Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

Ravellenic Games 2020/1

This year I made the Embla Vest, with added Games challenge of only using yarn from my stash. You can tell, huh? Used about 4-5 balls of stash: the green yarn from Hawaii, blue/dark blue yarn, this "tweed" yarn they don't make any more, and two balls of Bernat Pop that I used for the ends of the stripey sleeves.

Size made: medium, but I ended up having to do some customizations:

(a) Added something like 5-6 extra rows to the sides to completely cover the Tits o' Doom, which are otherwise their usual Renaissance selves, bulging with plenty.

(b) Tapered the sleeves for a better fit. Added sleeves in the first place because it seemed sweater-y.

(c) Left off the hood because I'm never wearing it, most likely.

(d) Used leftover yarn to crochet the laces.

Hopefully it all ties together?

Also note that I finally got my hair done so it doesn't suck any more!

 

Shitpost Sampler 2021

This year's stichalong.

Sure beats last year's disappointment. "Yeah" isn't too exciting, but it looking like a palindrome and pretty pink flowers helps. 

Christmas cross stitch for Mom

I had the same problem for Christmas as I did for Mother's Day of not wanting to have to go to the post office to mail anything.

So I ordered this off Etsy and made two of the three trees. I ordered a set of two picture frames and and them mailed to her house, and then I'm going to mail her these in a regular envelope. 

Hamiltie 2

So this ended up burning up in a fire. It's a good thing I still had the yarn/supplies around to make another. Not to mention that I still had all my notes and whatnot around the house. Moral of the story: keep that stuff for future reference. And at least that time I knew what I was doing :P 

 

Drama llamas

I have been idly looking around for a cute llama pattern and hadn't found one. Then my coworker did and asked to commission one for me for her sister for Christmas. Sold! 

Here's the commissioned one, with the recipient's name on it. 

Here's the one for me.

And here's the two together:

Hashtag NOPE-Shitpost Sampler 3

So ever since I figured this out, I have been very disappointed and hoping that at the last minute they'[d do a swerve so that the stichalong was NOT saying "Hashtag Blessed." 

Well, I was still disappointed, it was, indeed, Hashtag Blessed. I am SUPER DISAPPOINTED that a website called "Shitpost Sampler," which makes me count on them to show some attitude, did something so goddamned nauseating/Christian religious/hopeful. In 2020? Is anyone feeling super blessed? I mean, I know I should be grateful that I'm not sick yet and I am, but other than that....COME ON, IT'S 2020, I NEEDED SOMETHING MORE DUMPSTER FIRE.

I guess this is somewhat to their credit that the Shitpost Sampler crew might have thought about this more in retrospect:

Mostly this was intended to be a companion, or at least in the same vein as last years “Cursed Object” as just a random patch or dumb thing to adorn your space with. However we and many others aren’t always feeling blessed these days aside from the whole “I guess things could be way worse” angle, so we’ve got a SECOND SECRET PATTERN FOR EVERYONE!

So they did do a second secret pattern: Hashtag Stressed. 

Had I known there was an option, I would have taken that one.

I was thinking of doing some kind of rage alteration to the cross stitch anyway, but after I saw this, I started picking out some of my stitches.... and redoing it a bit.

So I combined the two. It looks kinda hideous, but I don't really care. I also added some white background because the green was kind of hard to see.

I kind of feel like I should decorate around the edges, but so far I haven't been inspired. 

Shitpost Sampler 2

Followup from here. Darn it, I think it's "Hashtag: Blessed." GAG ME I'm disappointed. 

Shitpost Sampler

I'm working on their mystery stitch-a-long. I'm calling out that the first word is "Hashtag." 

D...something something S E D?

Distraction Is A Girl's Best Friend

Meet my new obsession: virus themed cross stitch #3, inspired by Rapunzel in Tangled. I love Rapunzel, I love that movie, I love towers, i love how she has all the hobbies like I do, she's our quarantine role model. I had to make a sampler for her. And a complicated one, at that.

And the pattern: 

Happy birthday and Mother's Day, Mom

Of course they're on the same day most of the time. And then there's this fucking year.

I asked her what she wanted me to order her online and she said, "Let's just skip presents this year." (She's staying at her boyfriend's, this may have something to do with it.) Ain't no way in hell I'm going to go out and get packaging, package a package and go to the post office when I start hysterically crying after going out to GET the mail (also had a package stolen this week because I didn't know it had been dumped outside instead of in my box), so I can't make her something.

Well. Maybe a very little something. Something flat enough to go into a card envelope.

I already had these so-awful-only-a-mother-could-love cards made from a 4th of July cardmaking party a while back. 

And I found some kind of cross stitch...tape fabric stuff? that I'd made a book mark out of a while back. I then tried making her a bracelet out of the same material. I doubt she'd actually wear it, mind you, but it probably works as a bookmark too.

This is the best I can do.

Let's hope in a couple of years we're all still alive to do better.