Return of the Art Project Meme

[firstfrost]

The original meme is:

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The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It might be a photo, or a short story, or a covered dish. I might finally learn how to knit and foist my learning projects off on you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well. We all can make stuff!

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My version this time is a little different. The first five* people to respond to this post will get to pick a knit or crochet project of their choice. It goes on my queue and gets finished this year. Between my own database and Ravelry, there are a vast number of choices for what can be made.

Note that there are some people already in the queue:

• treiza wants a cuttlefish
• desireearmfeldt wants these socks
• I have a Three Lace Stole Project, for which I figure I'll give two to tallou and desireearmfeldt, as People Who Might Wear Them.
• shumashi wants a magnetic katamari

*: I suppose there's no reason to stop at five, though if the queue gets large enough I stop guaranteeing "this year".

Comments

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Isn't my sweater on the queue?

Hah! Now you have to be memey too!

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Not until I know what it is. :)

[desireearmfeldt]

Oo, I didn't know I was in the queue, but yay! (I totally do want those socks, and now that you mention them, I remember talking with you about them, although they are not the socks I randomly remember talking/thinking about. :) Anyway, not meaning to be as utterly confusing as this comment probably is, I'll go back to saying "yay!")

[tallou.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I was going to get on the queue, but apparently I am already on the queue. I am so confused. And also delighted. (and, er...there are two people on the list for three lace stoles; I don't think the Solomonic solution works for knitted lace.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Well, you're allowed to add other things to the queue if you want something that isn't one of the three (http://web.mit.edu/boojum/Pix/Knit/Sweaters/tn/pacific_stole1.JPG.html) Lace (http://pinklemontwist.blogspot.com/2007/02/hanami.html) Stoles (http://pinklemontwist.blogspot.com/2007/09/swan-lake.html) in question. :)

(I figured I'd keep one of them for myself, so then it divides evenly, if I assume that everyone prefers a different one, which is a vast leap of optimism on my part...)

[tallou.livejournal.com]

I would prefer to have your favorite, but would settle for Andrea's favorite? Unless they're the same one, in which case, bonus!

[eowyns.livejournal.com]

I missed this meme last time it went around, but I'm feeling particularly motivated for making things so might as well sign on with the most talented knitter I know (oh, was that flattery? Completely accidental I assure you!)...

So me!

[treiza.livejournal.com]

can I be greedy and add something else on to the queue? And, did your package arrive safely?

[kelkyag]

Oooh, the assymetric ones are cool. More mad plans! (I am not signing up for a lace stole, having done that already. Mmmm, baby alpaca.)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yup, you're allowed to add more things to the queue. That's what queues are for!

And yes, it did, thank you!
I opened it when I was sort of sleep-deprived and then put it in the "bring this to work to put on my computer" place, where I then forgot about it for a week, so it is good that you said something. :}

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

You are a Bad Person.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Okay! :)

Is there a particular thing, or a sort of thing, that you want?

[treiza.livejournal.com]

hurray! well, I'd like to request a button front vest for my mom, who's really tiny, and usually cold. She can never find anything her size, and I was telling her about your amazing knitting-fu after my chocobo arrived, and she was all, "hmm, do you think she might knit a vest for me?"

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Sure! I will send you some possibilities...

[twe.livejournal.com]

Small Bob for me!

[jencallisto]

If there is still space in the queue, I'd love to be on it! I kind of want tall stripey socks, relatively light/thin, with space for my wide calves.

This is assuming that music is a reasonable return offer rather than the making of physical objects...

[dcltdw]

Now I'm having fun thinking of what a knitted bunny would look like. I keep thinking of this small ball of fuzz that is small enough to sit in the palm of your hand -- an abstract bunny, as it were. Two things that looks suspiciously like ears, perhaps a hint of a knob of a nose and a tail, and perhaps two dangling strands for whiskers. :)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I think you get to rewrite the meme however you like for your own Making. :)

Something sort of like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21530370@N02/3195293813
(Fatter stripes? Thinner stripes? Any preferred colors?)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

twe has done some adorable abstract bunnies, from this pattern: http://www.artsy-fartsy-mama.com/index.php?itemid=162

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I knew I was forgetting something.

[twe.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/25661597@N00/2829874602/)

[dcltdw]

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

that's adorable :) :) :)

[dcltdw]

bunny smooches!!! :) :)

[jencallisto]

Ooh, those look awesome! I would lean more towards thinner than fatter stripes, but really anything in that range would be totally great! Color-wise, I like darker and/or richer colors -- blues, purples, blacks, greys, some reds... red/black, purple/black, black/grey, purple/grey, blue/grey, blue/other-blue-or-turquoise are just a few random thoughts of combinations that spring to mind, but I'm sure there are many others that I'd love. :)

first project!

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

(http://web.mit.edu/boojum/Pix/Knit/Sweaters/tn/bunny.jpg.html)

Re: first project!

[dcltdw]

heehee
your abstract bunny is giving you the butt. :)
Alyse has this theory that, since bunnies can't give you the finger, when they get all mad, they give you the butt. Empirical evidence suggests she's correct. :)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I sent a list of potential vests to your alum address, which may or may not be the right place to actually get to you. :)

first sock done!

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/14290881@N08/3357445424/)

(Being a handknit sock, it's not thin the way you'd get from a thin dress sock, but it's fingering-weight yarn rather than thick hiking sock weight...)

Re: first sock done!

[jencallisto]

Oh my goodness, that looks awesome. And plenty thin enough, I'm sure! Thank you so much!! *glee*