side, as I've snuck in a few people's names from that show, the flier, and pictures left over from the show. I note that the little old lady is playing the mom in this show as well.
Here's my old unused parking pass from 2020, and another castmate. His wife is choreographing this show and I asked her what his reaction was to the photos she took. "Greaaaaaaaat," she said.
I found what appears to be some kind of...love letter note he wrote to himself? Anyway, it's in there. On the other side (which you can't see under the trash at this point), there's sheet music and script lines from the show.
Castmate looks even better with devil eyes spraypainted on him, doesn't he?
This was the first week's level of trash.
Next week, we added coffee cups with character's names misspelled, and a castmate had a great time decorating the cups and Chinese food containers with coffee, paint, and lipstick. And then came the spraypaint...
This is week 2' s level of trash. It's a real work of art. Other people have been adding on stuff like spraypaint, shoes (not in this shot) and Disney merch bags to the set.
So I was in The Producers recently, and got the bright idea to make a replica of the little old ladies we played (all wearing the same outfit, with walkers, seen here, here (I'm the knitter on the left, and yes, I got knitting into a show and actually knit on stage...about a row per show), here, here, etc.).
There is a dance number involving walkers, so of course I had to put in a walker too. I ended up making that by bending wire.
I ended up adapting this Frida Kahlo doll pattern (I love Frida, so presumably I may make a straight Frida doll someday) since the neckline and skirt approximated the little old lady doily we all wore pretty well. The one main issue I had is that somehow the head came out...big...possibly bigger than the pattern intended it to? I'm not sure what I did wrong there. Even worse, I created an old lady wig for it and replicated the crazy hair (and hat...thing) we had on. I swear the wig took longer than making the rest of the doll put together and used up most of the skein of yarn adding all the short curls. Lollipop head to the max....I wish it had occurred to me before I went too far/put the eyes in to take it out and make it smaller, but oh well. Lollipop head is comedy, right?
This is a really good replica of the crazy wigs we all had on, especially how they operated and were put together. Of course it has a mask on because it's the 2020's.
I used the wire from the Bernie Sanders doll armature for the walker and just stuck it through her hands. (Note: per the show there's a purse attached on the front of the walker.)However, it had a hard time staying all upright unless I wanted to get stiffer with the wire, which I did not, so I ended up hot gluing it to the lid of a candy tin (PYM Mood Chews tins have a lid that slides off) to keep it stable.
My main Ravellenic Games project, the Peplum Top.
I ended up adding long sleeves because it's really too thick to be a short sleeved anything. This was super easy to make and quick too, even after I decided to add sleeves on. I used that O'Go yarn and yes, it really does work tangle-free to knit out of a tube. Possibly the fastest full on garment I've ever made?