#tabby-cat

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"Cat & Butterfly with Purple Flowers" by Broccoli Cat Art on INPRNT

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[eveiya]

Knitting

Now that my OU course has ended, I’ve decided to start my first knitting project in ages.

Before the era of the internet – or rather, before I fell down bottomless rabbit hole of online fandom and fanfiction some time around 2001 or 2002 – I used to knit all the time, and also did a lot of dressmaking projects. My sister and I got started on that sort of stuff very, very young, well pre-school, because my mother, my grandmother and my nanny (yes, we had an actual nanny) were all highly skilled at knitting, crochet, dressmaking, embroidery, tapestry etc. My mother was a high school teacher of Home Economics, which comprised of ‘Fashion and Fabrics’ and ‘Food and Nutrition’ in those days, but despite working full time, she managed to make lots of clothing for my sister and I, plus cook all the family meals from scratch until I was about 13 or 14. There were just always sewing machines, all the tools of the trade, books, patterns, scraps of fabric, thread and yarn around the house for us kids to play with, and my parents at no point seemed to have any qualms about letting us use sharp implements - I remember my disgust and perplexity over the blunt scissors we had to use in primary school!

But yeah, the internet/fandom, coupled with the advent of digital cameras and digital image editing, pretty much supplanted knitting and dressmaking in my life over the last 15 years or so. Also, yarns and fabrics have increasingly become more expensive compared to the cost of buying ready-made clothing here, plus there just seems to be a wider range of nicer clothing available in the shops than there used to be when I was in my teens and twenties. Back in the 80s making your own clothing used to be the cheap option, and often enough the only option to get what you wanted to wear if you didn’t like mainstream fashion, but that’s not so much the case now... I doubt I’ll ever resume these crafts to anything like the same extent.

Still, right now, I have a bit more time on my hands than I’m used to and a lot of TV shows and movies to catch up on… but I’ve always found it hard to just sit and watch stuff; I’m a fidget with a poor attention span, and that only seems to be getting worse as I get older. I find I kind of need to be doing several things at once, or constantly flicking between things. So… knitting. Knitting while viewing.

This is what I’ve decided to knit:

The pattern is “Ryder” by Kim Hargreaves from her book Winter Blooms, and I’m going to do it in this teal colour:

I’ve got the yarn but I had to order new knitting needles in the required sizes and I’m still waiting for those to arrive. I used to have plenty, across the whole size range, but I kept all my knitting pins and accessories in a basket and then I left the lid off the basket… at some point my ex-cat Tabitha, who saw the whole world as her litter tray and thought everything in it should smell of Tabby-piss, pee’d in it. The basket had a plasticky waterproof lining to it (I think it originated as a vanity case or something like that)… Anyway, thanks to their soak in cat pee, my collection of metal knitting needles all went corroded and rusty and had to be tossed, along with said basket. Medium quality circular metal knitting pins cost about a fiver a pop now, so that was hundreds of pounds worth of damage (though still far from the greatest of Tabs’ urinary achievements, heh).

So I guess we’ll soon see if knitting-while-viewing can compete with tumblring and reading fanfics while drinking coffee and chain-smoking, which is mostly how I’ve spent this June so far.

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[animalpainter6]

Hey, if anyone cares to, I made a poll about my Marvel/X-Men oc, Sadie. Idk who I should pair her up with, so feel free to suggest any ideas that aren't in the poll! She is pan, so will date anyone of any gender/sexuality ^^

https://strawpoll.com/fysf59g6r

Who should I ship Sadie (Tabby-Cat) with? - Guest on StrawPoll

What's your opinion? Vote now: Logan (Wolverine), Peter/Pietro (Quicksilver), Wanda (Scarlet Witch), Peter Quill (Star-Lord), Other (please