My sewing machine is now full of rainbow power!!
In retrospect I probably should’ve put Rarity on it instead but I had an extra Dash printed so oh well. Rarity can go on the front maybe!
Several big chunks of my hair got pulled out, so I decided to just shave it all off so it would come back in evenly. Now my head is cold!
Things I Learned Today: dyeing ponies is hard.
She (he at this point?) turned out a nice shade of red, but unfortunately I got terrible splotching; like, probably-going-to-have-to-paint-over-it level splotching. I think the powder may not have fully dissolved before I plonked her in. :( Oh well, it was a learning experience.
I was not prepared for how much it was going to splash around. It looked like I killed something when I was done — I’m afraid of what people are going to think of my trash…
Now to forget about him for a couple of months while the dye sets!
yay crap-quality pictures!
Haven’t done any customizing for a while — my current customs have been on hold for a while because the sculpt was starting to make me sick and I don’t have a better-ventilated area to use it in atm — so I decided to try a dye-custom.
Big Mac seemed like a good one to go for since 1) he’s a nice pure shade of red and 2) he’s awesome and I love him. The Fashion Style G4s apparently don’t have the dye problems the play-size do, so I picked up a Pinkie to get started with. (Orange -> red might be easier than pink -> red, but the FS Applejacks are impossible to find and I’m not sacrificing mine.)
I don’t plan on doing any sculpting, since it’s my first try at using dye and I don’t want to deal with color variation, so I guess he’ll just be Little Mac. :B
tl;r it’s my tumblr and I can post terrible-quality pony photos if I want
So I watched the new season 3 clip from Wired and…well, I shouldn’t have, because now I really can’t wait argh dangit. Anyway…
(This is probably not really a spoiler, but if you’re avoiding everything related to season 3 then don’t look under the cut!)
Gloves I made for my friend Yumi, before she moves to Japan on Monday! They’re a little snug on me because her hands are smaller than mine. :E
Good luck, Yumi, I’m gonna miss you! ♡
I found a tiny blue bowtie for Shining Armor! (…Yeah I have no idea where it came from, I knocked over a bin and it was in the stuff that fell out. Why the heck did I just have a tiny blue bowtie laying around?)
Ha ha ironing board pictures! Ha.
So, that DDG three-pack! I got it pretty much purely for Abbey, because dat Abbey. Wow. I thought her makeup was the same as Basic Abbey, but her eyeshadow and lipstick are slightly different — though my Basic is Wave 1 so I don’t know if the newer ones are different.
The other two would be my first Draculaura and Ghoulia, and I’m not 100% on either of them. Lala’s growing on me despite that stupid phone hand (grrr I hate that hand), but Ghoulia isn’t really. :T Hmm.
By request, the patterns for the pony winter-wear I made, save the hat, because I kind of made it up as I went and it’s not great anyway (I need to make a better hat pattern). Also another picture, because I just like posting pictures!
These are sized to a Fashion Style-size G4 (the larger ones, not the regular play-size). I used a G hook and fingering-weight yarn; my gauge was about 5 sc x 1”.
The booties came out a bit loose, so it’s cool if your gauge is slightly tighter — you can try them on around rnd 5 to make sure they fit.
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Booties -
Do not join until the final round.
rnd 1 - sc 6 sts in magic circle
rnd 2 - *2sc in each* (12)
rnd 3 - *1 sc, 2sc* around (18)
rnd 4 - sc around in back loops (18)
rnd 5-6 - dc around (18)
rnd 7 - *1 sc, sc2tog* around (12)
join, f/o
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Scarf is worked horizontally; to change the length, adjust the beginning ch (multiple of 5 + 2). Mine worked out to about 11”.
The cl stitch will give a row of little knot/semi-bobbles in the middle, just to add some interest. If you want a flat scarf, change row 3 to sc across through both loops. c:
If the scarf is too wide for your tastes, omit rows 2 and 4.
cl - yo, insert hook into st, pull lp, yo, pull through 2 lps, leaving 2 lps on hook. yo, insert hook into same st, pull lp, yo, pull through 2 lps, leaving 3 lps on hook. yo, insert hook into same st, pull lp, yo, pull through 2 lps, leaving 4 lps on hook. yo, pull through all 4 lps.
ch 47
row 1 - hdc in 3rd ch from hook, hdc across, ch1 to turn
row 2 - sc across, ch1 to turn
row 3 - working in back loops, * sc4, cl * across, ch1 to turn
row 4 - sc across, ch2 to turn
row 5 - hdc across
f/o
