nerd knits

Christmas creeps ever closer, and the knitbloggers seem to be falling into three camps:
1) Yay! It’s Christmas/Chanukah/Yule/Festivus/whatever! I love the holidays! I have a beautiful tree/menorah/appropriate holiday symbol, gorgeous decorations, cookies and cakes and yummy things to eat! All my gifts are finished and wrapped and I’m just going to [...]

I’m a bad, bad blogger.
I barely knit all weekend. Bradon and I were up until 5:00 Saturday morning writing for the game Saturday night. Normally I’d make it up to you with pictures of people in pretty costumes. I’d at least have a couple shots of me dressed up as a sluagh [...]

Bradon and I finally got around to using the Stiffy…on the bookmarks. Sheesh…get your mind out of the gutter.
Lesson #1: Do not allow Stiffied knitting to dry on cardboard. The glue-like substance will STICK TO THE CARDBOARD. (I amaze myself sometimes. Even more amazing is that I looked at the bookmarks [...]

(Boring title, eh?)
To sum up: hectic, but fun.
Friday night Bradon and I busted our arses to get all the stuff for BloodShadows done. It was 10:20 by the time we finished, and we were supposed to grab dinner and meet a couple friends for a movie by 10:45. We skipped dinner for popcorn [...]

Wanna see my scarf?

Oh! Oh, dear. Um…hmm. That doesn’t seem to be a Harry Potter scarf, does it? How did that happen?
From the unofficial, unwritten, totally-made-up-on-the-fly Knitter’s Rulebook:
A knitter is not considered to be unfaithful to his or her really boring, really long, really annoying second Harry Potter scarf if:
a) The [...]

Note to self: find longer towels.

There it is, in all its blocking glory. I meant to get it blocked in the afternoon and get the fringe on it last night, but I was driven to distraction by the immense clutter of my kitchen/dining room/living room and so spent most of the night cleaning. [...]

The universe had been hinting at it all week, but as of yesterday I can officially say that autumn has come to Colorado. Yesterday was just about the perfect day – cool and crisp, with just that bare hint of warmth when the sun hits you full on. The morning was full of [...]