Ferns

Pencil drawing for a book.

Topi

This is Topi from Knitty. I can't take photos of myself, so the lovely Evangeline was pressed into service. The hat's a bit big on her, but it fits me fine.

Great pattern, absolute minimum of sewing needed to make it up.

Some backgrounds for a book I'm working on for a client. It's a baby book.

Lonely comic frame

This is a frame from a comic that I have yet to write. The comic will be submitted for a Comics Brew exhibition near the end of the year.

More Kids' Shirts

Two drawings for a show in August. I was very excited about the idea when I started working on them, but somewhere in the last 3 weeks my enthusiasm ... well, it dipped, and I started fiddling with the pictures rather than drawing them.

So there's too much going on, but not enough. They were initially planned as linocuts, and maybe they need colour.

Elfine's socks, in a totally unsuitable colour. The pattern is here.

I knitted one using 5 dpns, and the other using magic loop; the pattern is written for magic loop, but I didn't have a circular in the right size when I wanted to start, and no shops are open at midnight on Saturdays. The colour was chosen for the same reason.

Magic loop went faster, and with a slightly tighter guage, but left more of a 'run' down the sides, even though the lace pattern accomodates it nicely. Bit of a fiddle switching needles in the middle of the lace pattern with the dpns, though.

shirts

My friend Hannah embroiders t-shirts, and we've started collaborating on them - I knit stuff, she embroiders. We decided to do some children's shirts for the Kinderkunst market. Unfortunately I don't have good photos of the finished shirts, but this is the first one without the embroidery (this one got a pink poodle on the front).

I used bamboo for the main colour, and some bits from a frogged (bought) jersey. The bamboo is silky and shiny - curious to see how it wears, and whether it will become furry or not.

To get the right size for the collar I crocheted a chain and cast on on that, knitted flat, and sewed up the back before sewing it onto the shirt.

ETA: Bad news on the bamboo.... the shirt came back from the market unsold, and was already slightly furry. It hasn't even been worn, never mind washed. The bamboo seems to have as much usability as the cotton from the same company. It's equally splitty when knitting, and hopelessly fluffy.

New Toys

Quick snap of the new toys, snatched before I delivered them to What If The World's Kinderkunst market. They look a bit sadder than the previous batch.