Why buy, when for twice the price you could make?

Universe: lads lads lads this clumsy newbie who's scared of her sewing machine is trying to construct a 3D shape by sewing straight slippery little bits of lycra to curved slippery little bits of lycra. She's using the 'I dunno, the only one I could find that looked about normal' foot. The cat thinks he's helping. It's gonna be hilarious.

I made a hat for running and swimming in the sun. There's a lot wrong with it but it fits and it's got dinosaurs on. I used the correct needles for the type and density of fabric and only broke two of them.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

1. Standing Around and Guarding Stuff in Space

2. Standing Around and Guarding Equipment in Space (Thinking About How You Are Also Equipment )

3. Having an Existential Crisis and Staring at a Wall

4. Standing Around and Guarding Stuff in Space

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I had a lot of fun with this project and I also learned a lot along the way. Looking at the finished blanket, I can see how different my tension was for squares by how much they puff up after the seaming! This picture is after washing and drying, because first off, a blanket made over a year and a bit probably has a bunch of dirt on it and second, I don't want there to be any surprises if I tell the parents to toss it in the washer and dryer. I also lightly ironed but that didn't really stop the puffing.

I am extremely pleased with the design I chose for this - there were many variations in the running (and I had a little poll for it as well, here and on my discord) and in the end I went with a fun asymmetrical pattern that still had a lot of orderly lines to make me happy.

Also cannot believe that the colour lines could turn out this crisp - like I am shocked at the effect when they're arranged like this.

And now that I've made this, I do want to make something else with half square triangle crochet but not with cotton again because this was a pain to seam and it definitely has less stretch than wool would. Before this, I had bought yarn to make a cardigan from half square triangles and maybe I make that or I try for something else. We'll see.

This is what the backside looks like! the squares are joined with a slip stitch join through the back loops of the squares. It also worked out that there were 11 seams horizontally and vertically and I used 11 colours on this so I just used a different colour per seam and then did a final slip stitch edge all the way around.

lil sneak peak of my test knit now that i am on to the body ⫘⫘⫘

And some of you madlads wanted to see the inside

Slightly modified cranberry spritz from Knitty out of loops and threads luxe merino.

Because I came at it from completely the other direction. I learned textiles sitting with my grandmother at her floor loom as a kid, then had to scale back as an adult because a 54" 8-harness loom meant for garment weaving isn't a practical investment for a 20-year-old apprentice mechanic.