Okay, I totally can’t remember this girl’s name, but she was so cute and was so nice to pose for me I just had to post it. This is the scarf I knit mainly during the keynote speech at Simucon (I was listening! I swear!) and some during the evening afterward. I was so glad she got it, because a) it was the cheapest thing on the table, b) she snapped it up when several had been mulling it over, and c) it just looks so right on her!
You go with your fashion-diva self, girl!
On a side note, Iocanthe. Hee! Faaaabulous, darling!
I have a niece with a birthday on Saturday, and she asked for a blue felted bag. I showed her some patterns, and she picked the one with pockets. So I made the small version of the bag.
It didn’t go well.
When I got to the top of the body of the bag, I realized I’d picked up a stitch somewhere. There was an extra stitch on one side of the bag. This is a result of trying to knit while doing other things, and having to put it down every five minutes, thus losing track of what I’m doing. But I figured, well, it won’t show when I felt it, right? Right?
Wrong.
This is the size before felting. This is the size after felting.(Note also lopsidedness still showing.) Why is this a problem? Because I made one for her sister that is this size. There’s no book for scale, but suffice it to say that big sister’s took two and a half times as much yarn to make, and I think it would hit the top of the Olivia book. As anyone with siblings knows, you CAN’T give two similar gifts, one twice as big as the other, to kids and expect it not to make waves.
I can’t give this to her. Maybe my daughter will want it for playing dress-up. Now I gotta make another one, and I just flatly do not have time to do that and ship it to another city by Saturday. Well, it’ll have to be late. Hopefully she’ll understand. Because kids always understand when their birthday presents are late, right? Right?
Sigh.
My japanese name is 猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 千秋 Chiaki (very fine in autumn).
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I picture a snow monkey with a very zen expression on its face wearing a robe crossing over a slightly arched wooden bridge as the leaves fall into the water below. I don’t want any of you sick freaks turning it into some kind of feces-throwing nightmare vision.
So I was too embarassed by the stoner hat to put it up for sale at Simucon, but that didn’t stop me from forcing various people to try it on.
I present: Guy Whose Name I Forgot! (Dude, if you still want a scarf, e-mail me and I’ll knock one out for ya. If not, no big, my plate’s always full anyway.) Miekhael. Festive, festive Miekhael. Always a pleasure, buddy. And GM Ceosanna, who may be the only person in existence who can wear the hat and look good in it. Note, however, that not even the hat can distract from the evil GM-ness expressed in her demonic red eyes. Or it could just be the booze. Same difference.
Also, I had frogged the few rows I’d knit on the mother-in-law scarf until I had time to actually do it properly. That time was this week, since her birthday’s coming up. So here it is! It’s 2 1/2 skeins of Noro Lotus worked in a seed stitch. (Cast on uneven number of rows, k1p1 to end of row, then turn around and do it again.) You can’t see the detail, so here’s a closer-up view. I swear it’s not actually that radioactively bright. The picture of the yarn itself is much more accurate.
My mother-in-law has the ability to wear things with style and flair, and she bought a black coat last winter and mentioned she wanted something to wear with it. My hubby pointed out that most of her wardrobe palette is reds, so we went with that.
I think she’ll like it.
Next: a metaphor-laden lacy red and purple wool shawl for a friend who needs a warm hug and a blue purse for the middle sister who hasn’t gotten one yet!
ETA: Miekhael reminds me that Dude Whose Name I Forgot is actually Dailian. Thanks, sugar! Mwah!
Okay, this is totally unrelated to knitting or DR or anything, but it can’t hurt to ask!
Any of y’all ever play Zoo Tycoon? I’ve got it for my Mac, but a friend loaned me Zoo Tycoon Complete for my husband’s Windows machine, and I’m enjoying that even more. I like playing it, particularly with my daughter, who wants to make dinosaurs and other fun stuff. However, I was playing a bit to unwind after two meetings last night, and ran into a problem.
Dinosaur eggs won’t hatch. They’ll rock like they’re going to, but they don’t. Ever.
Also, ice age animals are invisible. I placed two invisible wooly rhinos and an invisible sabertoothed tiger last night. They acted like they were there – responding to things placed in their environment with happy and frowny faces over the place where they should be, but they were completely invisible.
I can’t seem to locate a patch for this. Is it just me? Anyone else have this problem? I don’t wanna reinstall!
P.S. – did you know that in Zoo Tycoon, if you put penguins in with any other animal, the penguins will ALWAYS win the inevitable fight?
Tyrathia’s chocolate cheesecake is so good that I paid an extra 10 bucks for a suite with a refrigerator so that I could keep it fresh on the road. It was sooooo worth it.
Thank you, Tyrathia! And my family will surely thank you tonight! Hell, I may force random strangers on the road to eat some. Woooooooooo, sugar rush!
Man, if this isn’t the funnest time of the year, I don’t know what is.
I’ll post more when I’m coherent, which may be August.
