Hey whaddup GLEEKS! I'm back, bitches!! When I was a young lass, and in pre college, I believed that I would have to get rid of all of my hobbies in order to secure the promise of a brighter future. WOw, boy was I WR-IGHT. I was right...
HOWEVER, the genius that I am has allowed me to trick the college system into letting me do whatever I want. I achieved this because my Feminist Theory professor (she's very cool) was basically like, "do whatever you want for your final as long as it has something to do with this class." So then I decided that I wanted to 1. knit and 2. force my family to hang out with me. THus, the family pillows were born!! I made 6 pillows in like 3 weeks for 1 project. I asked my family about their relationship with their own gender and then made decorative pillows, which was supposed to nod to the domestic expectation of the mother to create decorative pillows that exemplified what the family was supposed to be. I wish I had explained that more in my paper, but I am still PROUD OF MYSELF. I have learned in college to be proud of the work that I do, because I work hard in school and not to only be proud if someone else tells me they think I should be proud. Does that make sense?
Anyway, here is a picture of me working on one of the pillows during work, lol. Please don't fire me, Harold. I really enjoy this job. I just didn't have anything to do that day because school was basically over at that point! This person came in the office, though to ask me a question and I retained direct eye contact while talking to him. Talk about #girlboss. I really hate that term, but ok.
Ok, the picture at the bottom are the pillows! Mine is the one that says "burp." My Abba's says
להגן (Le-ha-geyn) in Hebrew. Casper's says Jester, Ema's says Rebirth, David's says Tough, and Lee's says Lee, but in Hebrew. Everyone has a different reason why their pillow says something different, but that's for them.
This is a knitting blog, dang it! Let's talk about knitting! I still don't know if it's called intarsia or faire isle. I've looked this up like 100,000 times, but I still end up confused. I believe it's called intarsia. Anyway, that's how I did the letters. I use graph paper and draw in the letters. Sometimes, if a letter looks funky, I'll look up a template type thing. With the area around the letters you have to use stockinette stitch. I haven't tried it with other stitches, but I'm not sure how that would work. I really like using a knit border around stockinette so that it doesn't curl around the edges. It doesn't matter as much, because I sew the edges to each other anyway, but it's my preference. These pillows are pretty basic to make as I just create rectangles and then sew them together and use fluff for the inside. When I sew them, I do it with the outside faced in to ensure that it's harder to see what I've sewn. As a caution, just make sure that the letters aren't too close to edge, like the "T" in tough was. To make the bag for Lee's pillow I made a rectangle, and put it in half, and sewed the edges with yarn. Then to make the clasp, I weaved yarn through the top and tied it together. I think they're all really cute! It was a bit frustrating at times, as I messed up the Hebrew thinking that I had to start the intarsia on the right side, but you start at the left side just as you do with English. Ok, this has been long! I love doing this blog! whoo! <3
