Knitting cables!
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terrikoAnd, to offset the griping in my private posts today, here's a pretty picture of something I'm working on:
I took this photo for the Active Assignment Weekly flickr group, which gives a weekly photo challenge. I haven't been participating much for a variety of reasons, but this week's challenge was "big and small" and the knitting was right there.
I have to say, though I love the final look of knitted cables, they are the most hand cramping awfulness at that size and my level of experience. The metal needles are new, purchased because I have horribly bent the wooden ones in that size that I was using. Glad I started on the wood, or I'd have given up in despair over dropped stitches on slippery needles, but I'm also glad I switched because it's so much easier now that I've got the hang of it. And I'm glad I didn't give up, 'cause gloves are a nice size to carry around and now that the first one's close to done I'm so darned pleased with myself for managing it! I have clearly leveled up in knitting between this and the chunky lace scarf I've been working on.
Next up: finishing my long-neglected pony for Katie (she has hair now, but I'm rubbish at embroidering cutie marks on crochet...) more crocheted angry birds for people to play with at the Albuquerque mini maker faire, and finishing my set of mane 6 teensy tiny felted crochet ponies. Plus a Top Secret present project that must be done before the end of September.
I am also trying very hard not to get drawn into making an arcade sona dress. I've been playing some more LoL specifically because she was free in the pax swag bag and not only do I like playing support (something I didn't have a char for in LoL) but I also enjoy the cute little video game touches they put on that skin. The DDR attack forces people to dance!
Unfortunately, I'm not interested in spending a day wearing nothing but a bra on top, so it's not likely cosplay for me. But I am obsessed with her skirt right now with the pixels and the rainbows. I have a problem, I know.
Edit: because the Arcade Sona costume idea is in my brain now -- wouldn't it be cool to build her console and have the buttons make the light effects, including the DDR attack? I could totally find a little set of projector lights that would let me do that... Darnit, I'm not talking myself out of this anytime soon, am I?
I took this photo for the Active Assignment Weekly flickr group, which gives a weekly photo challenge. I haven't been participating much for a variety of reasons, but this week's challenge was "big and small" and the knitting was right there.
I have to say, though I love the final look of knitted cables, they are the most hand cramping awfulness at that size and my level of experience. The metal needles are new, purchased because I have horribly bent the wooden ones in that size that I was using. Glad I started on the wood, or I'd have given up in despair over dropped stitches on slippery needles, but I'm also glad I switched because it's so much easier now that I've got the hang of it. And I'm glad I didn't give up, 'cause gloves are a nice size to carry around and now that the first one's close to done I'm so darned pleased with myself for managing it! I have clearly leveled up in knitting between this and the chunky lace scarf I've been working on.
Next up: finishing my long-neglected pony for Katie (she has hair now, but I'm rubbish at embroidering cutie marks on crochet...) more crocheted angry birds for people to play with at the Albuquerque mini maker faire, and finishing my set of mane 6 teensy tiny felted crochet ponies. Plus a Top Secret present project that must be done before the end of September.
I am also trying very hard not to get drawn into making an arcade sona dress. I've been playing some more LoL specifically because she was free in the pax swag bag and not only do I like playing support (something I didn't have a char for in LoL) but I also enjoy the cute little video game touches they put on that skin. The DDR attack forces people to dance!
Unfortunately, I'm not interested in spending a day wearing nothing but a bra on top, so it's not likely cosplay for me. But I am obsessed with her skirt right now with the pixels and the rainbows. I have a problem, I know.
Edit: because the Arcade Sona costume idea is in my brain now -- wouldn't it be cool to build her console and have the buttons make the light effects, including the DDR attack? I could totally find a little set of projector lights that would let me do that... Darnit, I'm not talking myself out of this anytime soon, am I?
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Date: September 10th, 2012 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: September 10th, 2012 11:29 pm (UTC)Mind, the lack of desire to run around in only a bra isn't really the biggest strike against doing this costume. The two-toned long wigs alone could easily blow past my regular budget for such things (and dying my own hair is unlikely to be an option since I could be job hunting then). There's basically nothing thriftable in that outfit except the green gloves. The dress would probably be over $100 worth of fabric to get the colours and drape right, even if I played it carefully with the sales, and nevermind the hundreds of hours of quilting and experimentation. And the console would be more money again, plus I'd have to work with the constraints of making it light enough to carry all day, having enough power, and being possible to take on an airplane without getting flagged as a terrorist for having a home-made electronics project with me.
If I were more of a cosplayer, I'd be tempted, but I cosplay once a year and seldom wear a costume more than once... It's just not practical.
That said, it might be a thing I could put together piecemeal over a few years. If I hit a good fabric sale, I can definitely see doing the dress minus rainbow stars since it's a skirt I could just wear for my own geeky amusement. And the console might be fun to do since it could double as a ridiculous programmable control board for other projects. But the problem with doing this sort of thing over several years is tha the fashions of games change rapidly, and who's even going to recognize this by the time it's done?
So basically, if I do any of this, I probably won't bother solving the problems, I'll just do the bits that amuse me and leave the rest on the floor. ;)
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Date: September 10th, 2012 11:36 pm (UTC)And yes, I have clearly been putting way too much thought into this today. distracts from my upset stomach, anyhow.