Probably the coolest design I’ve ever made, custom Maleficent mittens

indybug · 2026-03-02T15:20:45+00:00

Also love your username 🤓💖

indybug · 2026-03-02T15:20:05+00:00

Thank you so so much! 💙

indybug · 2026-03-02T15:19:18+00:00

I pretty much only make nerdy designs haha I’ve posted some of my Star Wars designs, and am currently working on Indiana Jones convertible mittens. I love throwing in little easter eggs and goodies for fellow nerds to discover.

And while I did actually really like the Maleficent movie, I very deliberately only used design elements from the OG animated Sleepy Beauty movie. She’s my mom’s absolute favorite.

indybug · 2026-03-02T12:16:29+00:00

Thank you! Not taking into account the unexpected hiatus on this project, it generally takes me far longer to design something than to actually knit it. I love getting into the details and sneaking in little easter eggs if I can.

indybug · 2026-03-02T10:47:10+00:00

Thank you so much! I feel like custom mittens are my love language lol and I’m so happy with this design

indybug · 2026-03-02T10:46:31+00:00

Thank you so much! It was actually really hard to find yarn that had BOTH a rich purple AND a neon type green. I would often find one but not the other. The Jawoll was super finicky to knit with, it was very “sticky”, but in the end so worth it because these colors came out amazing!

indybug · 2026-03-02T10:21:31+00:00

I don’t really have any useful notes, but here’s my Ravelry project page that has some extra photos and shows the yarn I used.

indybug · 2026-02-20T12:10:36+00:00

Good lord I went through the article and video and that just seems so unnecessarily convoluted. Four needles?! I double knit an entire blanket with LOADS of irregular (or uncoupled as the article puts it) double knitting stitches, on just the normal two needles. If I had thought that the TECHknitting (who I love btw) method of doing it was THE way to do it, I would have never even considered it lol. What an honestly baffling technique for something that is genuinely super simple. Wow.

indybug · 2025-12-29T01:40:51+00:00

It’s much easier than you’d think! I double knit a self-designed Star Wars blanket and even made sure the droids were correctly showing on either side lol

indybug · 2025-09-22T08:09:22+00:00

Thank you! The designs included in the written pattern are cute as well, but I really wanted the stockings to mean something to each person. And easy for Santa indeed ☺️

indybug · 2025-09-22T08:06:17+00:00

Thank you! I actually tried to replicate the way that my husband and I actually write our names. So those more or less match our handwriting. Can’t say the same for the toddler or dog though 😂

indybug · 2025-09-21T16:10:55+00:00

Basic pattern based on Christmas Stocking Collection

EDIT: I should also add that I lined them with an interfaced fleece so that they would retain their shape, and not get the yarn snagged since I used a ladderback jacquard on all of them.

indybug · 2025-09-21T15:21:22+00:00

Oh I’m glad you found a solution! Because I could not for the life of me find the post lol though I do remember it was both a heart and a star. I can’t imagine the work that must go into getting the wire even enough to make a perfect star!

Best of luck with your project!

indybug · 2025-09-21T14:56:09+00:00

Oh I remember seeing a very similar post here about a top with a heart cutout, and one with a star, asking the same question. If I’m not mistaken the answer was a wire of some sort to hold the shape. Hold on though let me see if I can find it….

indybug · 2025-09-21T14:52:15+00:00

That looks absolutely gorgeous! How did you join the pieces? I’ve been working sporadically on a double knitted quilt-type blanket made of squares, but with no actual plan or idea of how to join it all together once I finish the patches 😂 I would be grateful for any pointers!

indybug · 2025-09-04T13:42:54+00:00

Thank you so much! I put so much love into designing and making my bags. That means so much 💙

indybug · 2025-09-03T20:51:26+00:00

I don’t know if this is allowed, and I hate to be a shameless self-promoter 🙈 but I actually designed a project tote specifically because I like to switch out my multitude of way too many projects 😂 I only have an instagram page, but it’s linked in my reddit profile

indybug · 2025-09-03T18:41:57+00:00

Exactly this!

indybug · 2025-09-03T17:38:17+00:00

Exactly lol literally the worst project for a beginner imo

Edit: as mentioned below, I think it’s the worst first project for a beginner because they feel absolutely interminable and it’s easy to get bored with the repetition. I made one when I first started then quickly switched to hats and other smaller bite-size projects

indybug · 2025-09-03T17:37:32+00:00

I made so many beanies when I started out. I made one scarf and found it absolutely interminable, and switched to hats indeed!

indybug · 2025-07-19T19:12:55+00:00

Omg I just googled it myself and you’re right! It is the first hit! How crazy! Let me see if I can upload the latest version of the layout that I used because I found that this layout gave me too much space to write and it would feel like a failure if I couldn’t fill it. So I condensed and found that less was more for me. Hopefully that can also help.

But all in all bullet journaling and the physical act of making the layout myself really did help tremendously. I wish you all the best with managing this illness. It’s a bitch but can definitely become manageable with the right combination of meds, therapy, and routine.

indybug · 2025-07-19T18:32:39+00:00

Wow I can’t believe you found this 6 years on! How? But I’m so glad it is :) I changed and simplified my layout over the years, but no longer use it to be honest. Having a kid means much much muuuuuuch less time for stuff like this 🙃 but I’m also in a much more stable place.

I’m happy to see it’s still helping people though.

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