Melissa Wong

@favomancer

Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese. My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for. PS: Hook'em Horns.

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Melissa Wong@favomancer· 25d

And while the eyelets for the drawstring channel were hidden behind the leaves of the pineapple. I assure you I used the tailors' buttonhole stitch to finish them. Unfortunately I was too busy sewing the buttonholes to remember to photograph them. Tassels and ruffles next.

The lining turned inside-out to show the piecing and handstitching for its construction. Sage green, gold, and then sage green again, in a softly textured silk habutai. lying beside the pineapple are the drawstrings made with green silk thread, twisted until they form a nice sturdy cord. Tassels will be handmade to go on each drawstring.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· 25d

The yarnovers one can barely see through without magnification. I used Kinkame silk sewing thread to assemble and hand-sew the lining and also more of it to sew it into the pineapple itself.

If one peers very carefully through the 1mm wide yarnover eyelets on the surface of the knit pineapple, one can see the gleam of silk charmeuse peeking out between those itty bitty openings. Each section of the lining has been colormatched to the various sections of the pineapple — green for the leaves and bottom, gold for the middle fruity bit. It was very much a pain.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· 25d

I have just finished piecing the silk lining together for L’Ananas de l’Enfer and sewing it in. Because I like suffering I decided the lining ought to be two layers, habutai on the inner layer and charmeuse on the outward-facing area so that it shimmers behind the yarnovers in the pineapple.

A hand-pieced and handsewn silk lining being stitched into a tiny historically accurate pineapple reticule. The side visible from the reticule's opening is made of silk habutai in sage green and light gold.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jul 8

I just finished knitting this...

A hand knit silk pineapple, knit in thread 0.325mm thin. I nearly went nuts on this, I assure you. Little gold-plated beads on each bumpybump of the pineapple.

I am working on making a lining, some tassels, and a modesty ruffle for the bottom of the bag.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 19

A knit Regency pineapple reticule, about 3/5ths complete. It is pleasantly bumpy, knit in a slippery delicate reeled silk thread with 1mm needles, and each pointy bump of the pineapple is crowned with a shiny gold-plated bead.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 14

That's about half the pineapple knit up.

Half of a hand-knit beaded silk pineapple-shaped reticule. The bottom half has yet to be knit. Currently boasting a total of 480 beads knit into it — 320 for the cast-on and 160 for the two colored sections of the pineapple.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 12

A pinenipple of a different color. I swear that yarn is yellow. At least against the brown it looks yellow. Against another yellow it looks green. Vexing me to no end, I wish I had put that one against the leaves instead of the other way around but I'M NOT REDOING THIS.

A very small half-knitted pineapple purse. Silk thread, 1mm needles. Thread has been hand-dyed in what is currently six colors with 2 more to come. Scaled against an Apple keyboard so you know just how wee it is – it basically goes from the V key to the backslash width wise. and from the function keys to the spacebar height wise thus far.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 9

Here's my version, in historically accurate thread and needles, with beads. And the historical colors. knitty.com/ISSUEss12/FE...

The top third of a beaded pineapple purse.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 3

Seriously the knitting people are still at it. STILL. THIS is the comment they're responding to.

A screencap from reddit. It reads: "I kind of... don't like this comment? I know you're certainly not malicious, but it just doesn't feel right to me. Like. Nothing about dedication and craft and historical accuracy means I have to damage myself doing it."

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Jun 2

LOOK AT MY PINE-NIPPLES, THEY'RE FUCKING MAGNIFICENT.

The top leaves and the top bit of a historically accurate knitted pineapple reticule in what will be 8 colors of yarn. The fruity part is in a light gold silk thread, and that part of the knitting has sprouted little bumps which are tipped with gold beads, like little knitted boobies.

This is knit on a scale that is uncommon in the 21st century — the needles are US 00000 (1mm) and the thread is 0.325mm thick.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 31

But also, have some cat, Dr. Tingle!

A tiny black-and-white kitten with a fluffy belly, sleeping on a bed. He is lying on his side with his legs spread out, dwarfed by the human hand held next to his head and back.

The same black-and-white kitten 18 months later. He dwarfs a 2L soda bottle.

The same black-and-white kitten three years on, being indulgent big brother to a rakish looking half-grown orange cat sleeping next to him, on top of a reptile terrarium. (The gecko who lives in the terrarium is completely unafraid of and unbothered by these cats.)

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 23

100 stitches per 4 inches of width, motherfuckers. 21 rounds = 1.5 inches of length. 3 colors down, 1 more to go, then it's to the main body of the bumpybumpy fruityfruity pineapply bit.

a painstakingly knit ruffly bit of green, beaded extravagantly with tiny gold-toned brass beads on the cast-on end. This is meant to be the leaf part of a pineapple reticule knit on thread that is 0.325 mm wide and needles that are 1mm wide. The beads on the cast-on are 2.5mm wide.

It currently features 3 hues of green — a pale delicate gold green, a leaf green, and a dark mossy green. There will be a 4th green, a rich green-brown hue, to denote the base of the leaves.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 12

@franklinhabit.bsky.social Five rows into MC of the pineapple.

A set of US #00000 (1mm) steel knitting needles holding a very curly lace pattern that will knit up to make the stalks/leaves of a delicate pineapple retinue. It is placed against an Apple keyboard for scale and a good dozen stitches fits in the width of one keycap.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 11

In case you were wondering about what colors I arrived at after hand-dyeing a bunch of silk thread: This is the assortment.

Eight huggy spools and one badly-wound thread spool holding 200 yards each of shining silk thread, all hand-dyed different colors with acid dyes.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 10

@franklinhabit.bsky.social 3/4 of the way through the first pattern row.

WIP shot of what will eventually be a historically accurate pineapple reticule. It is presently 320 beaded stitches cast onto 4 1mm (US 00000) knitting needles, placed against a printed knitting pattern and an Apple keyboard for scale.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 7

"In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die, and know". aka: knitter's hubris coming right up.

A set of 00000US (1mm) carbon fiber knitting needles beside a single spool of pearl-stringing thread, now dyed a slightly variegated light green. Someone is attempting a project that may very well drive them insane. Because they have to cast on 320 stitches of that... and bead every single one.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· May 7

OK, I lied. Here are three of the silk spools I dyed. Yes they look like adult novelties but I can't seem to wind a crisp hard-edged spool like those bobbin winder machines can. I have five more skeins of the same thread drying and one more in shipping.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Apr 22

How it started vs how it's going.

A very small black-and-white kitten sleeping on a bed, with a human hand held up to him for scale. He has surprisingly big mitten paws, though, which foreshadow his adult size.

Two cats sleeping on top of a reptile terrarium. (The reptile in question does not care about the cats being there).

The cat on the left is black-and-white and HUGE. Massive. Not fat, just very large. The cat on the right is a normal-sized orange-and-white cat, and he has placed his paws on his companion.

They are both lying on their sides in mirrored poses.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 27

One of the weirdest things with my posts about cursive and fountain pens is... the discovery that there are cursive supremacists out there? Look, just because I like writing in cursive occasionally doesn't mean I'm a cursive supremacist. There are so many reasons why I opt not to use it at times.

A little ring-bound notebook with the sentence "I'm no cursive supremacist but sometimes my handwriting looks like this after an afternoon of manual labor. Which is why I print for legibility." written in a mix of cursive and printed hand, with a fine-point fountain pen in oxblood-colored ink.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 27

I'm going to need a citation for that, as I am going by this:

Cursive handwriting developed into something approximating its current form from the 17th century, but its use was neither uniform, nor standardised either in England itself or elsewhere in the British Empire. In the English colonies of the early 17th century, most of the letters are clearly separated in the handwriting of William Bradford, though a few were joined as in a cursive hand. In England itself, Edward Cocker had begun to introduce a version of the French ronde style, which was then further developed and popularised throughout the British Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries as round hand by John Ayers and William Banson.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 22

Poundcake says "let me at her, I'm not even scared of cats."

A little yellow leopard gecko climbs the side wall of her vivarium without a care, fully aware there is a cat staring at her from above. The cat is frustrated that she is not scared of him. She knows it.

A better picture of the little yellow leopard gecko named Poundcake, without her cat brother in the frame. She has a little speckly head which is why her name is Poundcake. (Full name Lemon Poppyseed Pound Cake.)

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 16

The ad algorithm on Yahoo News thinks I'm a vampire.

A screenshot of an ad insert offering human blood packs for thousands of dollars... people who donate blood and plasma, they're underpaying you.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 15

Peach cobbler at my place today. I have one of these and half of a similar one left. Bring your own bowl and spoon and I also have ice cream for as long as it lasts.

A homemade peach cobbler rests, warm and sticky and crumbly, in a large aluminum pan. It is made with a cornmeal pâte brisée shortcrust, and the topping is crumbled on top streusel style.

The peach slices peek through the crumble, and a lascivious bubbling of hot thickened peach juice seeps temptingly through the top.

It smells ambrosial.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 14

Here, timeline cleanse. Extremely contented gecko leg stretch.

A leopard gecko rests comfortably in a miniature slate cave. Her bright yellow back is partially visible in the aperture of the cave, as is her bright orange tail. Her lower right leg sticks straight out in a contented and relaxed stretch, her little toes spread out. Her soft skin is delicately bumpy, with rows of bigger bumps around the circumference of her thick, healthy tail.

There is an aloe to the left of her, a crassula to the right, and a thermostat probe resting on the top of her cave. The thermostat it is connected to controls the heating lamps above that part of the tank.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 8

A meme style image comparing the starter trio Pokemon from Gen 10 to Hux, Kylo Ren, and General Phasma.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Mar 6

News is scary. Politicians are insane where I am. Here's a picture of a dog snuggling a half-grown kitten. Two of them. Timeline cleanse!

A reasonably large, velvety American Staffie mix named Rosie is cuddling a tall, long, rangy kitten named Garbanzo. Rosie's fur is very short and neat and sleek, and she's an appealing blue-and-white coloration with soft light brown eyes, a cold nose, and a happy wag for everybody.

Garbanzo's fur is fluffy but dense and short. He has a lean angular build and a narrow face and might have Oriental Shorthair ancestry. He has a loud, musical meow and loves to put his paws on the people he likes.

They are both lying on a queen size human bed with red cotton sheets. Rosie has Garbanzo tucked against her belly, under her front left leg. Her muzzle rests gently on his head and neck.

Another picture of the previous pair Rosie and Garbanzo snuggling.

This time, the sheets on the human bed are blue. Rosie is lying on top of her dog bed on one side of the bed, and Garbanzo is lying where the human would sleep normally. They are both sleeping on their sides and their noses are touching even in slumber.

They look very content and comfortable, and clearly love each other.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Feb 8

Here, have some fuzzy bean tummy.

This is a close up of a cat's belly. The fur is soft and thick and fluffs out every which way.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Feb 8

Since a few of you are enamored of my cat Bean, here's a comparison of his kittenhood to his adult size.

That same kitten now fully grown, is lying against a 2l soda bottle. He is twice its length and 2 and a half times its width. He is simply massive, and his head seems to grow out of brawny shoulders because his neck is just that muscular.

(He is an absolute sweetie.)

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Feb 8

Finally got a good comparison picture of the both of them.

A pair of cats hanging out on top of a reptile vivarium. One of them is a cow cat, the other one is orange and white. The cat in the front is Bean, an absolutely huge cat, and the other one (who weighs 11 pounds) is Garbanzo, a relatively typical specimen of the kind.

Bean is at least twice Garbanzo's length.

Melissa Wong@favomancer· Feb 8

Oh and here is a good photograph of my handsome Bean son.