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Little Black Marker: The Ponyo Dress
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July 20, 2015. And now for something a little different. I keep seeing more people online turning costumes into fashion, by making the recognizable features of pop culture on dresses: The Totoro dress. The Marauders Map Dress. I had the idea for a Ponyo dress. Not her exact outfit. Which is easy enough to make (and would make a perfect future kid/mom cosplay set), but the art. Of Ponyo, or more specifically, the opening credits. Warning: Long Post Ahead. Because it was both relatively cheap and lined!
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Little Black Marker: Toothless
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June 27, 2014. It is in all seriousness one of the prettiest movies I have seen in a while. And by far and away the best sequel I have seen in just as long. I will for sure be buying it just to pause and look at all the dragon designs they crammed into this movie. I loved spotting some of the dragons from the Book of Dragons that Hiccup read through in the first film. Anyway. On file since the first film but never got around to making any. I used a light lime green felt for his eyes, black for the pupils...
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Little Black Marker: Project Repeats
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September 17, 2014. Happy to report that at least some people are seeing these posts and asking for items of their own. So I have made quite a few duplicates lately as well as new projects. I have now made two more Harold. Tigers. The left one is made from the same skeins of yarn as the original. Left is the second, same as original. Right is third, "vintage", with cream and darker orange. And a second baby Toothless. Nose to tail original: 7 inches. new one: 9 inches! So, a two inch increase in all dime...
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Little Black Marker: Otachi Kaiju
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August 18, 2014. I have had Lemmy Loop. In my RSS feed for a long time. and more recently on tumblr. So when I saw her make a crochet Otachi. I metaphorically died of "cute-overload". She was kind enough to release her pattern to a few who asked nicely, and so my new-found dream of making one could come true! I wanted to use just the "right" yarn, so when I got to go to that great yarn store. It's probably just because all the fight scenes are so dark that she looks blue though. Yarn in "Coast", that I g...
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Little Black Marker: Steven's Lion
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July 6, 2015. If you follow me on Tumblr, you know that I am a huge fan of Steven Universe. Or you might remember that I have already made a post about this topic when I made a Cookie Cat. Either way, the show continues to be one of the best cartoons on TV right now. With so much to love about the show from the amazing music. Lion Reference sheet from the StevenCrewniverse Tumblr account. I had originally planned to use a free pattern. The body from the head pattern is too bean shaped and Lion's tapers i...
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Little Black Marker: Blue Shell Gloves
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April 20, 2015. With almost 125 yards of the Madeline Tosh DK Twist in Mandala left over from my Pineapple Shawl I knew I had enough to make something else. I looked around and found the pattern for Christmas Crochet Mitts by Adriana Veleda. Again this is a great free pattern found on Ravelry or on her blog. I did 5 rows of hdc after my foundation row and then started on the shell patterning. The technique for the shells is something I am very familiar with from the many. A is for Anarchist.
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Little Black Marker: Cookie Cat
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May 28, 2014. He's a frozen treat with an all new taste, cause he came to this planet from outer space. A refuge of an inter-steller war, but now he's at your local grocery store. Cookie Cat, he's a pet for your tummy! Cookie Cat, he's super duper yummy! Cookie Cat, he left his family behind. Coooookie Cat! So yeah. There's that. Do you watch Steven Universe? You should. Cartoon Network, Wednesdays (today! Cookie Cat was introduced in the very first episode, called Gem Glow. I used a 5.5 mm H hook).
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Little Black Marker: Baby Otachi
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July 13, 2015. With the recent release of a large stompy monster movie about dinosaurs, which might as well be land based kaiju, I've been thinking about Pacific Rim again. I started a project and then let it go while I did a lot of other things in the meantime, but it's time to pick it back up. After I made that pair of shell gloves. With the leftover Madtosh DK Twist in Mandala from the Pineapple Doily Shawl. What if. what if I made a baby otachi! Do I have enough? I have enough to try. I got through t...
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Little Black Marker: Pineapple Doily Shawl
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April 13, 2015. I mentioned last week that I ripped out my tunisian cowl that I had been working on. I did this for several reasons, but the main reason was that with such a compact fabric I was losing a lot of the beautiful variegated colors of the Mandala Tosh DK to the inside of the stitches or where it would not be seen. The closest I could think to come up with would be a doily type lace shawl so I set about finding a pattern for it. I've worked a pineapple doily. I knew though that I would most lik...
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Little Black Marker: Three Totoros & Mt. Fuji
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August 3, 2015. Three Totoros and Mt. Fuji. This is the third Totoro fair isle hat I have made. A friend's mom collects images of Mt. Fuji and saw my last Totoro hats and asked for one of her own. I think this hat will be super cute to add to her collection of Fujisan images. She asked for it to fit a head size of 23 inches, so made it a little looser than the last one. Which was already larger than the first. You can see the carried along yarn inside. Almost done with the design rows. This hat was a lit...
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