#eto crafts

[eirstohter]

Told you she needed a girlfriend :-)

This time I went for maximum fluffiness (and some better quality fiber) and I love the result. I have absolutely no idea what to do with these fluff buddies (other than pet and coo over them) but something tells me that their little family is going to keep growing for a while...

[eirstohter]

Once every couple of years I try my hand at needle felting, realise I love the process but don’t enjoy the texture and look of the finished object, and put it down again.

This time around, though, I had an absolutely game-changing epiphany: what if needle felting, but fur? A few youtube tutorials later and here I am, utterly enchanted by my lovely little queer fluff buddy. She is soft and fuzzy and I had a great time making her, and even though I really, really don’t have time for another hobby, I just can’t help feeling like she needs a girlfriend…

[eirstohter]

Yes, after seven years the Shakarian is still strong with this one, so naturally I had to make myself a set of Shakarian bracelets :-D

Unlike the Ineffable Husbands one I made this into two separate bands, and deliberately made each one too long to wear on its own, which is why I can do all sorts of fun things with them instead (so in this case there really can be no Shepard without Vakarian *g*)

I am really happy with how they turned out and already enjoy wearing them, so success!

[eirstohter]

[ID: three photos featuring a pair of hand knit slippers. They are knit with two strands of yarn, one solid black and the other variegated in several bright colours. Two pictures show the slippers worn on bare feet held at different angles, the third picture shows just the slippers draped one over the other.]

My vacation knitting for the year! I actually finished them on the drive home, save for the weaving in of ends which is something that is best not done in a moving vehicle.

They started out as socks, but I quickly realised that they’d turn out way too big for that (somehow the combination of using double stranded yarn, thicker needles and more stitches than usual somehow combined into something bigger than expected, who’d have thought? Not me, obviously.) So I very cleverly decided that they were going to be slippers instead.

Still turned out way too big for that (which was obvious after about 2/3rds of the first slipper, but I still finished the thing because apparently my self-delusion optimism knows no bounds) so they went for a refreshing splash in the frog pond.

After some gnashing of teeth and crunching of numbers the second attempt turned out pretty much perfect, and I really love wearing them around the house.

I made up the pattern on the fly and had a lot of fun with it--lots of simple but relatively short sections that allow for some zoning out but still keep it interesting with visible progress. Just an all around fun and satisfying project to do :-)

[eirstohter]

Finished my set of queer bracelets, yay 😁

They were a lot of fun to make, even though the rainbow flag has so many colours that I had to cut an extra notch into my braiding disk. I got the lengths exactly right, too, so they’re neither too tight nor to loose, but instead an absolute joy to wear ❤️ 🌈

So, yes, my stance on the whole gender/attraction issue can be mostly summarized as “Meh” with a side of “Do I have to?” And now I can wear that with me whenever I feel like it. Success!

[eirstohter]

Now that I have yarn in all colours of the rainbow, of course the first thing I make is an Ineffable Husbands Bracelet :-D

Red and black for Crowley, light blue and light gold/tan for Aziraphale, and the silver clasp because I like how smooth and elegant this one looks. I originally wanted to make two separate bracelets, but then decided that I like them better wrapped around each other :-)

Technical details and progress pictures under the cut

Twelve strands of about 70cm each, braided in basic right-comes-left-goes pattern

Two separate braids

Neat ends sewn together and glued into clasp

Tried to wind them around each other evenly while preserving the twist in each braid, the result isn’t perfect but good enough I think

Fussy ends tied together, measured and cut off (I’m always screeching in my head during the cutting, it’s really the most stressful part of the whole thing)

Wasn’t happy with the way it held the twist, so I gave it a nice and relaxing bath to settle everything down.

It’s finished and I love it :-D

[eirstohter]

First two of the Pride bracelet set are done 😄

Next up ace and aro, and then the full Pride flag to tie it all together...

(Technical details and commentary under the cut)

For the genderqueer flag I used embroidery floss with two strands for each color. Wanted to see how that would show up, and as you can see in the finished pictures it looks just as smooth as a single thread, but gives the bracelet a bit more thickness.

For the nonbinary flag again embroidery floss, but only doubled the yellow and purple. Which means that even though they have different numbers of colours, both bracelets use the same number of yarn strands and have the same thickness. And in the finished pictures you can see that it doesn’t change the width of the colour stripes, which is what I was worried about. That means I can use the same principle for the ace and aro bracelets and have them all come out the same width (won’t work with the full Pride flag, of course, since that has more than six colours, but I’m fine with that)

And I finally settled on these lovely rainbow clasps for the four “smaller” flags, which admittedly aren’t a perfect match in terms of colour but do fit the theme quite nicely I think 😊

[eirstohter]

So when I said there would be more of these in my life, I wasn’t kidding. For this second attempt I used eight different colours so I’d be able to see exactly how the different strands go together.

It’s pretty and colourful and easy to make and I think I have a problem some please send help >.<

Technical details under the cut

Eight strands, 55cm each, braided in the standard right-comes-left-goes pattern.