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Mimic Vacation Photos!

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #mimic antics #mimic holiday #descriptions in alt #no idea what any of the hotel staff thought about the staging and increasing numbers.#Not a bag of teeth is indeed where I put mimic teeth in various stages of completion.

Plastic canvas is an excellent travel craft up until the final assembly where you now have another three-dimensional object to play luggage tetris with.

#plastic canvas #I was successfully not bored in any waiting area #or on long flights #and I managed not to leave any mimics as tips to hotel management #so success all around!#...did get to the point of just working on teeth

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Building off the lessons from Leggies Test One, this is a mimic of The Luggage from Discworld. Did not make it to hundreds of legs (this one has 42).

Again, stiffened plastic canvas for the legs, which was already self-supporting less than halfway through the process of attaching them to the bottom. It was less grabby than the first, partially because I used a different type of yarn (nylon, crunchy) for the whipstitching to get the brassy corner effect.

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #Discworld #The Luggage #Mimic The Luggage #mimic #also another one I am unlikely to make again

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #Discworld #The Luggage #Mimic The Luggage #mimic #mimic antics #So many legs.

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This was a delightful experiment that I will probably never attempt again! The chenille yarn doesn't like being threaded through the plastic canvas and frays easily.

But it is adorably muppet-monster like.

I think I will name it Scrungles.

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Very Important Update!

Scrungles the mimic has placed first!

wolfinthethorns

@xansmenagerie

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You realise that if I tried to copy this it would end up with a lot of little legs? :p

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Plastic canvas is a reasonable material for adding legs--I wouldn't do it with the chenille yarn, though. This yarn barely worked for filling in the flats and really struggled on whipstitching pieces together.

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If you manage it, the Discworld folk will love you.

Personally I'd mix my crafts and amigurumi the legs - aiming for pencil-thick with stuffing and attaching enough of them should do the job of making them weight-bearing.

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@xansmenageriereblogs Alas! Leggies Test One is more spidery than the luggage.

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Leggies test one! It turned out better than I expected when I was just starting to assemble the legs. The side legs are three pieces, the front (celicerae? This mimic belongs in the subphylum with crabs and spiders?) are two. This made it hard to plan exactly how tall they'd sit, but also let me have more variation between the legs. Because they are the 1 and 2 hole scraps from the castle, the legs are stiffened plastic canvas, and that saved me from having to double layers for support, but also made some of the whipstitching perilous. Also, the legs had to be put on before the field work of the sides, which meant that the legs were constantly grabbing the loops of yarn. "I help! ::D!" "Let go of that."

But it all came together in the end and the result is hecking adorable. Still wouldn't want to make a lot of these--it's a lot of fiddly work that takes time.

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #spider mimic #spider #arachnophobia #leggies test one

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #spider mimic #spider #arachnophobia #first time trigger warning for a mimic #leggies test one

castlemimics

This was a delightful experiment that I will probably never attempt again! The chenille yarn doesn't like being threaded through the plastic canvas and frays easily.

But it is adorably muppet-monster like.

I think I will name it Scrungles.

castlemimics

Very Important Update!

Scrungles the mimic has placed first!

wolfinthethorns

@xansmenagerie

xansmenageriereblogs

You realise that if I tried to copy this it would end up with a lot of little legs? :p

castlemimics

Plastic canvas is a reasonable material for adding legs--I wouldn't do it with the chenille yarn, though. This yarn barely worked for filling in the flats and really struggled on whipstitching pieces together.

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #scrungles the mimic #...gonna have to do some research on leggies.#Suspect that it'll need a couple pieces sandwiched together if it is going to stand on them.#might be able to work with less if the box still is the main support

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This was a delightful experiment that I will probably never attempt again! The chenille yarn doesn't like being threaded through the plastic canvas and frays easily.

But it is adorably muppet-monster like.

I think I will name it Scrungles.

castlemimics

Very Important Update!

Scrungles the mimic has placed first!

castlemimics

#does scrungles glow in the dark?? I must seeeeee

@m0ose-idiot

Scrungles does glow!

....but not well enough for a phone camera:

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For the science! Notes from each post in this chain as of 3/16/26:

#reblogging Scrungles for Tumblr Update Science #it looks like all prior-to-update notes were attributed only to the first post in the chain #which means that there are no notes attributed to the mid-chain updates even though they've clearly been reblogged to form said chain #Where I know that most of the reblogs came after the Seanen boost and that would've been the third post in.#ScrungleData

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#ides of march #2026 reblog!

HAPPY EAT OLD YEAR NEW YEAR!

#Happy New Year!#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #mimic antics #scrungles the mimic #OSHA the mimic #Mimic DerpyTiger #MimicSussie #Mimic with a Knife!#GooglyMimic #*intense stare*

New yarn acquired! "Velvet" in flurorescent/safety orange! This feels as soft/fluffy as Scrungles looks like it should be. It's the same sort of yarn--two strands of thread holding the rest of the flocking in place. The velvet also sheds a bit, though not nearly as badly as the chenille did.

Now I just need to find a reflective yarn to finish the hi-vis design.

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #mimic antics #OSHA mimic

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T'was the night before Christmas

And all through the Keep

Not a Mimic was stirring

Not even a peep.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

In hopes that dinner would soon be there.

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David Attenborough Voice: Alas, the mimics' elaborate ruse has failed, on account of all of their pack falling asleep. There are only crumbs of the lure, and the hope that they may do better in their hunt next year.

But, it seems that there may be more surprises in store.

Merry Christmas

Bonus:

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Happy Solstice!

#Longest night #Shortest Day #Northern Hemisphere Problems #Mimic #plastic canvas #needlepoint #no open flames near the yarn

Mimic Costume Party!

First of the Group Costume! An Angel!

Biblically accurate angel!

And the one who mis-read the brief and dressed up as an angle!

The classic ghost!

And Scrungles, who either is the computer, or has eaten it for fun!

#mimic antics #plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #mimic #d&d #scrungles the mimic #Happy Halloween #really thought I had more time in October #so it goes.#descriptions in alt

New skill unlocked!

Not tiny boxes--I've been making those forever.

New skill is Pattern!

To make your own tiny box, you will need a yarn darning needle, 7 mesh plastic canvas, 6 yards of your choice yarn for the panels, and 2 1/2 ish yards for the edges.

Voila!

#plastic canvas #needlepoint #thing i made #thing you could make too!#mimic #The Project Manager #Not the prettiest #but it works for a proof of concept #I can at least draw the grids in a better fashion than I was getting from the other free patterns.#Still drawing the stitches by hand though

How would one go about making a Scrungle the mimic of their own? Asking because I have a Need

At some point here I'll put together the pattern. Rudely, the skills for trial-and-erroring needlepoint are different skills and materials than making patterns, and the free programs I've seen for cross-stitch can't represent two stitches meeting end-to-end in the same spot without them becoming one long stitch (if a program allows for long stitches at all.)

If you (or general tumblr audience You) know of a program, please recommend it!

The worst (but guaranteed to work) way of writing out the pattern would be bolding lines in a spreadsheet program for the grid, printing it, and drawing the stitches myself.

The worst-worst way would be me drawing this out on graph paper.

Otherwise, the basic supplies are easy: blunt yarn darner needle, 7-count plastic canvas, worsted/medium/4 yarn of your choice, and eyes. I prefer safety eyes, which secure through the mesh/canvas, but you could just as easily hot glue flat eyes in place. Scrungles and the brown mimic are the same base design, just different choice in yarn.

#ask answered!#Scrungles the mimic #plastic canvas #needlepoint #craft discussion #open request for program recommendations #I admit to having daydreams of selling mimics and patterns for pin money #to add to the dopamine from notes #which would help subsidize the yarn #but that's an *entirely* different skillset.#and the state of online shops for handcrafted things seems worse than the state of programs for patterns.

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