10 posts tagged “doctor who”
(I made these for the Ravelympics.)
Here is a quick picture parade of my latest FO, Ysolda Teague's Rose Red.
Oh, and I did some more holiday yarn shopping at Wool & Co. in Geneva, IL.
BUT! I was good and only got yarn for patterns in my Ravelry queue.
Totally unrelated:
I am seriously flipping out over tomorrow's Doctor Who episode. Although I have to admit, I am more concerned about Jack, Gwen & Ianto, and Sarah Jane than I am about Ten's pseudo-regeneration or whatever may happen. Please don't let Sarah Jane die! ah! ;_;
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I am seriously flipping out over tomorrow's Doctor Who episode. Although I have to admit, I am more concerned about Jack, Gwen & Ianto, and Sarah Jane than I am about Ten's pseudo-regeneration or whatever may happen. Please don't let Sarah Jane die! ah! ;_;
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My local library is awesome.
Because I am a poor and lowly college student, I am borrowing these books to get the patterns I want out of them. And there are some awesome ones!
On the way home I stopped at a local craft store and got:
On the way home I stopped at a local craft store and got:
This is Olivia, my new foam head display thingy. She's just lovely. And very dramatic.
As far as knitting stuff goes, I finished my bamboo cowl, though I'm not getting any good photos to turn out. So oh well. Maybe I'll get some action shots when the weather cools down ... oh wait, I'm moving to Texas. Well, maybe someday.
I recently got a pattern that I really liked from Glampyre Knits, so that is my project for today. I've had two skeins of Noro Kujaku sitting around for like three years. I need to use it.
In more nerdy news, I figured out how to use Boot Camp to partition my hard drive and install Windows on part of it. I feel like I've soiled my poor MacBook, but I really wanted to be able to watch movies on Netflix's Watch Instantly feature. So I had to do what I had to do. Now I can watch many glorious episodes of Classic Who without them being chopped into 20 pieces on YouTube.
As far as knitting stuff goes, I finished my bamboo cowl, though I'm not getting any good photos to turn out. So oh well. Maybe I'll get some action shots when the weather cools down ... oh wait, I'm moving to Texas. Well, maybe someday.
I recently got a pattern that I really liked from Glampyre Knits, so that is my project for today. I've had two skeins of Noro Kujaku sitting around for like three years. I need to use it.
In more nerdy news, I figured out how to use Boot Camp to partition my hard drive and install Windows on part of it. I feel like I've soiled my poor MacBook, but I really wanted to be able to watch movies on Netflix's Watch Instantly feature. So I had to do what I had to do. Now I can watch many glorious episodes of Classic Who without them being chopped into 20 pieces on YouTube.
I just ordered what may be the greatest cross-over of all time.
Seriously. And it only cost $2.95 from Whona.com. I ordered it last night (pretty late, too) and I already got an email confirming that it has been shipped. They're based out of Indianapolis, so I might even get it in the mail tomorrow. So awesome. I want to knit K-9 so badly.
Also, I found this really awesome site that lets you make your own postage stamps. Check it:
So cool. I love the internet.
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I just found a new source of entry titles. Big win.
Being Wednesday, it seems appropriate for a What's On Your Needles Wednesday kind of thing.
Here are my two go-to projects of the moment:
Like any knitting DW fan, I am making a must-have scarf. Based on Four's season 12 scarf. It's about five or so feet long at this point. I'm just about half way finished with it. Blocked it'll probably end up being about 15 feet long.
I love cowls. And I love green, So really, this project is perfect. And ohmygoodness is this yarn amazing to knit with. Classic Elite Yarns Wool Bam Boo. It is so so so silky soft. I wish it wasn't summer so that I could wear this (when I finish it).
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p.s. I got an awesome new ring and I love it to bits.
It's called "Music Ring" and it's made by MarieCarter. I adore her stuff. She custom made this to my specifications and it only took four days to get to me from when I clicked "submit" to when it was in my mailbox. How awesome is that? Very.
I have decided to take it upon myself to make a scarf in leu of the Fourth Doctor. I think I posted at some point about buying the yarn I needed to make it happen. Well, tonight I'm finally giving it a go.
To be honest, though, I've started and restarted a handful of times already, because I wasn't sure how the pattern was going to work out. I picked my yarn based on color, not weight. The pattern calls for DK weight, and I bought worsted. So I figured whatevah, I'll just give it a go and see what happens. Attempt 1 started with garter stitch, but I cast on way too many stitches. I frogged, then decided to cast on less and use a 1x1 rib. After a while I realized the 1x1 would be way too heavy for such a long scarf. So tonight I start my third attempt, and this time it is going to work because I mathed it all out! Hooray math.
Basically, I am cutting everything down a third. I'm casting on 44 sts instead of 64. I went through each row and mathed out how many I should work to have each color take up about the same amount of space.
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BEGIN 6 purple 36 tan 10 brown 8 yellow 16 red 6 purple 30 gray 16 green 6 yellow 20 tan 10 red 6 brown 8 purple 30 green |
CONTINUE 8 yellow 12 gray 8 red 36 tan 8 purple 16 green 10 gray 6 yellow 14 red 6 purple 26 brown 8 tan 6 gray 28 red |
CONTINUE 10 yellow 16 green 6 purple 30 tan 8 brown 16 gray 6 red 10 purple 6 tan 10 yellow 38 green 12 red 10 gray 8 yellow |
CONTINUE 14 brown 6 purple 8 tan 24 gray 6 red 10 yellow 12 tan 6 purple 22 brown 6 red 24 purple END |
I'm going to knit on US8s ... for this yarn 9 is too big and stretchy, and 7 is a bit too small.
Good old mathy math.
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Check out what I made today:
Why yes, it is the OS Leopard background with a TARDiS. Why not?
And on that note, here is what's on my needles on this glorious What's On Your Needles Wednesday:
1) Nora Gaughan's Brea Bag, 2) International Sock of Doom #1, 3) Non-Lopi Scarf (as seen in a previous entry). Wicked (sweater) and a few other small things aren't here because they're on hold. I have cast-on-itis. It's bad.
As far as the thesis goes ... chapter 2 is on page 15 and I'm still talking about the first theme. I have two more to go, and then a whole other analytical chapter! And perhaps another one after that. What's wrong with me?
And just to wrap things up, I'm going to try one of those Quote of the Day things.
What do you do when you get a crush on someone?
I rarely crush on anyone, because as Bender so eloquently put it: "Emotions are dumb and should be hated." Sometimes I wish I'd crush on someone, but 99% of the time I remember how frustrating it is and I don't really have time for that. Ouch.
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Now quit pickin' your nose and knead that dough!
Um, so I had a big paper due Wednesday. It's still not finished. In fact, I might need to completely re-write everything I wrote up previously. I emailed the professor and he said to take my time; I'll just have an incomplete for a while. I'm okay with that.
But this post is about the sweater I'm working on:
Wicked is a top-down sweater knit in one piece. I am quite excited about the prospect of not seaming. I hate seaming. I just finished the shoulder increases, and am working on the main body of the sweater. Once that's finished I just pick up the shoulder stitches and make the arms and viola! Sweater-time. I'll probably have it completed by the end of next week.
I cast-on for a mug cozy by mk carroll, which I'm making my mom for Mom's day. I also bought seven skeins of Vanna's Choice (yes, Vanna White has her own line of yarn ... and it's acryllic ...) to make a giant Doctor Who scarf.
I can't wait to make it. I think I'm going to figure out how to double knit it, so that it has a more professional look. Or something.
Thanks to the wonders of Google I have been able to finish this project. If anyone from the BBC finds this page, I am NOT selling it. This was purely for recreational enjoyment and will hang out on my bookshelf as a piece of obscure Doctor Who memorabilia. Cross my heart.
Now that I feel like I've accomplished something, I should probably do school work. *sigh*
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I owe three different people knitting items of various sorts. Actually, five now that I think about it. I'm going to use my "blame school" card on that one. This week is my last week of my last semester in my masters studies. And the time leading up to this has been big-time busy. So. Friday I am mailing out what I owe, assuming they're all finished being knit. Which most of them are. I'm being vague I guess, but if I owe you something you know about it already.
If you're curious, the non-knitting/crocheting, non-vinyl related things I've been working on for the last few weeks are:
- " 'That Rug Really Tied the Room Together': Popular Music and Authenticity in The Big Lebowski." My grand masterwork for POPC 680 "Genre and Authenticity in World Popular Musics." This is my first attempt at an article that isn't a theory article. How I'm going to fill 20 pages without musical excerpts is beyond me.
- Tomorrow I am doing a seminar presentation on Schenkerian analysis and popular music.
- A (Schenker) graph of R. Schumann's "Warum?" from Fantasiestücke, op. 12, no. 3. Apparently this must be accompanied by 750-1000 words about the analysis. Whatever.
- My thesis: "A Fistful of Drama: Musical Form in the 'Dollars' Trilogy." This is indeed about that Dollars trilogy, directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone. It should be a good read, once I actually, you know, write it.
I guess I do have one knitting-related thing to say here. I was working on an Adipose before the school business began, and then when I went back to finish the arms and legs the pattern was gone. Apparently someone sold a version of the author's pattern, or the resultant toy from said pattern, and the BBC got mad. I'm currently trying to find someone who has it saved so that I can make the arms and feet. If all else fails I'll have to wing it.
Thanks, BBC.
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