Today at work I am mostly being grumpy and procrastinating by uploading all the patterns I have saved on this computer to my google drive, and blogging.
It's too warm, my boss is doing my head in, and quite frankly I hate everything about this job apart from the bit where occasionally they remember to pay me.
So the first thing to blog is going to be a pair of completely seasonally inappropriate knitted mitts!
When I'm not crafting or working or sleeping, I do a thing called Live Action Roleplay (or LARP, or LRP, depending on who you ask). It's like a combination of Dungeons and Dragons mixed with historical re-enactment, and I've heard it described as cross country pantomime before.
We run around the woods (or fields) dressed up as Elves and Dwarves and humans and fight monsters and do politics and fake!religion and have all sorts of fun.
I have big LARP (Empire) that I help run and is terrifying and huge and is in a field and people pay lots of money for, and I have small LARP (pathfinder) that I've been helping to run for nearly 15 years and which I have invested a lot of time and money and blood into.
One of the players at pathfinder has a sort of stone golem character, and she fell in love with my pair of astra mitts, which look like they could be stone covered in moss. Since I had failed at making her anything for her birthday, I offered to make her a pair.
So. Mitts.
These are the Astra Mitts pattern, again, and again in River Knits Towpath and Cairn on DK. It's squishy, warm and knits up with gorgeous definition, which for a pattern like this is pretty important.
These were going really well until the heatwave really hit, at which point knitting small fiddly things with DK became the last thing in the world I wanted to do.
At risk of being gross, I sweat a lot, and my hands sweat, and that just leads to accidental felting, which is the worst.
That and it became apparent that wearing them for the event they were needed for was not going to happen because of the heat!
Anyway, these knitted up in like, a week and a half, with breaks and a panic because I couldn't find my 4mm DPNs.
One of them has a mistake on the cuff where rather than knitting through the front loop on the twisted ribbing I purled through the front loop. It doesn't actually look much different, but it's further proof that I am completely incapable of properly reading instructions!
The friend that they are for has them now, and is properly pleased with them, and a couple of other people have looked at them and gone "oooh"
It's too warm, my boss is doing my head in, and quite frankly I hate everything about this job apart from the bit where occasionally they remember to pay me.
When I'm not crafting or working or sleeping, I do a thing called Live Action Roleplay (or LARP, or LRP, depending on who you ask). It's like a combination of Dungeons and Dragons mixed with historical re-enactment, and I've heard it described as cross country pantomime before.
We run around the woods (or fields) dressed up as Elves and Dwarves and humans and fight monsters and do politics and fake!religion and have all sorts of fun.
I have big LARP (Empire) that I help run and is terrifying and huge and is in a field and people pay lots of money for, and I have small LARP (pathfinder) that I've been helping to run for nearly 15 years and which I have invested a lot of time and money and blood into.
One of the players at pathfinder has a sort of stone golem character, and she fell in love with my pair of astra mitts, which look like they could be stone covered in moss. Since I had failed at making her anything for her birthday, I offered to make her a pair.
So. Mitts.
These are the Astra Mitts pattern, again, and again in River Knits Towpath and Cairn on DK. It's squishy, warm and knits up with gorgeous definition, which for a pattern like this is pretty important.
These were going really well until the heatwave really hit, at which point knitting small fiddly things with DK became the last thing in the world I wanted to do.
At risk of being gross, I sweat a lot, and my hands sweat, and that just leads to accidental felting, which is the worst.
That and it became apparent that wearing them for the event they were needed for was not going to happen because of the heat!
Anyway, these knitted up in like, a week and a half, with breaks and a panic because I couldn't find my 4mm DPNs.
One of them has a mistake on the cuff where rather than knitting through the front loop on the twisted ribbing I purled through the front loop. It doesn't actually look much different, but it's further proof that I am completely incapable of properly reading instructions!
The friend that they are for has them now, and is properly pleased with them, and a couple of other people have looked at them and gone "oooh"
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