Sorrel @SorrelGillespie@mastodon.social

Read my web comic, Fairy Play

https://fairyplay183923072.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/25/

Now with descriptions below for more accessibility.

Fairy cat base. Going to knit tuxedo markings next, but I need sleep.
Also, I ran out of my primary color right before I got to the ears, so those and the tails are knit from three very fine yarns knit as one strand: teal, mist green, and pale lavender.

So the fairy cat is coming along alright, but I have so very little of this yarn left. Just a tiny ball. I got it in a bag of yarn at a thrift shop and it looked like enough when I started.... blah.

Merlin is napping in the background. Wizard cat is softer, bigger, stronger than little fairy cat. But that's not a fair comparison.

3 yr old says, "Giant isopod surprise. Transform!"

New project is a fairy cat for my niece, which is her aesthetic. And a little bit of Mom's aesthetic, too, since she decorates her house (mansion really) with fairies.

Long legs in this pattern. I'm adapting a Halloween cat pattern and I will find some other pattern for the wings or make something up. Will also need to make clothes....

Anyway this is where I'm at.
#knitting

I'm on episode 24.

Anna and Mabel are finally together and they cannot stop arguing viciously for anything. They say they won't be parted, that they love each other, and I can tell they care, but they are so caustic about it. They rip at each other with every word. It's really stressful to listen to. I enjoyed the mystery, at the price of some screaming and painfully pitched beeping noises, but this constant bickering is awful.

And just like that, the dragon is finished. The underside is all purl bumps, but I resisted the urge to make an underside, mostly because I foresaw burnout on this project if I tried that.

These aren't how the pattern called for them to be. Since I didn't crochet the edge, I picked up stitches from the edging I knitted and made arms instead of knitting the hands and feet separate then stitching them on.
#knitting

Uploading a picture from my phone was failing, probably because it's my source of internet for my laptop, too, and I have a podcast open.

So I'm using my laptop to get the picture from my phone.

The dragon has legs now, or arms and legs. I knitted three last night and one this morning. Most of a ball of new yarn went into this dragon. I just hope I have enough for both wings.

I listened to the first season of Mabel podcast and the first episode of th3 second season while staying up past midnight to knit dragon limbs and claws. I took notes.

Have some residual happiness from my daughter, who quivered with joy because her vitamins were star shaped today.

How TV made me think my daughter would bug me when she wants to press my buttons: "Why why why why why why?"

How my daughter bugs me when she wants to press my buttons:
"Can I eat babies?" "Are you okay? Are you OKAY? Are YOU OKAY?!"

So then are skinny jeans called jugs? Snug jeans?

Chapter 4 of Fairy Play has begun with a double update starting with the title page.

Read the new pages here:
https://fairyplay183923072.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/chapter-4/

Or start from the beginning:
https://fairyplay183923072.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/25/

"The sea witch turned into moomin!"