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Once again entertaining aspirations to process and spin a lot of fleece and, separately, finish a plain white basic millspun sweater (for me!) so I can make up that instant 5-gallon indigo bath and end up with a blue sweater, appropriate for all your kendo needs I guess (oh it’s not, but i expect it will dye me blue a little bit). but those are personal projects and I am not sure there will be time in this six-to-eight-week window of warm but cooler late-summer weather.

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Big Maneki-Neko, Japan (By edamame note)

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the best photos of my official sample scarf are ones where I had not trimmed or even woven in all the ends yes, but i’m going with the idea that showing them like this is a raw, edgy, gritty artistic decision and not that the idea of shopping them out feels like someone’s putting a heavy weight on the top of my head.

anyway! This is Douglas Scarf! It’s not even available yet! But I always get frustrated that I can’t do a blog post that links to the pattern before the pattern page is ready, so this is also an edgy rebellious childish artistic decision. It’s been a long week.

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Spring Feverish 2025

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I’m kind of tentatively planning a late-August mini shop update. Nah I definitely am and it feels good to Plan It Out actually, but I feel a little shy putting my work out there like that.

all the knit bags, including prototypes. I don’t know how to price them though. maybe I should make gifts of them.

two Chibli cowls, though agonizingly the red one has a dye lot problem and I have a skein that matches better, so I’ll need to reknit about 1/4 of it again.

the hat samples to match (they probably won’t match match, but like, you know, it’s the matching hat pattern)

the scrap scarf I’m finishing now

(i have several pretty good older finished sweaters, but the really good ones are hypothetically things I’ll finish patterns for someday.)

???

Part of me would also love to make a pile of sneks, but I don’t know where I’d find the time. I just want an excuse to have a pile of snakes around.

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going through some old photos in weird folders and hey look! It’s everyone’s swell pal, the m1r inc!

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quick mending post!

so I was given a small pile of 20-year-old snap shirts, mostly in need of small fixes or repurposing, and this is my favorite. It was straight-up missing half a snap, and without a half-snap that would match well, I reckoned I could nest a new snap inside the old one. It’s not neat work, and this is definitely a very-excited-it-worked post and not a technique one, but it was a first attempt, it restores functionality, and I was working fast (I wanted to put my shirt back on). I also managed to only have one small thread stitch showing on the RS, but apparently I don’t take photos of the parts that look good.

Relatedly, I started dismantling an old shirt of my own for patches/fabric, because it’s ripped in several places and approaching impracticality to repair, plus I don’t really like it. There was a little bit of a sense of abandoning it too early because of this, but the buttons made me feel better: four are complete replacements, and one of the originals was resewn with green thread. So I must have gotten some wear out of it, and I must have spent at least a little time working on it.

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making a second one, the smaller version, with handspun yarn.

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(This one was meant to be a cowl version of the stitch pattern I’m using for the flat-pieces sweater—to kind of half-literally buy time to work on the sweater and still keep up the momentum on Ravelry, because when you lose that, wow does it make a difference—but I ended up modifying it so the buttons wouldn’t be off-center. So it’s very similar, but the stockinette ribs are one stitch wider. Also I haven’t touched the flat sweater all weekend.)

one of the things I enjoy about tumblr is that there is a lot of media I don’t really consume myself or get exposed to otherwise, and this is often just nice in the sense of seeing other people enjoy things you know you probably won’t make time for or wouldn’t like as much. But it’s also really great when you’re working on a little project and think wow this reminds me of Chibli! It’s not the exact same scarf and I think that’s a woven color pattern and not a knit texture but it’s really got the same feel, and then you will stop and think who the heck is Chibli? oh he’s like, a forty-year-old divorced dad with seven kids but he’s a hobbit or something so he still gets carded at the liquor store. He is from the anime where they eat a lot of soup. And I mean, he isn’t called that (I looked it up), but I bet you can picture the guy I mean.

anyway, I knit this and I like it a lot. It reminds me of that guy Chibli.

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I finished the second crochet cotton scrap handing basket, but despite being about the same circumference as the first one, this one is way too big. Pretty sure this is because the first makeshift pot is a yogurt tub with the yogurt lid under it to keep any excess water from dripping—so the widest part of the whole container determines the shape—while the other one is just a yogurt tub slipped inside half a two-liter bottle for more effective drip-catching, but either way I really— do not want to redo it.

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one of the things I enjoy about tumblr is that there is a lot of media I don’t really consume myself or get exposed to otherwise, and this is often just nice in the sense of seeing other people enjoy things you know you probably won’t make time for or wouldn’t like as much. But it’s also really great when you’re working on a little project and think wow this reminds me of Chibli! It’s not the exact same scarf and I think that’s a woven color pattern and not a knit texture but it’s really got the same feel, and then you will stop and think who the heck is Chibli? oh he’s like, a forty-year-old divorced dad with seven kids but he’s a hobbit or something so he still gets carded at the liquor store. He is from the anime where they eat a lot of soup. And I mean, he isn’t called that (I looked it up), but I bet you can picture the guy I mean.

anyway, I knit this and I like it a lot. It reminds me of that guy Chibli.