http://www.geekknit.com Alatheia Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:21:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, as it turns out I am going to be doing custom knitted hats and scarves through the comic book shop that my "brother" Brock owns (Platinum Comix and Games; Burien, WA). Tonight Brock took me to see some local bands play down at the Studio Seven in Georgetown/The SoDo District  ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/09/06/the-plot-thickens About ten years ago my "brother" Brock found a stray all white kitten, took her in, and named her Spooky. When he worked at Wendy's he'd bring home chicken nuggets and they'd eat them together. Watching a cat nom-nom-nom on nuggets is one of the cutest things I have ever ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/09/03/rip-spooky So, I was dorking around on ravelry.com and found a link to this blog. A knitter is making a scarf of the entire first level (World 1-1) of Super Mario Brothers NES. Now I want to make one, but I'm thinking one of the castles without the princess the whole "your ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/09/03/the-mario-scarf So, first time I got to go to PAX because we didn't go down to Oregon for mom's company's Christmas Party. Was fun, exhausting. Got to meet a bunch of new people, Tim's EvAv people, they adopted me :) Need to make one of them a real penis scarf. I miss Tim :( http://www.geekknit.com/2008/09/02/pax-2008 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 ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/07/17/corn-huskers 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, ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/07/14/who-woulda-thought 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 ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/06/29/guild-beta 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. http://www.geekknit.com/2008/06/22/success 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 ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/06/21/rag-rug 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 ... http://www.geekknit.com/2008/06/20/garment-tags