Stanch the Bleeding
When last we left the pillow, it was in a rather precarious state, feathers open to the world, at the mercy of any of the Kitten Overlords. I want this pillow to be an elongated tetrahedron (think a 4 sided die, stretched). So basically I needed to close the open side up perpendicular to the original seam. It quickly became apparent that this would be an iterative process. First stanch the bleeding by whatever means necessary (the feathers wanted to escape everywhere). In this case, binder clips. The next step was to get a seam - any seam - in [...]
No really, I have a plan
Remember the most boring soothing knitting ever? The pillow case made with pencil roving in lovely shades of calm and sleep? Yeah, it's fought its way back into my lap for some knitting time. But before I could go too much farther with it, I needed to actually get the pillow it's going to go around. I want the final product it to be pretty big, so I went with one that's 18x26. So if I left well enough alone, we'd be somewhere like this. But I am not leaving well enough alone. Because what fun would there be in [...]
Wrap up
So, the pillow is approaching its end, and I find myself with a question. I began with Judy's Magic Cast On, which let me get all my stitches on the needles and ready to start knitting in a nice, tidy, seamless fashion. If I were working with a sturdier wool (ie, not pencil roving), I would just kitchner the sides together when I was ready to bind off. But, kitchner (where you have to drag your working yarn through each stitch two times) is too taxing for this pencil roving. It won't take the stress of all that tugging. So, [...]
Stripes
There is probably some sort of limit to how many times I can show you a rectangle of brown fabric and expect you to continue to feign any sort of interest. We've probably actually reached that limit already, and I fear the addition of a few stripes, no matter how lovely, may not make much difference. They're proving unreasonably entertaining to me though. I'm taking them as a lovely demonstration of how nicely all the various undyed shades of sheep-y goodness seem to go together. The next step is to obtain (and them modify) a pillow form. I have an [...]
Withhold Judgement
I know this looks like a jumbled mess right now (I assure you, I am very very aware of that), but I have absolute faith that it will be exactly what I pictured when I'm done. I'm going for this whole elongated tetrahedron thing. It will be an extremely snuggly pillow (that I can already tell just from petting it), and I will be delighted with it. But right now it looks like a willful pile of mistakes and regrets. I did get more pencil roving (thanks for the suggestions last time, I have a feeling I'm go want to [...]
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