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@bomberqueen17 replied to your post “question: are the colors in the hat you used for the cover a good-ish…”
I have no idea what a cable chart would even entail, but I am delighted by the concept. And the Shovel Monster scene was headed towards nookie but I stopped writing it because I have too many WIPs and I’m gonna have to come back to that. I don’t know how this story is going to end but Baze is definitely going to Shovel Monster somebody. I hope he is anyway. I’ll be super disappointed if he doesn’t get to.
i mean, for me any kind of charting mostly involves a lot of cursing at photoshop. i think i’m gonna wait until i can get hands on the yarn. a project like this really begins with yarn that Fits, especially since i don’t dye at all. so it has to be warm golden tones, and variegated, and sturdy enough to have good cabling definition but soft enough for chirrut to tolerate in a scarf (you mentioned a matching scarf you monster how could you do this to me)
anyway once i have yarn i can swatch, and then i can figure out how big the cable motif should be. shape-wise it’s probably going to be something like [this], and the scarf pattern should translate pretty easily from the main body of the hat. this is normally where i would grab a chart pattern off of ravelry, since there are plenty of nerdy knitters, but no one has actually charted the organa house crest as far as i can see. all the star wars charts that come up in search are colorwork patterns for, like, “here’s the rebel starbird in ten different resolutions! fifteen views of the death star!” and. no. the nerd must go deeper. i might actually publish this if it turns out well, my god. even if it’s not so recognizably the organa sigil, it’ll still make a cool vaguely-celtic knot.
you’ll be disappointed - baze will be disappointed if he doesn’t get to shovel monster somebody! :P (i really just want you to write all the ships in foundcat/sleddog, i’m sorry. also all the baze and chirrut, i love the way you write their voices)
Hahahaha well— the colors are pretty open-ended! And it doesn’t have to be a perfect chart, we don’t know how good at charting Winter’s daughter really is. In fact, it *could* be the starbird, I actually hadn’t thought about that. The starbird was someone else’s family crest, I forget who now, and I forget when they adopted it; I imagine it would fit into this world pretty well.
I didn’t think about what a matching scarf really means, whoops! Well, my mom likes to knit me scratchy scarves, so… LOL. I should dig out the one, though, it’s so great and I love it, but I have to wear a silk scarf under it, and I keep meaning to just– sew the silk scarf to the inside, because it’s not really a scarf, it’s a cowl, and it’s gorgeous, off-white, with a silk-blend lacework trim and the body is this great Icelandic wool but uh it’s Icelandic wool, that shit’s not soft. And it’s got Icelandic goat-horn buttons and I love it. And I just forgot to dig it out this year, and I really need to just line it in silk and be done with it. I could sleep in it, too– oh maybe it’ll do springtime yurt duty. I’m packing the car now, maybe I should dig it out and find some silk and throw it in my bag to do this trip. Hm!!
Well– re: Shovel Monster Baze, @incognitajones just reblogged this photo set and the tags I had forgotten I’d put on it, which I had half-forgotten. I have no idea how the Action Plot is going to resolve but if I don’t get to do that dynamic I’ll consider myself to have failed– where Bodhi gets to be utterly fearless because he knows he’s the bait and Baze is going to close the trap on Whoever The Antagonist Is. “Oh yeah,” he says casually. “It’s just– it’s just back here.” And looks across the hall to the alcove where Baze is standing serenely with a shovel raised high above his head, utterly still and poised.
I’ve no idea if that’ll happen, but if not in this story, then certainly in some other.
csevet:
@bomberqueen17 replied to your post “question: are the colors in the hat you used for the cover a good-ish…”
I have no idea what a cable chart would even entail, but I am delighted by the concept. And the Shovel Monster scene was headed towards nookie but I stopped writing it because I have too many WIPs and I’m gonna have to come back to that. I don’t know how this story is going to end but Baze is definitely going to Shovel Monster somebody. I hope he is anyway. I’ll be super disappointed if he doesn’t get to.
i mean, for me any kind of charting mostly involves a lot of cursing at photoshop. i think i’m gonna wait until i can get hands on the yarn. a project like this really begins with yarn that Fits, especially since i don’t dye at all. so it has to be warm golden tones, and variegated, and sturdy enough to have good cabling definition but soft enough for chirrut to tolerate in a scarf (you mentioned a matching scarf you monster how could you do this to me)
anyway once i have yarn i can swatch, and then i can figure out how big the cable motif should be. shape-wise it’s probably going to be something like [this], and the scarf pattern should translate pretty easily from the main body of the hat. this is normally where i would grab a chart pattern off of ravelry, since there are plenty of nerdy knitters, but no one has actually charted the organa house crest as far as i can see. all the star wars charts that come up in search are colorwork patterns for, like, “here’s the rebel starbird in ten different resolutions! fifteen views of the death star!” and. no. the nerd must go deeper. i might actually publish this if it turns out well, my god. even if it’s not so recognizably the organa sigil, it’ll still make a cool vaguely-celtic knot.
you’ll be disappointed - baze will be disappointed if he doesn’t get to shovel monster somebody! :P (i really just want you to write all the ships in foundcat/sleddog, i’m sorry. also all the baze and chirrut, i love the way you write their voices)
Hahahaha well— the colors are pretty open-ended! And it doesn’t have to be a perfect chart, we don’t know how good at charting Winter’s daughter really is. In fact, it *could* be the starbird, I actually hadn’t thought about that. The starbird was someone else’s family crest, I forget who now, and I forget when they adopted it; I imagine it would fit into this world pretty well.
I didn’t think about what a matching scarf really means, whoops! Well, my mom likes to knit me scratchy scarves, so… LOL. I should dig out the one, though, it’s so great and I love it, but I have to wear a silk scarf under it, and I keep meaning to just– sew the silk scarf to the inside, because it’s not really a scarf, it’s a cowl, and it’s gorgeous, off-white, with a silk-blend lacework trim and the body is this great Icelandic wool but uh it’s Icelandic wool, that shit’s not soft. And it’s got Icelandic goat-horn buttons and I love it. And I just forgot to dig it out this year, and I really need to just line it in silk and be done with it. I could sleep in it, too– oh maybe it’ll do springtime yurt duty. I’m packing the car now, maybe I should dig it out and find some silk and throw it in my bag to do this trip. Hm!!
Well– re: Shovel Monster Baze, @incognitajones just reblogged this photo set and the tags I had forgotten I’d put on it, which I had half-forgotten. I have no idea how the Action Plot is going to resolve but if I don’t get to do that dynamic I’ll consider myself to have failed– where Bodhi gets to be utterly fearless because he knows he’s the bait and Baze is going to close the trap on Whoever The Antagonist Is. “Oh yeah,” he says casually. “It’s just– it’s just back here.” And looks across the hall to the alcove where Baze is standing serenely with a shovel raised high above his head, utterly still and poised.
I’ve no idea if that’ll happen, but if not in this story, then certainly in some other.
