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Time is the enemy of good photography so you’ll have to settle for some quick pics of my latest triumph which I finished last night:

He’s coming for you!

Move back!

Further back!

That’s better.

I don’t think he does running.

Pros: Cute ‘n’ cuddly ‘lil Shigaraki of my very own, balances reasonably well, poses well, hasn’t destroyed the house (yet), tiny red shoes:

Cons: Not enough body space for 14 hands so he has to settle for 10, if I never knit another hand again in my life that’d be just great right now, top heavy when he’s at his most handsy.

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So, yeah, this is what I’ve been doing while waiting for the blisters on my hands to heal up enough to go back to my embroidery project. Bleeding while sewing tiny black clothes is ok, no one will ever notice if it doesn’t wash out.

@bethama has said soooo many times that I should knit someone with fingers. I’m not sure this is what she had in mind :D

I’ll take more pics when I have time.

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For the benefit of people who have no idea who he is, or what he usually looks like:

So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.

I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).

See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.

 So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.

Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.

Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.

Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.

Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.

Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!

Have puppers and knitting will travel. Or actually evacuate. Living the hotel life 500 miles away from home. We spent the majority of yesterday driving. This is the first time I’ve ever had to evacuate for anything.

Dreamsicle Tee by Sigoni Macaroni

Lizzy by DROPS Design