Status Report #34: Ace Week 2020

This is mostly going to be a business post so, uh, buckle up. Ace Week Sale It's Ace Week, and just like last year, I am having a week long sale on my Etsy shop to recognize and celebrate that. So for this week, asexual, aromantic, and agender octopi will be on sale for 50%…

Octopus Update: Weeks 56-60

It's another sort of short update this week. I wound up making quite a few pride octopi over the past several weeks, so of course several of them made it onto my Instagram. At the same time, I'm also nearly done making Girl Scout octopi, and pushing myself to hopefully be able to finish them…

WIP: Bats Sweater

It's spooky season, and I'm making a sweater. I know it doesn't look like much yet, but that's because I've only been working on it for a week. I was browsing through Ravelry a few weeks ago, looking for Halloween-type patterns, like you do, when I found this pattern by Natalie Meredith. Naturally, I had…

Purple Cardigan

So I adore this cardigan. This is one of the projects I started for Yarn Social Bingo, and unlike some of the others, I was able to keep up the momentum on this one. I actually finished it a couple weeks ago, but didn't get around to taking pictures of it until this week. Regardless,…

WIP: Abstract AART Mitts

Yeah, I know, a new WIP. I have a lot of them going right now. So, last year, I donated to the Project for Awesome, which is an annual charity drive hosted by John and Hank Green. One of the perks you could get from P4A 2019 was a PDF containing a set of knitting…

Octopus Update: Weeks 51-55

Back in, like, May, my mom asked me to make 20 Girl Scout octopi. Right now, I'm at like 12, and most of that has been a concerted effort over the course of the last month, so most of the octopi I featured this past month have been Girl Scout octopi. Of course, making 20…

WIP: Cat Afghan Part 2

I'm still spending an inordinate amount of time on this blanket. This weekend, I made it to the halfway point on the chart, which I'm incredibly excited about. It's looking really good so far (even if I am watching the ends accumulate with a sort of dread for when I eventually need to weave them…

WIP: Purple Cardigan

This is actually the project I've worked on most consistently for the past month, and I'm a bit shocked I haven't posted about it yet. This project has a few origins. The first is that I was searching up sweater patterns on Ravelry for (you guessed it) Yarn Social Bingo. I'm a big fan of…

WIP: Cat Afghan

Yeah, it's another WIP I started for Yarn Social Bingo. The requirement for this square was intarsia. Like, actual full-on break out the bobbins and die when you have to weave in all the ends intarsia. Originally, I was going to fill this square with a sweater, the pattern for which looks incredibly cool, but…

Unicorn

I did it. It's finished! I think my favorite part of this one is the hair. It's so sparkly and bouncy. It's been a few years coming, but overall, I'm pretty happy with this.