Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Things that did not go so well

Problem #1: making a collar for a dress and it came out way too big, long, etc. Like I considered repurposing it as a hem addition and..nah. Looks like weird cowl. 

Problem 2: shouldn't have interpreted the instructions as "make it bigger and it'll come out okay when you put in the elastic." Nope. Had to take it out. 

Vest in a week

I made this vest in a week for my costume for Twelve Angry Jurors. We're using the "Twelve Angry Women" script for it and then throwing in a few guys, and moving the time up to 1969 so we can have some gender wars going on. I was told "dress like Jennifer in 1969" and I note that I've been told I can crochet through the entire show--in the Twelve Angry Women script, someone's doing it!--so I thought I should add a vest to my "what a hippie would wear to jury duty" pastel swirly dress. 

Alterations: didn't do the waistcoat back and just made one back panel because nobody's seeing my back in the show, did every-other-stitch decrease around the armpit square panels at the front to make that area fit better. Lion Brand Ice Cream yarn worked great for this. 

Mayzie LaBird

In January, I saw Seussical at Davis Musical Theatre Company. Obviously my favorite thing about it was the Mayzie LaBird costume, referenced here on the Costume Reference Post 1. I decided I wanted to do my own version of this, for everyday wear (minus the long tail). It probably would have been better to do in DK weight, but I could not find neon yarn in that--everything but the lime is Caron Simply Soft, the lime is Premier yarn. So it'll be a bit heavy, but oh well.

I based the tank top off this pattern, though I didn't do the crossed stitches and had to make the shoulders a bit longer and I added another row around the neck, then added my own ruffle pattern of single, hdc, 2dc in same st, hdc, single over and over again on the edge. I also had to take in the sides a bit, but overall, not bad.

I used this pattern for the skirt, though I ended up making the waist less wide and adding another ruffle and making each ruffle about 12 rows long. I also added the same ruffle edge on each layer on the last row. 

 

(since taking a photo of my cleavage just felt Tacky, here's a closeup of the neckline ruffle pinned to a boogie board for blocking.)

Costume reference post 2.

Also under the cut.