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Spring - 2024

This marks a turning point for my work.

I'd wrapped a pretty successful irl market season the last year and was hoping to ride some trends to make some loveable bugs. They did ok, they weren't super inspired by any means but they were cute enough.

I could feel the clutches of capitalism tightening around me. My creative desires and my selling sensibilities were battling each other for dominance in my craft. I'd found, throughout my art """career""" that when I compromised my vision - when I tried to make something with mass appeal that I didn't care much about - people would not buy it. It might be an autism thing but I just can't seem to connect to people if I'm explicitly trying to do so.

Hard as it was, after a few less-than-stellar markets in 2024, I shifted to pursuing the art more than pursuing money. My social media algorithm sensed my shame and discomfort of prioritizing myself and started to feed me an endless parade of people more successful and faster and smarter and sexier than I was...I stopped using Instagram and started pouring my time into this site and making art and making a website that I actually thought was cool.

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Biz SOLD it'll fall asleep right in your pocket	Wombo He's just trying to get by, you know?

"Wearables"

I wanted to branch out, make some real artsy art. To lend myself more legitimacy I'd begun describing what I made as "companion sculptures" - though I'd immediately follow it up with a less than confident "I just mean stuffed animals" and you know, when I wasn't trying to appeal with bugs and cute things, these two felt like my first real companion sculptures.

Fun fact! Angel Guard was adopted to keep an abnormally large cat company. I'm still not sure if the adopter really got my vision for this thing but it's nice enough to know it's going to be loved somewhere.

Angel Guard SOLD	You can wear angel on your arm and xe will keep you soft and safe
	Headache Maybe this guy needs to drink more water

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Twisted Sisters

Can you believe it? I still don't know how to actually knit! I was interested in pushing myself to make more humanoid characters, I felt these two conveyed a certain kind of anguish and ennui. Twisted and self soothing, even though they are sisters and have each other to lean on. This, along with the talismans, are the direction I'd like to keep taking my work in.

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Wumbell	She's just got some complicated emotions to process right now
	It took me a long time to make anything remotely close to Tongue Tied because I was nervous they wouldn't be well received. I was kind of right, they haven't gone off to their forever homes just yet but I'm hopeful someone will be able to hold the girls and appreciate them the way I do. These two are fairly large, about 12 - 15" tall and quite huggable. This may come as a surprise given... well the entire look of this website, but I really love the themes and monsters of Silent Hill 2 and the SCP Containment Breach series. I feel like if I were in the place of James Sunderland - being chased by brutal physical metaphors of my worst traits and transgressions - Mumbell and Wumbell would be the ones chasing me.
Mumbell If you ask if she's ok she's going to cry

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Duplicate Stitch Era

I learned how to duplicate stitch! Since I still wasn't sure how to actually knit, especially not how to do colourwork, duplicate stitching on top was my next best thing to adding faces and details. Signal was kind of a push for what I could put on a little guy - this one in particular having a binary code relayed with white for 0 and black for 1 - so far none of them were received well in markets.

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Crispin Ehehe what do you know little one?	Seeker What have you done?
Stable Housing SOLD	Well Behaved Cats

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Talismans

Recognizing that my initial little duplicate stitch guys weren't exactly what I wanted to do (and looked suspiciously like Amongus characters) I pivoted to these things. I named them talismans but maybe they're more like effigy? I'm not sure just yet. I wanted them to be sort of reverent and special, a charm that one would hold with them and pour their corresponding hopes into.

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Stable Housing SOLD	Well Behaved Cats

Fall - 2023

I am introduced the wonderful world of DPNS (Double Pointed knitting Needles) and now I can finally make little arms and legs! I have now learned to decrease stitches pretty effectively but I still don't know how to increase without huge holes. No stuffed animal making guide will share this forbidden knowledge with me!

Because of these great new skills I start making a lot of what I would scientifically classify as "little guys". They're pretty simple but I'm hugely proud of getting this far on just blind optimism in my abilities.

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Aingeal SOLD She's very rigid and skrunkly - only for the very toughest playmates	Joel SOLD can't beat a classic pancake bear
Harris SOLD a dainty puppy eager for some fancy treats	Peeem SOLD it's a peach - it's a creaure - it's a peachure
Bintin SOLD a root baby who is only a little bit nervous to meet you	Saliva They're waiting for it to rain
Gnocchilas SOLD	This little dumpling is taking it easy today

SUMMER - 2023

I got more and longer circular knitting needles and began just making tubes until it kind of looked like something. I think Star-sited is my most successful application of this. I still have not figured out how to make knit appendages and just crochet or use stuffed felt to supplement.

Fun fact! Clonbo and Tongue Tied (a crochet OG) live together now!

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Dwingle SOLD a funny shape and a nice smile	Mumblebun SOLD a three legged buggy alien. not sure what's going on but happy to be here
Clonbo SOLD A bug that is also a clown!	Nite Kiss SOLD just a sleepy little guy, you know?
Star-sited SOLD	a sweet little dog looking up to the stars

SPRING - 2023

My tentative beginnings with knitting. Klempt and Orp here were knit flat with some knit and embroidered embellishments added on. I was trying to find a video or written knitting tutorial that would help me visualize adding and removing stitches to affect the final 3d form but even "now" (August 2024) I have not found anything remotely helpful.

/dog?? was made on 9" circulars. I'd finally kinda found the tool I needed to make 3d shapes like I could with crochet. At this point I still didn't really know how to decrease and /dogg??'s nose, tail and legs are crochet balls to help seal off the form.

Fun fact! The lovely folks that adopted Klempt have named him Dr. Worm now! I'm so proud he went to medical school!

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/dog?? SOLD	Aura:Round
Klempt SOLD Aura: Wary	Orp SOLD Oops I forgot to give a catchphrase to this baby

The Lost Ones

These little guys went too fast I didn't get a chance to name them or take proper photos!

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SOLD	SOLD

Why did I make this?

I've been crocheting since I was a teen but now my dumb hands are starting to cause me problems! Knitting is a little easier on my hands it turns out. All of these little guys are free form and knit in the round or knit flat. I still don't know how to read a knitting pattern tho.