03-10-10 – I’m a Geek, and I’m Proud of It

I didn’t have time to take pictures of my geek stuff (work was busy), so nothing from me this week.
I suddenly realised I could take a picture of my manga collection, which is fairly large, but I haven’t unpacked it since moving. A year ago….

I promise to come back tomorrow and vote, comment in the thread. Our internet died out for like 2 hours (I think they spilled beer on the servers or otherwise blew them up) and I’m crazy behind for work now. I did want to post before I forgot though (get in early to maximize voting potential, right?). It’s going to be a late night for work. Better grab some caffeine to help crank out the lines.

Elsinore, I have a broken image, can you please find it in the ether? Please and thank you.

Now, off to work.

Can hardly believe I know others who crochet now. I thought I was a lonely-only. I’m not fantastic at it, but blankets are relatively easy to do since its the same stitch over and over for a while. There are a couple of websites that I found where I was able to learn something. I’ll probably invest in a book if/when I want to get more into it. It’s great to do while watching a movie, which I seem to do a lot of these days on the weekend.

Like I told Elsinore, look for a book called stitch n’bitch : The Happy Hooker. Really easy to understand and follow how to do the different stitches and they have some great projects in there as well! There are even stitch n’ bitch groups around where people get together to well..stitch and bitch 🙂

Nice job on the scarves! Of course, I’m still an amateur/newbie so that may not mean much. I thought I was the only one with the curly corners, so that makes me feel better. I had Hubby pick out the yarn for Baby #2’s blanket (browns/greens). I’m on skein 4 now, about 1/3 of the way through. I will post a picture when it’s done, and I’ll be sure to take one of Kiddo #1’s blanket that my great aunt Gladys made for him. My sister is due in September with her first, and I thought I’d make one for her since it seems to be something I’m doing lately. I’m waiting for her to get back with me about her colors/theme. My great aunt made a huge granny square, essentially. I’m doing a double crochet for the rows on the blanket. Somewhere I also started one for Hubby and I, and I have some yarn set aside for it (probably not nearly enough) that I haven’t gotten back to. I’m a couple of skeins into it.

I’ve contemplated making hot pads or something as well, but I’m worried that the heat from some things might melt the yarn, or catch it on fire. Anyone had that happen?

If you go with cotton, you should be fine unless you set it down on a burner, and in that case, nothing would be safe 😉

I don’t know, maybe you could crochet with steel wire or something….