Crafting and ficcage

[donutsweeper]

Writing Rainbow Red revealed yesterday and I wrote three things:

The Red Spray, 911 Lone Star fandom, rated PG, 546 words. Summary: Carlos had thought it'd be a simple call, a secure scene. It turned out to be anything but. (Missing scene from 1x08)

Splash of Red, Captain America fandom, rated pg-13, 632 words. Summary: Bucky had been killing people to keep Steve safe for a long time.

The Ferrari's Red Remained the Same, Magnum PI (1980/2018 crossoverish), rated G, 300 words. Summary: There were times when Higgins thought Robin's Nest felt... wrong.

Crafting-wise I finished the brown afghan, which I made wider than planned so came out more stockily rectangular than I usually do throws, but will still be a good lap/leg blanket:




I reworked the market/string bag pattern to make it bigger, but it still wasn't what I wanted so I'm currently trying a different pattern on a new one and gave these to daughter to use



I finished the pantyhose/stocking rug (aka ran out). I really love this knotting technique, although I didn't quite do the increasing/tension right so it needs flattening and is under big dictionaries for the moment.


(it's just shy of 24"x20")

Then I pulled out the huge amount of plastic bags I had and made a second rug


this one is just about 19"x14"

I'm probably going to dip into my 'ancient and shitty sheets collection I've been keeping because you're supposed to keep stuff like that' and rip them into strips to make another of these rugs, I really like the technique and it's very easy on my hands. Although, one of the things that made them so easy was not having to really prep/prepare the material for it so we'll see how it goes. I also need to figure out a new project to actually use up yarn stash, since that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

I decided not to sign up for genfreeformexchange since I kept checking requests and there wasn't many fandoms I knew being asked for. I will be signing up for hurtcomfortex though and signups for that are still ongoing. *Goes back to perusing its beautiful tag set*

Comments

[lannamichaels]

I really like those rugs! How do you make them?

[donutsweeper]

Thanks!! It is SO easy (comparatively to other methods I've tried). It's called a "toothbrush" rag rug for some reason usually, but it's basically having one strip as a runner and making knots around it and I watched a few different youtube tutorials to figure it out- I can point you to them if you're interested.

[lannamichaels]

ooooh,these are so cool! thanks for introducing me to them :D

[donutsweeper]

:) If you decide to give it a try feel free to shoot me any questions you have, I'm still figuring some stuff out but I've mostly gotten the basics down. This youtuber had the best videos over, including how to easily make your own needle (I used an old cheap wire coat hanger as opposed to buying wire like she did though) but there are also a few others that demonstrate it well if you'd like to watch others.

[lannamichaels]

Yep, those were the first ones I found :D I was a little intimidated when she showed the needles and then it was like "ohhhhh, she makes them, this is much less scary".

[donutsweeper]

Yes! One of the others talked about drilling holes and sanding and whatnot and I was like... errrr