Geek Knits

Today mom got an e-mail from one of her corn husker cousins saying that another one of them went to the emergency room with an ear infection and ended up having an MRI and a colonoscopy then never came out of it.

Found out that she’d been having strokes and seizuers and not telling anyone. She’s in a coma now from the sedation of the colonoscopy and doesn’t have much longer to live.

The sister of the woman in the coma hasn’t spoken to any of her siblings since their mom died, about fifteen years ago. Mom, or her cousin, had an address for her and they did a search and came up with a number, called and left a message. So now I’m charged with telling the sister, if she calls, what is going on with her sister that she hasn’t spoken to in over a decade.

Talia called me yesterday and told me that her mom gave her a bunch of yarn and stuff to give to me. So I went over to her house to get it… two paper bags and a box overfull of yarn plus three old issues of Knitting World: June 1980, October 1989, and the scary one… December 1982. The issue from the month I was born, crazy stuff.

Now I have a 45 gallon Rubermaid tub on wheels and a 95 quart tub full of yarn and other knitting supplies.

My GM got the e-mail from EAMythic with 75 codes for our guild for the guild beta on Wednesday. A crapton of people I don’t even remember have been showing up asking for codes, I do know a fair chunk of them or at least recognize their names but some of them I’m wondering who the hell they are. Two of the guys I know that only I and the GM have a clue who they are; one a long, long term friend of mine and the other my boy toy ^_^

One of the other members though was throwing a bloody fit on the guild forums about how all these people are coming out of the woodwork because of the codes. There are 75, you’re getting one, why the hell do you care where the others are all coming from? Pissyhead buttmunch, I swear.

I’m going to laugh when half of the people given codes won’t be in beta because of their shoddy systems. I even posted on the site about how I think the graphic sliders aren’t in yet so it’ll require pretty intensive specs but I’m sure most don’t have anything that can really handle it. My best guess is that if a comp can run AoC on middle settings that will be high enough specs for WAR beta. I know my machine can, mine can run AoC on high ^_^

I’ve sent the second geeked out WAR scarf off to someone at EAMythic but have not heard anything from them to signify if they have received it or not so I am holding off on posting a page on it. The third geeked out scarf I have started and frogged a couple of times and I’m satisfied with the way it is turning out this time so I’ll continue with it as is for now.

Also, Tim got his hat and has said that it is now his favorite hat

The label has survived the washing machine! \o/

It faded a little bit but I still consider it a success.

So I made an entire sheet of them to attach to every project I finish from here out.

In a knitting book I got on Thursday there was a picture of some kids connecting weaving loops so I decided to try it and make a rug out of it.

This wasn’t really my brightest idea ever… it took over two hours just connecting the weaving loops together and the lumps from where they connect make it feel funny on the feet. Though that should go away as it ages.

Mom likes it, guess that’s all that counts.

Today I was looking around at my local Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft store and I found this “PhotoFabric” stuff. It is fabric with a paper backing that can go through inkjet printers.

The package says that it is hand wash or dry clean only but I made a test label to see what would happen when machine washing. I’m going to use them even if it will make it so all the things I make will have to be hand washed, they’re just so cute!

I stuck the sample one onto the inside of the hat I made for Tim (<3) that will go through the wash this Sunday so we’ll see what happens!

Isn’t it so cute?! I love it!

I’m such a nerd.