#cincomplete

[acindra]

It took a couple months but my thumb finally healed enough that I could yarn without pain! I've finished up all the hexagons now and it only took a month and a half (if you don't count the thumb injury time period) to make all 127 of them, averaging about 3 a day.

I won't be able to do the actual attachment for a few days because the space I need to line everything up is high traffic atm but fingers crossed it'll be easy to finish up and I'll be done soon! :3

See the first post of the hexagons here

Check out more of my creations here

[acindra]

A couple months ago someone in my family found out they were at the start of a severe chronic illness. Given the right medical attention they will recover but it will take a long time. I volunteered to help manage things so they don't have to and to keep an eye on them on a day to day basis.

Since this task involves me needing to be alert but not necessarily occupied with anything I asked for the pattern and yarn to make the Starlite Blanket by TheBurrowUK (which was shown to me years ago by @yharnamsnewslug) for my birthday with the intent to give the completed blanket to that family member for their birthday because that theoretically should be just after they're through the worst of the illness.

The top 7 pics are mockups I did when learning how the individual hexagon patterns works. The bottom 4 are completed representations of batches of said hexagons.

So far I've made 7 of the baby blue hexagons, 6 of the mint hexagons, 6 of the dusty blue hexagons, and 12 of the dusty teal hexagons. I've also made a few of the next colour (same pattern as the bottom 3 pictures) but I sprained my thumb helping with some heavy lifting so I'm forcing myself to take a break from yarning while that heals.

See the second post of the hexagons here

Check out more of my creations here

[acindra]

I spent 2 full days just trying to reason out how best to make a pleated skirt on such a small scale with a ‘cloth’ that is too thick to actually fold. On the bright side I did figure it out for the most part. On the less bright side the way I intended to replicate it looked too excessive for this particular doll so I had to scale it back in the end.

Also because it was white socks AND white sneakers I ended up lacing some of the green under the border of the two (instead of wrapping it around the border like the first pic) and i’m really pleased with it, especially because it’s very subtle.

[acindra]

After a ridiculous amount of revision so it’d look right and many small stitches, the collar is finally done. It’s hard to see in pictures because it’s white on white but I’m very happy with how it looks in person. Also I made pocket holes!

[acindra]

Very pleased with how the body has turned out so far- there is a point where i was essentially layering the 4 separate layers (pants, skin, shirt, belt) on the same two rows and i was worried it’d get way too bulky or skewed but it did not.

[acindra]

For my next project the character has their head partially shaved so I will need to do some colour changing for the head itself to simulate that. The last time I’d done this was over 3 years ago and I’ve lost my notes on it so here is a mock head with all the rows marked out with yarn because I am absolutely terrible at keeping track of rows sometimes. Fingers crossed this will work out.

[acindra]

While I’m very much enjoying this project, I’m going to have to do surgery multiple times and it suuuuuucks

[acindra]

Working on the final gift for the upcoming gift giving holiday is going well. It’s very rare I end up needing to combine two bits of yarn and usually it’s colour combining like on castiel’s wings. But this time I’m doing it to make the project thicker which is a first for me, I think.