crochet sideblog. i've been at this properly since October 2022. i do not knit, but i may occasionally use knitting looms.

fwiw I've never used like an Afghan yarn. it's always been above weight 4. but also I'm doing that because I don't want to work on the same project forever and ever and ever and ever

anyway i finished making all the squares i need for the sun blanket project* but i rushed through the last of them, pushing through some wrist pain** which i really shouldn't have done, and in the aftermath of it today, it's actually a bit worrying how much it hurts lol.

my normal host of wrist exercises don't actually hurt that much, which probably means that they're not as effective lol, but i broke out some of the wrist twisting exercises from my self defense training as a kid (something i do occasionally when stretching my wrists) and holy shit did that hurt. so anyway i know what i'm doing intermittently today lol

time to lay off crochet work for a few days probably. i do hope to lay out the squares to take a picture today, though, maybe after I've cleared away more clutter. the ends aren't weaved in and i have no idea how to block them but it'll be nice to see it all

*it was incidentally supposed to use up all my softee chunky yarn, but with the scraps and all the new yarn i had to buy to make the project possible, i think i might actually have more yarn than i started with lol

edit: looking at embroidery floss was the way to go

whew! ok finally i can post this. i had actually finished this on august 22, but tumblr unfortunately doesn't let you upload more than 10 images from mobile, and because of how i have the app set up, i can't add images to reblogs very easily.

this is a trash can + trash bag (yes the bag is separate and can be cinched closed) + trubbish (pokemon) + some trash items. it was a gift for a band that came through recently

the body of the trashcan is done with normal red heart yarn and a 5mm hook. everything else is done with a mix of angora and brisa yarn from la pantera rosa. (not real angora, it's acrylic, but it has a very soft texture). for those i used a 3.5mm hook. I didn't use patterns for anything except the bottom rectangle shape of the trashcan because i wanted to make sure i was doing that right. it's not the most common yarn among american fiber artists, I've noticed, and i'm often unable to find nice yarns at that weight at the large chain stores. it's quite nice for making small things like this though, where i want to be able to work with smaller stitches. the store i get them at also has like a whole wall of colors, which is quite nice for amigurumi purposes.

i constructed a plastic structure to make the trashcan keep its shape out of some old containers. the size was pretty inconsistent to what i needed, so i ended up cutting and taping them together to form larger panels. i used reinforced tape and then covered the edges with duct tape to smooth them out. any corners/edges/sharp parts on the inside were covered with some quick dry silicon that i originally got to close up some stuff in the bathroom that was letting ants in.

I wanted to do a less intensive c2c project that also wouldn't require me to do much at all by way of weaving in ends. Incidentally these are all different textures but I thought they weren't when I started :D