thetorontokid:

bakerstreetbabes:

professorfonz:

The Art of Deduction 

This jumper allows me to take 221 B Baker St with me wherever I go. The skulls do attract attention, though. 

Merino, cashmere and silk. Knit in the round*, with fair isle yoke and sleeve motifs (look for the secret embroidered message of ennui on the back of the yoke!):

The Wallpaper Had It Coming (modified from this short float version) 

221 B skulls (my original design here)

*I improvised the design as I went along, but I was inspired by ‘The Life Aquatic’ from the book Stitch’n’Bitch Superstar Knitting. I can make-up/share the yoke and sleeve patterns with you - message me if you’re interested.

Here’s my previous wearable knit!lock designs: Knitting is boring and The Game Is On (with free ravelry pattern!)

EDIT: You’ve asked for them, so here are the patterns for the yoke and the sleeves:

The yoke pattern. Wallpaper designs in 12-stitch repeat; skull design in 10-stitch repeat. Red dots indicate decrease rows.

 

The sleeve pattern. Wallpaper design in 12-stitch repeat. Increase at beginning and end of round as indicated.

Please like or reblog if using. Do message me if you have any questions.  And thank you for all your lovely messages!

WOW.

I can’t knit, but dang, this is awesome.

Sherlock, whether it be via fandom or the show itself, needs to stop making so many amazing things for me to knit! I want to do them ALL!!!

So I realized I really should take a break from drinking fandom teas and pay attention to my poor, neglected Alice’s Teacup teas…I do love them so much even if I only have three compared to the….uh….fandom pile.

But wow I forgot how energetic the Lavender Earl Grey makes me. This is a good thing though as I have my Smaug outfit to finish, my exchange fic to finish (yes I’m four days late now shutupistillhaveonemoredayuntilthisweekisover, butifidon’tpassoutit’llbedonetonight), a secret santa present to start and…*pauses to count* eight knitting/crochet projects to finish, including one that goes with above mentioned Smaug outfit.

PS-If you’re in NYC and like tea, do go visit Alice’s Teacup when you have the chance. It’s wonderful and I try to go almost every time I head down to visit Fyl.

OMG Look! Finaly a post without the damn jumper in it!

….Except it is still Sherlock related XP And now I rather regret not taking a shot of it with the jumper, but ah well, a bit too late for that as you’ll see in a moment. I swear I do have some non-fandom things I’m working on, but either they’re not finished, or I’m just being insanely lazy about posting them. 

But if the pic above didn’t tip you off, Happy Red Pants Monday! (Yes, it is insanely late at night but still before midnight in my timezone so still on time) 

Anyways, these were created not just for the silly awesomeness that is RPM, but also as an actual gift for the originator, reapersun! I was hoping that she might post something about them so as not to ruin the surprise (well, that’s on the assumption that this post would reach her), but thanks to potential USPS issues, I wasn’t sure if that would happen and I wanted to post a genuine RPM post so…here it is ^^;;

PS. I can’t remember how many times I started and restarted this project. At least four I think. The main problem was converting a solid-color panties pattern into a multi-color briefs pattern, especially since I hadn’t quite gotten the hang of changing colors in the middle of rows. I had some gaps in the project that I was just going to live with, until I suddenly finally figured out intarsia! Seriously…why has it taken me years to finally get the hang of it? Photo below actually shows the transition pre- and post-EUREKA! moment. 

So of course even though I was about halfway done, I had to frog the whole thing as there was no way I could be satisfied with leaving gaps in the pants now! It hurt at the time, but am now very glad I did so.

Alright, so I’d say THIS is more accurately my first post to tumblr “»

Finally finished the Sherlock scarf to go with the John jumper I made earlier in the year! Both were projects that drove me up the wall a number of times (yes, the scarf too…knitted lengthwise to use a pattern to give it a more woven than knitted look) so I’m very much looking forward to doing something nice and simple to follow up.

Although too bad it’s the summer so Fyl and I won’t be able to frolic around in them without dying! Me in particular…the jumper nearly overheated me once already and that was back in March!