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Look what I done did



I started on a crochet galvantuala, big enough to have wires in its palps, back in university or some shit. After repeated stops and starts at getting going on it again (mostly because I'd been searching fruitlessly for eyelash yarn in the right shade of blue), I bought some thread yesterday and took it (along with a 1.5mm hook and some scissors) to my friend's cafe to see where things led me.

I made a dark blue disc for the stomach about four rows deep before deciding "fuck this, this is a big enough body." I whipped up a head and top half of the body by 8pm, and (having done some cursory googling and finding the godsend known as a loop crochet stitch) made a leg with loop crochet on the base.

That looked like a heavily overused, de-bristled paintbrush head, but the technique worked a lot better for the butt (after a couple of misfires where the butt-fluff kept pointing down or across instead of up). I remade the legs, this time with single crochet in the outer loops only to give them the right amount of poof. I got two legs and the face done before calling it a night.

This mornternoon, I made some palps, the other two legs, and attached it all in some semblance of a tiny spider. Other than a spot of glue at the base of the palps to make them pointy, plus regular thread two sew on the buttons, this entire thing is held together and is made of a shit-ton of embroidery thread. Shazam!