About 5 months ago, I was looking at going to GenCon, and I really really really wanted to see if my online gamer friends would like to meetup there. The same guys who participate in the Grinding Ice, Moving Forward, and Space Race campaigns. My Tuesday night crew. My gamer friends. You see, aside from Daniel (GM […]
Ankylosaurus #1
I’m knitting some dinosaurs as bribes for my weekly D&D players. These are the guys who have put up with my well-meaning plot-destruction for 2 years. I promised a handknit dinosaur to any of them who come to Gencon and celebrate my 40th birthday with me there. Independently, they all expressed that their favorite dinosaur […]
Allosaurus– raaar!
I’ve been doing some knitting this week. First, I cast on and knitted this guy: It’s an Allosaurus for a RedditGifts swap recipient. The pattern is from Knitted Dinosaurs, by Tina Barrett, and the yarn is Cascade pima/cotton. Next up is another entrelac scarf I’m making, this time alternating some color-changing yarn with solid purple: […]
I made a thing!
It was another 4-year project, but I finally finished the red version of Joe’s Garden! It is made with a single continuous strand of JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/18, and I have 36 grams left, which by my calculations, is about 400 yards. The beads are gold glass seed beads, and there are about 680 of them […]
A Year-Long Project is Complete!
On January 6, 2013, I cast on the edge of a “weather scarf.” This is a concept-knitting project in which you really don’t know how it’ll look until it’s done. The pattern is called the “My Year in Temperatures” scarf, by Kristen Cooper. The pattern is basic: select in advance a different color yarn for […]