Welp, this group just popped up in my feed not long after finishing this for my granddaughter. It must be a sign, heh.
Godzilla aproves.
Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of puckering when I affixed the bias tape in the sleeve holes, meh, just have to wait and see how it looks when I can give it to her.
Also, found these buttons in a stash we had, and only one of them is upright correctly, heh. Meh, it'll be hidden by her hair, so not a big problem.
Oof! Good luck. I gave up most years because they're such a nuisance. I did have small luck with vinigar and peppermint, but only very small.
Also, grasshoppers...holy halibuts, batman! I've never seen something sheer gourds to nothing like this year. So even trying gourds to deal with the squash bugs didn't work.
In a really twisted way, Youtube is a fairly big reason why a good number of people go outside, take up hobbies, etc.
Welp, I am pleasently surprised. Other than my legs hurting like mad, it really wasn't that difficult to make.
Unfortunately, the past two months my taste has been extremely erratic, so I can't say how this tastes, other than very beany (but I do know it should taste just fine. I've made gorditas with this same sweet bean paste for at least two years now. Tested with the wife, though, and the cinnamon I added is what is the strongest flavor).
As for the mayocoba beans, they were the best for making sweet paste that I could reliably find around our little city.
As for the recipe. Meh, there's nothing really to write down. I have never been a heavy sugar eater, and these health issues have made eating lots of sugar a bloody pain in the arse. So I added just enough sugar...(maybe, as I really can't taste the sugar right now. So I guessed, HAH!). A wee bit of cinnamon, and a pinch of salt.
Now, as for the mochi, I did follow a recipe I found on youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzfKNUL78pY)
12 oz. Water
8 oz. Sweet rice flour
4 oz. Sugar
mixed the mochi in a skillet, let it soak for a bit and rolled the sweet bean paste into balls, fried on medium heat, then low heat, then placed onto a pile of cornstarch, and went from there.
It really didn't stay as hot as I was afraid it was going to be. The bean paste could have used a light freeze/chill, or drying as most of it was too sticky to form the mochi. Plus, I should have made a slightly larger batch, as I tried to thin the mochi up which tore on several of them. Meh, live and learn.
I wish I could taste them to their fullest, but meh, it's my fault for trusting a doctor, HAH!
Just adding this an hour later to show how bloody erratic my taste is. Now the bean flavor is extremely faint and the sugar is very very strong. Now it's almost sickly sweet, 🙄, and I know I didn't add that much sugar to the bean paste.
I keep forgetting about the Lemmy groups, and my health sucks, so this post is just trying to make my addled brain remember these groups, heh.
Anyhoo, this project is for my elder son (if anyone remembers the Vault Boy one I made for my younger son a few months back), and I'm attempting a few new tricks.
Meh, regardless of the issues (and boy can I not draw worth snot) it still looks pretty darn good. Now for the body...:grimacing:...The proportions are just a tad off, but it'll have to do.
woops! Guess I didn't post about the Vault Sweet Vault here...Well, here's that one.
First time doing an odd shaped fabric thingy, so the edges aren't too great. Plus, didn't figure out a better method of punching around the outlines til close to the end...Meh, still makes us all giggle like school children, heh.
Oh, if anyone knows of a video tutorial on folding over, shaping, and gluing monks cloth with odd shapes (i don't have this issue with softer fabrics)...I'd be so thankful, heh. I just could not get it to work, so I just gave up and rubbed marker over the edges.
Forgot to mention what I used.
Lavor needle with the largest needle in the package.
The black yarn is sport weight "I Love This Yarn" (the maximum this needle could handle).
The white is an unknown we had in our stash, and a faint thinner than the black.
Artiste Monks cloth, 1yd x 62in. (unknown thread count, purchased from Hobby Lobby).
And here is the frame I made.
This is the second frame I made, and since I used my table saw to cut the dowel, it left a large gap, to which I used the jute as a means to grasp onto the cloth. However, it was partially intentional as I wanted to put more into the dowels holding onto the sides of the fabric over the center parts.
The only real problem I had with it was the dowels. It's not easty gripping and twisting to tighten the fabric down. I much prefer the square ones I made on my first model. They offered a much better grip for tightening. Once I feel up to it, I'll make a couple for this one, but they'll have to be thinner than the first model. Which might not be possible. Hmm! Still haven't decided on what I'll do yet.
but it's been at least a couple of weeks since cast-on which should tell you all you need to know about rate of completion 😅
Pshhh! That's nothing. I've got a grocery bag that I started over a year ago, and a pumpkin bag I started about 7 months ago...i swear I'll get to them...after I find where I put the patterns I wrote...:no_mouth:
Definitely requires a bit more concentration than I've been able to give lately, so I just keep defaulting to the socks instead.
Oof! Pain and the digestive issues from trying to get my pains taken care of have me in a daze most days. It's tough, but I am making headway...slooooowly, heh!
Am working on another duster for my swiffer thingies...I still don't feel up to recording a how-to yet, though. I'll get to it...i'll get to it.
Last night, I made a tiny ray out of this yarn, too.
Just finished the video, which is crap, buuuut is good enough, heh.
(my wife made this on her phone, and I just love it, heh).
Cast on 4 stitches.
(Realized a little late that 5 & 3 could be knitted together before moving the stitches to the right needle, and would move the yarn to the left side for starting the I-cord knitting, but yeah, you can do that. If you don't do that, then just change the K1 in row 15 to K2tog).
Pull tail through remaining two stitches. Sew in ends.
Notes:
Reorder stitches (From left to right) as follows, 5,3,6,4,2,1
WIthout using the tail, slip the first two stitches, slip the next stitch onto the front of the right needle, slip stitch, slip the last stitch from the left needle. Slip the first stitch from the right needle onto the left needle. Turn the left needle and knit those two stitches together through the back. (The video will help with this).
Added times to jump to different parts in the video description.
Ok! Hopefully that's all good...enough...
(and to make sure Lemmy or Connect doesn't remove my link, here it is in text form https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwqjmdkNd4...And Lemmy/Connect kept this link after posting...So I guess I don't need this...But I'll leave it down at the bottom anyway).
I have started getting pissed at people who snap at someone "Don't necro this post" (Or any of the numerous other things they say), on information that is well outdated that could fucking seriously use an updated answer.
End rant...I'd prefer not, though...I want to keep this rant going.