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went on a trip for my cousin's wedding and husky zack kept me company the whole time <3

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we got a little bit in our feelings watching advent children again XD

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[spongebob narrator voice] four... hours....... later.........

good morning

we're at the final finishing touches now!! i got his cheek scar on,

and after a long, long, LONG narrowing-down process of every single teal-adjacent yarn in my stash, i think i finally found a winner for his eyes!!

stay tuned to see him all finished~

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we're at the final finishing touches now!! i got his cheek scar on,

and after a long, long, LONG narrowing-down process of every single teal-adjacent yarn in my stash, i think i finally found a winner for his eyes!!

stay tuned to see him all finished~

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update: i'd kind of given up on doing the colorwork until i was sure that i had the shape correct, which. mm. yeah i altered every single thing about this pattern so far XD but i went back and fixed the back legs and tail -

- look at him being so patient as i sew his leg back on XD, but now it's time for the fine details!!

like his lil toe beans!!

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update: EARS!! TAIL!! PERSONALITY!!

after just. so ungodly many times. SO many trial and error rounds. i have achieved:

LEGS!!

the original pattern didn't differentiate between the front and back leg shaping at all, which... i think also heavily contributed to the weird rat vibe, honestly, and i still have no idea how i was supposed to stitch the paws into a right angle like the pattern said to.

i made the legs a little narrower, added some short row shaping at the ankles and the back leg knees, and added a cap at the top for the shoulder/hip joints to set the legs more perpendicular to the body, and that seems to have done it!

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after just. so ungodly many times. SO many trial and error rounds. i have achieved:

LEGS!!

the original pattern didn't differentiate between the front and back leg shaping at all, which... i think also heavily contributed to the weird rat vibe, honestly, and i still have no idea how i was supposed to stitch the paws into a right angle like the pattern said to.

i made the legs a little narrower, added some short row shaping at the ankles and the back leg knees, and added a cap at the top for the shoulder/hip joints to set the legs more perpendicular to the body, and that seems to have done it!

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finally finished the turtleneck a couple weeks ago, just in time to wear to otakon!!

i don't have a wig, nor do i know how to style one, so my cosplay pulled itself together mostly as "aerith who stole her boyfriend's clothes" XD

i won a heavy-duty tool harness at a company picnic raffle ages ago and never had cause to use it, and i know it's not exactly screen-accurate SOLDIER gear but it was close enough for a three-day-lead-time snap decision cosplay and honestly i think it worked out pretty well :3

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update: i narrowed the waist, deepened the chest, and shortened & broadened the snout, and now he looks...

i mean, still kind of like a rat, but there's been improvements! let's see, if i fuss with the stuffing density and add on the nose and mouth...

THERE we go, now we're getting somewhere!

what the pattern promised me it'd look like:

what the body, as knitted to gauge and exactly to pattern specs, looked like:

... my man is not beating the weird rat allegations, i'm sorry to say. but that's alright! we can fix him! we have the technology!

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what the pattern promised me it'd look like:

what the body, as knitted to gauge and exactly to pattern specs, looked like:

... my man is not beating the weird rat allegations, i'm sorry to say. but that's alright! we can fix him! we have the technology!

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sometimes ravelry doesn't give you what you need. sometimes you have to roll up your sleeves, go to the library of congress, and photocopy a sewn plushie pattern book from 1986 because it's the only good lion pattern you've found and you're launching yourself, wile e. coyote style, off the slippery slope of 'if you want something done right, you just have to do it yourself.'

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not a mouse, but i did make a little bunny (with sword) a little bit ago!!

here he is next to a teacup for scale, there's a magnet in his harness to keep the sword attached :3

I've noticed that I really enjoy this aesthetic.

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i'm re-blocking the dracula's bride shawl to wear to my cousin's wedding next weekend, and i'm cracking up a little over "the portable karl marx" still being thicc enough to use as a blocking mat weight XD

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five gil for a flower? :3

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here's a better look at the lil toy buster sword, not too shabby for having been made out of a utility knife blade i found on the floor XD

plus, bonus,

harness in progress :3

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so my local yarn shop was selling little plush bunny kits with a super easy pattern and i got one just for fun and my datemate asked me to give him mako eyes and, well...

i mmmmmmay have gone a little overboard and made him a teeny buster sword to go with it XD

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You reblogged a dewy spiderweb photoset the other day and commented you made a shawl inspired by that once. Tell us about that, do you have pictures? 👀

I DO ACTUALLY okay so like here's the thing you gotta Understand about me, i get. Intense. about gifts. and when i had my Defining The Relationship conversation with my long-distance then-friend now-datemate (of now over four years!! i love them so much, i'm so happy :D) it happened in february of 2020, so uh. all of our travel plans were pretty immediately kaput due to covid. which meant that i was getting returns on interest on my pent-up first-meeting-in-person, and it had to go SOMEWHERE

so i uh. might. maybe. have gone slightly overboard making them a courting gift, while we waited.

they'd started using spider imagery for me as an endearment after a while of seeing the kinds of stuff i liked to make, so when i found this pattern on ravelry i got a little obsessed with it because doesn't it just vibe like a dewy spiderweb, though??

i had a good couple skeins of this really lovely llama/silk blend yarn (now tragically discontinued, RIP to juniper moon stargazer) that i had intended to use to make a cardigan for someone who ultimately blacklisted herself from my knitworthy-people list, but that's besides the point, because the POINT IS that i found myself staring at the ~1800 yards of it that i had, and the little jars of vintage wooden beads i'd picked up at a flea market ages ago, and uh. look. they didn't NOT remind me of a cute lil jumping spider when i sat them next to each other, is the thing, and the yarn was SO cozy soft, and uh

it turned out B I G

out of all that yardage i literally only had LESS THAN A FOOT left after the bind-off, so i think i pretty successfully won that round of yarn chicken XD

i ended up going even MORE overboard with gifts when i did finally get to meet them in person, because in the meantime i'd made a cedar box with fancy grain matching to put the shawl in and decided THAT wasn't enough so i packed mugs, looseleaf tea, teaspoon measure, animal tea infusers, a family friend's homemade bread, homemade plum chutney, three kinds of cheese (two of which were from the dairy farm i worked at for a year), a cutting board to put all that on, fancy chocolates from the airport, a worksheet with measurements for a sweater to make them later, and a few other odds and ends, along with pillaging the landscaping around the hotel for greenery accents XD

and the funny part is, the way the room was laid out you couldn't immediately see the bed from right inside the doorway, it's around the corner to the left, so when they walked through the door and saw all this and were like "is this your version of a trail of rose petals leading to the bed? XD" i was like "wellllllll,"

"maybe a little bit yeah :3"

and they just cracked up XD