New thread. Let’s keep this movie plan going. I can’t wait to see the mayhem once the bad guys meet up with our crew!
Archive for June, 2007
I doubt I’ll make it but it’s a pattern that’s good to have on hand.
It came from a newsletter that I’m sure I’ll delete without thinking about it so at least this way I’ll have the pattern saved if I ever want it.
American Flag Pattern
Any yarn will do, cotton works the best.
Size 6 (US) needles
Stripes are worked in garter st.
(knit all rows) and the blue field in seed st.
Cast on 72 sts, using red yarn.
K 5 rows.
Change to white and k 6 rows.
Change to red and k 6 rows.
Continue until you have 6 stripes (3 red, 3 white.)
Change to red and k 37 sts.
Attach blue and k 35 sts.
In the next row, begin the seed
st. in the blue section.
Continue as set, changing red and white every 6 rows until 12 stripes are done. Change to red and k 5 rows. BO as follows; BO knitwise 34 sts with the blue, change to red and continue binding off knitwise to last st.
For stars: Using one strand of white, embroider 30 stars in rows of 6 horizontally by 5 vertically. Then embroider 20 stars in between the 30 in rows of 5 across by 4 down. Use a cross-stitch design.
Sew in all ends.
Display with pride!
Writers need love, too
I’m famous for starting to write a piece of fiction and losing interest almost as soon as I put fingers to keys. One thing I’ve learned about myself is that if I tell anyone too many details about what I’m writing, I realize that the story has been told and I lose interest in writing any more of it. But for some folks, I know that sharing the story with sympathetic, like minded friends makes it easier to write.
So here we can share out writing frustrations and victories. And maybe some of or writing. And we can laugh and cry and enjoy ourselves together.
Enjoy, my bloggren!
It’s either this or the old brown postal tape and I prefer this
I think there may be some among my readers who may find <a href=”http://etsylabs.blogspot.com/2007/03/dress-form-tutorial-want-to-make-exact.html”>this tutorial</a> useful.
One of the problems I have when sewing for myself (and I know I’m not alone in this) is that it’s next to impossible for me to check the fit of a garment. For one thing, I’m either looking down at it or at a reflection of it. And anytime I move to make an adjustment, it changes how the garment is hanging on me and then it changes the adjustment I’m going to make and in the end it just takes forever for me to get anything right.
I found instructions in a book for making a dress form out of an old t-shirt and old brown paper tape. This version, using duct tape, seems a little more efficient and certainly it’s made with more readily accessible supplies.
Now to find the time to actually make this!
Contest!!!!! Deadline Will be June 30
This is NOT the contest Laurel and I discussed earlier today. I will be doing that contest later. This is a shorter one just to see how much response the idea gets.
Here are the rules: As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not comfortable putting full fledged fanfic on this blog. I don’t do fanfic and while I will read it sometimes, I’m trying to keep this blog a comfortable place for everyone, including, say, Tanya or people from Lifetime or who-knows-who-else to visit. And full fledged fanfic would make it a little difficult for some of those to visit here. Filk is another issue. Filk is A fan fiction that is a parody of a song.
Write me (us) a filk. Pick a song and parody the lyrics to be about “Blood Ties.” You only have to write one verse if that’s all you can come up with. I will judge on quality, not quantity. Post it as a comment in this thread. Please don’t put anything other than contest entries into this thread; put the comments about it in the regular discussion threads. (I’ll move anything that ends up here by mistake.) On June 30 I’ll announce the winner and arrange to send her (or him, as the case may be) a box of Moonstruck Chocolates (or a Moonstruck bar if that’s all I can find at the time — Moonstruck isn’t something you want to have sitting around for a long time.) If the winner doesn’t want to give me her address, I can arrange an online gift certificate for some kind of gourmet chocolate.
I am extremely fond of filk and might have an entry or two myself. I am, of course, disqualified from the competition but it would be fun just to share.
Go forth and filk, my friends!
Chatter Chatter Chatter
We can sure chatter, can’t we? Okay, so now we’re casting for the movie where we rescue Henry from … something. Sounds like a hit!
Third time’s the charm
Here we go, third post. At the rate we’re going this is gonna be a damn big category. Hell, it already is a gorram big category! We’re talkative fans, aren’t we?
