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Pictures (Finally!)

For the last several blog posts, I have been promising to upload pictures of the various projects I've been working on. I would then proceed to get too tired or have too much joint pain to do much more typing. However! I have finally found the right combination of focus and having all my pictures in 1 place to upload things.

I will admit that part of my hesitance has been due to there potentially being personally identifying information in the pictures (namely, people's faces). Fortunately, I realized that the pictures I have contain only portions of my partner's face (partially covered, and with permission to share), my own face (which I don't mind sharing, seeing as this website has my name as part of the url), and absolutely no pictures of anyone else. While I may be perfectly happy to share online about the fact that my family exists and that I wish to make them things, I do not want to expose them to the internet until they are old enough to understand what a computer is. My brother just sent everyone a video of my niece crawling; she does not need an internet presence.

Without further ado: pictures! I will attempt to link back to the blog posts where I talk about each project. I am still learning a lot about html coding, so there may need to be updates later. (This is the other part of my hesitance to upload any pictures. I am very new to this and do not want to break anything!)

Christmas owls

A picture of a person holding a partially completed crochet owl up to the camera. The head is pink and the body is green. There are black eyes embroidered on its face. It is missing a beak, wings, feet, and the bottom part of its body A picture of a person holding a partially completed crochet owl up to the camera. Only the yellow head is done. It has black eyes embroidered on its face. A picture of the yellow crocheted owl sitting on a table, now completed. The owl is yellow with a golden beak, gold feet, and black embroidered eyes. It has been stuffed very plump, and has little ears and a ruff around its neck. A picture of the same yellow owl, now placed in a small cardboard box with some white tissue paper.

For Christmas, I knew I would not be able to give most people in my life a present. I'd had a number of significant personal difficulties over the previous month, and simply didn't have the time, energy, or funds to get things for everyone in my (large) family. However, I knew that if nothing else I wanted to make sure to make something for my nieces. I still had most of the yarn from the baby blanket project left over, and I had the written pattern from the amigurumi owl class I took last spring. So I mustered my energy and whipped up some little owls as fast as I could. I finished the yellow one (for my older niece, yellow is her favorite color) on the 24th. The pink and green one (for my younger niece, who doesn't seem to have a preference on colors yet) ended up getting finished while sitting at my parents' house waiting for the last guests to arrive! I don't think my baby niece minded, since she was busy trying to eat her own fist.

Apparently now the yellow owl is one of my older niece's "car toys". I'm very very flattered by this.

A birthday present, several years in the making! This project was started about a year after I started dating June, and was meant to be a birthday present for that year. I managed to avoid the sweater curse by checking with her every step of the way: did she like the colors? what pattern did she want it? should I make it longer? did she want the optional turtleneck or should I leave it off? did she really like the colors now that the yarn has arrived and is in front of her? And many other questions of that nature.

I then managed to get caught up in a number of other projects (moving apartments, going to college, developing a chronic illness, getting diagnosed with that chronic illness, etc) and never actually sewed the pieces together until this March. Which isn't even near her birthday for this year, and is also right before the weather becomes too warm to wear a turtleneck sweater. Oops. Oh well. Happy 3 years and several months late birthday sweetheart!

A selfie of a person with rainbow glasses giving a thumbs up to the camera. Over their shoulder a crocheted sweater in the colors of the pansexual pride flag is laying on a table. The sweater has a lot of loose threads coming off of it, and one of the sleeves is only partially attached.