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[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 257 points 2 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_RxlybWhQ

That video shows how and the first comment has the pattern written out

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 111 points 2 days ago

For those too lazy to search for the comment:

Lizard coaster Pattern
Body
R1: MR ch2, 10 dc in MR, slst, ch 2  [10]
R2: 10 dc inc,, slst, ch 2  [20]
R3: (dc, dc inc) *10  slst, ch 2  [30]
R4: (dc, dc inc, dc) *10  slst, ch 1  [40]
R5: Reverse sc in every stich

Tail
R1: MR, ch2, 4dc in the magric ring, slst, ch 2 [4]
R2: (dc, dc inc)*2, slst, ch2 [6]
R3: 6 dc, slst, ch2 [6]
R4: (2dc, dc inc)*2, slst, and cut off long tail for sewing [8]

Mouth
red yarn:
ch 10
R1: skip 1st st, 8 sc, (3 sc in 1 st), 7 sc, inc, slst, ch1  [20]
R2: inc, 7 sc, 3 inc, 7 sc, 2 inc, slst ch 1  [26]
R3: (sc,  inc), 7 sc, (sc, inc )*3, 7sc, (sc, inc)*2 [32] cut off and weave in yarn

pink yarn: (tounge)
in the third stich from the red chain, ch 10
skip 2 st, 8 hdc [8]
slst and cut off extra yarn, weave in from behind

Green: (head)
R1: ch 14, slst in the first ch making a circle
R2: ch1, hdc2tog, 10 dc, hdc2tog, slst ch 2 [12]
R3 dcinc, 2 dc, 6hdc, 2dc, dcinc,  slst ch 2 [14]
R4: 2 dc, 3 hdc, 4sc, 3 hdc, 2 dc, slst ch 1  [14] cut off yarn

Upper lip
at the 5th st from the head, insert green yarn
R1:  ch2, dcinc, 6dc, dcinc [10]
R2:  ch2, turn dc2tog, 6dc, dc2tog [8]
R3:  ch2, turn dc2tog, 4dc, dc2tog [6]
R4:  ch2, turn dc2tog, 2dc, dc2tog [4] ch1, cut off extra yarn

lower lip
R1: ch1, 6 hdc [6]
R2:  ch1, turn hdc2tog, 2hdcdc, hdc2tog [4] ch 1 turn
attach red mouth piece and tounge by sc in every stich, slst, cut off extra yarn and weave in stuff in

eyes (white) *2
R1: MR, 6sc in MR [6]
R2: slst, ch1, 6 sc [6]
slst and cut off extra yarn
Glue on eyes and heads for pupils

attach head and tail at opposite ends,
Put stich marker 4 st  away from each direction for limbs

Legs: *4
ch7, slst, skip 1 st st, 2 slst, (ch2, skip 1st st , 2 slst) *2, 4 sc, slst and cut off and weave in yarn

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 34 points 2 days ago

TIL there's a skill overlap between crochet and chess

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know about chess notations, but you got me interested in them.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago

TIL crocheting instructions look a hell lot like assembly language

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 41 points 2 days ago

It's assembly with native thread support.

[-] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago
[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

groan

Have a lemmy gold:🥇

[-] theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 days ago

Weaving is actually where a lot of the logic for the first computing machines, in particular punched cards come from. On looms back then you would use punched cards to program the loom to weave complicated patterns.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

This thread has been a source of fun and knowledge so far!

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Well, it's a kind of assembly language - just not to operate registers of a CPU, but to assemble some crochet piece ;)

[-] pea@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

amazeballs!!!! Thank you kind stranger.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're wecome!
This way the guide can get lost on youtube and on lemmy! 🤪

[-] pea@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

haha too true. now i feel all the more compelled to prove us all wrong, and actuallymake this rather than adding it to my random collection of (cool) patterns, never to be seen again....

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Wait, it’s a lizard and not a turtle???

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

The pattern says lizard.
The result says turtoise.
Or turtle.
Whatever it is, it is cute af!

[-] Esmeralda@sueden.social 3 points 2 days ago

@zergtoshi @mushroommunk
This is soooo cute! Thank y'all for showing it and linking the pattern!

[-] locahosr443@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'll just post this direct to my cnc mill...

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Can we pin this comment? Not to the comment section, but to everybodies internet everywhere!!!

Everyone is going to want to see this.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

MANY THANKS

[-] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

Here is the original post (Warning: it's on threads).

If you just want to see the video on the left, I reuploaded it here.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago
[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 53 points 2 days ago

I don't know if I'd use it as a drink coaster, as it would hold moisture, but as a pot dolly it would make cooking and serving hilarious.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

It's a drink coaster, it's supposed to hold moisture

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 53 points 2 days ago

It's supposed to hold moisture without wicking it down to the wooden surface underneath.

The goal is to keep water off the furniture that may be damaged by it, so it soaks up that water and holds it against the wood underneath thats not really ideal

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 10 points 2 days ago

Could probably solve that by glueing something impermeable underneath, no?

[-] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago
[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago

What is your table but a coaster on legs?

It's coasters all the way down.

[-] xspurnx@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago

What is beneath it you ask? Why a house on the ground (that's two more coasters), which is standing on four elephants - another, very very huge coaster. All this so we don't have to worry about spilling our drinks over the giant turtle that carries it all.

Even the great turtle evolved to grow a coaster on its back

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

And what is a table but a big turtle made of wood?

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

What are turtles except motile coasters?

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Butler turtles, I like it! They bring and then hold your beverages

[-] Klear@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago

That's why we're just coasting along.

[-] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I think gluing something to the bottom will stop the mouth opening mechanism, unfortunately.

Might need to pin something to a loop at the bottom instead.

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[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago
[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Oh shit! A Google+ user! What a throwback

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I forgot all about google plus. I used to not be able to comment on youtube, because I refused to get a google+.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Mod parent up.

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[-] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 19 points 2 days ago

Alright, that's cool as fuck!

[-] tunetardis@piefed.ca 20 points 2 days ago

It would be great with a little squeaker thing inside it!

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Only problem is it might not sit straight if the cup isn’t full

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Then be an optimist

[-] tunetardis@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah good point. So something more electronic maybe? Hmm…

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

I don’t think I would use it as a coaster, as your glass would easily fall off.

Still pretty cool though.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I think I know how the effect is achieved. A small bent piece of metal or even plastic lifts the shell up when the drink is removed, and the head when the drink is placed.

Adding that part makes the rest much easier.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Plastic is not necessary because the nature of the crochet fabric is enough to achieve the effect. Fiber arts are cool that way.

Mushroommunk found a video that shows how it's constructed.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Is it the same yarn they use in needle felting or no?

[-] Creativity@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Felting usually requires animal wool to get the felt effect. The video used cotton.

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