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melannenI was going to just post a photo, but this got out of hand, so here is a photo and and ad-hoc how-too on the QUILTBAG quilt bag I put in the art auction this year.
This is set up with headers and nested cuts, because yeah, it got kind of long...
The picture is kind of shoddy because I didn't get around to taking one until about five minutes before the auction started. Sorry!
( About the design )
No, I did not actually have a pattern when I started. Appearances aside, there is still no pattern.
( Why it happened )
I am actually considering making a couple more of these, and putting them up on my lonely etsy account or something - it took about ten hours to make the first one, not counting going through stash, and if they'd sell for even half what the con.txt one did, it would almost be worth the labor, as long as I was just burning through stash. Maybe I'll at least make one for myself.
Anyway, no there is no pattern, but here's some fairly extensive notes on how I made it, if anybody wants to try their own and wants something to start from other than just eight letters:
( Notes on how to make a quiltbag )
Oh and hey, while I'm at it, two years ago I put in the tiny crocheted daleklings, which you may remember, and promised people I'd finish double-checking the pattern and post it?
Ahaha. The problem is that every time I do one, I figure out a better way to do something, so I've never managed to get all the way through the pattern without alteration in order to proofread it. But since that will apparently never happen, I might as well throw up the most recent version, with a caveat that quality is not guaranteed, and that I do not speak crochet notation fluently.
If anybody would like to try to turn this into a real pattern, feel free! And if you try it and get stuck, PM me and I will try to help, offer has no time limit.
( Dalekling pattern )
All of the above placed by melannen under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Fly free, my pretties.
This is set up with headers and nested cuts, because yeah, it got kind of long...
QUILTBAG quilt bag
( largish QUILTBAG photo under cut )The picture is kind of shoddy because I didn't get around to taking one until about five minutes before the auction started. Sorry!
( About the design )
No, I did not actually have a pattern when I started. Appearances aside, there is still no pattern.
( Why it happened )
I am actually considering making a couple more of these, and putting them up on my lonely etsy account or something - it took about ten hours to make the first one, not counting going through stash, and if they'd sell for even half what the con.txt one did, it would almost be worth the labor, as long as I was just burning through stash. Maybe I'll at least make one for myself.
Anyway, no there is no pattern, but here's some fairly extensive notes on how I made it, if anybody wants to try their own and wants something to start from other than just eight letters:
( Notes on how to make a quiltbag )
Daleklings
( photo of baby dalek under cut )Oh and hey, while I'm at it, two years ago I put in the tiny crocheted daleklings, which you may remember, and promised people I'd finish double-checking the pattern and post it?
Ahaha. The problem is that every time I do one, I figure out a better way to do something, so I've never managed to get all the way through the pattern without alteration in order to proofread it. But since that will apparently never happen, I might as well throw up the most recent version, with a caveat that quality is not guaranteed, and that I do not speak crochet notation fluently.
If anybody would like to try to turn this into a real pattern, feel free! And if you try it and get stuck, PM me and I will try to help, offer has no time limit.
( Dalekling pattern )
All of the above placed by melannen under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Fly free, my pretties.
