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Chameleon (draft motif for interlocking crochet)

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Chameleon (draft motif for interlocking crochet)

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Hi hi, Hippo, hi!

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Zebra, interlocking crochet, wool roving (white) and worsted wool (black) yarn, 5.00mm hook

because the white roving was so bulky, and i was working it quite tight, i opted for an off-menu variation of the Blanket Border that replaces the "sealing" round of single crochets with slip stitches

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trying to work out my buffalo's stance

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some technical notes: pink yarn is dishrag cotton (Loops & Threads "Everyday Cotton" iirc) and black is worsted wool (Patons Classic). I love pairing cotton and wool: the former givs excellent structure, while wool's fuzzy stitch definition is great for both outlines and fill areas—and it gives the fabric stretch that cotton lacks.

(i also missed a black post stitch in the very top corner that I thought i could fudge over, but i'm unhappy about it now and will need to redo the top row and all three border rounds to fix it. such is life!)

Ostrich, either tending an egg or attempting a field goal

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Ostrich, either tending an egg or attempting a field goal

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A resplendent Roseate Spoonbill! Superb! and what a treat to see the motif in inverse colours! (I never have the time or nerve to test them that way, and it turned out so sharp in your capable hands!)

#WHAT GARMENT COULD USE THIS AS A PATCH 😭 😭 ITS LIKE TWICE AS BIG AS I WAS HOPING FOR

I knowwww, things get real big, real quick with medium-weight yarn! (Though the capacious clown jeans of my 90s childhood are back in fashion…) You can try substituting DK or fine/fingering weight for one or both colours, which could bring the size down a as much as 1/3 or 1/2 (respectively).

That's how big our mutual friend turned out for me with #10 cotton thread. I would have been using a 1.30mm hook, and it's about 3.5"/8.5cm tall. Probably too big for a ball cap, but appropriately-sized for the shoulder of a jacket!

If you don't have crochet thread, 3 strands of embroidery floss (ie, one full strand split in two) is a great substitute — it's harder to work with (I'd use a 1.75mm hook), but it makes a lovely fabric with much better drape than crochet thread (good for garments).

… i now understand the utility of cotton thread

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HOW DID I MISS THIS AND ALSO HOW DO YOU SAY AWOOGA IN SINDARIN (that pattern pdf is here)

The big naturals are complete

Free Pattern 'pneumatic wizard' by @interlockingpatches

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no time to weave in ends these two have got places to be

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Current contents of the Second Laundry Sack of Patches

I've been asked a few times if I'm ever going to attach them all somehow, and truthfully i would rather not! Dumping them out on the bed and shuffling them around is enrichment for me.

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Oof! Many thanks to @podargus-strigoides for politely (and correctly) tagging our Rhinoceros Hornbill "Southeast Asia" — I definitely started at an iNaturalist checklist for Serengeti National Park, but from there I seem to have blithely Wikipedia'd from one Hornbill species to the next until I ended up in Borneo.

My kingdom for an editor! Thank you again Tumblr user Tawny Frogmouth (P. strigoides) for the correction!

(a silly Frogmouth Family sketch from last year)

Hornbill (cotton and wool, pattern soon)

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Hornbill (cotton and wool, pattern soon)

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Scampering Giraffe (wool, interlocking crochet, pattern on the way)

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are you going to upload the second half of the right-handed clover tutorial video? 🥺

yessssss i promise i just hate video as a medium and really don't want to do it! but! i know it's important for accessibility and other reasons, so thank you (sincerely) for nagging.

look! i've even made my samples for when I finally show everyone how to do the borders:

[through gritted teeth] there's no reason i can't get that done some time this week!

[joke's on you though—it will be a left-handed video that i have mirrored, as a courtesy]

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they had cotton twine at the corner store, and it seemed as good an occasion as any to revisit this Old Friend from Memento Mori.

(Outlines are #3 thread; hook was 3.75mm; both were a bit too small for comfort, but it worked up and washed out okay in the end).

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these three sketches are all probably too large and/or complex (i mean, same) to fit in with the other (smaller, simpler) Serengeti motifs, so they just hang out at the edge of my sketchbook document staring me down like