Just two projects but that's FINE. The blacked-out line is Alphi, he's hiding because I might post this in my journal and I am kinda keeping him a secret from my friends who play the game. Want him to be a surprise for them! Pretty sure none of them read here...
I didn't do any crafting the past 2-3 days because first I was cleaning up the dirty dishes I made at my sister's house, then I was packing/coming home/watching Colin's stream. But it's Monday afternoon now and I have dutifully checked in for work during the times I said I would be available today, so now I am FREE to craft!
It's also the start of another Nerdopolis tournament, so I have some plans to craft things other than Alphi this month. One of the themes is "Rodents" and I'm gonna make this African flower crocheted capybara. I was a little nervous to buy a pattern that has just two projects, but I've since downloaded and given how many pages it is, it should be an okay pattern?
Another theme this month is "Nerdception: How do they travel?" in which we have to choose a method of transportation used by characters/people in our Nerdery. Since my Nerdery is all about video games and I am a HUGE Final Fantasy fan, I am choosing the ever-popular chocobo. I thought about making another chocobo amigurumi but I wasn't too happy with the first two I made, and I don't feel like knitting another dishcloth (I did a double-knit chocobo dishcloth once). I was tempted by this cactuar and chocobo pillow but it's been years since I've done colorwork in Tunisian crochet, plus I just don't think I have TIME to do a large pillow along with finishing Alphi and everything else. So in the end I just bought some DK acrylic yarn to turn into either a Sophie Scarf or The Simple Thing -- the latter is free but I feel the former looks more polished? haven't decided yet which to do.
The last themed challenge is "Optical Illusions", and well, there's a question from another player on what exactly that means, like do we have to craft an actual optical illusion or just be inspired by one? I have the same question! I might not craft anything for this challenge, because Alphi still needs a TON of work.
And I'm home from dog-sitting now, so I held Alphinaud up to his sister Alisaie, and oh dear. He came out much smaller! Alisaie is FURIOUS at this. Not gonna reknit him though, that's a lot of work! Plus, since I knit Alisaie +checks Ravelry+ oh gods FIVE YEARS AGO now? December 2020! I thought it was only 2-3 years... have I really been playing that long? but anyway, it's not surprising my gauge changed in the intervening years!
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Just two projects but that's FINE. The blacked-out line is Alphi, he's hiding because I might post this in my journal and I am kinda keeping him a secret from my friends who play the game. Want him to be a surprise for them! Pretty sure none of them read here...
I didn't do any crafting the past 2-3 days because first I was cleaning up the dirty dishes I made at my sister's house, then I was packing/coming home/watching Colin's stream. But it's Monday afternoon now and I have dutifully checked in for work during the times I said I would be available today, so now I am FREE to craft!
It's also the start of another Nerdopolis tournament, so I have some plans to craft things other than Alphi this month. One of the themes is "Rodents" and I'm gonna make this African flower crocheted capybara. I was a little nervous to buy a pattern that has just two projects, but I've since downloaded and given how many pages it is, it should be an okay pattern?
Another theme this month is "Nerdception: How do they travel?" in which we have to choose a method of transportation used by characters/people in our Nerdery. Since my Nerdery is all about video games and I am a HUGE Final Fantasy fan, I am choosing the ever-popular chocobo. I thought about making another chocobo amigurumi but I wasn't too happy with the first two I made, and I don't feel like knitting another dishcloth (I did a double-knit chocobo dishcloth once). I was tempted by this cactuar and chocobo pillow but it's been years since I've done colorwork in Tunisian crochet, plus I just don't think I have TIME to do a large pillow along with finishing Alphi and everything else. So in the end I just bought some DK acrylic yarn to turn into either a Sophie Scarf or The Simple Thing -- the latter is free but I feel the former looks more polished? haven't decided yet which to do.
The last themed challenge is "Optical Illusions", and well, there's a question from another player on what exactly that means, like do we have to craft an actual optical illusion or just be inspired by one? I have the same question! I might not craft anything for this challenge, because Alphi still needs a TON of work.
And I'm home from dog-sitting now, so I held Alphinaud up to his sister Alisaie, and oh dear. He came out much smaller! Alisaie is FURIOUS at this. Not gonna reknit him though, that's a lot of work! Plus, since I knit Alisaie +checks Ravelry+ oh gods FIVE YEARS AGO now? December 2020! I thought it was only 2-3 years... have I really been playing that long? but anyway, it's not surprising my gauge changed in the intervening years!