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and speaking of ideas i want to steal from tumblr user @bearhats, this matching set and these new designs are unrelenting!

my bugs

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this is incredible! the circle is such a perfect and smart format for a squirrel in that climbing posture—no up, no down, ping-ponging about with total indifference to gravitational norms. Peak squirrel.

I tried a "round" exactly motif once, very early on, and what I ended up with was a moderately charming but very clumsy octagon!

The chart shows how I worked the sample — I kept the square mesh intact along the edges in both colours, which makes it easier to crochet (or that was the thinking), but it also looks kind of… bad lol

I'm super curious to know how went about things! If I'm reading the situation correctly, the squirrel is also basically an octagon, but the corners are blunter, and and you've angled the edges of both colours in the first and last rows, which seems like it would be very confusing to do, but the result speaks for itself! so good!

ive made 1 attempt of a circular interlocking patch. it was rly hard tbh, and i made some notes as i was trying to figure it out but idk if i got down anything legible :v if i attempt another one, its gonna be w thicker yarn so i can actually see what stitch counts look good

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Whale, Jellyfish, Pelican and Urchin were some of the very first proto-Patches that I made in 2023, and I'm happy to finally be sharing version of the patterns soon! The next Collection (for June) is an ensemble cast of smaller, beginner-friendly marine life motifs:

(By "beginner friendly," I mean no long diagonals, filled backgrounds, wacky starting rows or other funny business. If you make a Clover and a Bee now, you'll be ready to sail when these arrive next week.)

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My friend sent me your disco ball patch and I immediately went and downloaded your guide for the clover and bee patches and now I'm obsessed!

Ahhhhhh! They are beautiful and I love them and it it always so immensely gratifying to get this technique into the fidgety hands of the people who need it, and that is all well and good HOWEVER:

You sent this ask on June 14. I'm afraid we need to address the startling post that you made on the Discord, the very next day:

Did you ever see a Prettier, more Perfect Prawn! Prawn is not what I would characterize as a "beginner-friendly" pattern, and here you go working it flawlessly on Day Two! I'm tickled pink! 🦐🩷

oh right! ETA: the free Clover and Bee patterns are here, and these are the Crustaceans, if anyone else would like to try reproducing @ggwweenn1's results!

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big and little Hammerhead (motifs for interlocking crochet)

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To your respective Vaults, Cherished Subscribers! Steven is having Email Troubles (psychological), but New Patterns Await You There!

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Cast off your hoops! Lay down your ball! This sea lion thinks you should quit your job (and probably a bunch of other stuff besides)

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i had an idea

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Some seagoing sweethearts

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Perfect lovers

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Disco Ball (interlocking/double filet crochet, #10 cotton thread)

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Patches for Dispatch 10: Creative Outlet, patterns out in a day or two!

A Lion on a Bicycle that Is Blue [PDF]

Creative Outlet

Disco Ball

Easy Oogy Alien

Patches of Funshire

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I cannot Hear You, I am in my Tulip

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I meant the technique for the actual background of the creative fork, the rainbow spiral

oops! sorry! that's a just a length of what's usually called "i-cord" made from scrap yarn. I use a crochet hook to make mine, but you can use knitting needles or one of those little "French knitting" looms.

I used slip stitches to ruggify the coil together on back

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What crochet technique is that in the background of the creative fork in outlet post? It looks so cool!

The entire piece is what's usually called "interlocking" or "double filet" crochet! You make it using two colours worked alternating rows. (Mosaic crochet works on the same principle, if you know that one).

When I write patterns, they look like this:

Verticals are double crochets, chain stitches are chain stitches, and diagonals are normally a (tr, dc) or (dc, tr)tog. There's a lot to synthesize at first, but once it clicks, it's surprisingly straightforward!

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Crochet is my primary creative outlet

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well would you look at that, a depressed person did

Patches of Dunshire: Do you think a Depressed Person could [crochet] this?" (The answer is, of course, "Yes.")