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... I think I might have been insane for this 😳

Same pattern, different modifications. The parts that made me question my sanity the most: on the left, the double 500+ stitch Latvian Braids, and the fact that I had to remake it three times because the colors kept bleeding even after pre-washing the yarns; on the right, FOUR i-cord loop braid sections, and several false starts before I finally got the colors right 🫠

I crocheted a series of hyperbolic planes and strung them up into a garland. Each module is one more round than the one before, and each round has twice the stitches as the round before.

I made eight iterations; the largest one took an entire skein of cotton yarn. I really liked how this shows the change in curvature as cross section of the plane expands.

FINALLY FINISHED !!!

I’ve been at this since like September. Originally the plan was to do five panels but by the time I reached three I realized it was absolutely going to be too heavy. If the back bothers me then I’ll just buy some black fabric and sew it on.

I pinned it excessively since I have been warned the feathers won’t flatten unless blocked aggressively. They still don’t behave themselves 100% but again, if it bothers me I’m willing to steam block it in the future. Super fun before and after pics.

Pattern is of course the feathered wings shawl by my favorite pattern designer craftyintentions.

Okay SO this is a longer answer than you asked for but let me regale u with

The Story Of Hubris Quilting

It is two months ago

I am so fucking cursed and trying desperately to find crafts I can actually do while lying in bed with no brain and a -4 penalty to my dex mod

I am also just sort of rewatching Mob Psycho 100 on loop bc I am in love with it and it gives me Content without needing to expend much brain power

Important background information on me, Scribe: When I love a piece of media very much I feel a deep and abiding need to create some sort of wearable talisman about it.

Anyway, I am rewatching Season One for like the third time when I notice this shot in the opening:

Haha, I think, that looks kind of like appliqué!

My brain, which is actively dying for want of a craft project, goes Oh?? Appliqué you say???

Oh man, I think, I bet I could sew that! And maybe some, like, objects from especially significant scenes! I could do it as the design on the back of a quilted vest; that would make a fun talisman!

(Had I stopped here it would have been a large but reasonable project. However, I am filled with hubris even when I also have the physical stamina of a cup of jello and the brain power of a particularly dim slug)

It's a shame there's probably no way I can quilt his aura, I think.

(This is a stupid thing to think because going "this is probably impossible" about a craft project is a surefire way to summon The Hubris)

No really, I think. There's no way I can quilt Mob's aura.

[Various McElroy voices] Unless . . .

. . .

I stare at psychic aura screencaps for many days.

I come to several emotional character revelations. I also come to the conclusion that what I want to do is, technically, possible.

To start, I'll use English Paper Piecing to sew together a bunch of tiny triangles into eight-part rosettes to recreate the 'spinning disc' effect of the aura

Then once I have enough of those, I'll remove the basting and the paper pieces, press them, and re-baste them to clamshells (making sure they're all in exactly the same orientation)

And THEN I'll appliqué all those clamshells together into rows to make a solid piece of fabric

(These are just laid out, not sewn down yet)

And then I'll tilt that fabric at like a 20-30 degree angle and finally I will have successfully quilted Kageyama Shigeo's psychic aura!

And that will be the background of my vest :)

After that, I'm going to teach myself needle-turn applique to decorate it with significant objects from every scene that's made me cry! (there are . . . many of them)

ᏏᏊ ᎠᏂ ᏔᎷᏣ ᎪᏢᏅ - Siwu ani taluj gohlvnv

See-woo ahɁnee tah-looj goh-hluh-nuh (like the u in fun)

"I made another strawberry basket recently"

Commission order - Strawberry basket purse, commercial round & flat reed, suede, macrame cord, antler button.