I've been finishing up a lot of craft projects lately so I wanted to show them off.

The longest scarf known to man

I wanted to make a super long, soft, squishy scarf to wrap many times around my face when it is very cold and windy. I've been working on it since the summer and finished it just in time for a huge wind storm to hit my area, so it's perfect timing.

A front facing picture of a person with a very long scarf wrapped many times around them. It is a gradient of colours ranging from blue, to teal, to green. A top-down photo of a long scarf laid out on a table. It is a gradient of colours ranging from blue, to teal, to green.

For those curious, it is approximately 210cm long (82 inches).
I made a mistake with blocking it that I'm not sure I can fix. I decided to try steam blocking instead of wet blocking, because I really didnt want to throw around a scarf this big while it's heavy with water. Unfortunately when I was trying to steam block it, I basically just ended up ironing it flat, so it lost a lot of it's squish. It's still pretty squish when wrapped many times around my face, but I often think about the scarf it could have been. It might fix itself if I throw it in the washing machine, but I think there's an equal chance that I just make it worse. Still, the scarf is very lovely.

Socks

I've been learning how to knit socks and I finished my first pair recently. On one of them, I split the sides in the wrong place so you can see one of the edges running up the top of my foot. The other one is fine though. I'll just have to pay more attention next time.

A pair of grey socks sitting side by side in a sock block. The body of the socks are grey and the toe, heel, and cuff are a teal blue colour.

They're quite comfy though, if a bit loose. I thought they were tight at first but after washing and wearing, they have stretched out quite a lot. I look forward to making more iterations and perfecting the right sock for me.

Cargo pants

I've had this pair of pants on the mending pile for a long time because I knew it would be a huge pain the ass to do what I needed to do to make them fit. And let me tell you, it was.
I thought it would be simple just to open up the side seams and insert a racing stripe on either side. Turns out there are three seams per side to unpick because of top-stitching, and because of the location I wanted the stripes to be they run directly underneath each of the patch pockets on the front. So the steps were actually more like this:

EXCEPT. I made a deep error. I thought it would be easy enough to maneuver underneath the patch pocket instead of taking it off and reattaching at the end. I scrunched up underneath the pocket, and when that didn't work I partially removed the pocket, just enough to get it out of the way so I could sew the seams and top stitching. Here is where I made my fatal error. Gentle reader, I made the pant leg wider. So when I went to re-attach the rest of the pocket, the location it should be attached to had moved. Because the leg was wider now, the extra width was bunching up underneath the pocket. So after all that fucking around to avoid removing it, I ended up having to take it off anyways, to move it over to the correct location again.
Needless to say, on the next leg I just bit the bullet and removed the pocket at the beginning. And you know what? It was so much easier to every part of the alteration. Consider that I lesson learned. But look how nicely they turned out!

A pair of black cargo pants laid out on the floor. There is a stripe of red fabric running down each side of the pant legs. A person standing in side profile. They are wearing a pair of black cargo pants, showing the stripe of red fabric running down the side seam.

I still have more mending on the pile, including another pair of pants to do this kind of alteration to. But there's no weird patch pocket situation so it should be easier. On the other hand - demin…
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