Snow is so damn pretty, I wish it weren’t so damn cold.
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N7 Day 2021
Happy N7 Day everyone! In honor, I am playing the Citadel DLC in my long-delayed Insanity play through. I am not dead, though for the purposes of this blog, I may as well be. 😩 I have picked up the Fenris gloves a few times and made no progress on the embellishments I am trying to work out for the hands. I should probably simplify and move on, but I have chosen procrastination instead. I am sorry about that.
I hope you all are well and are enjoying today. It’s been nearly 10 years since Mass Effect 3 came out but the series still lives in my heart. At least the old knitting patterns are still there, for posterity.
https://biowearables.tumblr.com/patterns
I have been spending some time on a new hobby during the pandemic, I finally found one more expensive than knitting. 😝
Woooo nothing like going back to that knitting pattern you were working on like 2 years ago and not being able to understand WTH your notes even mean.
Nerd Appropriate released the considerably better audio they recorded during the PAX East panel. (Though you cant hear the audience well.) Here’s the episode featuring just my script! I miss Nerd Appropriate, I really like that podcast. A lot of good interviews with BioWare actors. And Cissy Jones is just the nicest. 🥰
I made a last-minute trip to PAX East this year. Ash Sevilla of Nerd Approrpriate usually hosts several panels at these events. At PAX West he hosted the Annihilation Almanac, a panel of voice actors doing cold reads of scripts. When he asked for submissions for a similar panel at PAX East I figured I would give it a shot. I hadn’t planned to attend in person, Boston is a long ass way from San Francisco, but when my script got accepted everyone in my life jumped on me until I agreed to go.
On the panel was Cissy Jones @cissyspeaks, Briana White @TheStrangeRebel, Courtenay Taylor @courtenaytaylor, Sarah Elmaleh @selmaleh, and Larissa Gallagher @larissalamarck-blog. They are all just the nicest humans and amazing actors and I couldn’t believe what a great job they did on all the stories they read.
Nerd Appropriate will put out a nice-quality audio recording on their podcast in the coming days, and I got a video with sort of poor audio quality from my iPhone.
It’s still surreall, even now, to think that these amazing ladies said words I wrote and made those characters into real people.
Behave, beasts! Twinkle, twinkle little smash!
The other thing I made this month was this Princess in Black costume for my daughter for Literacy Week. Even after taking it down to Raiface at Thanksgiving to get her help altering it, the bodice turned out funny coz she’s so skinny for her height according to this pattern.
I don’t know where this giant girl came from. She used to be so small.
But the cape is almost big enough for me and I think I look great. We need to bring capes back, y’all.
You remind me of the babe..
Merry Christmas, everyone! There hasn’t been a lot of knitting this year, but I got back into making things towards the end of the year. Raiface had to spend many weeks talking me through a couple of sewing projects.
I wanted to be Jareth the Goblin King for my husband’s holiday party this year. The party was Masquerade themed and Labyrinth was a very formative movie for me. ;) It was a shambolic return to my cosplay days, staying up til 3 am some nights sewing gussets into the arm syces when the pattern turned out to be too small.. working up til the minute I left and then some, trying to sew the sequin sections to the jacket in the car when my slapdash glue job failed. It was basically held together with straight pins but it lasted for the entire party.
Wishing you all a great 2020!
Q:I really want to try out some of your projects but I’ve never read a knitting chart before, any advice? Thessian toque in particular.
How to read knitting charts!
Personally I love knitting charts, they’re a map of the project I can SEE instead of trying to use my imagination. I’m way better at understanding the physicality of a project when I’m reading the chart, rather than a written pattern.
It’s not nerdy, but this is what I’ve been working on for a few weeks. Sometimes you need a super simple project to get you out of a knitting slump. And I have been in a major knitting slump.
Tumblr Drama
If only I could blame Tumblr for this blog’s inactivity but.. no. ;) I just have not been knitting. I assume I am not the only knitter who goes into Knitting Slumps from time to time, especially when they’re like 80% done with some project, but the last stretch is haaaaard so you don’t do it? Sigh. I could just simplify that pattern, abandon the crazy bits I intended to knit for the hand but.. that is not my style. Still, this Tumblr drama has me considering the idea of getting a real domain to host the patterns I’ve already completed.
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