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i just wanted to share the greatest post ever made in my community Facebook group with the rest of the internet

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I've been saving all the sneaker ads I've been getting because as it turns out, I love unhinged $400 footwear. If you like these you'll have to reverse image search it yourself though, because I ain't a corporate shill (read: I forgot what these are)

Also: not a shoe, but I mean

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Textures of the Pilbara part II (also Textures of the Western Australian Southwest)

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I've never been terribly active here but I've returned to share my favourite patterns that make me slightly uncomfy and/or ready to star in an absolutely CRACKING sci-fi miniseries, please enjoy.

DEGEN ADULT EYES SWEATER by Lindsay Degen

Who WOULDN'T want this Biblically accurate sweater? The perfect attire for every horrifying occasion.

#22 Raglan Sleeve Pullover by Laura Zukaite

The rather staid naming of this sweater belies its Mad Max energy. After the apocalypse comes for us I hope we can at least dress like this.

Open Waters Shawl by Melanie Berg

A good shawl to wear to a duel to the death with your mortal enemy, if your mortal enemy has trypophobia.

Romanesco Jumper by Ranti Ehinmola

Honestly, the number of variations shown in the project photos for this pattern is amazing. Not only can you fulfill your dreams of looking like a 5th Element villain, you can do it your way.

DEGEN HOLE SWEATER by Lindsay Degen

This is a practical pattern for people like me who are in denial about living in a desert and stubbornly insist on wearing knitwear despite ample evidence this is a bad idea.

Wilderness by Martin Storey

I absolutely adore the 1950s farmhouse vibe of this photo and the beauty and poise of the model juxtaposed with the fact that she looks like a human bittermelon and she is fucking KILLING it

# 17 Patterned Sweater with V-Yoke by Sabrina/Sandra team designers

An unassuming mass-produced pattern from the 90s that, just coincidentally, looks like something you'd wear to head an intergalactic delegation.

Blume by Norah Gaughan

Speaking of space sweaters, here's another that wouldn't look out of place on the bridge of a starship.

Mullion by Martin Storey

This one, on the other hand, looks more like attire for a... space council?

Space Odyssey by Anna Strandberg

This pattern is literally called "Space Odyssey". The author definitely knows.

Dark Moss Pullover by Teti Lutsak

Bringing things back to Earth, the way these broad cables fade into the fabric reminds me of my desire to be buried in one of those mushroom suits after I die. Your interpretation may vary.

Waterbender by Yiğitcan / Pufido

The ultimate in dramatic sleeves.

Day Dreams by Stacy Collingham

Finally... I think the Power Rangers fought this sweater.

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This is important work

A (probably inevitable) follow-up to my weekend of charting diamond-shaped lace motifs: the Cool S, as rendered in knitted lace. I really hope somebody can figure out a use for this.

Keep reading

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Ok everyone I finally got off my butt and published that pattern. You can get it from Ravelry here or if you don’t wanna use Ravelry for whatever reason you can get it here (the decryption key is px_P_CSEn-LcqnpQ5YAhCytDaIyGUWPXvLyfGTLjZLM, it’s in the url actually but some browsers remove it when you click on it for some reason). I tried to pack all the info I thought would be useful into the pattern but feel free to message me if you have questions. Happy knitting!

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Did you ever post the pattern for the silly meme sweater? I looked around a bit but figured it'd be easier to just ask

Not yet, soz! It's pretty close to done but I got distracted by life. I just need to modify the charts a little and format the pattern now though so I should probably just get off my ass and do it

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I swear I'm working on that pattern. In the meantime pls enjoy some textures from the Pilbara region of Western Australia (part 1)

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My sweater looks slightly out of place among the other knitting lol

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It's finally done!!!

Pattern to follow soon hopefully (boy I really hope KC Green checks his emails)

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Ok 2 things:

Sewing in the sleeves is absolutely killing me

Progress has slowed right down because I keep putting on the sweater and admiring myself in the mirror

Next update will probably be a finished garment!

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Haven't posted in a while, I've been working hard on unexciting stuff like fixing tension issues and weaving in my million loose ends. I'm still weaving in ends on the back panel but hope to finish soon. In other news I'm like 95% sure my sleeve caps are too short and need to be re-knit. Did I mention I have 10 days left to finish and submit this thing?? But, you know, this is fine.

PS Thanks for leaving nice comments/tags everyone I read them all and wish Tumblr was better at letting you reply to people <3

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There's still quite a lot of work left to go before I can start assembling but hey look, I officially completed all the knitting (aside from the neck band that is)

T minus 28 days

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Sweater back, take 3: Finally back down to a single working yarn, for the last time! I WILL NOT think about how lopsided the front is compared to the back. I'm not reknitting that sucker.

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This is the current state of the sweater btw.

Front panel: All knitting and embroidery done, a million ends left to be tucked in

Left sleeve: Knitting done, embroidery mostly done

Right sleeve: Knitting done, tension still needs fixing. No embroidery yet

Back panel (take ~~2~~ 3) Knitting in progress

Also, everything needs a good steaming, but unlike everything else about this damn sweater, that shouldn't take long

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Back when I posted some progress shots to reddit a lot of people wanted to know how I kept good tension at the colour transitions, since this is one of the hardest things about intarsia, but my dirty secret is that I pretty much… don't. My tension is garbage, I just stick a needle in the stitches and even them out afterwards. This is my completed right sleeve, I have fixed up the tension in the lower row of flames but not the upper portion of the sleeve and you can see the difference. Also, I optimistically gave myself a month to finish the entire back of the sweater but now that I have a month and a half left on my deadline I see it took me *checks ravelry notes" a MONTH AND A HALF to do the back the first time round (and that was working fairly intensively if I recall) and I still have to clean up, embroider, block, seam and put a neck band on the sweater so I might be screwed 👀

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Hey kids! Wondering how I charted this monstrosity? Well here is a rundown!

First I made a rough sketch of the front of the sweater, then I fleshed it out as faithfully as I could to the original. Then I designed a back to go with it. I used a pixel art program called PyxelEdit, which supports tiling, so I could put the front and back next to each other while editing to make sure all the flames and bits lined up. Because knit stitches aren't perfectly square I imported the image into Photoshop regularly at a 1:0.75 ratio to check that it was looking ok but as you can see the final result is still kinda squished looking. Ah well.

At first the arm and neck holes were just drawn on, but eventually I consulted Any Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book to figure out some actual arm/neck shaping. I didn't follow her numbers exactly, though, because my gauge is a bit different from the gauges in her book. So yeah, after all this I might discover the sleeve caps don't fit in the arm holes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actually, almost every part of this project - designing a pattern, making a large complex intarsia project, embroidering outlines, seaming a sweater - is uncharted (ha) territory for me and it's purely thanks to good luck that everything has been working out so far.

After that I charted some sleeves. I tried to design them so that the left and right edges fit seamlessly with each other and the body of the sweater. Though I doubt anyone other than me will even notice.

Finally I imported the images into Illustrator to chart the embroidery, because I couldn’t find any charting software that would allow me to draw diagonal lines, so I had to draw my own grid, make my own knitting symbols and kinda improvise there. During the process of actually making the sweater I’ve realised there are some issues that need fixing so the final pattern will be slightly different again.

Anyway that's my process! I have less than two months to finish now so I'm getting pretty worried whether I can finish in time. If you see me posting again maybe yell at me to get off the internet?