Knitted Serenity posted because I'm just soo proud of it

POSTED BY: artcat81
UPDATED: Monday, October 8, 2007 20:14
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ARTCAT81

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 1:48 PM

Posting because I had to share what over 14 hours, and one skein of yarn, and some led battery powered motion sensative lights and a hairbrained idea, resulting in a lot of mathmatical calculations can get you:

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/artcat/knitted_serenity/DSC06632.JPG

Yes you read correctly, LIGHTS

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/artcat/knitted_serenity/DSC06640.JPG

The idea for this came after reviewing pictures of the beach shindig where we made a serenity sandcastle, while I was supposed to be packing for dragoncon (yay for procrastination!). Actual work on this began shortly I returned from DragonCon.

Additional pictures of the knitted ship can be found here:
http://www.texasartcat.com/knitted_serenity/

Eventually yes, i will be posting the notes I took while making it, as soon as I decipher what I wrote!

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

SISTER

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 3:03 PM

AWESOME WORK, ARTCAT!! I can see these as a cool nursery addition or baby shower gift!! (for all the future browncoats waitin' to be born! Beautiful work, my friend.

MERRYK

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 4:21 PM

I love it!!!

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FLATTOP

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 4:23 PM

Great work!

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ARTCAT81

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 8:50 PM

Xie xie :) it was a fun if time consuming project

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WYTCHCROFT

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 11:16 PM

you need a blue sun cat in pursuit!:)
fab!

ps - my sister wants the pattern ASAP!

CLIOMUSE

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 12:42 AM

Sweet! The math in that is mind boggling.

MISSTRESSAHARA

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 4:34 AM

Lovely, absolutely. Maybe next time you can try different types of yarn to put in detail. Just wondering if it's stuffed. Oh to be able to knit, never could learn, didn't have the patience. And great trick with the lights. Do go put this up in The Blue Sun room if you haven't yet, and be prepared for pattern orders.

Baby shower gift, how great.

Baby's First Big Damn Ship.

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ARTCAT81

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 12:17 PM

:) Despite being a member here for 3 years, and a lurker before that, I never did learn how to post things in the bluesun room :)

umm as for a bluesun cat, I have a three legged cat who sat in my lap for part of the ships creation, does she count? Or perhaps my diabetic siamese cross kitty, he is has the "blue" (grey) coloring... he kept trying to eat the yarn while i worked.

yes it is stuffed with the extra stuffing removed from a reclining chair.

Originally I had planned to embroider the fine details on it or switch yarns, but after over 14 hours of labor, I just wanted to stuff it and light it up. more detail may be added later, but embroidery is not my forte, and I have not figured out intarsia knitting quite yet.

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

MRBEN

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 2:35 PM

Wow.

That is all.

mrben

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