You know you’ve been knitting too much when the sides of your fingers are covered in dry skin! I only began to knit last year, but I’ve been slowing teaching myself more and more techniques. This week I have been trying to get the hang of Intarsia knitting – a technique that allows you to create images using two or more colours. I’ve also been drawing up my own knitting patterns using some really useful online tools.
Now with my powers combined, I am Captain Pla… able to start a larger project I’ve wanted to do for some time: a knitted patchwork. I’m planing for it to feature many of my favourite insects and so I started with a dung beetle, or a Scarab for those that prefer a more flowery name.
I’m also working through a book my brother gave me for christmas that is full of some rather brilliant dinosaur patterns. Here’s the body of a Diplodocus I’ve started, I’ll post up pictures of the finished piece in a few days.
Other than becoming a crazy knitting lady, I’ve been planning the tattoo half-sleeve for my right arm, as well as helping Chris work with the wonderfully talented, Alice, on his first tattoo. It’ll be something Shadow of the Colossus related so watch out for future tattoo updates.
Gaming-wise I’ve been a bit distracted by all the crafting but I’ve almost hit 1000G on Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 and I managed to get my mitts on a copy of Atlus’ rather surreal puzzle game, Catherine. I’m hoping to get stuck into this week, especially after all the drama surrounding it and the general love/hate opinions of people reviewing it.
I’ll finish off this post with a picture of one of my Giant East African Snails (Achatina fulica) which came out of hibernation this weekend. Cute!
Sorry for the pastey/weird photo, I think I was in the middle of laughing when this was taken.
The left foot is healed which is why it doesn’t look as vibrant. You can clearly see the swelling on my right foot which actually jiggles as I walk right now. It will go down pretty fast.
