I did feel a bit guilty about deserting you, but they clearly needed everyone they could get for the fashion show - a lot of the models were actually staff from the cafe who got grabbed because they were the right kind of size!
It was strangely exhausting, wasn't it? I am still waiting for my chilli (we eat later than most people!) but will probably be asleep soon after eating it.
(I think you've got my LJ username mixed up with the Rav one? whitehart with no underscore is someone totally different...)
Oops. I think I've fixed them all, sorry! Totally knackered. Leaving me was fine, really, I ran into all sorts of people, and got to run around not feeling guilted that I was taking too much time/speeding up too much &c &c. ;-)
It sounds to me rather more as though it was all of the high-intensity socialising-with-suddenly-real-people that was tiring, rather than the stroking yarn *per se*... :p
I think dreamcatcher said she'd adapted the pattern from some of the Alan Dart mouses that have been in SK in recent years. It was very good! As is yours - fascinating how similar and different they both are :-)
I've seen the Alan Dark mousies, but I adapted mine very VERY loosely from the basic pattern in one of the Jean Greenhowe books for mice of the four seasons - I used the basic mouse pattern from there, slightly enlarged I think, for the head, and then just enlarged the whole idea enormously for the body. The skeleton is macrame (with knitted triangle shoulderblades!), with knots for the joints, and I use an acrylic yarn so I can melt the ends of the fingers/toes, which gives a nicely authentic aged-bone effect... *g*
The scythe is dowelling, plastic, and sticky-back holographic plastic film. Shows all those years watching Blue Peter weren't totally useless!
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It was strangely exhausting, wasn't it? I am still waiting for my chilli (we eat later than most people!) but will probably be asleep soon after eating it.
(I think you've got my LJ username mixed up with the Rav one? whitehart with no underscore is someone totally different...)
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Leaving me was fine, really, I ran into all sorts of people, and got to run around not feeling guilted that I was taking too much time/speeding up too much &c &c. ;-)
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I am fascinated to hear that other people are knitting Death of Rats - I've made three or four myself (and should really be finishing another...!).
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The scythe is dowelling, plastic, and sticky-back holographic plastic film. Shows all those years watching Blue Peter weren't totally useless!
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I noticed that dreamcatcher's scythe blade was a cunningly cut bit from the edge of a foil jam tart case :-D
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