new focus

So I am changing the focus of the blog a little bit. Since I am less obsessed with knitting now, and more obsessed with geeky things like star trek and science and math, I though it would make sense to make my blog more about geeky things. Don't worry, there will still be knitting, but there will also be posts about (surprise!) star trek and science.

-live long and prosper.

The crafty star trek fan (Version 2.0)

I just finished knitting this:

I thought it turned out rather well considering that I had barely planned any of it. I even added waist shaping which is a first for me. I also like the way that the trim around the neck turned out. And it's blue, so my chances of surviving a mission are significantly higher then if I where wearing red.

Edit: Here's a picture of the dress that this is based on. As you can see I made the sleeves shorter (because I am lazy) and made it a shirt and not a "dress" (if you can call it that). If I had made the sleeves long, I would not have put the rank stripes on because 1. having gold rick-rack on your sleeves is quite tacky and 2. this is not a costume. I want to keep it wearable. And speaking of wearable, I have no idea how this woman could breath, it looks like she's wearing a corset. Well, I have no idea how any of the women could do anything in a uniform that short. But that's not the point. I kept the a-symmetrical neck line and the black trim as well. I used short rows to make it drape in the front like it does.

it's (almost) halloween

It's ware your halloween costume to school day today. I thought I would quickly share my halloween costume. I'm leela from Futurama. what do you think?

the crafty star trek fan....

I now love star trek. I have only been watching it for a few days and suddenly I find my self working on this:

I took a shirt that I had and embroidered the star trek logo on it. Then I cut the neck out from another black shirt and sewed it in. It turned out surprisingly well. What do you think?

Steampunk jewelry!

I have been trying to find ways to make my outfits a little more steampunk/Victorian (for those of you who don't know what steampunk is then here is a link to the wikipedia article). I don't want to go overboard with the steam punk, and I don't want to pay too much so I thought of making jewelry. I went digging through my dad's spare hardware box, and in about 5 minutes I came up with this:

Not bad for 5 minuets of time and about 5 cents of materials.

Bad dog

I guess thats what happens when you leave your yarn in a remotely accessible place.

Just an update.

I am so sorry I haven't posted in months. Just been too lazy. Oh, well I'm posting now. Any ways I am moving soon which kinda sucks because I hate going through all my stuff and shoving it in boxes, But it kind rocks because I will be biking distance from the beautiful town of Almonte and the beautiful yarn store in almonte called textile traditions. I will also be going to high school next year, which means I won't have as much knitting time.

In other knitting news I finished my first tank top.

I know it looks like this, but it's not. It's just a basic top-down seamless sweater recipe from some where that I just left out the sleeves.