One A Day Project - Tuesday's Tallies

WEDNESDAY:

A trip to the city and this purchase:

 AND:

+ 2 dark blue squares

THURSDAY:

+ 8 squares

FRIDAY:
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+ 0 squares

SATURDAY:
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+ 0 squares

SUNDAY:
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+ 0 squares
(went away over the weekend and left wool at home to lessen my luggage)

MONDAY:

+ 2 squares

TUESDAY:

 + 2 squares
The last two squares!!!

Positioning and sewing:

All forty squares.

Where they will be sewn on.

Current Status:

23 out of 40 squares sewn on.

See you next Tuesday ;)

One A Day Project - Tuesday's Tallies

WEDNESDAY:

+ 4 squares

THURSDAY:

+ 7 squares

FRIDAY:

+ 3 squares

SATURDAY:
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+ 0 squares

SUNDAY:

+ 3 squares

MONDAY:
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+ 0 squares

TUESDAY:

+ 10 squares
I finished it and sewn it all together, but can't show you as it would spoil the surprise.

One A Day Project - Tuesday's Tallies

WEDNESDAY:

Finished the Korok and posted the pattern/Tutorial.

AND

+ 9 squares
THURSDAY:

+ 5 squares
AND

+ 3 squares
FRIDAY:

+ 3 squares
SATURDAY:
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+ 0 squares
SUNDAY:
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+ 0 squares
 MONDAY:

+ 3 squares and... Does that count as one? it's not finished yet... It's supposed to be as big as 3x3 squares
AND:

+ 3 squares
TUESDAY:

+ 3 squares
AND

+ 2 squares (left 3x3 squares, right 2x2 squares)

TOTAL:
+ 20 squares for my blanket and
+ 11 squares for Jade's birthday present.

Korok - Zelda, the Wind Waker

This is a knit-crochet crossover pattern for the creatures called "Koroks" in Zelda, The Wind Waker. This is what they look like:

What you need:
- 1x light brown/grey-brown/cream wool
- 1x green wool (for the leaves. If you want, use red, orange or purple for the face)
- 1x crochet hook (adapted to green wool)
- 1x set of 4 or 5 knitting needles
- 1x tapestry needle
- 1x stuffing
- 1x green pipe-cleaners
- 1x brown pipe-cleaners (should have a color as close as possible to the brown wool you are using.

STEP 1 - BODY:
BROWN
Cast on 60. (if you want a smaller one, try 40)
Knit in a round until you find your tube long enough. CAREFUL! The length of your tube will not only be the main body, it will include the legs, but not the "ears"!
Finish off.
Put aside.
Cast on 16. (If you use 40 for the body, try 8 or 10)
Knit in a round for about 10 to 20 rows.
Finish off.
Make a second one.
Don't worry if you miscount, they'd better not be exactly the same size.

STEP 2 - LIMBS:
PIPECLEANERS
Twist two brown pipecleaners together and slip them through the tube's stitches like this:

Twist two green pipecleaners together and attach one end to one of the "hands". You will attach the "parachute-leaf" to the other end.

STEP 3 - FACE-LEAF:
GREEN/ORANGE/RED/PURPLE
Create a circle with 6sc.
Increase until you find it big enough.
Make two big ones and two smaller ones (To have a sort of clover)
Don't finish off the last one.

Crochet along the first side of the last hexagon, join to the other big one, crochet accross one side, join to one small one, crochet across one side, join the last one and crochet across one side, join to the beginning.

Sew the middle hole around the Korok's nose.

Sew on the eyes and a hint of a mouth on with black yarn.

STEP 4 - PARACHUTE-LEAF:
GREEN
Double or Triple-strand the green wool.
Create a circle with 6sc.
Increase the circle until you find it big enough.
I like mine like this: (1sc in 6sc, 2sc in 1sc)

Continue increasing in the first two sides of the hexagon for 1r.
Start decreasing on the sides to make the leaf's tip:

Make two of them. Don't worry if they're not the same, no leaf is exactly the same as another one...
Sew them to the pipecleaner:

STEP 5 - FINALE:
Sew ends of the tube to have a nice shape.
Stuff.
Bend the arms in whichever way you like.

Finished! :D

Granny Blanket

First things first: No, it isn't finished yet.

It is now 2'11x2'11 inches big. (Approximately)
In cm that is: "height" 89cm, width 90.5cm.
It's a bit less than a meter, which I find odd, because it looks so big to me...
So... Lea? I apologize for saying that it has to be more than a meter, because obviously it isn't.
I will add one more frame of squares (maybe I'll change me mind for 2 frames, we'll see) and then I'll be making the border. I will make dc-clusters of 3 all around and then I will add a granny stripe to two of the sides to make it longer.

Knitting in Litterature

If you're as well-read as I am *innocent whistle* *cough* then you might stumble over some of these too. If you want, let me know your favorites and I'll try and do an impression of them too.

If you've read the Harry Potter books - or at least The Order of the Phoenix - you know that Hermione Granger's spent the best part of the year knitting hats, scarves and socks for the kitchen's house-elves to set them free. None of them would take them though, so they all ended up on Dobby. Here's a drawing of him wearing a selection of them, made by me:

Crochet and Knitting - The Receiving End

I wanted to talk to you about the different kinds of reactions you get when you innocently pull out your yarn and needles/hook.

From what I know, there are four differents types of people (I mean related to this topic...)

The first type is "THE GROOPIE"

You want to avoid these. If they see you with even the slightest piece of yarn, they will march over to you (whether they know you or not) and tell you about all their "hand-knitted" pieces of clothing and accessory including the hat and scarf they're wearing that are clearly machine-knitted, but they still paid a fortune for them. These people will not leave you knit or crochet in piece. They will keep talking until they or you have to leave urgently.
If facing a groopie, best send a discrete message to a friend to get you out of there or pretend you have to catch the bus.

The second type is "THE ADMIRER"

Admirers are the kind of people that every knitter and crocheter loves. They will make you feel really appreciated by asking interested questions and observing exactly what you are doing and trying to understand it. This is the type of people who eventually turn into/out to be a corcheter or knitter themselves.
I don't need to give you any advice on how to get rid of them as they're the nicest people you can face while knitting or crocheting.

The third type is "THE DISTURBED"

Now, I don't mean this in any sort of offending, mental health betitling way.
These people will feel offended if they catch you working with yarn. (I was going to write "play around with it" but it is hardly playing, right?) There are more than one possible reasons for this:
Number 1: Space. They might feel like your invading their personal space. The worst for these people are the really long knitting-needles with the stoppers at the end. They make comments under their breath saying you could harm someone with those torture-instruments.
Number 2: Attention. This is specific, you will only meet this reaction in lessons, meetings or equally attention-seeking activities. If you take out your yarn during class (or during the break between two lessons) most teachers will react with detention, threats of confiscating it or worse: throwing it away, or whole speeches about why knitting or crocheting influences your attention to the lessons in a bad way, even though it is very relaxing and, if you're good at what you're doing, even helps concentrating better.
You can't really avoid the first sub-category of the disturbed, but when you spot one, ignore them!
As for the second sub-category... Just don't knit in class. Or if you feel like you must do it while watching a movie, ask your teacher beforehand if he's okay with it.

The fourth type is "THE HATER"

Every crafty or in any way artistic person knows these. They're everywhere. A real infestation!
They see you with yarn (even if your not working on it, but wearing a finished product that doesn't look like it's been bought) and immediately hate you!
There's a couple of reasons why:
Number 1: Jealousy. You can do something they can't. Therefore you are evil.
Number 2: Space. Yes, there are "disturbed"s that go over to the dark side of the haters when you put them to test.
Number 3: The deepest and worst kind of hate. They have learnt how to knit/crochet and are maybe even (a lot) older than you are. BUT! You are better at what you are doing than they are. This is pure jealousy at its most fundamental level.
With the haters it all really comes down to jealousy in the end.
When facing a hater, there is no better defence than none at all. Just ignore them, eventually they'll go and bother someone else.

Finally I want to say one more thing about this, but I know someone who might carry the message out to you much better than I could do it!

X
Evelyn