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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 31, 2013 at 2:33 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 31, 2013 at 2:50 am
(December 31, 2013 at 1:23 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: I love your octopi, Morgan! They're adorable 
Thanks, I'm becoming obsessed with them!

I really need to branch out to the other patterns in the book but this one is just so adorable...
(December 31, 2013 at 1:59 am)whateverist Wrote: I've never seen anything like these octopi of yours. Are there wires inside that hold their shape when you move the arms around?
Yes, the tentacles have pipe cleaners in them so they are posable; that's how I can curl them and get them to stay. In
the last photo I posted where this guy was still in progress you can see all the tentacles splayed out straight and if you would have lifted his head up you'd see a big wade of pipe cleaners twisted right in the middle.
Maybe I'll do some progress photos of the next one I do. My green yarn is attached to a sweater I'm working on so I'm doing my next octo in blues/purples, same size as the one above (knitted on 000-sized needles (1.25mm diameter) - fuckin' tiny!!) and I'm working on the first tentacle now.
(December 31, 2013 at 2:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Just finished making dips and tabouli for tonight's celebrations...
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY HOGSWATCH EVERYBODY! 
GAH! You had me thinking for a second that New Years Eve was tonight!! Don't do that!!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 31, 2013 at 5:08 pm
I'm going to do a little vacuuming, then prepare a roast beef dinner.
Roast beef, medium rare,
roasted potatoes,
roasted onions,
gravy,
peas.
Maybe Yorkshire pudding.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 31, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Sitting in the lobby of my therapy clinic, putzing on the forum, trying to get over the effects of a 'rage storm' that happened two hours ago. Maybe if I get out and walk to the bus it will help my emotions return to normal. I hate this.