So it’s been a busy week for both writing and non-writing. I finished a belated present for my sister, an emotional support chicken in the colors of her favorite hockey team, the San Jose Sharks (or close enough with the yarn I had on hand). Of course the problem with making cute things for others […]
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If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know I occasionally talk about an Apiary Puff Quilt (crochet) or a Beehive Quilt (knit) I’m working on. Both use something referred to as hexapuffs, or six-sided yarn created puffs stuffed with acrylic filling to give it a three-D look. It’s become my go-to pattern to use up
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One of the things I’m known for are my knit and crochet costumes. I will wear something I’ve created when attending conventions. Sometimes I don’t want to walk the floor wearing a full costume made of twenty pounds of yarn. Sometimes it’s a fascinator or a shawl. Lately it has been a dragon perching on
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This has been another rough week at home. The day job was more stressful than usual since this is a quarter end, and I had to generate more reports than usual. Mom had a new medical issue pop up that we are having looked at closely. And my sister pointed out a discolored patch in
If you’ve read my bio or seen me at cons, you know that I cosplay. I’ve become known locally for my costumes created using knitted or crocheted pieces. This year will be no exception, since I have been asked to speak again at BayCon. I’m behind where I want to be in the fabrication phase,
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Lucy Ravenscar creates a lot of awesome amigurumi. Amigurumi is the Japanese term for small knitted or crocheted stuffed toys. I’ve made a few of her patterns, but one of my favorite is R2D2. The pattern is cleverly done using a lot of increases and decreases. The main body and center foot are all one piece.
Eleanor Hughes and I play tabletop roleplaying games. We are both unrepentant D10 addicts, and are constantly on the look out for the perfect dice bag. One of the first times I wore my R2D2 hat, Elanor commented she would love to have a R2D2 dice bag. It was one of those moments when I
Before I made those cunning hats for my friends, I made myself an R2D2 Beanie. This was the first hat that I made, and the entire reason I braved the insanity of double pointed needles. They are used for knitting small circumference circles, like socks, the top of a hat, or the base of a
Costumes are spawned by small ideas, not huge ones. My award winning Klingon K’ntt’r of House Cr’chet costume is a fine example of that. As I was leaving the BayCon 2012 Masquerade, I got stopped by a few people. They were aware that this was my first masquerade, and encouraged me to keep on making
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Sometimes it’s not about the big sweeping costumes. Sometimes it’s about the accessories. Convolution 2013 had a masked ball instead of a masquerade. Instead of dressing in a costume, I used it as an opportunity to dress up. Except I had one problem. I am blind as a bat without corrective lenses of some sort.
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