what are you making?

[murlough23]

Hey, your cat kinda looks like ours, but younger.

[enemy anemone]

cuuuuuuuuuuute! I especially like the lynx-like tufts on the ears.

[Vlad!]

The cat reminds me of these kitties:



Mostly due to the "I will only tolerate this until you get within clawing distance" look.

Edit: modified the pix to be less freaking huge

[enemy anemone]

...a *special* hell...

I'm not above trying to place things on the cats (and I only do so when they're relaxed and too lazy to run away at the sight of me approaching with Strange Things in my evil clutches), but I draw the line at trying to stuff them into sweater-type things, especially costumes.

pineapple kitteh made me think of this cat with a punkinhead hat. (not my photo. or cat. or punkinhead hat.)



in an attempt to keep this post semi on topic, here are some socks I made. the pattern was inspired by Fred and George Weasley.

[enemy anemone]

recently I made a lacy scarf for my mom. I just now realized that the pattern looks something like the fancy pips us moderator-types have here on teh phorum.



 

[Wildcatblue7]

oo, pretty scarf!

I'm about to "make" one last research paper.  However, I am currently making an amazing display of procrastination.  I CAN'T CONCENTRATE.

I have senioritis and I'm only a sophomore...

[who me?]

Hehe. Pretty scarf..

and it looks exactly like your pips.

I'm not procrastinating over anything, just wasting time

The only thing I made recently, other than trouble, was roast lamb for tea the other night and a new MySpace layout.

Oh, oh, and my new signature too.

[spacebrat311]

A poem:

A soft, glaring light
The refrigerator hums anarchy
and calls the other appliances to rebellion.

"Lies!" I say to the Toaster
your facade may be White
but your heart is as Black as mine. (or the coffeemaker's)

"Of course," it replies.
"If I follow the refrigerator I will surely die.
For his way is bleak and cold
and preserves the old,
but still I cannot help you.
For you are a harsh master,
it is 4 AM,
and if your toaster speaks to you, it is time for bed."

[enemy anemone]

it's cylon time!

thanks, whome? and Wildcat.

roast lamb sounds yum. (we don't have a "yum!" face, but we have two "yuck!" faces...maybe I will take the  face and flip the tongue and see how that looks.)

I made soup. with frozen stir-fry vegetables. which was odd; it just seemed like stir-fry vegetables floating around in chicken broth. so I cut them up with kitchen shears. and then it seemed like soup. XD

[dgp11776]

I made this over the past two days for a baby shower my wife hosted tonight.  It's called Devil's Food Cheesecake.  It was, if I may not so humbly say, awesome.

[who me?]

Mmmmm. I want some.

I taught my sister to read today. Actually, she already knew how to read. She just didn't want to.

But she gets it now, and is well on the way to being as crazy as me.

[who me?]

haha. I found this and thought of you guys. They're dogs, but still.

[Ian]

I'm make a little graphic story thingy for a class, the beginning of which you can see here.  I've got 4 pages done, with 8 left.  I had all the drawings done and just needed to color them, but my book disappeared from the computer lab.  When I asked the person who cleans the lab about it, she said, "Oh, I guess I saw some old papers with some rough sketches on them.  I'm supposed to throw trash away, so that's what I did with it."  Me: "..."

The thing is due Thursday, so I am working frantically to get it redrawn by then, which really isn't cool, because this is the last week of school and I have a bunch of other things due.  Mainly I'm mad that she called my drawings trash though.

[enemy anemone]

wow, Ian, I'm sorry.
the Eskimo story looks really cool. I love the stuffed animal eggplant creature and want to know what he's up to.

poor doggies. such furmiliation!

devil's food cheesecake looks yummmmmmmmm.

[Ian]

Heh, no worries, it could be worse. ^_^

[enemy anemone]

I'm experimenting with making my own laundry detergent.

[who me?]

Fun! I made my own soap once, both liquid and solid have basically the same recipe, but I made solid. The origional soap smelt good, but I didn't wash my jar properly and it all smelt like off pickles

[enemy anemone]

pickle soap!

funny thing, I melted some of the soap in a jar that once held curry sauce. I don't think it still smelled like curry...but I guess I'll find out when the load of laundry is done!

[murlough23]

Fun! I made my own soap once, both liquid and solid have basically the same recipe, but I made solid. The origional soap smelt good, but I didn't wash my jar properly and it all smelt like off pickles

Apparently Jesus has side effects.

NP: "White as Snow", Jon Foreman

[enemy anemone]

I don't know much about hyperbolic planes but I remember reading that the first usable model was made with crochet. when I came across the Practically Hyperbolic Dishcloth pattern I decided to learn a bit more crochet, a little bit more math, and maybe wash a dish or two. 


it's alive!


it attacks cups!

(actually I probably won't use the cloth for dishes--it seems too dangerous--but I might use it for my face.)

[who me?]

Hahaha. That's actually kinda scary...

I love your photo stories

[enemy anemone]

=) thanks!

[enemy anemone]

April was the month of finishing stuff. (I just now got around to photographing them.)


this Gryffindor bag would've been finished months ago but the crocheted border was not my friend. knit and crochet should not mix.


good thing I finished this wool sweater in time for summer.  I lie in wait for winter.

also the other day I made breadsticks from herb pizza dough I got from Trader Joe's. yum.

[enemy anemone]

herb breadsticks sliced in half longways and slathered with cream cheese are almost the same as bagels but completely different.

[enemy anemone]

the beginning of an upcoming project:



the colorway is called Miles, after the Over the Rhine song.

I plan to spin it into yarn and then knit socks. 

[enemy anemone]

I made cookies and then I made a picture.

(I don't know why I chose to focus on that particular cookie. it got smooshed a little bit by my chomper oven mitt.)

[who me?]

Oooh. I want one!

They remind me of sugar buns, which are quite possibly my favouritest food ever.

[enemy anemone]

life gave me not-enough bits of wool fiber. I spun it anyway...



...and knitted a lemon/lime/limon/leme thing with half of it.



one isn't enough for wooly limonade so it will just be decorative. I want to knit another fruit with the cream/yellow portion of the yarn but am not sure what. there's not enough for a banana...or is there?

[enemy anemone]

this is what happens when a knitting geek becomes something of a Bob Dylan geek.



"it ain't no use to knit and wonder why babe"

[bethany]

Ooh, I like that one a lot.

[enemy anemone]

thanks! :D

[bethany]

Do you ever make things on commission? Because seriously, I would pay money for that scarf. It's lovely.

[enemy anemone]

thanks! I have made a few things on commission, but they were all knitted at a larger gauge. items like this with a smaller gauge and more stitches take a lot longer to make (I was starting to call this the second scarf of doom, the first one being a Harry Potter scarf), which jacks the price higher than what people are generally willing to pay and yet doesn't pay me very well. so I kinda learned to say no, rather than devalue my time/skill and give people sticker shock at the same time.

however, the stitch is just a modified garter stitch in two colors, so it looks more complicated than what it actually is. if you know the basics of knitting you could easily knit it yourself!

[bethany]

That makes sense. Still, you should think about an Etsy shop. It seems there are plenty of people who shop there who are willing to pay an actual fair price for good, handmade goods.

[enemy anemone]

I had signed up for etsy a couple years ago and I keep meaning to add some stuff to it and make more stuff. but apparently I get bored making the same thing more than once, and I can't bear to part with the one item I did make. :\

[bethany]

Do you have a pattern for the Dylan-esque scarf? I am not sure I should undertake it, as my fatal knitting flaw is impatience, but I'd love to have it on hand if I should get so bold as to attempt a more time-consuming project.

[enemy anemone]

yep! basically the pattern is knit three, slip one, knit three, slip one, with a few knit stitches for a border or offset a couple of stitches to stagger the colors.

abbreviations: K = knit; sl = slip (move stitch from left needle to right needle as if to purl; do not knit or purl the stitch.)

cast on a multiple of 4 stitches + 3 stitches (e.g. 31 stitches) with color A.  then join color B and start stitch pattern.

row 1 (color B): K 3, *Sl 1, K 3*, repeat from * to * until end.

row 2 (color B): knit.

row 3 (color A): K 1, *Sl 1, K 3*, repeat from * to * until last 2 stitches, Sl 1, K 1.

row 4 (color A): knit.

repeat these 4 rows until desired length. bind off on row 4 to keep the ends the same color.

I used US size 7 needles and a light worsted weight wool/alpaca yarn, about 75 grams/165 yards of each color. my scarf is a little over 5 feet long since I like scarves to be at least as long as I am tall. seems proportionate that way, but of course it could be shorter.

I got addicted to this stitch pattern and made some cotton handtowels and potholders. 
   
that might be a good test project to get the hang of the pattern. big enough to be something besides a swatch but not too big to finish if you find the stitch isn't fun for you.

let me know if you have any questions! also, knittinghelp.com is an excellent resource for step-by-step instructions if you need a refresher on anything. their videos are especially helpful!

[enemy anemone]

I tried a new recipe for zucchini/raisin cookies. I used a pint of grated zucchini I had frozen earlier. the cookies are pretty good. next time I will cut down on the sugar.

[enemy anemone]

I just finished an eggplant hat of my own devising.

 

it is based on a hat from Gilmore Girls.



I also made a fingerless glove and am working on the other one.



I had used yellow-orange food coloring to overdye the yarn--it used to be a pastel rainbow.



I'm so much happier with orange and green!

[spacebrat311]

Just finished a Halloween costume.

Part fandom. Part humor. All a hell of a lot of fun.