Okay, this may be a little silly, but...

I made a Spock Clanger.

(If you don't know who the Clangers are, go here. If you don't know who Spock is, go here.)



( More pictures... )

Xposted to fandomknit, trekkies, sexy_vulcans, startrek, startrek_tos, classic_trek & startrekart

Apologies if this deviates too much, but I thought there might be some people here who'd appreciate this weird combo.

Title: Thrummed
'Verse: Supernatural/Knitting
Rating: G
Word Count: 300 (triple-drabble)

"You okay, Sam?" Dean Winchester pawed the fluff from his face with one hand... (link goes to my LJ)

I used pennyplainknit's Stargate Gate Glyphs pattern to knit a pair of wristwarmers as a gift for a friend. I figured out the pattern for the wristwarmers myself and I'll share if anyone is interested.

It was my first time using duplicate stitching, and I think it turned out really well!

( The photographic evidence )

i am a merchant who has always carried various stuff (ok, i admit it, i just hate buying at retail) including spinning  and etc.....
but after seeing THIS incredibly steampunked spinning wheel made from a Babe's Fiber garden pvc base..... i knew i had to carry them.
isn't that an incredible job? Krylon Fusion (for plastic) apparently works very well on the pvc of the Babe wheels...

so if any of you have considered buying a Babe Spinning wheel (inexpensive and mud resistant)  i am having a sale to get my initial order together....you can get all the sales details over on my LJ, but its mostly 25% off list price.

while obviously you should buy as much as possible from your local yarn store , your friendly bead pusher seller, and so on.. i acknowlegde that there are times all of us visit the local big box craft stores.

coupon for 50% off one item, or 25% off your whole purchase from AC Moore

coupon for 40% off one item this week or two, or 50% off one item easter Sunday only from Michaels

remember that in most areas AC Moore and Michaels and Jo-Ann fabrics all accept each others coupons.

and spend the money you save with a merchant you know! (hint, hint)

Here's the update on that desperate plea I posted a couple of weeks ago, looking for a good pattern to make boxes within a knit pattern.

Thanks to suggestions from here, and several trial-and-error attempts, I finally came up with a workable one. I may have to shore up the sides with a row of crochet, to make up for the quasi ribbing that the alternating knit/purl sections created... though I'm kind of digging the scalloping it's created.






It took awhile (and It's rather narrow, so I'll have to make up for width by making it nice and long, so that it can be draped several times about the neck and shoulders.



(Cross-posted in a fashion to crafty_tardis)

OK.

So I was at home with a cold, over the weekend, watching all of the episodes of Doctor Who that I had stored on my DVR (because what's better to do when you're all looped out than to watch some trippy aliens, right?) when I got this crazy idea that it would look really pretty to make a scarf with a pattern that sort of emulates the shape of the door on the TARDIS.

Not actually knitting a picture OF a TARDIS onto it - just making a stitch pattern that looks like it. (See picture I found on the internets and put under that LJ cut, below!)

I've got the vertical inlays set with a nice little variation on a rib stitch, so that you can actually see a seam at the hinge sides of the doors, and the little panels and such...

BUT, when I get to the top/horizontal inlay of each panel, I can't seem to get the rib stitch to indent. The verticals (where I've purled a couple of stitches in between knits) look just dandy, but the horizontals - using the SAME STITCHES that make it look indented while on the vertical - keep coming out convex!



Consequently, I'm feeling rather vexed, myself, because my rhinovirus-addled brain was convinced that this would be easy and not involve any cabling or deep thought.

( Picture of inspiration under cut )

OK. See those indented panels? Please help me! I don't want to have to go licking doorknobs and lightswitches so that I can get sick again and return to that state of mind in which my ad hoc pattern Made Total Sense. What stitch am I not using properly to make the horizontal line on top of each one to look indented, as well?

ETA Hmmm, I think I must have been basing my idea off the newer styled TARDIS, where the panels are more beveled, rather than completely indented. Looking more closely at this picture, it appears that they're just flat and inset, rather than appearing to be about the same thickness as the rest of the framing edge, with the beveled edge being the indented part. Either way, I know this has to be right under my nose.

(And sorry, I've also lost my USB cable, so I can't yet post a picture of what I've done so far looks like...)

The Austin Browncoats need some knitting help. Many of you heard about our knit-a-thon at Dragon*Con 2008. Claudia knit 12 hats during the course of booth hours, which is an impressive feat. The hats are so popular that we have pre-orders coming in weekly. We're looking for individuals that are interested in helping us knit hats for charity. For more information about the charities we support, visit: Austin Browncoats Charity.

We will provide you with a starter kit, that will include the pattern or pattern and yarn (according to if you want to donate your knitting time or your knitting time AND yarn). We will provide receipts to all knitters to document time, as well as monetary donations.

We are in need of knit wool and acrylic hats, but are not in need of crocheted Jayne hats currently. We are working on being able to provide acrylic yarn, but as of right now, we can only provide wool yarn.

If you can't knit, but would like to help us make Jayne hats for charity, think of this:

$15 makes 3 Jayne hats.

By donating $15 to the Austin Browncoats, you are helping us produce three Jayne hats. That $15 turns into over $100 that goes straight to Kids Need To Read, Equality Now and our other supported charities.

If you are interested in any of these positions, or would like more information about volunteering with the Austin Browncoats, write to: volunteer@austinbrowncoats.com.

I admit it, I am a Twilight fan. When production photos were released for the film, I was filled with itchy anticipation. It was not enough for me to buy a tee shirt and read the book again. No, I had to KNIT.

I fell in love with the scarf worn by Rosalie Hale in the Twilight movie:


I pored over production photos, squinted and counted rows. ( Then I made a scarf... )

Enjoy!

Hi everyone,

New to this community, with a sweater to share!

For my friend's birthday, I made a hooded sweater based on Katara's parka in season one of Avatar. It took a while ... I kept telling myself "it's not as bad as argyle" over and over again.

Pics here!

hanyou-no-miko.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Quicksplay-Young-Hama-101318616

Hello! I'm new to the community and I thought that I would start out by sharing the little Adipose baby from Dr. Who that I crocheted.

http://1flying-wonder.livejournal.com/62188.html

Hey everyone! I finally saw Sky Captain (I know, I'm a few years late)and I'm completely in love with the white knitted hat that Gwyneth Paltrow's character "Polly," wore at the end of the movie when they were in Mongolia. It looked like a 2x2 rib, probably in the round and had an extra wide brim on it. I need a pattern for that. And a picture for that matter. I've scoured the internet and can't find a single picture for it, and was hoping you wonder fandom folks might be able to help with either the pattern or the picture. Thanks!

I know this says knit, but i'm submitting a crocheted piece because i saw the joker crochet one :p

this is a character from one of my favorite cartoons, named The marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. This guy is Flapjack
he's adorable and i had to maker him into a plushie.

i worked from about 10 pm last night to 4am. then from 1pm to 7pm today and now he's done lol

all original pattern and everything hehe

he's about a foot tall when standing and has wire in his head/neck/body to support his head.

( ADVENTUUUUUUREE! )

I put my Dark Knight fanaticism of late (namely Joker-related) to good use through crochet and some paint.

( Spoilers for the movie, just to be on the safe side )

I don't know if this had been posted before, but I thought you guys might find it interesting: Woman Knitting Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 Scarf

This is something I've been meaning to do ever since I saw mabiana's Earth glyph knitting. Initially I had wanted to graph the Atlantis mission patch, but it would have taken a lot of complicated intarsia and I don't have the patience at the moment.

So instead I went with the gate sympbols for Atlantis ( Charts behind the cut )

I haven't tried them out yet, but they are intentially quite small because I generally knit at fine gauges. If anyone tries them out I'd love to see what you did with them!

X-posted to sga_noticeboard and my journal

Remember my last foray into knit experimentation with The Mighty Boosh? Well, I did it again.

This time, it's the King Of The Mods himself, Vince Noir. Photos under the cut, as well as a screencap for reference. Click on any of the FO photos to embiggen. If you have any questions, just ask!

( Vince Noir, Rock'n'Roll Star! )

Thanks so much for looking!

(Crossposted to my personal journal. Sorry for any overlap.)

What is this?
Live Long And Marry is a fandom auction to benefit marriage equality. Bidding begins on July 1, 2008, and closes on July 15, 2008.

What's the cause?
The auction will raise money for the fight against the California initiative which will legally destroy existing same-sex marriages and ban any further ones. If the initiative passes, it will write discrimination into the state constitution, annull existing marriages, and make Mr. Sulu cry.

This is awesome! Where do I find more information?
Clicky!

I hope its ok to post a link to this here. They aren't knitted, but they are fannish!
Tiny Sheppard and McKay softies over at my journal.

They are stitched out of felt and I used embroidery silks to match the colours more closely. For some reason my camara doesn't like taking pictures of dark colours and has made John's BDUs sparkly! In reality they are a dark grey. This was my first attempt at making little softies/plushies and I think it worked out quite well. I didn't use a pattern as such, just drew directly on the felt and cut it out, then stiched the clothes directly onto the bodies with blanket stitch.

I really hope someone here can help me(and also hope this is allowed).
I need some suggestions/advice about yarn and/or projects related to either any of Neil Gaiman's work or Gregory Maguire's Mirror Mirror. I'm sending a "dark fantasy" themed package to a guy(which is proving to be more difficult to decide on anything than I thought it would be) and I don't know if my brain is so fried from all the sites I've been to, but I can't seem to think clearly anymore and am starting to have nightmares about killer scratchy yarn attacking me.