Taking up needlework again?
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Muffin and I went to the yarn store this weekend and I got yarn for the first few rows of the cat afghan, so that I could do the pilot test for the engineering part of the project. (It will be a many-colored thing and also they had plenty of the black and gray yarn from the same dye lots, so I'm not worried about matching.)
I'm almost finished with the fifth row, which gives me two "starter" rows and one three-row-deep band of cat faces. I'm happy with the size of the cats, and I think it will work up very nicely. I might make them a little smaller--finer yarn, smaller hook--for a small project like a scarf, since it would make the cat faces crisper, but I don't want to spend fifty years on it. Stud Muffin graduates in a year and a half!
I did the first two rows where you're basically just getting things started, then I did the next three-row band in black, which comprises the first band of cat faces. Now that I can see how much yarn it takes to do a row, I'll go back and get yarn in several other "cat colors." I hope I can find a sort of heathered golden brown and a similar gray, so that I can get a tabby effect. I have the black and gray. I'll get a different shade of gray and two shades of solid brown. (There are white cats in the world, but there doesn't need to be any white in a blanket used by a teenager.) So I'll have at least seven bands of cats before I have to repeat, and I think I'll have to repeat seven times. (I'm less sure about that last factor.)
The picture shows tassles and no border. I think the tassles will just get messed up, and I think a border, probably black, will make it stand up to hard use better.
I'm excited. I love starting a new project!
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I'm on a slipper kick...check out these felted birkenslippers.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/birkenslippers
I'd like to try out the Happy Sheep yarn that's used in those pink felted slippers I posted earlier. Of course I'm drawn to the variegated full price colors.
But before I place an order, I'll go down to the basement and refresh my memory regarding how big my stash is already...
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aum么nier
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I had ignored this thread until now. There's some very impressive needlework in here.
I must say, though, that I am frightened by the slippers. They could be very easy to fall in on hard surfaces such as wood or tile floors. I remember a fall I took years ago when I went into the kitchen in my stocking feet. I was leaning with my back to the counter when my feet started to slide and there was no stopping them. I slowly slid down until I landed seated on the floor. I imagine at my age now I might have slid quickly and possibly gotten a significant injury.
Big Al
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@Big_Al Yes, the slippers I made are a bit slippery. But there's a solution for that! I found this product on the website with the felted slippers. The product comes in black and in white.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aum么nier
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Fetching!
(Or maybe this comment should be on the other thread.)
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I bought some inexpensive wool (Lion Brand Fisherman's) and crocheted up one of the slippers for felting (pattern above). I ended up ripping it all apart (that's frogging, right?) before sewing it together and felting it. There was just something that didn't look right with the slipper, and I decided that my first felting experiment should be a non-clothing item where size doesn't matter as much.
Switching gears and looking for another project...these look intriguing....and no felting required...I think I have some Softee Chunky in my stash...
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0711/5132/1403/files/BRC0127-003721M.pdf
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aum么nier
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Don't recall whether I've already shared a link to Fiber Spider's YT channel. I love his tutorials. Easy to follow and he makes some neat stuff. Plus he has so much fun doing this...
