Saturday stuff

[ysabet]

^__^  Had a GREAT time on Saturday at Dragon's Hoarde; I've always loved this event, but considering the weather (threatening rain and delivering it on occasion all day long) didn't expect to enjoy myself as much as I did.  But I had a blast; I spent most of the day beneath the main tent (the 'Pig') knitting and jabbering with a bunch of ladies who

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[nekonexus]

*pokepoke* what's your ravelry username?? ^_^

[ysabet]

YsabetHasuko ('Hasuko' has the same meaning in Japanese as my nonline mundane name, 'lotus or waterlily child' and just 'Ysabet' was already taken, dammit.) What's yours?

[nekonexus]

tessercat!

(which is not just a miss-spelling of 'tesseract' but an actual thing "tesser cat" as in a cat that can tesser. *nod* )

[ysabet]

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls! (and windshields, and closed doors, and screen doors, and plate-armoring, and...) XD XD XD

[nekonexus]

and worlds! ^_^

[ysabet]

...and I need to load some stuff. Haven't got a THING on there yet, come to think of it. **plots**

[nekonexus]

It is addictive fun! I took stash photos, and queued up waaaay too many projects.

Oh, and there's a used tools/equipment group! For finding second-hand needles and stuff! eeee

[ysabet]

@_@... I keep making dpns from birch dowels (think I've done, uh... **checks** about a dozen now) but the wood's too soft; gotta find a source of walnut or rosewood, something nice and hard and non-endangered. Maple? A bit soft, but doable... black walnut or cherry'd be good too; I wonder how hard the local desert-willow (which isn't willow at all, it just looks like it) is? Hmm.

Heh; between the time I made my post this morning and this reply, I've started the second green sock, gone to the local WalMart (oh the shame, a trashy-but-cheap store), purchased some black and burgundy yarn, stared at the sock pattern from the entry, gone "Aack; haven't done toe-up socks yet, WTF is a backwards yarn-over? FLAILFLAIL!" and decided to modify the green sock pattern into a black-with-intarsia-skull&crossbones pattern.

Is there a name for this particular mental illness? I'd like to know, considering where I work. >_>...

[green_turquoise]

I don't know if there is a name, but I think I have it too. ^_^ I started knitting this spring and am somewhat obsessed now.

I'm not sure what a backwards YO is, though I like toe-up socks. I'm doing a pair of toe-up socks with ribbing, cables, and a knit/purl design. No YOs in the socks though.

I can't have wood needles, one of my cats likes to chew them. I like good plastic needles, they feel better than metal but Velvet doesn't eat them.

[ysabet]

Bob *tries* to eat mine, but so far I've managed to snag 'em away in time. And anyway, he's far more interested in chewing my yarn apart. ;__; What I'd *really* like to get hold of would be some bone needles; bet they'd be just the right flexibility. Deerbone, maybe?

Gods, cables... I want to TRY that! I had the concept explained to me at my last class and got shown these weird hook-shaped needle-holder things; and I understand it. I could do that. **plots**

Oh, and you want to see a rather neat knitting project? One of my fellow Laurels in the SCA did this, and... well here, take a look. That's by my friend Ari, a truely gifted knitter and crocheter.

[nekonexus]

None of my cats eat the yarn, Raoul and Annie just sleep on my projects, but Velvet does LOVE wooden needles. I'd love to try bone though! ^_^

Cables are so much fun! I usualy use an extra dpn as a stich holder, but on the socks I found I can make skinny cables by knitting the second stitch first on the needle, then knitting the first stitch, then slipping both off. I don't know if that makes any sense the way I described it though.

That is so cool! That squid is cute! And I really have used way too many exclamation points in this comment.

Anyways, I want to join the SCA just for the arts and crafts community. Untill I started following your LJ and Icka's, I had no idea that there were people out there who practised the odd and traditional crafts I love.

[green_turquoise]

Sorry, I forgot to sign in.

[ysabet]

...and I answered you before your sign-in had posted, so I thought you were nekonexus! Apologies; I have *no* idea where you live, but we're everywhere, so you should be able to find a group. Check www.sca.org.

[green_turquoise]

I live in New Mexico, and I know there is a local group. But right now I am working six day a week, am getting married in November, was recently in a car accident, and have had a couple of insane years that I am still cleaning up the mess from. (missing persons, serious illness, six jobs in two years, fun stuff like that)

So anyway, I think I'll look up the local SCA in the spring. My soon to be husband also wants to join, he wants a reason to own a suit of armor. ^__^

[ysabet]

EEEEE!!! FOUND 'EM!!! And on a very neat site too, full of historical repros of antique sewing notions: http://wmboothdraper.com/Notions/notions_main.htm **waaaaaaaants**

The SCA is, in every way, truly amazing. I only wish I'd run across it when I was a nerdy 16-year-old, carving wooden spoons and little bone Viking-ish things and wondering why *I* thought they were interesting and everybody else thought that was so weird. Oh well. Have you checked to see where your local group is? You've got TONS of SCA in Canada.

[green_turquoise]

*IwantIwant* Oh I just wish those bone needles came in smaller sizes too. I tend to knit loosely, so I use ittybitty needles for socks.