Geek Knits

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  and in one of the [...]

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 princess is in another castle” [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]