VD Debrief

Not really going to talk much about Valentine's Day - I just thought the double entendre was too much fun to pass by.

Have a lot of screaming pink baggage waiting for me on the platform on this one. So why dance around it? I am torn between wanting to visit the memories and not wanting to revisit the unhappiness. Can't even call it pain. For once that's too melodramatic for me. That almost never happens.

So while I have an extended internal debate on the rock that is the desire to touch the dancing flames and the hard-place that is being extremely flammable, I'll talk about Matryoshka.

You know, Russian nesting dolls? I have no idea if the word is plural already. I guess I could do what I always do and rely on the kindness of google strangers but eh, who am I trying to kid. Lazy day, lazy way.

Anyway, in the ongoing epic saga that is the Thing-A-Day challenge, I hit "M" and couldn't think of anything that was people-y. Been trying to keep the cats anthropomorphic because I like making those kind of vignettes the best. The most fun, the most snark potential. tee hee and junk but, also the most time consuming.

Sooo?

I cheated.

Big whoop - the entire TAD thing is self monitored anyway but I have a bracelet order pending and need more time to devote to that - it actually pays - and I felt a sudden desperate need to get ahead of the game on making these time consuming kitty critters. In January I made a cat matryoshka that I call a Catryoshka and I've had this "making of" spiel ready to go about it for some time. I just wanted to space out posting about the things I make along the way for my own amusement. Both to give each item its own entry spotlight and to have something to blog about that isn't related to those noisy belfry denizens. So since I had the photo ready to go, I put her in the TAD as "M".

So now, the rest of her story:

Sketch/template. Always have to begin with drawings of some kind:

Sketchy "memory" - Ha, ha!

I really couldn't remember how the babushkas were depicted on the dolls, so I took a stab at crocheting this version with the ears fully prominent and a cloak clasped at the throat:

Hood of Hell

Uhm. Somewhere between devil kitten in drag and Little Red Riding Hood Does Hades.

So I got my lazy ass up off the couch and google imaged my way through some basic research before trying another sketch:

Post Look-up

Maybe knock the ears back to remove some of the more satanic overtones?

Kinda Cute

Hmm. Me like. Maybe work gooder. So, to the hook:

Round Headed Catryoshka

Now, that's more like it. And only one stray trial. Cool. But wait!

How to make them nesting? Go 3D and make vessels? Maybe someday with yarn. Would need to score a nice color-scheme for the stash-let I'm building. Yeah, 3D but not right now.

Actually crochet smaller and smaller thread versions? Uh, no. This scale was hard enough and going bigger in thread? Double no.

What to do, what to do?

Oh. Of course, my beloved photoshop:

Woo Hoo!

So that's the saga of the little Catryoshka. I do occasionally think things somewhat through, and when I actually do, by God, the documentation of my efforts will see the light of day. Well, at least the light of the CRT. ;-)

Hook On!
C