I began trying to grid my aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
ohhhhhh lord do not do that when you're sleepy. It took me twice as long as it should have to get the border done because I kept being a single count off.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:
I began trying to grid my aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I read this as:
I began trying to grind on Aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I need to watch less Lucifer and sleep more.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede said in The Crafting Thread:
@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:
I began trying to grid my aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I read this as:
I began trying to grind on Aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I need to watch less Lucifer and sleep more.
(I just finished the series a few weeks ago myself. 
Now I'm on to Stargate to help get ideas for the game. :D)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
We (lady geeks group I'm in :D) had a crafting meetup at the game store this week (usually it's at a coffee shop, but there was gonna be a bigger group so we needed a bigger venue). Since a bunch of us in the steotch were there, we took photos (pics = possible points in the competition!) and decided to make Deadpool show off our work for us.
For this DIY White Elephant thing, I have decided to make these dragonscale gloves. I've made them for myself in the past (I have two pairs, in fact) and have some slight modifications to the pattern that I think improve them vastly (as-is, the wrist is actually much shorter than it appears on the model-hands and the scalloped edge comes out kinda weird- sorry designer but most of us don't have dainty model wrists :P).
Since I'm not gonna shell out for $20+~ fancy yarn (esp. since it usually requires hand-washing and I can't guarantee everyone at this party will be yarn-savvy!) I'm gonna go with slightly cheaper-but-still-pretty yarn and still go the quick-and-easy scarf in a complimentary color.
I figure fingerless dragonscale gloves and a matching scarf will be appropriate and I know I can do the gloves in a weekend and the scarf in an evening.
...I can do those faster than one of my recent Arx crafting projects. I'M NOT CHARGING ENOUGH ON ONE END OR THE OTHER.
@Auspice ...I want.
@Macha said in The Crafting Thread:
@Auspice ...I want.
I want to say they're easy to make buuuuuuuuut-
I have realized that crochet falls into that category of 'is easy for me.' It's that thing that just comes naturally to me at this point.
(Now if only I could get one of the yarns I have to behave. I have this AMAZING FANCY OMG THE SOFTEST yarn that was gifted to me, but that shit wants to break.no.matter.what.)
@Auspice I can chain link. I've gotten a little farther than that in the past, but chain link is all I remember.
Wiki Has Released Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns Online For Download
Can I have this? No I can't touch this!
...that is amusingly useful. I mean, maybe not that one specifically, but dang, costumers should be celebrating like whoa.
Because the other thread reminded me... this is the year of blankets, aka 'I will probably end up with carpal tunnel because I love my family'.
In between, to save myself from the monotony, there are various small things and experiments that are probably needlessly complex or tedious or bonkers. (@Scorn knows what I'm talking about here.)
From least insane to most, those are...
The travel/car trip/waiting room spiral:
The proof of concept before I have to dye things that's going to take forever omg (complete with cat hair already! <grumble>
Gradient experiment #1: using four strands of embroidery sewing thread (not floss) to slowly build out gradients based on the colors from the hand-dyed border thread:
Gradient experiment #2: color shift test with 2 strands of the same thread as above, proof I want to go insane or blind, apparently.
Lighter for scale in all of the above. Apparently my pile of handy pennies for scale went and fucked off somewhere. 
The golden ratio is invading my work.
ETA I don't know why it's giving a subject warning but spirals are quite sexy. Beware.
@SinCerely said in The Crafting Thread:
The golden ratio is invading my work.
ETA I don't know why it's giving a subject warning but spirals are quite sexy. Beware.
I find the fibonnaci sequence to be hella sexy.
I actually like including it in my knitting when I can.
Ammonites. 
I did a thing! My plan is to learn to make my own clothes.
@JinShei That is amazing! I love the color and fabric choice, too.
Pattern sizing and human beings are just... not sane. Patterns rarely line up with anything you'd find in a store, either. I have the same problem, and even when I was smaller, I'm all different sizes on all the parts, so I feel you on the '?!?!?!?!' factor. So never think this is a just you sort of thing.
Some bits of basic patternmaking are less hellish than one would think, but you'd want help making the core pattern to work from. (It's hard as hell to get your own measurements exact and fit it, which is especially important when it's a tool to make other things from later. Many tailors will happily work up a basic sloper/basic block with you, though, for a very reasonable cost, and you can work from that flat pattern to make TONS of cool things.)
If you ever decide to look into something along those lines, give me a nudge. I may be able to track down one of my old textbooks on it that was SUPER HELPFUL and explained how to manipulate that basic pattern (also one for pants, one for skirts, princess line styles, etc.) pretty well, and I'm betting you could still find a copy out there. 
Oh fucking well.
@surreality That sounds incredibly useful! I wonder if I have a local tailor who might help but consider yourself nudged. Himself is buying me a dummy for xmas so I can actually hang it on something without peering in mirror.
@JinShei That is awesome. I will see if I can find it in the library of doom over the weekend while we do some cleanup in there. Mine's from 1991, so there's likely new editions of it since. (Amazon is not showing 'the big blue book', which is how we referred to it back then, which is not a surprise... 
)
ETA: I say that, and then... https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Apparel-Through-Flat-Pattern/dp/0870057375
Oh fucking well.
One down, one to go. I wish I could've started this daaaaaaaaays ago but shipping issues meant I didn't have the yarn until yesterday and I need the finished product tomorrow evening.
Trying to get at least halfway through the second glove before bed. 9 rounds to go.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Ganymede said in The Crafting Thread:
@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:
I began trying to grid my aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I read this as:
I began trying to grind on Aida last night since the first pattern drops this weekend.
I need to watch less Lucifer and sleep more.
(I just finished the series a few weeks ago myself. Now I'm on to Stargate to help get ideas for the game. :D)
