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dragonlady7Got home yesterday to find a package crammed between storm and kitchen door. I opened it to discover that my mother had knit me a shawl! Uncharacteristically for her, she had actually included a note: apparently, she had hesitated to make me a shawl because one of my sisters had bought me a cardigan for Christmas?? What?? but had been unable to resist trying out a new technique. Apparently it's called "entrelac" and it looks quite complicated. "Forgive the errors," she signed off breezily.
What errors???
Chita approves.
Unusually, she also did not append the yarn label with washing instructions, so I don't know whether I need to hand-wash this. I might anyway!!
(To any who don't know me well, I sew and embroider and have just learned how to spin, and I do hand-lettering and signpainting as well, but I do not know how to knit or crochet, it is sorcery and also off-limits to me because I have Too Much Crafting Shit in my house. Also my mother and two of my sisters and my best friend and my mother-not-in-law and my sister-not-in-law all do yarncrafts, and so I own more hand-knitted belongings of exquisite beauty than I do stuff I've sewn, despite that being the thing I do.)
In other news I've decided to make a quilt-as-you-go lap quilt to go on the couch made out of all my hoarded discarded pajamas, with the flannels on the outside and the fleeces as batting, and it's probably going to be hideous as shit but unlikesorcery yarncraft, sewing still functions as the intended thing and is approximately the right size and structural integrity even if you fuck it up ridiculously.
I've started off with, uh, eleven-inch squares, because that was what the fleece pajama pants I was cutting up went neatly into? So I'll just be... trying to make that a thing. I don't know what size a lap quilt is supposed to be. I feel like 44" is a good start. If I have 16 11" squares, I get a 44" square, right? And then if I want to make it a rectangle I just add uhhh four more on the end and that's 20 squares? Maybe?
Shit, I don't know how to make that math problem work. Some of this shit I can do in my head, some shit I can't do full-stop even with a textbook and someone holding my hand, and I just don't know which category a math thing is going to fall into until I stop and think about it.
Well, I have eight squares, so I'll just start with those and make them and then see what they look like and how many more I need.
I would like to make the flannel scraps into a pattern but I think I'm gonna just. Not. In the interests of fucking finishing this thing, ever.
What errors???
Chita approves.
Unusually, she also did not append the yarn label with washing instructions, so I don't know whether I need to hand-wash this. I might anyway!!
(To any who don't know me well, I sew and embroider and have just learned how to spin, and I do hand-lettering and signpainting as well, but I do not know how to knit or crochet, it is sorcery and also off-limits to me because I have Too Much Crafting Shit in my house. Also my mother and two of my sisters and my best friend and my mother-not-in-law and my sister-not-in-law all do yarncrafts, and so I own more hand-knitted belongings of exquisite beauty than I do stuff I've sewn, despite that being the thing I do.)
In other news I've decided to make a quilt-as-you-go lap quilt to go on the couch made out of all my hoarded discarded pajamas, with the flannels on the outside and the fleeces as batting, and it's probably going to be hideous as shit but unlike
I've started off with, uh, eleven-inch squares, because that was what the fleece pajama pants I was cutting up went neatly into? So I'll just be... trying to make that a thing. I don't know what size a lap quilt is supposed to be. I feel like 44" is a good start. If I have 16 11" squares, I get a 44" square, right? And then if I want to make it a rectangle I just add uhhh four more on the end and that's 20 squares? Maybe?
Shit, I don't know how to make that math problem work. Some of this shit I can do in my head, some shit I can't do full-stop even with a textbook and someone holding my hand, and I just don't know which category a math thing is going to fall into until I stop and think about it.
Well, I have eight squares, so I'll just start with those and make them and then see what they look like and how many more I need.
I would like to make the flannel scraps into a pattern but I think I'm gonna just. Not. In the interests of fucking finishing this thing, ever.
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