I’ve been running around like crazy getting ready for WorldCon. I’m at the point of preparations where I question why I do this when it takes so much work to get ready for a vacation. On the plus side, I do have the latest draft of Chaos Wolf finished and out to my beta readers. […]
Breaking Blog Silence Read More »
I’m not updating my blog about anything too deep this week. I was told last minute about an unexpected visitor. That required me me to clean the house during the first half. The second half was taken up by Sherbert having a mystery illness requiring a vet visit. She’s fine, but Mom and I were
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… are from knitting needles and not a keyboard. Yesterday, I finished a set of gloves for my BayCon Variety Show costume. This leaves me with the following list of things to do – assemble the headpiece assemble the staff finish modifying the dress make a cloak make a redacted find a makeup tutorial edit
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I play a tabletop RPG with some friends at least once a month. We have a five or six hour session, and I will often bring along whatever knitting or crochet project I am working on. It gives me something to do with my hands while talking. Plus it’s always fun to see how Melissa Snark,
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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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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
Equally Skilled With A Bat’leth And Knitting Needles Read More »
This knitted costume based on Wonder Woman is the first costume I entered in a masquerade. I didn’t intend to enter one at all. January 2012, I came across a pattern on Ravelry called the Wonder Woman Jumper. I remember watching the television series completely enraptured with Lynda Carter’s portrayal of the Amazon princess. When I
You’re a wonder, Knit Wonder Woman! Read More »
This is the costume that started me thinking about entering masquerades. I made the shawl, the gloves, and the hat, grabbed a black skirt and blouse, laced myself into a corset, and put in a pair of fangs. Instant vampire. I wore it to BayCon 2011. I had one or two people ask to take
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