HI GUYS I EXIST
Clearly the week before finals when I have no time for anything ever is the correct time for my triumphant return to knitblogging. Here are some mittens I made for my fantastic roommate. They were originally for Christmas but, uh, I actually ended up finishing them closer to her birthday
which was last Wednesday
um
moving on. Two of Tess’s major interests are cats and the internet, so here, Cat-and-Cheezburger mittens.
Do you want specifics??? okay here we go!
Pattern: Loosly based off of Cheezburger Mittens [rav] by Spillyjane
Yarn: Mostly a metric shitton of Knit Picks Palette. I don’t feel like looking up what colors right now but they’re mostly the ones specified in the pattern, so.
Modifications: I charted the cat myself after an exhaustive search of Ravelry that returned nothing of the right dimensions. And I changed the cuff because you don’t own me. And I made them longer, because apparently Tess has unusually long fingers?
Day 17 - Oh Jegus Will This Thing Ever End: The Whatever from High Atop the Thing. Yep, it’s a West Wing reference. Also, if you were wondering what I think of when I think of things I wouldn’t want to tempt the wrath of, apparently it’s a scorpion with long legs and two grasshopper heads. Now you know.
Days 15 and 16: Terrifying Murder Rabbit and His Unfortunate Prey
I can’t knit a thing with a mouth without feeling like I should be knitting something to go inside the mouth. Also, I had too much fun with the photos for these ones.
HEY OBERFOLK. Do you want to see my winter term project in person? It’ll be displayed in FAVA along with the beautiful clothing the From Yarn To Garment folks made starting tomorrow until Sunday the 12th. You should probably also go see From Yarn To Garment’s fashion show in FAVA tomorrow at 1:00pm, and I’ll be standing next to my monsters for a little while afterwards, in case you have questions or anything.
Also, sometime soon I’ll get around to posting the last few monsters. I swear.
Day 14: what even is this thing, I don’t know, but I think he’s pretty cute. Top hats for everyone!
Day 13: This started out as a flapper octopus but then I changed my mind about five hundred times, and I guess in that time the octopus aged 20 years because now it’s more 40s. Is the cigarette holder recognizable as such? Probably not. Oh well, I like it. I want to put a veil on the hat, eventually, when I can get my hands on appropriate fabric.
anonemouse asked: you should knit a deadmau5 head or a zombie potato or both
a… zombie potato? Is that a thing? Okay I will probably do it. The deadmau5 head seems unlikely though.
Day 12: Friday was National Penguin Awareness Day, and it got me thinking, and I am SHOCKED, just SHOCKED at how many people in this country are unaware of penguins. So here is a penguin in a sweatervest. (With bonus my hand, because this one can’t stand on its own. Oops.) Also I don’t know why I decided to give it cat eyes. It seemed like the thing to do at the time I guess?
Days 8-11: In which I get a little obsessed and knit a small army of these guys. I think I want to make earrings out of the tiny ones. Would that be cute? I think that would be cute.
Days 6 and 7: Rice Boy and Gerund. From Rice Boy by Evan Dahm, one of my very favorite webcomics, and one with many extremely knittable characters. Not 100% happy with how these two came out, but seriously I have already ripped and reknit them so many times I need to move on. I figured out how to needle felt for the faces, something I have been meaning to learn for years, so yay!
What happened to Day 5, you ask? Well, Day 5 was awful. I kind of didn’t want it looking at me. So I frogged it, and may remake it at some point in the near future.
