Art Rec: He’ll have to bust out of the hospital

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

Title: He’ll have to bust out of the hospital.
Artist: barachiki
Pairing: none
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Verse: BBC Sherlock

Reccer's comments: Whenever I’m in need of a giggle to light up my day I visit barachiki in hopes of some silliness and nine times out of ten she provides. I’m addicted to her knit!lock verse, a whole treasure trove of manips in which Sherlock is perhaps the world’s only consulting detective but first and foremost the world’s only knitting detective. Even when recuperating from a shot wound he’s busy contemplating yarns and patterns. Isn’t he lucky to have acquired a flatmate with a great taste in jumpers? He can’t crochet, though, and that really annoys him.

Apart from the fun I think this manip is executed beautifully as well. The arms, the hands, it all looks totally convincing. To me, at least.

Comments

[swissmarg]

*squee!!!* Thank you for reccing barachiki, they are a genius of crack. Not just the manips themselves but the captions and tags on their posts. Top notch stuff.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

That is hilarious! Thanks so much for the rec, I'd never run across this stuff before. Hee!

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree with you more. *g*

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

It's great! Did you see the goldfish hat Sherlock knitted for Greg? So much fun.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

I love her knitting Sherlock! And he knits English, too (well, in most of them). Telling, that.

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

LOL. Please, don't tell me the English have their own way of knitting. (Not hailing from the Anglo-Saxon world I really wouldn't know.)

[unovis.livejournal.com]

There are variations, but the two basic ways of holding yarn and making a stitch are English and Continental (European). Her moving gifs actually show both, but more often English (my mother knits Continental and I knit English; I think English is slower, but I can't break the habit). Google has lots of links to vids and arguments and explanations.

ETA: I don't know, it makes him kind of homely and endearing, rather than rational and efficient. To me, anyway.

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

Well, one lives and learns every day, obviously. I simply hadn't the faintest. And I love the idea of arguing over proper knitting methods. As long as people don't start stabbing each other with those needles. Which would be an appropriate crime for knit!lock to investigate. *g*

Actually, whatever method is actually used, I love the contrast of the consulting detective of the show and knit!lock. This picture embodies that the best I think:

and-then-there-was-the-afternoon-that-sherlock (http://barachiki.tumblr.com/post/31465121551)

[reixilu.livejournal.com]

LOL! To quote John, "That. Was. Amazing." Am bookmarking barachiki, dammit!

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad you like it. I keep giggling over the things she does.