When someone tells me “Leave well enough alone”, you know what I say? How about I DON’T leave it alone and make it even … weller. Or … more well. Or … you get the point. Which brings me to the next entry in my “Prune in June” series; Eupatorium ‘Gateway’, more commonly known as […]
I have been mulling over the different options for pruning my Ninebark 'Diablo' and think I have reached a decision.
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The Ham Bat is a melee weapon from the game by Klei called Don't Starve. It's a survival game where you explore your environment interact with the creatures within and do your best to survive while facing harsh climates and animals. I didn't take many notes... well in fact I didn't take any... I have a great appreciation for crochet designers with all of the work that goes in creating a pattern. However, I'll try to share my thought processes on this project hope they won't be too foggy for you! I referenced this picture as I went along. I started with a magic circle in a worsted weight yarn cream in color. I believed I used a G hook and worked in continuous rounds. I think I started with 8 single crochet in the circle. I increased in the following rounds till I was happy with the size. I switched to a grey color in same weight. I did one round in the grey. I switched to white then and crocheted in the back loops of the grey round making the same amount of single crochets. I wanted the bone to stick out a little ways from the ham so I continued on in white for three rounds. I then switched to the main rosy color single crocheting and increasing in the back loops of my final white round. I increased with the rosy color till I was satisfied with the size. Switching to the copper brown color to simulate the outer cover of the ham bat, I crocheted in the back loops of the last rosy color round. I added three picot stitches to add the sense of the ham being covered in pig skin .....of sorts..... I continued in this color till I thought it was big enough and began to decrease. I added a milk jug cap to put in the end bone portion to help keep the form. I also cut out a cardboard dough nut of sorts to keep the face of the ham flat when I stuffed it. The dough nut hole allowed the end bone piece to get stuffing too. Begin to stuff. In the last round I sc then chained 5 ss in second from hook, sc in next, hdc in next, a dc in the last one, sc in the next stitch to again add the sense of torn skin. I completed this three times evenly in the last round. I referred to this pattern for the bone handle portion. I stopped at 18 sc for each of the two end pieces and added a couple more rounds till it seemed distinct enough. Then add the details with black. Once I made the bone handled i stuffed it a little added a dowel rod in the handle going up into the ham and stuffed some more. Then I joined the handle to the ham and voila its a ham bat =)
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I have one knee buried in the dirt and the other comfortably resting on a surprisingly smooth rock. I’m profusely sweating with drips of said sweat some how finding their way to the inside of my eyelids. I’m slightly shaking from too much coffee but then shaking more worrying about my shaking. I’m strategically using […]
Not all plants can be the star of the show or the focal point in the garden. We need those hard workers who help the other perennials and shrubs shine. Like Sweet Flag ‘Oborozuki’: I needed a groundcover for the edge of my driveway that could “withstand” the water that runs off of […]
UPDATE: After reading this post, you can see where things stand 5 years later. Click here to see that update. Earlier this spring, I decided to experiment a bit by pruning Weigela ‘Wine and Roses’ shrubs in three different ways, so I could study and document the results. You can read the original post here. Here […]
