#clari makes

[clarionglass]

as i’ve been threatening for literally months now, tiny martin is finally done! I Love Himb with my whole heart, and like with making tiny jon, i just had to create a version i could hug when things get rough in canon.

once again, the pattern has been ganked from designs by allison hoffman (craftyiscool) on ravelry, but i’ve done a lot of customisation :) 

more details on the making, and each pic in the sequence, under the cut!

The Making Of Tiny Martin

so as i mentioned above, the pattern has been ganked together using allison hoffman (craftyiscool)’s amigurumi patterns for other things. mostly, his pattern was modified from the notes i made when i made tiny jon. however! a note for all inexperienced crocheters: Not All 8 Ply Yarn Is The Same! following the same pattern i used for tiny jon, his torso came out a solid 2/3ds the size i wanted it :/

there was a lot of guesswork involved in this one, which is why he took so long, but i’m super proud of how he turned out! also, his hair is done using a technique i may have come up with myself, bc i’ve never seen it in my google searches or in any pattern i’ve seen. so many loops and tiny knots........ it took forever, but i’m really pleased with his lil curls :D

pic 1: Tiny Martin

tiny martin! there he is!

pic 2: Tiny Martin Commits Arson

in the archives with matches, what crimes will he commit? (arson, obviously.) not featured: just out of shot, tiny jon not being sure whether to be worried or turned on.

pic 3: Tiny Martin And Tiny Jon

the boys! holding hands! they’re so soft (literally and in a fan-slang way), and they deserve to be happy together :)

this pic took forever! they kinda stand on their own, but it took me a solid five minutes to position them and reposition them and rereposition them every goddamn time they fell over :P very glad i managed to get that pic in!

pic 4: Tiny Martin Embarrasses His Boyf

some cute teasing of the boyf :) i imagine the conversation to go along with this image goes something like this:

martin, pointing very obviously at the author’s name: you wrote a book? jon, deeply embarrassed: I Do Not See (tm)  martin, teasingly: shut up, you’re literally an avatar of the eye, you don’t get to do that jon: I Do Not See (tm) martin, fake offended: you gave me so much shit for my poetry! and here’s you, writing a full-on novel??? jon, quietly: ...yes martin: god i’m so proud of you :))))

(yes, i’ve just got jonny’s book! i haven’t read it yet, but i’m going on a long car trip tomorrow and i’m so looking forward to cracking into it then :D)

pic 5: Tiny Martin Makes Some Tea

self-explanatory! (this pic is saved on my computer as “tea lad.jpg” lol)

pic 6: Tiny Martin And Tiny Jon Get A Well-Deserved Rest

you can’t just make tea for yourself, right? gotta have a nice cuppa with the boyf, holding hands and just being happy :)) god i love that this relationship is so canonically lovely and supportive, particularly with what’s going on in the greater plot! the character stuff in this podcast is so nice, it’s a lovely counterpoint to the goddamn hellscape of s5....

mug facts: jon’s mug is one of many doctor who themed mugs i have been given. i’m calling it now, jon is a closet whovian who’s comfortable enough with martin to admit it :) and martin’s mug is from the cornish seal sanctuary, because he seems to be the type who’d own a seal sanctuary mug :)

[clarionglass]

so i’ve spent the last month falling headfirst into the magnus archives, and i’ve rapidly been coming to the conclusion that jonathan sims the archivist needs a hug and a rest, because he sure ain’t gonna get that in the series. hence i have applied my crochet “skills” to the creation of a tiny jon who can indeed get hugs when required! i worked on him while listening to tma, so hopefully some of the Jon Spirit (tm) has transferred into him....... i stand him in my room when i’m practising so it does kinda feel like he’s watching me, so maybe it worked? still, no nightmares, so i think tiny jon appreciates the hugs and the lack of apocalypse in his current situation

(yes i am going to make a crochet martin too, this is an absolute necessity. i’m just slightly less confident on his design so i’m being a bit reticent in starting him out....... if anyone has hard-and-fast This Is How Martin Should Look ideas then send em through)

there’s no exact pattern for “jon from tma” that i’ve been able to find, so this jon has been ganked out of some basics by allison hoffman (craftyiscool) on ravelry, and some common themes in fanart. credit where it’s due, i may have done the actual crocheting but boy he wouldn’t be nearly as good without all the work other people have done that i was able to draw on :)

more details on the making, and on each photo in the sequence, under the read more!

The Making of Tiny Jon

as above, tiny jon was ganked out of a few different amigurumi patterns by allison hoffman, with modifications by me as felt appropriate. the patterns i used are for worsted weight/10ply yarn, which is hard to get here, so the transition to using a few different brands of 8ply required a bit of messing about with. still, i think it was pretty successful! he stands upright without help, which is a first for me when using this kind of pattern. 

i’m honestly not sure where in the tma timeline he comes from. he has the post s1 and s3 scars visible, and in my heart, even though he’s just yarn, he has all of jon’s knowledge up to date, but he;s slightly too put-together looking for current jon. practically, giving him a ponytail wouldn’t have worked with the mass of yarn, and although i would have liked to give him a bit of facial scruff, i can’t crochet or embroider that convincingly. if any experienced crocheters out there have some tips, i’m happy to learn! let’s just call him a s5 mind in an early s3 body and be done with it. it’s my crochet, i can do what i want :)

the saddest day came when it was time to embroider those lil scars on his arms and hand... they kinda show up in some of the photos (see Tiny Jon Selects A Statement), but even if they’re not massively noticeable, i had to include them

there is a small green eye embroidered on the inside of his sweater vest, to sit just over his heart. it’s secret and nobody will ever see it, but it’s there.

pic 1: Tiny Jon

nothing much to say about this one aye. but there he is!

pic 2: Tiny Jon Sits On The Bookshelf

he works in an archive, and we have some fancy leather-bound books. i had to combine the two! plus it’s a nod to that good ol oxford pretension

pic 3: Tiny Jon Harbours Destructive Thoughts Re A Pile Of Potential Leitners

these are all books i own, selected for potential leitner-ness based on either title or content. neverwhere and picnic at hanging rock were selected on content (both the spiral), but you should be able to tell which entity applies to all the others (altho valley of fear is generic). doomsday book, though, despite the title, is not an end leitner, but is in fact a corruption leitner. i read this years ago, and remembered that it’s about a historian from the future (the 2050s, actually) going back in time to research the black death, with predictable tragedy. i forgot, however, that the b plot deals with a new flu-like pandemic in the “current day”...... eerily relevant, and also definitely open to be leitner-ised. tiny jon thinks so too, hence the matches.

pic 4: Tiny Jon Selects A Statement

again, self-explanatory.

pic 5: Tiny Jon Reads A Statement

it took me for-fkn-ever to mock up that tiny statement on magnus institute notepaper. it’s a 4-and-a-half page genuine statement written by yours truly, not just some squiggled-on pages or a shopping list or something, and is a mildly fictionalised version of something that has actually happened to me. if you can somehow strain your eyes and read it (would not recommend, i don’t think it’s actually possible), names and places have most definitely been changed because of my paranoia

i realise there is no tape recorder in shot! for the purposes of “canon” let’s just say that there is one on his desk, just out of shot. in reality, i’ll probably get around to making one out of polymer clay someday, but for the moment i just could not be arsed, and i was too impatient to delay the cute shot :)

pics 6-9: Tiny Jon Makes A Cuppa

in the absence of martin, tiny jon has to make his own tea.

[clarionglass]

Hello! I hope you do not mind me asking which patterns from craftyiscool you used for Jon? I know you said you altered them, but I am very curious, bc I want to try myself :D

not at all, thanks for the question!  i think the patterns i scabbed various bits from were her 13th doctor (i’d made her already) and her 6th doctor! there were a Lot of alterations made, e.g. the rolled-up sleeves were something i made up (row of dc into the row where the colour changes), and i fiddled a bit with the proportions to get it to work how i wanted, so take the patterns with a pinch of salt :) let me know if you end up making your own tiny jon! i’d love to see him :D

[clarionglass]

once again my fingers are a casualty of superglue in other news lil crochet martin is finally finished! pics to come probably after lunch with my granddad, i gotta do a proper photoshoot