Newest Yarn!Chester: Becky Rosen
I hadn't so much planned on crocheting Becky as had the idea come upon me. I wanted to do one of the as-yet unclaimed tarot cards for the SPN Tarot/Winchester Arcana, and Becky was one of the options. (They wonderful mods over there are still looking for a few artists, in case you're interested. Also, if none of the unclaimed cards tickle your fancy, they also accept alternates. I just didn't feel like doing an alternate.) But once I thought about crocheting Becky, I started to love the idea because of her outfit in the episode "The Real Ghostbusters" (5.09).
This is her outfit:
Sorry for the blur-- it's a much wider shot (with other characters in), but the only one I could find wherein you could see her whole... special... outfit.
But dude, kneesocks! Three shades of brown! A sweater vest? How could I not try to recreate this?!
So, ami!Becky:
(I liked the idea of photographing her on that mat-- something I normally use for blocking my knitting, if you're wondering-- because Becky is very much the center of Becky's world. )
Side-by-side comparison:
Frankly, I think I succeeded fairly well, especially for a character in plaid. (ARG! PLAID! Show, you will kill me with your plaid.)
Here's a close up:
(Oops, that picture is smaller than I intended. Sorry.)
As you can see, it's not really plaid, but a patterned yarn that I crocheted like normal. What do you think? Plaid-esque? Is this a technique I should try again on other typically-plaid wearing characters? (Such as when I remake Sam and Dean either for myself or for others??)
Naturally, now that I have a yarn!Becky, I had to set up a yarn!Scene from the beginning of the season.
"Could you please stop touching me?"
"No."
"You're Sam Winchester! And you're... not what I expected."
Hee.
But of course, her affections transfer by 5.09, the second (and last) time we see her.
(Yes, Becky looks bigger than Chuck there. She's not, really. But her head looks bigger because the way of making long hair makes the heads look bigger whereas the way of making short hair makes the heads look smaller. I am working on this problem.)
(And yes, Chuck is still clutching his toilet plunger. I haven't had the heart to remove it yet.)
Speaking of Chuck and his toilet plunger, this is how he has been for the past six weeks:
(And after the photo with Becky, it's where I returned him.) And yet, not a single one of my house sitters while I was in the UK asked me about it. And I had 4 different house sitters, each of whom probably brought their significant others with them (well, of the ones who have Sos, you know what I mean.) I think this says a great deal about what my friends/colleagues expect of me... (Mind you, directly to the left of those DVD stands is my stereo cabinet, atop which most of the yarn!chesters sit. And above those DVD racks (and in fact you can see the bottom of one of the braces for it) is a shelf upon which sits knickknacks and the rest of the yarn!chesters... The ponies are unrelated.)
Totally unrelated, here, have a Guess That Episode! (It's an homage. And there are actually two acceptable answers. Winners win two free internets. Note: Internets have monetary value.)
If you would like to see any of the above pictures bigger/in more detail, I have, of course, uploaded them to the Yarn!chester Flickr Set. (Which has grown huge.)
Speaking of Flickr, I find looking at my stats to be very amusing, and I don't know why. Mostly what gets randomly hit on days when I haven't posted anything in the vein of this LJ entry are pictures of cats. "Calico cat" gets looked up a lot on Google Images evidently. Equally amusing to me is that "medieval undergarments" on Yahoo evidently pulls up this picture from the Let's Travel in England book. It does not, however, actually include any medieval undergarments, so this confuses me.
But one picture consistently gets pulled up from my Flickr set, and it is, in fact, a Yarn!chester image. Evidently, there are a lot of people using Google Images to look up "Castiel Coat Detail". Okay... not sure why, but sure. I suspect most of them are disappointed, or at least bemused, when they get this picture. Heh. But apparently they click anyway, or it wouldn't be counted on Flickr... Weeeeeird.
This is her outfit:
Sorry for the blur-- it's a much wider shot (with other characters in), but the only one I could find wherein you could see her whole... special... outfit.
But dude, kneesocks! Three shades of brown! A sweater vest? How could I not try to recreate this?!
So, ami!Becky:
(I liked the idea of photographing her on that mat-- something I normally use for blocking my knitting, if you're wondering-- because Becky is very much the center of Becky's world. )
Side-by-side comparison:
Frankly, I think I succeeded fairly well, especially for a character in plaid. (ARG! PLAID! Show, you will kill me with your plaid.)
Here's a close up:
(Oops, that picture is smaller than I intended. Sorry.)
As you can see, it's not really plaid, but a patterned yarn that I crocheted like normal. What do you think? Plaid-esque? Is this a technique I should try again on other typically-plaid wearing characters? (Such as when I remake Sam and Dean either for myself or for others??)
Naturally, now that I have a yarn!Becky, I had to set up a yarn!Scene from the beginning of the season.
"Could you please stop touching me?"
"No."
"You're Sam Winchester! And you're... not what I expected."
Hee.
But of course, her affections transfer by 5.09, the second (and last) time we see her.
(Yes, Becky looks bigger than Chuck there. She's not, really. But her head looks bigger because the way of making long hair makes the heads look bigger whereas the way of making short hair makes the heads look smaller. I am working on this problem.)
(And yes, Chuck is still clutching his toilet plunger. I haven't had the heart to remove it yet.)
Speaking of Chuck and his toilet plunger, this is how he has been for the past six weeks:
(And after the photo with Becky, it's where I returned him.) And yet, not a single one of my house sitters while I was in the UK asked me about it. And I had 4 different house sitters, each of whom probably brought their significant others with them (well, of the ones who have Sos, you know what I mean.) I think this says a great deal about what my friends/colleagues expect of me... (Mind you, directly to the left of those DVD stands is my stereo cabinet, atop which most of the yarn!chesters sit. And above those DVD racks (and in fact you can see the bottom of one of the braces for it) is a shelf upon which sits knickknacks and the rest of the yarn!chesters... The ponies are unrelated.)
Totally unrelated, here, have a Guess That Episode! (It's an homage. And there are actually two acceptable answers. Winners win two free internets. Note: Internets have monetary value.)
If you would like to see any of the above pictures bigger/in more detail, I have, of course, uploaded them to the Yarn!chester Flickr Set. (Which has grown huge.)
Speaking of Flickr, I find looking at my stats to be very amusing, and I don't know why. Mostly what gets randomly hit on days when I haven't posted anything in the vein of this LJ entry are pictures of cats. "Calico cat" gets looked up a lot on Google Images evidently. Equally amusing to me is that "medieval undergarments" on Yahoo evidently pulls up this picture from the Let's Travel in England book. It does not, however, actually include any medieval undergarments, so this confuses me.
But one picture consistently gets pulled up from my Flickr set, and it is, in fact, a Yarn!chester image. Evidently, there are a lot of people using Google Images to look up "Castiel Coat Detail". Okay... not sure why, but sure. I suspect most of them are disappointed, or at least bemused, when they get this picture. Heh. But apparently they click anyway, or it wouldn't be counted on Flickr... Weeeeeird.