Snape Snape Severus Snape (Dumbledore!)

Because I'm such a fangirl, this project gets a post allllll to itself. :)

Recently, my friends and I went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I was about the dorkiest among them, and I was the only one who (semi) dressed up. I wore a Slytherin Tshirt that I have, lightning bolt earrings, and I had pink hair like Tonks. I tried to dress up like as many people as possible. :) I had been considering knitting a house scarf for a while, and even had bought the yarn already, but somehow it got pushed to the back burner and I forgot (typical...). BUT seeing that movie inspired me to make one, so I immediately dug out the burgundy and gold yarn. What I really wanted was a Slytherin scarf, but since I already had the Gryffindor yarn, I decided to start with that. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my 16 inch bamboo circulars, so I had to go to Hobby Lobby and buy some new needles. It set me back about a week because it took me that long to save up the $4 (I had to count change from my change jar because I'm a poor about-to-be college student) and find a ride to the store. But I managed, and finally, using the wonderful pattern from atypically.knit, I cast on!
This is just after knitting the first golden stripe. It kind of looks like a hat at this point. It's less...purple in real life. The gold is also more, well, gold than in these pictures. I was so proud of getting that first 27 burgundy rounds finished that I took a picture of my stich counter to immortalize the moment. :) I was a little afraid of knitting in the round, just because I had never actually done it before, but I actually think I like it better this way. Whenever I knit flat, my edges are always loose, but I avoid that issue when using circs. I was also afraid that when knitting in the round, my joins would be loose because my edges are always loose, but other than the color changes, I can't even tell where my joins are, so that's good.

This is how far I am now. I've just finished the second set of gold stripes. This is what the real color looks like. It's actually starting to look like a scarf! Since I'm working on this and Clapotis at the same time, I carry them both with me, and work on one when I get sick of the other. I guess it's pretty obvious which one I'm more into right now. ;P

Woah...is this a BLOG?!

Haha I'm baaaaack! And while I haven't done much crafting this summer, I did do a little. So here it comes:

Here's my current crochet WIP, a pretentious, aloof, hipster Cthulhu!

He listens to bands so obscure, they don't even know they exist yet!

I still need to make arms and wings for him, but that'll have to come later.

"C'mon, Cthulhu, stop pretending you're too cool for me...I love you" :)

Also in that picture is a pair of delightfully mismatched fingerless gloves that I made with my very first skein of Noro Kureyon! I'm officially in love with that stuff, but unfortunately I just can't afford $10 a skein, so that's probably the only Noro thing I'll have for a while. Also, since I improvised the pattern for the gloves, they came out a bit big, especially the thumb hole. But I'm still proud of them. :)

On my knitting needles right now is a loverly Clapotis, which I admittedly don't like as much as I thought I did. I mean, I'll probably finish it, but only because I've already started it.

It's being made with Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino in Old Rose. It's a lovely yarn, but I only chose this yarn because it was the only one that I could afford to get enough yardage. I think that a sock yarn might be too thin. Other people have used it and it worked just fine, but I just don't think it works for me. Oh well, we'll see I guess.

:)

Je ne suis pas mort...je pense...

I have been crafting, I swear. I just can't post any pictures up right now. And who wants to hear me talk about things I'm making? People want pictures!

Unfortunately, the "good" computer crashed, and now the only computer that works in the house is a ten-year-old iMac (which, I might add, is ten years old and STILL WORKS. I can't say the same for the BRAND NEW PC, which has crashed twice in as many years.) Sadly, the PC was the computer that I used the most because the iMac is just too old and small (it has a whopping 10G hard drive...my ipod is bigger than that...) and can't handle all my pictures/music. (Which are gone now, thank you very much Windows.) 

For those of you who are wondering (and by that I mean that one lonely, lovely follower I have (thank you Lauria, for making my day :) )) I have made a crocheted hat, and I'm working on two scarves, one crocheted, and one knit, with crocheted edging. I'd show you how good they look, but since I can't upload pictures, you'll just have to take my word for it. 

I'll try to get pictures up, but as it is, my relationship with technology is a little unstable at the moment. I'm afraid if I plug my camera into the iMac, it just might explode or something.

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Upon reading over this post, I just became aware of how much I love adding things in using parentheses.

Just a Tad of Crafty ADD...

...could be to blame for this:

Starting this little ditty puts my WIP count at four. Nonetheless, I've decided that the endless rows of HDC's on the bodice of my dress has become something akin to purgatory...so I'm giving knitting another go. I haven't knitted since 9th grade. After I horrible failed at it the first time, I tried it again (three years later) and discovered that I was doing it wrong the whole time. No wonder I couldn't get it right back then. I also found out that I like continental knitting better than the American way, and the Norwegian Purl method is better than regular purling. It's more fun.

I'm thinking this is gonna be an iPod cozy...


...because my iPod has alrady decided that the soft pink yarn is just what he needs (he's very sure of his sexuality).


He even tried to crawl under it and go to sleep, and I had to remind him that it wasn't quite done yet. :)

BTW, the yarn I'm using here is a brand called I Love This Yarn! found exclusively at Hobby Lobby. It's 100% Acrylic, but it's about twice as soft as Red Heart Super Saver (and cheaper too, plus the skeins are slightly bigger than RHSS, I think). Unfortunately, as of now it's only available in a limited array of colors, but hopefully that will change sometime in the future. :)