#frog blanket

Hi all,

Just a heads up that my Etsy listings for many of my mobius scarves (mostly my pride ones) are coming to an end on July 31st, and they probably won't be back until the weather starts to turn colder.

They will also, unfortunately, have to come back at a higher price.

What does this mean for you? Well, because I'm also a bit strapped for craft-cash at the minute, I'm going to keep all my scarves at the current price of £15 (~$18.50) until the end of the week (4th August). Which means you can grab one (or more) before the price goes up.

If you would like any of these:

You can visit my Etsy shop or message me direct, and if you would like any of these:

Or any other custom mobius scarf please feel free to message me. Everything is shipped from the UK.

(I also have a Pan Pride scarf I just haven't photographed yet.)

Thank you to everyone who buys, but also everyone who likes, shares, reblogs, reads and then tells your friends, reads and then mostly forgets about it, or skims through and looks at the pictures without really focussing. Love you all.

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Two months in, and let’s see how I’m doing.

I think I got off to a strong start...

...And then got distracted.

Oops.

Look, I really like making mobius scarves, ok? They’re a nice chance to play with bold colour combinations I don’t normally want to work with, and actually amazing at stashbusting.

I’ve found my biggest problem with this year’s goal has been that I... have to look at them. I know, it sounds obvious, but it’s impossible to watch TV or walk around town when you have to keep checking a pattern every two minutes. With mobius scarves, the cast on is a pain (sometimes literally) and first few rows need some focus, but after that you just change colour every few rows and ignore it until it’s done.

Don’t worry, dear Reader - I have a lot of empty time ahead of me to catch up. I’ve just quit my job, so I’m going to have a bit more time for crafting, blogging, and hopefully selling a few items to fund my yarn habit.

FROG BLANKET

This is a giant granny square baby blanket I started to use up some green yarn I wasn't going to use, and then realised that I liked the yarns accompanying them too much to waste.

I've always had a problem with granny squares ending up funny shapes, and I think it's to do with my cast on - chain on? The first bit. Either way, this is getting frogged and turned into a scrap scarf.

PORTAL GLOVES

I swear, the gesture was unintentional. Probably.

These gloves were my first attempt to actually knit with some of my handspun yarn. I used no pattern, the yarn is probably too soft and underspun to withstand any kind of wearing, and by this point I’m probably going to have to frog and reknit it to get gauge and sizing.

STRING JUMPER

I’ve posted about this before. I have no idea what I was thinking, but by gosh I’m going to follow it through.

I think the sizing is a little small now, but I can crochet a border around the side seams to give it another couple of inches. Probably.

SLEEP SACK

I have… no idea what I was thinking. I mean, I do - I was thinking about the cool-looking mermaid tail blankets that were around at the time and how I’d really love one of those but without the tail. I was also thinking that I have a lot of this green yarn that needs using up, and also probably that I was stranded at Mum’s house with nothing else to work on.

This yarn is scratchy, fiddly, and non-machine washable. Why on earth would I make a blanket out of this?

This is probably getting frogged. I may experiment with felting at some point, because I honestly have no idea what to do with the massive cones of scratchy 3-ply yarn I bought from a yard sale because they were £1 each.

Note to self: bargains are only bargains if you actually use the thing.

FUCK TUMNUS

Heh. Um… it’s a long story?

I made this in honour of ATCB Gaming’s LP of City: Skylines to commemorate one of the most beautiful moments of friendship between Matt The Bastard and Coreline.