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
My Jedi Knight Giza Secura was a character I came up with shortly after finishing Kn’tt’r of House Cr’chet. I had wanted to make a knit lightsaber for a while and the Twilek hat was the perfect touch to make my Jedi unusual. I designed a robe, an tabard/obi, a belt, and modified a slipper pattern to
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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
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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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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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This is the first costume I made most of the parts without a pattern. I’m proud of it for that reason. At the same time, I can see all the flaws. If I were making it again, I would be do it very differently. Eyelash yarn was the obvious choice for it. The problem is that
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One of my hobbies is creating costumes to wear at conventions and other events. I loved playing dress-up as a child. When I discovered conventions and Renaissance fairs, I was thrilled to find out that I didn’t have to wait until Halloween to wear a costume. But I had one problem. My grandmother was the
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I fell in love with this alien pattern the moment I saw it. I’ve made up a whole abduction of aliens and handed them out as gifts to friends who were fans of The X-Files. When I saw how cute they turned out, I had to abduct one for myself. He sits on my desk at
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I’ve been working on my Apiary Puff Quilt now for three months. I’ve made some good progress, but I have much more to go. I have completed 50 puffs out of the estimated 200 needed. I’ve got new concerns about it. It turns out that I have a lot of dark-shaded yarns. One of the
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