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What do you do when Richmond has it's first ren faire? You make a new corset with the unofficial official mascot of Richmond on it.

I beaded a cutie opossum onto the front of a bodice to wear to the renaissance faire, and I couldn't be more pleased with both the result and the process! What should I bead next?!

Also, stay tuned for a recap of the Richmond Renaissance Faire!

Here's where I turned the image into a Paint By Number kit: https://pbnify.com/
And this is the heat transfer paper I used to transfer the PBN onto the velvet: https://www.staples.com/avery-heat-transfer-paper-for-dark-fabrics-8-5-x-11-inkjet-5-transfers-pack-3279/product_513189

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Beading an opossum 🪡 on a corset to wear to the Ren Faire - my first time beading anything, ever!

No pockets? No problem! Just tie one or two of these bad boys to your waist, and your pocket problems are over. This was such a fun DIY project, and I'll definitely be revisiting tie-on pockets for pretty much every renaissance faire outfit I make going forward. And adding the embroidery element to really add some flare and personality - I'm obsessed! What should I add a pocket to next!?

Also, thank you for your patience if this video seems different or off from previous videos - I'm switching editing platforms, and still learning!

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✨Historically Inspired✨ Tie-On Pockets: Embroidering Pockets for Ren Faire outfits with no pockets

Did someone order a red cape, with a large side of DRAMA?! I've been doing science (sorta) to determine how I can get the most dramatic flow out of a cape, so that I can show up in a show-stopping look for the Mythmakers Secret Society Ball. While the experiment went off the tracks, I think I definitely have some good insights to share on the best way to shape a cape for peak dramatic flare. Plus a fun recap of the ball itself!

⚔️ Patterns ⚔️
Cape No. 2:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/764916650/cloak-pattern-for-cosplay-hooded-cape
Cape No. 3: https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s3190

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Hey, it's me, Hannah, and I'm on a mission to uncover the perfect combination of techniques, materials, fabric, and fabrication methods to achieve the flowy, most dramatic cape ever known to man. I probably should have given myself more than like, a week to figure it out, but alas, here we are. I have the pleasure of attending the upcoming Myth Maker Secret Society Ball and Initiation ritual, which requires that all attendees convene for a night of revelry.

Wearing a red hooded cloak or cape. I actually won the tickets in a raffle that the Myth Maker Society held, along with some other creators in the community, through which they actually raised over $3,000 for the Immigrant Rapid Relief Fund in Minnesota. We love a secret society with a cause. Since I don't have a lot of time here for trial and error, and my budget remains rather minimal, I have developed at least a little bit of a plan, so let me walk you through it.

So the first pattern I have here is probably the most simple circle with a head hole, to which I will attach a hood. I've made plenty of circle skirts, so I should have the experience and intelligence to make this happen. Emphasis on should. The next option is a pattern I purchased off of Etsy, which I'll link to down below in the description.

And this baby has a train. Choo choo! At first glance, from what I can tell, it's more of an oblong shape, more like an oval than a circle. And then the head hole is therefore a sort of off center closer to the front of the cave. So also pretty straightforward, I think. And my last option, and the one that I already kind of feel is going to be the most dramatic, is this simplicity pattern from Rayne Emery, who is a costumer and a cosplayer that I've been following online for years.

And yeah, this pattern is pretty dramatic, but is it going to be flowy enough? And how do we test this? Just kidding. I've already figured that out. To determine which of these three patterns strikes that perfect balance. I will be running through the halls of the Secret Society Ball venue. That's the chapel, and Catonsville, Maryland. And I will capture the chaos movement in slow motion.

And whichever is deemed to have the most dramatic flow will be the winner. All right, let's, let's figure out what fabric I can use for this test. If I'm being honest here, fabric choice is probably going to be a pretty big contributor to how well a cape is going to perform based on my standards. And if I was actually interested in science here, I would probably be going about this slightly differently, using the same fabric to test the individual patterns and then identify a pattern I like, and then test different fabrics to see which has the most flow, and so on and so forth.

For look, I've barely even got time to make these three capes, and each cape is going to require anywhere from like 6 to 8, 6 to 8 yards of fabric. So I'm thinking I start off with just the $2 per yard broadcloth that I got from Michaels, and we'll go from there. So for Cape number one, which is meant to just be a circle, my fabric is not wide enough for me to achieve that shape in one continuous piece of fabric, or even 2 or 4 for that matter.

So I think I figured out how to get 6 or 7 triangular pizza slices out of what I have here, and those all fit together in a way that's not exactly a full circle, but it's going to be close enough for our purposes. The length that I'm looking for is 55in, so each side of these triangular pieces is going to be 55in, and I will have that rounded edge at the bottom like a pizza slice.

Man, pizza sounds good. So too early to break for lunch. All right, let's see how many pieces we can get out of this. I use my tape measure to mark 56in from the corner of the fabric, which included seam allowance for a ham to get a rounded triangular slice. I then use that piece as a pattern to get six more panels, so seven panels in total.

I traced the hood of a black spirit Halloween cape that's been haunting my closet for years. To create a pattern for this hood.

I made sure to measure the base of the hood, excluding the seam.

DRAMA ALERT 🚨 Making the most dramatic, flowy red cape ever seen, to wear to the Mythmakers ball 💃🏻🎭

A combination of my favorite community, one of my fave venues, and the film where my lore started...and I get to cosplay? Yes, please! I was so excited when I found out that the Richmond Renaissance Faire was hosting a showing of the Princess Bride at the State and National historical landmark and Richmond gem that is the Byrd Theatre.

A bit of a shorter video, but there was honestly so much cool stuff packed into only a 4 hour event, 1.5 hours of which I couldn't film, because 🏰 💫🐭

(Please, Dis - can I call you Dis? - please, don't copyright me. I'm just a little guy who loves this movie. Think of of the friends who are going to go watch now. It's free advertising. Please. PLEASE!) Wish me luck, everyone. 😅

Edit: The Byrd Theatre is actually 97 years old, as of recording this! 🤯

⚔️ Links ⚔️
Get your tickets to the Richmond Renaissance Faire: https://viragoalley.org/rvarenfaire
Follow Virago Alley & Richmond Renaissance Faire:
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Hey, it's me, Hannah. Let's go watch The Princess Bride. Last month, I had the absolute honor and pleasure of attending a showing of The Princess Bride at the Historical Byrd Theatre in Carytown, RVA, an event held by the Richmond Renaissance Faire to raise funds and promote their inaugural ren faire, coming up on April 18th and 19th this year. Viewers are invited to show up in costume and having just finished my own Princess Buttercup cosplay last October - go check out that video if you want to see the whole process - it ended up
being essentially perfect timing, and since I'm so enthusiastic about this
Ren Faire, this movie, and the Theatre, I thought I would take you with me.

The Byrd Theatre is a 95 year old State and National Historic Landmark
located in Richmond, Virginia. The Theatre is named after William Byrd,
one of the founders of Richmond, and its opulent early 20th century appearance is preserved by the dedication
of the Byrd Theatre Foundation. I love coming here in the winter for holiday movie showings,
where carols are led by an organist before each film.

And a very very special thank you to the Byrd Theatre for hosting Richmond screening of Princess Bride. Thank you Byrd Theatre!

As everyone found their seats,
the event was kicked off with a welcome message from founder
and artistic director of both Virago Alley and Richmond Renaissance Faire,
Amanda Robinson.

Before we go any further,
I want to tell you about Virago Alley. Our mission is to provide an accessible
and inclusive platform for the exploration, education, and preservation
of historical martial arts and artisan trades. This is the largest collaboration
of local artists and makers I've ever had the pleasure of working with, being a part of Richmond.

With over 750 people behind the scenes
working to bring this event to life. It takes a village and Richmond has shown
up in a way that continues to amaze me. It is a testament to the need for this event, for a true
community celebration, and for something that empowers all of us and offers a
mode of escape and creative connection. Thank you.
Thank you guys so much for being a part. And now the managing director of Virago Alley Ash Moore.

Hey Guys, thank you for coming out today. So I just wanted to share a little bit of our backstory
and our narratives for the faire. You may have heard some of this online,
but we wanted to kind of open it up a little bit further
for you guys today.

So the Richmond Ren Faire tells the story of the Regathering, where artisans, makers and traders rise up to reclaim the spirit of creation
as an act of resilience and an era of disconnection
in an increasingly automated society. And while most of what you will experience
with this will be similar to other renaissance faires we are trying to do things
a little bit differently. Something that is truly representative
of our gritty DIY punk art scene here in Richmond. Here you will find no crowns,
no corporations, no...

I can't believe I cut off here,
but apparently I had to stop recording
because of my need to join the crowd
in cheering at No Kings.
My sincerest apologies to you and to Ash,
but a quick reminder
to look up upcoming protests and that
the people united will never be defeated.
And before we get to everyone's
favorite part of the event, the sword demonstrations, let me shout out the sword
raffle from local knife makers, Join or die knives. Don't worry,
there's still time to sign up. And we have forged more like that knife,
just right here in Richmond, and we're going to be raffling this off
for a giveaway at the main Dorey Park. It has is a rapier style sword, and Wesley
wields it sort of like a side sword before the,,,

Watching the Princess Bride at the historic Byrd Theatre 📽️🎞️🍿 hosted by Richmond Renaissance Faire

Devil's need a little love too 💕 To celebrate Valentine's Day this year, I decided to take a few pieces I needed to finalize for an upcoming cosplay project (namely, a tiefling tail that I was repurposing for a devil character), and do a little photoshoot in the snow with my friend Lexi. I had a blast and I hope you do too!

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Hey, it's me, Hannah, and today we're chasing tail. Sorry. I mean, we're making a tail, specifically a devil tail. Hence, we seem to be bad jokes. I'm sorry. Let me start over. I need to make a tail for an upcoming cosplay. But there's no way in hell. Do you get it? That I'll have the whole cosplay done in time for this video? But I thought it would be fun to use it to make a little Valentine's Day devil costume to celebrate love and commercialism or whatever. Now I have watched a few tutorials, specifically one from Alena Frost here on YouTube, and I think I can adapt that pretty easily to use the supplies I already have lying around the house to achieve the looks that I'm going for.

I'm planning to use some three millimeter, I believe Eva foam, some Eva foam craft dowels, some three millimeter eight gauge wire, some contact cement, and some PPE for when I'm using the contact cement, some leftover poly film and some pink spandex, which I'm taking from a second bodysuit that I bought to perfectly match the first bodysuit that I'm using for the cosplay. The first thing I need to do is glue these two dowels together and figure out how long I want this tail to be.

After applying the contact cement to one of the ends of both foam rods, I waited patiently for it to cure before making the dowels kiss each other. I knew I was going to cover this part, so I decided to go ahead and reinforce the connection point with electrical tape before checking the length of the mirror.

Once I was happy with it, I cut partway through the dowel foam just enough to be able to stick some wire in there. And I tried to glue this back up, but it was not complying, so I just came back through with some electrical tape and we were right as rain. Again, this is getting covered. So I wasn't that pressed about perfection here.

Okay, so now is the point where I'm starting to deviate a little bit from Alana's original tutorial, which calls for some thicker upholstery film, which I don't have, but what I do have is Eva foam, and I think it's the same thickness that the upholstery foam is supposed to be, so I'm hoping that I can make this work.

It'll definitely be less flexible, but I'm hoping that that will be a benefit and will make it stronger versus too stiff and like, unnatural. I'm also thinking that because it's Eva foam, I'll be able to cut the edges at a 45 degree angle to make them meet and almost create a little bit of a ridge, which I'm hoping will feel a touch more skeletal and therefore actually feel a little bit more like a biological feature of my of my character. Hopefully that makes sense and hopefully it'll work. I suppose there's really only one way to find out. Let's get to cutting.

It did, in fact, take until I glued the pieces together to realize that the ridge that I had hoped to achieve by cutting out a 45 degree angle was actually on the bottom of the tail, but oh well, let's keep pushing forward.

Alrighty, so I have my tail and I also have the tip of my tail. And I was thinking once I attach these two together, we'd be pretty much ready to add the final layer, which is repurposing this bodysuit to essentially make a sleeve to wrap around this piece. However, because this is brown and this is white, that color variation is going to show through the translucent fabric.

So I could just paint this white. That would probably be the easiest. But paint takes time to dry and it's foam. So you never know how well it's going to take and how many layers I'm going to need. And I also don't feel like it. But what I do have is a bunch of this leftover quilting batting that is not thick enough to be the original layer, but could add a nice little bit of texture to the layer that ends up being right underneath the spandex material.

So I'm kind of thinking that's what I'm going to do is just put one, one more layer before the spandex, get these to at least be a little bit closer in color as an under layer. And I don't have to paint anything. I just get to go ahead and break out my sewing machine, which I have been itching to do.

So I'm going to go ahead and just use these as pattern pieces to decide how much of the batting I need, and in what shape. I still need to attach these two pieces together too, so I'll go ahead and do that, and then we'll see where we can go...

Making a Devil Tail for Valentine's Day? Yes plz 😈💘 Creating a Tiefling Tail for an upcoming cosplay

Art is political. Art is inspiring.

I was inspired by recent designs from Studio Two Three, and decided to make their dream print job a reality, while also using this video as my own personal soap box - please enjoy.

I got to take my handmade tabard to a community print day, print two of these medieval-inspired designs onto it, then wear it to the Hanover County Community Board meeting (and also out in the snow).

Get your Print, T-shirt or Banner with one of these designs from Studio Two Three's online store, and support the Richmond Legal Fund, a nonprofit legal collaborative that connects community members with legal resources. Please note that this is not sponsored, I'm just very inspired by and passionate about their fundraiser 🥹

UPDATE ⚠️ The sale of the industrial building to become an 🧊 detention facility has been been cancelled! The people of Hanover County, and the greater Richmond area, who stood together in protest, as well as the Hanover County Community Board members, made their voices heard, and we squeezed out a small but mighty W in our battle to end 🧊.

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Studio Two Three: studiotwothree.org
Richmond Legal Fund: richmondlegalfund.com
Call your reps: 5calls.org

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Hey, it's me. Hannah. We have an unprecedented storm coming this weekend. Yet rather than stocking up on groceries or even checking to see if we own a snow shovel, I think we do. We must. The only thing I seem to be motivated to do is to say, to hell with ice. Now, I love snow, but ice is just something I cannot stand for.

It terrorizes our community. It causes utter mayhem. It's dangerous and it's cold. But a local grassroots community art space, studio two three, is also looking to support the eradication of ice from our community. And they recently released this design as a fundraiser for the Richmond Legal Fund. They're selling prints and t shirts and these banners, which are very Renaissance fair coated, the proceeds of which are all going to this nonprofit legal collaborative created to connect community members with legal resources.

I'm happy to say that at the time of recording, they've already reached their goal of over $5,000 in donations. But if you like this design and you want to go check it out and also be a supportive member of the Richmond community or from somewhere else, feel free to go check it out. Or let me encourage you to try to find some similar organizations within your own community.

If you're not a Richmond local. Now, this is already an amazing cause. But I am here today selfishly, because while they were announcing this fundraiser, they also posted this concept for their print. And with the inaugural Richmond Renaissance Fair coming up, I need to recreate this. So today I am going to make a tabard and we're going to take it to studio two three and have them screen printed for me and whatever earnings I can make off of this video as a YouTuber are also going to go to the Richmond Legal Fund.

So I'll go ahead and ask earlier than usual for likes and comments and even shares so that we can build up a good amount to donate. Thank you in advance. Now let's figure out how to make a tabard.

I luckily had this partially pressured fabric left to my stash, plenty of which was not Shirred, which was the perfect light oatmeal color for screen printing and for matching the original inspiration photo. I also had the perfect amount for the tabard, plus some possibly enough leftover to create a cape of some sort, which was part of the original concept, but that I won't be finishing in time for the community board meeting.

Okay, so the snow is here, making today a perfect day to do some crafts and get creative as a form of resistance. But escapism is not our only tool. Later this week, there is a community meeting that I plan to attend with some friends to make our voices heard on the plans for the creation of a detainment center right here in our community.

But before that, studio two three actually went ahead and scheduled their printing day, where they invite people to come with a blank canvas, a t shirt or a tabard in my case, and we can get the prints added to our pieces and have something to wear to these community meetings. So now that's the plan, and I would love to style this up and maybe even do a little photoshoot in the South.

Also, if you're wondering why I am ripping the fabric, it is to help me achieve straighter lines than what I can achieve just cutting for the ...

Shine Your Light 🌞 To Hell with 🧊 -- making a Medieval Tabard, fit for a community board meeting 😏

I don't know what to tell you. I simply couldn't let this idea go, and now I have my new favorite home decor item - a disco sword. This was my first time working with mirror tiles, in order to disco-ify something. And in this video, I even learn how to cut glass in order to custom fit some tiles for an even better application (sort of...an attempt was made). Let me know what you think!

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Disco sword. I am between a few big cosplay projects right now and my brain is mush. So when I saw a video of someone covering a random household object in mirror tiles in order to make some decor out of it, and I thought about my own home decor choices and what I could cover in tiny little mirrors. Well, it just clicked and I haven't been able to think about anything else.
So today we're making a disco sword. Now, I decided I didn't want to use one of my real swords for the base of this project. So yesterday I went out and shopped around for many hours just seeking some sort of toy or foam sword that I could use as a base. I did finally find one. I really like the shape of this in terms of just being sort of a generic sword shape.
I was specifically looking for one that had an even shape up through the blade, so that I would have a better chance of evenly spacing my mirror tiles, and I was also looking for one with a hilt that had a more generic shape. Surprisingly are designed. Nobody wants to sell toy swords anymore, but bonus feature. This lights up.
I also picked up 6000 mirror tiles, so if this isn't enough.
I might go ahead and give up. So I am in fact resisting every urge to just jump straight into this. Instead, I want to try and map it out a little bit. I feel like whenever I do come across somebody trying to disqualify a random object, there is often a spot or two that feels like there's some weird overlap with the mirrors or the tiles aren't matching up right.
And since this isn't just a basic round object like a disco ball, I do think I need to be kind of careful. Or at least a little thoughtful. We'll see how long I hang on to that mindset. Hello, darkness, my old friend.
These mirror tiles are peel and stick, and I think the adhesive actually works pretty well. If I wanted it to be a bit more heavy duty, I would probably jump up to E6000 or something similar. But since this is working, I'll go ahead and save the effort here. I also found that working in rectangular clusters helped keep things more evenly spaced, while also being easier and quicker to work with.
Okay, we are off to a great start here. I am technically a little off center here towards the hilt and also a little bit at the point, but I don't know how much I can do about that at this stage. So I am going to kind of just push forward. I did almost immediately give up on my plans of planning.
This came together super quick, just because I was able to use bigger like chunks of the tiled sheets, which I think helps like keep things relatively even almost to a fault, because then we get to the points where we find the breaks in between the sheets and they don't match up as perfectly. So we're getting to the point already where I need to start using smaller sections and potentially even like just one by one squares.
And this is, of course, where things are going to slow down. I feel like I've made such great progress already. I am definitely nervous about actually like rounding this corner to the side of the blade, and I don't really have a strategy other than just kind of go forth and conquer and just sort of see what works. So wish me luck on that.
I'm also already extremely nervous about the hilt. I feel like this is where I'm going to need a great deal of brainpower, and I don't have a lot of it right now. It is really pretty though. It is just scratching that itch in my brain.
But I am glad I decided to do this on the foam version of a sword, because if I get to a section that isn't perfectly flat to line up with the back of the mirror tile, I can just press it down to get more area in contact with the adhesive, if that makes sense. Like if I did a regular, less pliable sword, it might have adhesive that is just open to the world and to capture all of the cat hair that is just floating around this house.
Fellow cat owners, you know what I'm talking about.
This is the best idea I've ever had. I'm definitely facing issues with, like, gaps forming in between some of the tiles. I think I'm going to try and get my hands on some glass cutting tools and see if I can make some, like, custom shape tiles to to fill in those gaps. It's pretty prevalent in the point of the sword.
We'll need to clean that up a...

DISCO SWORD 🪩⚔️ I mean, need I say more? We need more sparkly whimsy home decor, so let's make it 👏

This whimsical, celestial wizard robe might be one of the best things I've ever crocheted out of granny squares - it's sooooo cozy and comfy and I've only taken it off since finishing it because I got slightly too warm. And when I'm done wearing it, the cats LOVE kneading it. WELCOME TO THE BISCUIT FACTORY!

Huge thanks to Danielle, my #1 Maker & Shaker over on Patreon!

⚔️ Resources ⚔️
🌙 Celestial Granny Square Tutorials from Craft Folk: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpnjFNlZpx7UiATTek7SYdGQKZM_0kJ9u&si=s4CcAehxShpmT-mE
🌀 Spiral Granny Square Tutorial from BabaCrochetPatterns: https://youtu.be/nZ7VCPM371E?si=aHCOagyIywZVKe4L
Zig Zag Slip Stitch Tutorial from Meema Makes: https://youtu.be/Ihpvi5LnS24?si=UvXFBtx6Uw6xX6Y9

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⚔️ Timestamps ⚔️
00:00 - Intro
01:41 - The sun, moon and star motifs
05:25 - Tutorial: Customizing a Swirl Granny Square 🌀
24:10 - You can make granny squares anywhere
25:12 - Okay now they're really stacking up
25:31 - Progress update
27:55 - Constructing the robe
29:32 - Project Reveal

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⚔️ Transcription (limited by character count) ⚔️
Look. What are we even doing here? If we are claiming to be making a series on fantasy crochet and knitwear? But we haven't even started working on a wizard robe made of celestial inspired granny squares. What's that? Oh, it's what we're doing today. Well, perfect. Okay, here's the plan. It is already getting warm in here. I'm going to be creating large granny squares in different designs using an eight millimeter hook.
And both Bernat blanket and sweet snuggles light from loops and threads. I'm going to use various shades of blues, purples, whites and yellows because that's what feels most wizard core to me. And when I say wizard, I am specifically thinking more like Merlin from sword in the Stone or better yet, the sorcerer from Fantasia. What is his name?
Yarn said apparently my lack of Kingdom Hearts experience is showing. So yeah, very magical and very say it with me. Whimsical. But yeah, since we're using the heavier blanket yarn, these squares are going to work up pretty big pretty quickly. But that just means we get to make fewer squares. I have been gathering tutorials and videos on how to make different granny square patterns with different mystical motifs, and I have a few variations of like star, moon, sun, and magical swirl patterns that I'm excited to share with you.
And I may not get too deep into any specific pattern as a tutorial, but I will link to my resources in the description and of course, share with you any variations or alterations to patterns that I'm going to make. I'm starting off with a set of Celestial Granny squares from Craft Folk here on YouTube, which includes a sun, a moon, a four point star, and a five point star.
Since this is a nice full set that already fits together so well, this is going to be the perfect place to start. Cue the time lapse.
These pattern tutorials were great. This yarn makes it a bit tricky to keep track of some of the stitches, but I think I did okay just following my heart. I definitely got the hang of things the more I practiced, which is so frustratingly just the way it goes with crochet and probably most things in life. Some of these first squares are simultaneously my favorites due to the color choices, but also big contenders for the back of the robe.
Just because they aren't as good as my last few. You'll see what I mean.
I fear that I may have not really gotten the hang of adding the points of the different stars until quite near the end, again, because the blanket weight yarn was a bit tougher to navigate, but in the end I did get there. You can still tell what each motif is, and I suppose that's all that really matters.
All right, so I've got these four motifs complete and I'm very happy with them. So much so that I've put in some time and actually got, well, at least the beginnings of the back of the robe complete as far as the granny squares go. This will be the body of the robe, and I think I do want to go ahead and add an extra row of granny squares too.
And then we have the beginnings of the sleeves. And that was will definitely need at least one more on either side, if not too. But we'll start with five more squares, and that should get us to probably pretty close to being done with the back of the robe. I love how plush and fuzzy this yarn is, and I seriously cannot wait to cozy up in a giant wizard robe.
This might be the best idea I've ever had.
Now, you may have noticed that one of these things is not like the other. I have been tooling around with this swirling pattern and I've definitely got inspiration linked in the description. So go check that out. But I do want to show...

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