#clari makes

The Making Of Tiny Martin

so as i mentioned above, the pattern has been ganked together using allison hoffman (craftyiscool)’s amigurumi patterns for other things. mostly, his pattern was modified from the notes i made when i made tiny jon. however! a note for all inexperienced crocheters: Not All 8 Ply Yarn Is The Same! following the same pattern i used for tiny jon, his torso came out a solid 2/3ds the size i wanted it :/

there was a lot of guesswork involved in this one, which is why he took so long, but i’m super proud of how he turned out! also, his hair is done using a technique i may have come up with myself, bc i’ve never seen it in my google searches or in any pattern i’ve seen. so many loops and tiny knots........ it took forever, but i’m really pleased with his lil curls :D

pic 1: Tiny Martin

tiny martin! there he is!

pic 2: Tiny Martin Commits Arson

in the archives with matches, what crimes will he commit? (arson, obviously.) not featured: just out of shot, tiny jon not being sure whether to be worried or turned on.

pic 3: Tiny Martin And Tiny Jon

the boys! holding hands! they’re so soft (literally and in a fan-slang way), and they deserve to be happy together :)

this pic took forever! they kinda stand on their own, but it took me a solid five minutes to position them and reposition them and rereposition them every goddamn time they fell over :P very glad i managed to get that pic in!

pic 4: Tiny Martin Embarrasses His Boyf

some cute teasing of the boyf :) i imagine the conversation to go along with this image goes something like this:

martin, pointing very obviously at the author’s name: you wrote a book? jon, deeply embarrassed: I Do Not See (tm)  martin, teasingly: shut up, you’re literally an avatar of the eye, you don’t get to do that jon: I Do Not See (tm) martin, fake offended: you gave me so much shit for my poetry! and here’s you, writing a full-on novel??? jon, quietly: ...yes martin: god i’m so proud of you :))))

(yes, i’ve just got jonny’s book! i haven’t read it yet, but i’m going on a long car trip tomorrow and i’m so looking forward to cracking into it then :D)

pic 5: Tiny Martin Makes Some Tea

self-explanatory! (this pic is saved on my computer as “tea lad.jpg” lol)

pic 6: Tiny Martin And Tiny Jon Get A Well-Deserved Rest

you can’t just make tea for yourself, right? gotta have a nice cuppa with the boyf, holding hands and just being happy :)) god i love that this relationship is so canonically lovely and supportive, particularly with what’s going on in the greater plot! the character stuff in this podcast is so nice, it’s a lovely counterpoint to the goddamn hellscape of s5....

The Making of Tiny Jon

as above, tiny jon was ganked out of a few different amigurumi patterns by allison hoffman, with modifications by me as felt appropriate. the patterns i used are for worsted weight/10ply yarn, which is hard to get here, so the transition to using a few different brands of 8ply required a bit of messing about with. still, i think it was pretty successful! he stands upright without help, which is a first for me when using this kind of pattern. 

i’m honestly not sure where in the tma timeline he comes from. he has the post s1 and s3 scars visible, and in my heart, even though he’s just yarn, he has all of jon’s knowledge up to date, but he;s slightly too put-together looking for current jon. practically, giving him a ponytail wouldn’t have worked with the mass of yarn, and although i would have liked to give him a bit of facial scruff, i can’t crochet or embroider that convincingly. if any experienced crocheters out there have some tips, i’m happy to learn! let’s just call him a s5 mind in an early s3 body and be done with it. it’s my crochet, i can do what i want :)

the saddest day came when it was time to embroider those lil scars on his arms and hand... they kinda show up in some of the photos (see Tiny Jon Selects A Statement), but even if they’re not massively noticeable, i had to include them

there is a small green eye embroidered on the inside of his sweater vest, to sit just over his heart. it’s secret and nobody will ever see it, but it’s there.

pic 1: Tiny Jon

nothing much to say about this one aye. but there he is!

pic 2: Tiny Jon Sits On The Bookshelf

he works in an archive, and we have some fancy leather-bound books. i had to combine the two! plus it’s a nod to that good ol oxford pretension

pic 3: Tiny Jon Harbours Destructive Thoughts Re A Pile Of Potential Leitners

these are all books i own, selected for potential leitner-ness based on either title or content. neverwhere and picnic at hanging rock were selected on content (both the spiral), but you should be able to tell which entity applies to all the others (altho valley of fear is generic). doomsday book, though, despite the title, is not an end leitner, but is in fact a corruption leitner. i read this years ago, and remembered that it’s about a historian from the future (the 2050s, actually) going back in time to research the black death, with predictable tragedy. i forgot, however, that the b plot deals with a new flu-like pandemic in the “current day”...... eerily relevant, and also definitely open to be leitner-ised. tiny jon thinks so too, hence the matches.

pic 4: Tiny Jon Selects A Statement

again, self-explanatory.

pic 5: Tiny Jon Reads A Statement

it took me for-fkn-ever to mock up that tiny statement on magnus institute notepaper. it’s a 4-and-a-half page genuine statement written by yours truly, not just some squiggled-on pages or a shopping list or something, and is a mildly fictionalised version of something that has actually happened to me. if you can somehow strain your eyes and read it (would not recommend, i don’t think it’s actually possible), names and places have most definitely been changed because of my paranoia

i realise there is no tape recorder in shot! for the purposes of “canon” let’s just say that there is one on his desk, just out of shot. in reality, i’ll probably get around to making one out of polymer clay someday, but for the moment i just could not be arsed, and i was too impatient to delay the cute shot :)

pics 6-9: Tiny Jon Makes A Cuppa