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[darchildre]

This morning, I looked at my current knitting and spinning projects and found myself uninspired to work on any of them, so I started something new. I have some spinning wool I bought a year ago that I planned to spin into a worsted weight yarn (since I've never done that) and then use as part of a pair of colorwork mittens. I had also planned to draw the chart for the mittens myself using this template, but didn't actually have a chart drawn yet.

So while I was spinning, I figured I'd think about what I wanted my mittens to look like. The conversation went as follows:


Me: Okay, what's a design that I wouldn't mind having on a pair of mittens, is something I would enjoy, and something I feel like I could represent well in a fairly simple knitting chart design?

Also Me, the Me that hasn't had a day in the last two and a half months where she hasn't thought about The Magnus Archives: ELDRITCH CLUSTERS OF EYES!

Original Me: ...what an excellent and not at all cursed idea.



So yeah, I've spent the last hour or so charting various stylized eyes onto a mitten template. Hilariously, this is not the most cursed yarn craft object I've ever planned to make - that prize goes to the time I decided to chart the Yellow Sign for a project before realizing that I would never be able to bring myself to wear something with the Yellow Sign on it.

Comments

[shadaras]

Ooh, that sounds cool! I'd love to see the Eldritch Eyes once you've designed them!

[james]

That sounds awesome.

[frenchroast]

I don't know what the Yellow Sign is, but it sounds like you could make it as a gift to curse an enemy?

Yay Eldritch Eye Mittens!

[darchildre]

The Yellow Sign is from The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers, is kinda sorta a little bit part of the larger Cthulhu mythos, and the titular King in Yellow is one of the only bits of the mythos that actually sets off a stupid superstitious fear in me. So I have in the past bought things with the Yellow Sign on them (because I love the book) and not been able to use/wear them (because I am ridiculous).

The trouble with using the Sign to curse an enemy is that I would worry it would make it that much easier for the Tattered King to manifest in this world and I would rather not, all things considered.