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Dec. 8th, 2013 09:59 amThe thing about knitting small things is that they don't seem all that impressive when you show them to other people.
For instance, I spent a large part of yesterday knitting a chemise for a doll. The chemise is maybe three inches tall and is just stockinette, but the collar is a strip of lace six inches long and knitted on size 1 needles and it took me seriously over two hours to do. And it looks awesome but it's tiny and even I kinda start downplaying it when I talk to people about it*.
But, actually, it is complicated work done on freaking tiny needles and I am a knitting badass.
(There would be pictures, but her bloomers aren't finished and I feel weird posting pictures of a half-naked doll. Oddly, if she were fully naked, I don't think I'd feel as weird about it.)
*Part of this is undoubtedly due to my own internal ambivalence about the fact that I make a lot of dolls and stuffed toys. Because on the one hand, I am thirty-one years old and maybe that's weird. But, on the other hand, fuck it, I like dolls and stuffed toys and I enjoy making them. So, y'know, there's that.
For instance, I spent a large part of yesterday knitting a chemise for a doll. The chemise is maybe three inches tall and is just stockinette, but the collar is a strip of lace six inches long and knitted on size 1 needles and it took me seriously over two hours to do. And it looks awesome but it's tiny and even I kinda start downplaying it when I talk to people about it*.
But, actually, it is complicated work done on freaking tiny needles and I am a knitting badass.
(There would be pictures, but her bloomers aren't finished and I feel weird posting pictures of a half-naked doll. Oddly, if she were fully naked, I don't think I'd feel as weird about it.)
*Part of this is undoubtedly due to my own internal ambivalence about the fact that I make a lot of dolls and stuffed toys. Because on the one hand, I am thirty-one years old and maybe that's weird. But, on the other hand, fuck it, I like dolls and stuffed toys and I enjoy making them. So, y'know, there's that.
