Hooked On Anime

I'm back! In a limited capacity, at any rate. I had a crochet block for a looooong time there. I finally got over it a couple years ago, but still wasn't up to making any fan patterns to share—up until equalityauction earlier this year, that is, when I was starting to be a lot more financially conscious due to Covid but still desperately wanted to help out. My winning bidder picked Gritty, and I cannot tell you how delighted I am to be able to share the pattern I came up with.

But first, we've got the obligatory photos 😉 ( Gritty Pix )

And now, the pattern! As some of you may have already observed, Gritty is in primarily single crochet, rather than my typical double crochet (that'll be double crochet and treble crochet for those of you in the UK). I know that's what a lot of folks prefer, and this pattern in particular I wanted to at least try to make somewhat beginner-friendly. I've got a good few photos to go along with the directions this time as well.

( Pattern )

If you like this pattern and are comfortably able to do so, please consider donating to the Philly Bail Fund and/or to the Attic Youth Center! They're both fantastic organizations located right in Gritty's hometown.

I'm just going to sit here and pretend this is a few days after AnimeIowa rather than a week and a day past. That work for you? Okay then.

For those of you who made it to AI, this was the pattern I used for Senator Lemonsnout. I started out trying to find out whether the dc pattern I made for Pyralspite would translate to a smaller scalemate just by switching to sc - and then found it it didn't. Good to know for future me/present me!

Sooner or later, I'll have up Pyralspite's pattern (AKA the Large Scalemate Pattern). Hopefully I'll also eventually have a Medium Scalemate Pattern, though who knows when that'll happen exactly. (Future me, obviously.) In the mean time, I hope anyone who wishes to can overpopulate their respiteblocks with scalemates of various colors and identities will be satisfied with this.

First, though, pictures for those who haven't seen the end result yet: ( Senator Lemonsnout )

( Pattern )

This is a custom pattern commissioned for help_pakistan; the winner requested Kumano 900 from the band U900, seen here on YouTube. [WARNING for the bunny, whose design is, quite frankly, racist; it's the bear I'm making, but I felt it best to warn.]

( Kumano 900 Pattern )

Meet Buu-chan, the lovable mascot of AnimeIowa, where I'm currently part of the Registration department staff. Pictures of the finished product after the pattern.

( Buu-chan Pattern )

By request, the pattern for Smudge the Fire Spider from Jim C. Hines' Jig the Goblin series, in three parts. This is only my second attempt at making a pattern by working backwards, and while I feel better about it than my previous one, please feel free to let me know if you think it is lacking in any way.

This post contains many images, so it is probably not safe for dial-up.

( Part One: Basic Spider Pattern )

( Part Two: Adding Fluff )

( Part Three: Setting Fluff on Fire )

And that's all there is! Happy fire-spider making ♥

PS: If anyone wants to make a knitting pattern based on this, or just wants to point to a spider pattern for knitters instead or something, you have my gratitude/blessing/general happiness that I don't have to do it myself (especially since I don't knit ^^a). Thanks!