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Well this is my POV at this moment at work. Do you craft something at work when it's slow?

I was inspired by flower crowns made with fresh flowers. So I made my own version with chunky crochet flowers with needle felted centers.

Now I have a flower crown I can wear the year round without worrying about petals falling off halfway through existing.

Is it too much or could you wear this to a festival or something like that?

It's finally starting to look like actual pants!

This is still the first piece of clothing I've ever crocheted, and I'm still freehanding the entire thing with no pattern.

I've learned so much from this project already.

One thing I figured out is that if you spread your increases out instead of doing them all at the end of the round, the "seam" stays much straighter. It seems obvious now, but it definitely wasn't when I started..

I've also realized I can trust my stitch counter way more than I thought I could. And I've learned that if your vision is baggy, you should probably make it.. more baggy!

The original plan was just to use yarn I already had.

Then... I got rid of a 70-liter storage bin full of old acrylic yarn because I realized I probably wasn't ever going to use it. I'd rather spend all these hours making something with fibers I actually enjoy working with.

Which somehow turned into me convincing myself that buying more yarn was perfectly reasonable because... I now had an empty storage bin. Craft logic, right? Makes perfect sense if you don't think about it for too long.

At this point I don't even care that these won't be the baggy pants I originally imagined.

The funniest part is that this whole project only started because I bought a new pair of sneakers and wanted to make a pair of baggy crochet pants to match them.

That idea disappeared somewhere along the way.

Now I mostly just want to finish the pants and see if I can actually pull this off.

They probably won't be as baggy as I originally imagined, but that's okay. At this point I see them more as a learning project than anything else.

They'll most likely end up being my learning pants to be used at home.

I also promised myself I'd count every single stitch in these pants before calling them finished.

Last update I was already over 20,000 stitches!

I'm genuinely curious to see where the final number ends up.

How many do you think the finished pair will have?

I'll reveal the total in the next and final update.

Closest guess wins absolutely nothing except bragging rights.

I tried one of those beginner needle felting kits almost a year ago, and it turned out okey, at least for a complete newbie trying a new craft.

Naturally, my brain immediately concluded that I was now qualified for something much bigger and more advanced.

Months later my local thrift shop gave me a challenge: turn this abused styrofoam head into something cool and creative so they wouldn't have to throw it away.

The second I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do and I wanted to needle felt the entire head into someone famous.

I could already picture the finished result perfectly in my head, even though I had absolutely no experience, technique, or clue what I was doing. None of that seemed important at the time.

I honestly thought it would take a day or two, well..

It's now been weeks... and months.

The amount of time I've put into it is ridiculous, and it's still nowhere near finished. I've had a lot of fun, though, and the learning curve has been steep.

Eventually I put the project on ice because it had become way too time consuming.

But I still wanted a therapeutic wool stabbing session.

A small project that I could actually finish.

As usual, I already had a clear vision before I even started.

Stab enough wool...

...and eventually a little penguin will appear.

I even made a little iceberg for it to chill on.

(The 50 ml Gorilla Glue bottle is just there for scale.)

While making it, I suddenly had another idea..

What if I built the wings around floral wire so they could actually move?

Somehow, it worked even better than I imagined.

And finally...

This little penguin desperately needs a name.

Cute, weird or completely unhinged.

I'll happily consider all suggestions.

Has anyone else customized their nicotine pouch can, or have I officially lost it?

I designed both graphics from scratch and sublimated them onto the dobbelsided bandana, Since I couldn't find a bandana that matched her personality.

One side says:

"Pet me and tell me I'm pretty"

Flip it over and it's:

"Fuck off. I have standards"

The hardest part wasn't making it.

It was deciding which side is more accurate..

I'm already planning to make more.

Hit me with your funniest reversible bandana ideas and I might actually make one!

Progress update 2.0 Crochet sweat pants/baggy pants

I still need a few more rounds on each leg before joining them together.

Do I know how to do that? No. Will that stop me? Also no.

This is the first pair of pants I’ve ever crocheted, and naturally I decided to freehand the entire thing with no pattern like a completely reasonable person.

Mostly because I still can’t read crochet patterns or make sense of crochet charts.

To make sure both legs match, I’ve written down every step as I go, including the stitch count for each round.

Then I made the mistake of actually counting all the stitches...

One leg has 10,166 stitches. That means I’ve crocheted 20,332 stitches so far!

I’ve never counted stitches in a crochet project before, and now I’m genuinely excited to see what the final number ends up being.

One unexpected side effect of this project is that I now appreciate having short legs more than ever.

Crocheters, how scared should I be of joining the legs?

Bonus points if anyone has tips for joining the legs without chaos.

So I made a pride bucket hat… and then somehow escalated into needle felted pride hair ties.

At this point I’m just following orders that comes to me as a crafty witch.

This is an original drawing from my imagination that I call “Tucan do it.”

Made with fineliner pens and promarkers.

Sad, but fun fact: when I’m in a bad mood, I tend to draw with the brightest colors possible.

Apparently my coping mechanism is aggressive color therapy.

Honestly, working with happy colors really does help my mood,

so it feels like free therapy that also leaves me with art at the end.

Does anyone else mood craft like this?

I really wanted to make something joyful, and handmade for Pride month.

Crochet felt like the right kind of medium for that.

No pattern, just vibes.

What have you all making lately?

Show me your recent projects Pride themed or not.

I just said, “Watch me.”
Then I made time.

When creativity fuses with time, apparently my brain decides bead clocks are a perfectly reasonable outcome.

I’m still not sure if this was genius or deeply concerning?

I just said, “Watch me.”
Then I made time.

When creativity fuses with time, apparently my brain decides bead clocks are a perfectly reasonable outcome.

I’m still not sure if this was genius or deeply concerning?

I started with wool, a felting needle, and questionable confidence.
Several stabs later, these existed.

Be honest are these cute, cursed, or iconic?

I started with wool, a felting needle, and questionable confidence.
Several stabs later, these existed.

Be honest are these cute, cursed, or iconic?

A few years ago I got obsessed with diamond painting and started with a huge 40x60 cm canvas.

Before even finishing that one, I had already bought multiple other kits..

I got about 90% done before realizing two things:

I wasn’t going to hang it up.

I definitely wasn’t going to sell it.

So I lost interest and abandoned the canvas, but I kept every leftover drill because throwing away tiny shiny things felt illegal.

Fast forward to this week: I suddenly decided to bedazzle my nicotine pouch box.

What could go wrong?

Everything.

I used gorilla clear glue and somehow got glue on my hands, face, clothes, desk, and you name it.

Still… I kind of love the result.

What abandoned hobby did you ended up supplying materials for a totally different craft?

I decided I wanted crochet sweatpants.

I have never crocheted pants before.

I cannot read crochet patterns.

I do not understand crochet charts.

My original plan involved granny squares. I made a lot of granny squares. Then I realized I didn't have enough yarn in the right colors.

Then I realized I was using wool and I don't actually want wool sweatpants. So I abandoned the entire project and started over.

Again..

Now I'm making the pants from the bottom up using cotton yarn and writing down my own instructions because if I don't, one leg will end up fitting a normal adult and the other will fit a decorative lamp.

The good news is that I now have the start of two matching legs. The bad news is that they're still not technically pants.

Have you ever crocheted or knitted an entire garment without a pattern, or am I about to discover exactly why patterns were invented?