Power to the Craft.

ravelry2

2007-09-22T15:55:00.000-07:00

Found you!
You signed up on July 17, 2007
You are #18070 on the list.
1946 people are ahead of you in line.
16726 people are behind you in line.
46% of the list has been invited so far

I have about eight more days if they keep it up and I did my math right :D. On average they invite 227.5 people everyday :D.

Woot, ravelry

2007-09-01T20:32:00.000-07:00

You signed up on July 17, 2007
You are #18070 on the list.
6951 people are ahead of you in line.
12231 people are behind you in line.
36% of the list has been invited so far

And that's down from 1730 earlier today, and 7111 last night at this time.
(And nearly 1900 last month.)

meme

2007-08-12T16:45:00.001-07:00

4. Love it! This is my thing.
Knitting(sort of.), drawing, Jewelry working/wire working, sewing, Character making, Gardening, ECT.
3. I do or have dabbled in it.
Cooking, Painting, Macramé, henna, clay sculpture(I was good at it, just poor.), making sandcastles by free-hand, Oragami(I actually got quite good, but I gave up :P.), HTML/Coding, Photo manip, Wood carving, Doll making, custom artwork, Etching, Candle making, Paper-mâché, Stone wrapping, Crochet, and lastly, floral arrangements .
2. I'll give it a try.
Wood Burning, Basketry, Needle Point, Glass Blowing, Furniture Making(one thing getting in the way of this: Money. My father has all the tools :P.), car decals, Pulling/suspension, and Play piercing.
1. I've got absolutely no interest.
Rug Hooking, Balloon Animal Making, Racing, or playing a game of "chicken" with anything.

Humour me, people.

2007-08-01T14:58:00.000-07:00

Do I just have a gigantic head, or have other people had to make hats bigger than the pattern says?
I've been following a pattern for nearly 6 mo, and to no avail have I had it fit.
BUT! My gauge matches irregardless of the fact that I had to jump up a size to get it, and I did it in 90 sts around, as well as 108 sts around.
With the 90sts, it was a beenie, which when you do actually have a big head, is not good.
The second time I make it with 108 sts around, it looked like it should fit someone whom suffers from gigantisism.(Big feet, big hands, big heads, ECT.)
WTF!!!!!!!!!! This is bull! If I wasn't poor i'd just go up ANOTHER size and follow the origional 90sts, but I -cannot- afford more circs or DPN's, never the less, I have -never- seen size 9 double knitting needles in a pack of 5.

You see, the first ever reason that I was going to make a hat, was that last year during the victorian stroll, it was cold. And I don't own any winter hats, nor have I for at least the last seven years, and I never had a hat because I think I look dorky in them - granted having a gigantic head does not help. I've been thinking about taking the yarn that Pounce used for my scarf to make the hat - the yarn I have is shot from being ripped and knitted over and over again.

GAAAAAAGH!!!

5 things

2007-07-26T22:26:00.000-07:00

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

1. BitterSweet
2. Ren Knits
3. left-handed knitting in a world of right-handers
4. Fat Chick Crafts
5. Power to the craft.

Next, select five people to tag:
1. Pounce
2. any who read this
3. see above.
4. ^
5. ^

What were you doing ten years ago?
Summer of 1997 - I was seven years old, and not doing much.

What were you doing one year ago?
Pretty much the same stuff O-o....

Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Gum
2. Soda
3. Crackers
4. Salty things
5. Cheesy things.

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:
1. KDA - Puppinlied
2. Nuroticfish - They're coming to take me away.
3. Rob Zombie - Iron head.
4. Eminem - Mosh.
5. Black sabbath - War pigs.

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Go to collage.
2. Buy a medium house in NY.
4. Have my tattoo removed.
5. Fill said house with shit-tons of yarn.

Five bad habits:
1. I swear a lot.
2. I am really grumpy when in large groups.
3. I degrade myself a lot.4. I give up too easily.
5. I feel like I am the bad one in every situation.

Five things you like doing:
1. Sleeping
2. Pressing "Random article" on Wiki.
3. Smooshing my face into my cat's fat belly.
4. Knitting
5. Drawing.

Five things you would never wear again:
1. Pink.
2. Bangs/feathering.
3. Super-baggy shorts.(Think baggy enough to see my underpants.)
4. Pointy-toed shoes.
5. Lip liner.

Five favorite toys:
1. My computer.
2. Mom's sewing machine.
3. My drawing board :D.
4. Mom's drill :D.
5. My camera.

2007-07-08T14:20:00.000-07:00

All right - I jumped the gun at gettign PO'ed at the Chenelle, it's behaving now :P. I am not attempting a cabled scarf atthe moment, it would make tinkering with this yarn too diffucult.
(Cables, are essentally when you knit the stitch after the first stitch on your left Needle, and thsi twist makes the knitting a bit tighter. That and I have barely mastered Cables :P)

Grr.

2007-07-03T14:30:00.000-07:00

So, I got six 3oz balls of lion brand suede in wine(For 6 dollars), I -had- planned on making a scarf with it, but its a FUCKING BITCH to work with. At least with knitting, I renember using something similar to it for Davinya's black chenille scarf, and I don't renember it being such a PAIN IN THE ASS.
I'm hoping as I get farther along in knitting it that it will be easier to use - but I haven't even gotten off of the cast-on yet.(That should tell Vin and pounce quite a bit. I usually refuse to leave something on it's cast-on. OCD much?)
I also cranked up the needle size, hoping that would make it a bit eisier, but nope.(It has a reccommended size 9, with 12sts to the inch, i'm using size 11, no idea on the gauge yet.)
So...Yeah. The hat ~~must have~~ has an inch of ribbing done(out of 4 inches. Then 4 inches of straight stockinette, then dec's every 18th st, still in stockinette, until there's nothing left to dec.), my big stockings still have ~~3 rounds of black ribbing~~(finished the black, 7/5/07), 10 rnds of purple ribbing, 20 rnds of stockinette, ect, ect, ect. The little stocking has 2 more stripes before calf shaping is started, then I do 40 rnds of plain stockinette, and start working on the short-row heel, 10(15?20? I have to check the big pattern.) rnds plain stockinette then work on an alternate toe to the stockings, because I hate seams against my toes.(With a passion, and so does pretty much everyone else in my family :P.)

minisocks.

2007-06-28T22:44:00.000-07:00

So, before I go and commit myself to poddibly having to take apart my socks again, I have decided to make a sock that is literally half the stiches in length and width.
It's about halfway done and it's probibly cumulitively taken me 6 hours...over the process of three days :P.
Hopefully I'll get to the foot of this sock - and I am debating on making a set(To sell....4 dollars sounds good, that'll get me a replacemnt yarnball.), or just making it one of my new stockings that are hung up at the house.
*shrug*

Anybody know a little girl that likes purple and black?

meme

2007-06-24T03:04:00.000-07:00

Here are the rules: You go to Wikipedia's historical page and select your birthday (only the month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 2 births, 1 holiday, and then you tag 5 friends.
Events
1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece
1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed. 1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
Births
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
Holiday
Brazil - Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).

And I tag whoever reads this and hasen't already done it.

Blessed Litha

2007-06-22T17:22:00.000-07:00

Knitting and trying some new P-editing formulas.

2007-06-20T20:41:00.000-07:00

So...Yeah, a few people know that I had to rip back my knitting to almost the beginning - I've decided to divise my own pattern from hereon, it goes as follows:
CO 80 sts, work in k1 p1 for 20 rnds - change colour every 10, 15, or 20 rnds.
Work in sst for 90 rnds(this should end abt the knee.) - on every tenth row, decrese by ktog at the sides of the stocking, with the join in the back. (You should have 20 st before, and after the join. Use any join you prefer, I simply knot then with tight square knots, then weave the ends in.)
Working the calf: k 5 rnds, dec, k5 rnds, dec. ECT. until you have half of the cast on sts left. Work 30 rnds in sst, then begin short-row shaping for the heel, using double thick(doubled yarn) for the soles to prevent wear and aid in cushioning.

This is the pictures of the current project. I need a ST n' B to get the chutzpa going T_T.

And now to the Photo editing.
Castus
On this I tried to fix the blown highlights on his skin - obviously I didn't get to his arm - there are a few other things I did - removed under eye bags, lightened some little mean things :P.

Teuful
Off the bat I can remember two things I did - I got rid of his angry vein, and darkened the eyebrows. The latter wasn't intentional, but it happened.

Party like it's 1990.

2007-06-17T16:17:00.001-07:00

Err, yes, I have this bad habit of -not- dating or signing my artwork unless it's online - so I have a stack of undated papers that existed from before my accounts at Elfwood, Imageshack, Photobucket, DA, or even my last blog.
That's the sole reason for my copyright extending from 1990 to 2007+.

Testing.

2007-06-17T16:15:00.000-07:00

This is a test.

Like...omg.