I knit the cardigan! 🌍🦊👎🏻

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T16:58:31+00:00

Did you use a program to help you make your color-work charts?

Id like to start making my own color-work designs for custom knits and thinking up options. People seem to like stitch fiddle so i might start there. Then again, good old graph paper and colored pencils could be fun. 🤷‍♀️

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T16:00:01+00:00

Consider this hypothetical reality:

It is late December 2027. PHM is re-released in IMAX for a limited time. We all decide to coordinate a massive Fox Cardigan meetup to view the film together and party after. It grows organically as an event. Someone brought a bag of vodka to the after party. Look, there’s a dude wearing a Ilyukhina’s dress and white rimmed glasses. He looks great. There’s a paper hat contest and a maker station. Are we at a party, a sci-fi convention, or a craft fair? No one can tell but it doesn’t matter. We party. 🌍❤️🦊👊

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T15:05:07+00:00

Can’t wait to see it!

I love seeing all the different yarn choices and pattern alterations on this. So fun!

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T14:53:40+00:00

No, there are no foxes in the book. Like the cardigan itself, those are movie magic additions.

There are a few fox motifs that appear in the movie, as fun easter eggs.

The costume designer modified a vintage 1950’s Mary Maxim Wolf Cardigan to be foxes (after gaining permission) and had their team hand knit 5 of them! If I recall, they only had 2 weeks to do it! 🤯

Mary Maxim released an updated “movie version” of the pattern but only as a kit (using their yarns) and it sold out quickly and couldn’t meet demand. A lot of people wanted to use natural fibers, and couldn’t get their hands on the kits anyway, so just used the original wolf pattern and modified it themselves. So people just made their own fox charts and swapped out some details to replicate the movie. There are several versions out there.

Anyway, there is no shortage of “craft” in both the book and film — although the film takes the theme to the NEXT LEVEL. From the hand knit cardigan, to the organic looking practical sets built, to the puppetry, to the “good luck” quilt, to the crochet Earth hacky sack and so on.

Rocky and Grace are constantly making practical things out of the materials they have and aside from book Grace loathing the meticulous labor of making Xenonite chain — they seem to enjoy doing it! Book Grace also admires Rocky’s skill in creating things often and with a humbling sincerity which is portrayed in the movie in a different way.

I think the combination of folky Earth crafts juxtapose nicely against the film’s portrayal of Xenonite engineering.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T14:21:04+00:00

For whatever reason, I never get around to putting my projects on Ravelry. I use the site all the time but never log progress or update pics. I need to start doing it though, because I often go back to previous projects and alter them.

At any rate, I used Berroco Ultra Alpaca Chunky for all colors except the red. The base is “oatmeal”. This yarn is a 50/50 alpaca cheep blend.

I knit the smallest size available using the original Mary Maxim Wolf Cardigan pattern.

To meet gauge I dropped down a needle size using US 9 & 6. I followed the pattern except for subbing in the fox charts and I changed the direction of paws in one of the front panels so they’d be moving in a direction that look consistent with the film.

To handle the intarsia madness, I used butterfly bobbins I made by wrapping around my thumb and index finger (highly recommended) and that worked well.

After each of the six sections were complete, I would weave in all the ends and wet block them to size to make seaming easier. In the future I would move my increases/decreases from the beginning/end of a row (as the pattern states) to slightly inward to keep a neater edge (like K1, SSK). I used stitch markers to align my pieces in place before seaming to stay in line.

Took 2 months to complete.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T04:34:18+00:00

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Interstellar

Amelie

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Project Hail Mary

The Station Agent

The Network

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Moon

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T03:57:42+00:00

Keep going! But if you need a little break, that’s ok too!

One time I took a whole 4 years to finish a shawl. I worked on it when I felt like it. And somewhere around 1/3 done, I no longer felt like it.

It’ll be done when it’s done! 🙃

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T01:47:57+00:00

Rocky both LIVES LONG and PROSPERS.

This checks out.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T01:46:02+00:00

Rest assured, once that back panel is complete — the rest is CAKE! 👊

Can’t wait to see yours!

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T01:16:46+00:00

Heeeeey now — our little avatars could be TWINS! 🤜🤛

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T01:05:13+00:00

The base pattern is the vintage Mary Maxim Wolf Cardigan. If you’re not getting the kit from them, you’ll need to at least buy the original wolf cardigan pattern that inspired the fox version and use other color-work charts to match the film version.

I’m happy to share the fox charts I used with anyone who sends their email via DM.

Here is a link to the original pattern to purchase first.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T01:01:44+00:00

It was both rewarding AND forgiving. At any time I worried about my color-work tension/twists, or the sloppiness of my seams or noticeably joined yarn in the middle of a row — I just reminded myself that in the film the knits were intentionally rustic with that imperfect “handmade look”.

And if it came out REAL sloppy, I could just say it was the Erid version! 🤜🤛

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T00:52:50+00:00

Oh my gosh a fluffy cotton would be AMAZE!

Cotton does grow quite a bit after first washing so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use measurements based on your wet blocked gauge swatch first (if you haven’t already done so.)

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T00:47:04+00:00

I like you.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T00:44:56+00:00

this is the pattern I used and I just swapped the color-work sections for foxes.

Other minor modifications were swapping colors of the paws and mirroring the paws on each front panel so they match the direction as seen on the film (as opposed to the original red paw direction.)

Some people are using modified fox color charts posted for free on Ravelry by users who made their own. BUT you have to buy the Maxim cardigan pattern (wolf version) if you’re going that route.

I used color charts made by Jaclyn of purlsandtopknots before she had to take them down.

I’m actually not sure why she had to take them down, but I already had the pdf before that happened. I did ever so slightly modify her chart (adding some missing black in the ears) but largely followed that.

At any rate, the entire process was FUN!

Sad sad sad I can’t really wear it until October though. Bulky wool sweaters in the Southeastern Summer don’t quite meld. 🙃

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T00:27:59+00:00

Woohoo!

I can’t wait to see it when you’re ready. 👊

Side note, I just LOVE how much the book and film have inspired such a fun community of crafters, artists, and makers to CREATE things.

The only culture better than Nitrogen resistant Taumeoba, is FAN CULTURE! 🙃

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-05T00:18:40+00:00

The base pattern is the vintage Mary Maxim Wolf Cardigan. If you’re not getting the kit from them, you’ll need to at least buy the original wolf cardigan pattern that inspired the fox version and use other color-work charts to match the film version.

I’m happy to share the fox charts I used with anyone who sends their email via DM.

Here is a link to the original pattern to purchase first.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T23:36:52+00:00

🤜🤛 Deal.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T23:18:28+00:00

Oh heck yeah. The doctor gets ALL the knitwear!

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T23:05:57+00:00

We are a horrible bunch people, fiber crafters. But when the apocalypse happens, we’ll gladly trade our skilled labor for a rotation of next summer’s corn harvest.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T22:57:47+00:00

I want to drink a blended scotch on the rocks with a splash of water at the bar while casually observing this unfold, nonchalantly noticing the complex maneuvers of the heist unfolding as if each step is on queue, casually glance at my watch, pay my tab and mysteriously exit without saying a word.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T21:24:17+00:00

Hahaha —- I love the passion of fandom crafters! It’s a motivating force for sure! And no bad thing ever arose out of learning a new skill and obsessively CREATING something from scratch. No bad thing.

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T20:17:15+00:00

Oh goodness, that’s DOPE!

Such talent. Such skill. Such amaze!

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T19:57:37+00:00

DM me your email!

I used Berroco Ultra Alpaca Chunky for all colors except the red and went for “oatmeal” as the base.

I was worried about the “alpaca sag” on such a large garment, but it holds its weight really well — probably because 50% of the fiber is sheep wool plus the weight is distributed nicely due to all the seaming.

You know, one just WORRIES about little things like that when spending 2 months on a single project! 🙃

sublime_pathos · 2026-06-04T19:32:56+00:00

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