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The Ilves Crest Crochet Tapestry

I locked in last night lol, just finished this-

Original design by ZsakuVA, border pattern by naztazia on YouTube, tapestry pattern made by me on Stitchfiddle.

Random notes:

So the actual stats of this thing: The actual creative process started January 23 (I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR THAT LONG?!?!?!?!!?) when I asked Saku if it was okay to try crocheting his design. Crocheting took a little over 7 weeks and ~108 hours? But with a bunch of interruptions due to college and family stuff. Luckily I bought more than enough yarn to finish this, since I found out a week after I started that JoAnn was closing (they had the best yarn selection I'd ever seen too 😭). It is 57.25 in. long (~1.5 m) and 47 in. wide (~1. 2 m).

I thought about making this like- an actual wall-hanging tapestry, but as it got longer I saw that it made a really nice blanket so I decided to just keep it as a throw. Definitely my biggest project to date...

Crochet list is still going for the VAs lol... I kind of want to make a wearable for myself though, so one small plushie attack to take a break from the big projects, then I'm going to make myself a spiderweb coat! If anyone has ideas on what I could make for the VAs, I'd love to hear them- Saku's down, for Nora I want to make a giant stuffed onigiri pillow... I think for Scythe I want to make JayJay's red panda plushie Advoo, but I feel like I could make something more epic. For Escaped, Mage, and GBA I have no idea what to make.

Anyway hope you guys like it!!!! This was super fun, and I'm really really proud of how it came out.

And thank you Saku, your work is super inspiring and I hope I did your design justice!

Cheers, lovelies <3

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My mother: *watching me finish up the border of my tapestry* "You're going to have withdrawal symptoms when you're done with that..." Me: *glances up* "Actually I have two more projects lined up after this-" "Oh gosh-"

Thank you guys for the help, I appreciate it!!!

Also thanks to @souvlia for the poll suggestion!

I just passed the 2/3 mark for the tapestry, I’ve got about 47 more rows to go and some finishing touches. I think the next update will be the finished piece.

Hellooooooooo lovelies, need some help with the tapestry if you got a minute-

And these are what the stitches would look like:

Also I'm not sure what color the border would be?? The background is gray, so maybe the dark purple I've been using to help tie in the design.

*head currently buried in hands* I messed up the dove.

*distant scream of disappointment*

THAT "S" THOUGH. LISTEN. L I S T E N -

Also I measured its length, currently it is 2 ft 3.25 in long (~0.7 m rounding up)

Just realized I haven't shown you what the back of the thing looks like, one of these days I'll get around to showing you the chaos cuz OOH BOY-

I'm kicking myself, I got the actually decent looking wing over here that I was really proud of- and then freaking long ahh birb like what the actual frick.

ALSO THE CRAZIEST THING TO ME- I just now ran out of my second skein of yarn. Repeat. This whole thing up till now has only used up TWO SKEINS OF YARN. That is wild to me for no reason, ignore me, I'm being crazy again-

I still need to find the right buttons for the border. ALSO SPEAKING OF WHICH, if any of y'all want to help me pick a border stitch for this thing, I'd appreciate it-

I got four ideas rn-

Kya, okay so-

We’ve officially finished the crown and started work on the lettering and first bird.

Row 60/150, this thing is gonna be HUGE.

Third of the way done with this.

One thing I'm realizing is that it looks way better on camera than in person.

Yes, the crown is highly inaccurate, I apologize, it was getting complicated. Still no regrets about making this my first tapestry crochet.

Rant? Idk, just random thoughts from today-

One thing I realized would be great to have is a gamer boyfriend. I put on Jonah's sleep aid and the amount of sheer focus I got from that was amazing. So yeah gamer boyfriend for boyfriend purposes but also because I can use him for background noise.

she says all this with the full intent of never getting into a relationship because she is too scared

Anyway in terms of background noise that works for me, I realized it's gaming streams, Q&As, and live DnD games with the BG3 cast. Audios work too but I get too caught up in them.

Besides this I'm also working on a skirt commission and two friends' bday presents for this month... March is busyyyy hahaha...

This was not the actual rant I intended to type out but the more lighthearted one

Also I measured it properly! It's nearly 3.5 ft (~1 m I think?) wide.

Probably the last update post for a bit, I'll just keep working on this behind the scenes... I just really liked how the crown was looking and wanted to show it off.

Update on the Crochet Ilves Crest Tapestry-

That's approximately how much I've done in a week.

Feeling pretty good about this! The crown and birds are going to be torture but it's still super fun.

There's been a few mistakes in the pattern and while I've been working on this, but I'm satisfied with it so far.