Soondubu Princess

That would be the name of the Korean drama I thought-up while eating dinner tonight.
  Premise: Two single people are eating at their favorite tofu stew place and happen to notice each other. They each feel like they are meant to be because they both eat their soup in the exact same unique way. Both are too shy to approach the other. She even eats all of her sides because she is trying to give him more time. When he finally gets the nerve to talk to her he sees that she has already paid and is getting her coat on. He can't finish and pay in time and she leaves. He then knows that he has to find her again.
  Once they do find each other (after lots of searching and feelings of hopelessness) they find out that they have nothing in common really. They then have to find out if their love of tofu stew is enough.

I totally want to watch this!! I have been watching Korean dramas like crazy lately. There are even some on Netflix. Coffee Prince has been the one I have been watching recently. You Are Beautiful is next on the list, then To the Beautiful You. I seem to have a thing for shows with girls pretending to be boys.

  I got the patriotic stocking cap done. I think it is interesting how some of the color change styles pull in or puff out some. I'm not sure why the part in the middle front has such a gap, but no amount of fussing with it seems to be fixing it. I'm still debating if I should put a pom-pom on the end or not.

  A doll dress is slowly becoming done. I had to take out most of the work because I increased too many times on the body. I also have a cool cowl idea based on Nerina Knitted Scarf that I saw on a Knitting Daily re-run.

Hats

  I'm back!  I disappeared for a bit because I was having to hustle to get my costume done for Katsucon.  Even though I didn't get to go to all the panels that I wanted to, I still had a blast.  I got to hang out with friends I usually only get to see at anime conventions.

  

I technically finished this hat before I really started working on my costume, but I didn't weave in ends and such until this morning.   Not as floppy as I wanted it.

  

  I do really like how the stripes came out though.  I feel like it is a cool effect how there is more yellow on each purl stripe as it goes up.

 

  This is what I worked on while I was there.  I started it before I left as a way to try and keep the stress down from all the stuff I put off for too long.

 

  The best part about this hat are the colors.  I had just picked out one I liked but then it seemed I was planning on something.  I'm not sure what sports team has these colors, but they are Deadpool colors.  I had pulled this out and one of my friends asked if I could help and reenforce some of the points on her Lady Deadpool dress.  It was a fun take on the character.

  There was a bit more downtime at this con than most so I actually got most of it done there.  I did the last four stripes last night.  The stitch pattern was based off of a slight variation on brioche fisherman's rib(the one I did you just knit back across the row, purl if in the round), only I forgot to purl every other stitch and I did a *k1b, k1* pattern across and then a purl row.  I was going to go back and change it, but I think I like it.

  While at the convention we had a mini blizzard and temperatures dropped.  They started to creep up again, but then this happened today.  It is hard to tell, but it is really coming down.  I'm glad I made my grocery store run earlier in the day when it was still sunny out.

  The patriotic stocking cap is super close to being done.  I have just one more section of white to go.  I would have had it finished already, but I didn't have enough white yarn with me.  Hopefully tonight I can motivate myself to get it done so I can use the needles for something else.

I am so much happier with the hat!

 

I took the decreases out and  added two more repeats to the main body of the hat.  I like it a lot better now.  I need to think of what to call this though, since I was making it based off of a stitch I saw on a rerun of Knitting Daily.

I also have a new (to me) phone.  This phone makes my eyes look super blue when I take pictures.

 

This is the first in a multi-part theme of knitting.  I got a lot of Red Heart team spirit yarn.  I had no real idea what to do with it.  Then I decided that I wanted to make a slouchy hat.  Wurm(Ravelry link) was the first one to catch my eye.  Since I didn't know if I would find it a fun knit I grabbed one of the team spirit yarns and cast on.  Since I am not using the yarn called for I had to wing it a little on the number of stitches.

While it is too big for my head, I'm sure it will fit someone.  I like how the lengths of yellow and red keep shifting through the whole thing.

I am going to be using the rest of my team spirit yarns and keep making hats until I am bored with that idea.

Busy little stressed out bee.

  So I have been pretty good at keeping track of all my stitching for most of the month, but this last month was kind of crazy.  Got to deal with stuff at work that I shouldn't have had to.  Way more stress than is needed and I have deiced to seriously look elsewhere.  This all lead to days where instead of coming home and working on something, as I should have, I kind of just vegged in front of the TV.
  I have also finally started working on something for an anime convention that is coming up.  I have had this thing planned out since two years ago.  This means that I have sewed a seam that is over 386 inches twice now.  I need to sew it one more time to get it to lay the way I want it to.  Kind of crazy now that I have done the math.
  Once the con is over things should be able to settle down a little bit more.  I can't make any promises, but that is usually what happens.

  Though I did not hit 50,000 stitches this month, I think I did a pretty good job of it.  Thinking it over now, March may have been a better month to try this, but doing a challenge isn't all about making it super easy on yourself.
  I am pretty tired of this patriotic stocking-cap I started though.  You would think I would be happy since I like knitting, but something about it has just gotten old about this project.  Like the scarf, I will push through until I start something new though.


Tuesday's count: 870
Wednesday's count: 270 (this is when most of the machine sewing happened)
Thursday's count: 1,012
Friday's count: 0
Today's count: 1,980
Monthly count: 42,282
Finished objects: 2

I wasn't hoping for that kind of encouragement.

  It is one thing if a boss encourages people, but it is another if they are encouraging people to run away as fast as they can.  I got in trouble today for not doing my boss's job correctly today.  Yup, you read that correctly.  I wasn't doing anything wrong in what I should be doing, but I was doing something that I am not technically allowed to (and have not been trained for) incorrectly.  It wasn't even something that was a big deal, the guy on store support was confused why we were even calling about it.
  This is one of the many final nails in the coffin that is encouraging me to find a better day-job.  I'm hoping that with some of the other jobs I am looking at I will have a few more moments to get some crafting done.  Even if I just have a shorter commute I will have more time to make things.

  Now that all the lame stuff from today is out of the way, here is some fun stuff from yesterday:

  This is the crochet woven scarf.  I tried to take a picture of the stitch in more detail, but I think I need an assistant to help hold it out.  It is kind of fun and spattered looking right now.

  Here is the hat I was talking about the other day.  I'm still thinking over if it is long enough or not.  You can see I still left the needles in, it is funnier that way.  I keep leaning more and more towards taking out all the decreases and adding at least one more pattern repeat.
  I also put fancy make-up stuff on my eye lids.  I have been doing that more and more.  It gets to be more and more fun the better you get at it.

  I have been going crazy with my "new" KnitPicks ball winder.  I love it, and not just because it is purple.  Though I have noticed that if I keep going too fast once it starts to get big I have the problem you see above. 

  I also had lots of plans for these little lovelies.  I have not used any of them for this yet.  I have another idea.  I was going to make a small and bigger dress so that a little girl could have a doll with a matching dress.  I have not sewn anything in a while.
  My new idea is to use a few of them with some of my leftover scraps and make some cute knitted and crocheted items for these.  Then I would just donate the doll all by herself.  They are also not hugely expensive so I'm not too worried about running out of them.


Yesterday's count: 4,164
Today's count: 0
Monthly count: 38,150
Finished objects: 2

Go me today!

  At work today I felt like I was being super awesome.  I was trying to sign-up people for classes but when the system went to give the bar code to scan at the register it was running into an error.  The recording said they had known about it since 11:30am.  I was trying to do all of this about an hour later than they made the recording.  The recording said that they were going to give a status update at 1pm if the problem was not fixed.  I told the people to wonder around and we would try again around 1pm.  We tried again and I gave a call around 1:05pm.  The recording had not changed and the problem was not fixed.  The guy on support told us that we could have the people buy a gift card and we could use that to pay for the class so they didn't have to hang out for some undetermined amount of time.
  Around 3:30pm I tried to print the barcodes again and it worked.  So I pulled out their gift cards and ran it through the register.  I then gave everyone a call and put all of their receipts in a safe place.  I feel like I was being super awesome today!

  One thing I was not awesome at today was taking pictures.  It was over cast when I was at home though.  It got sunny out a little, but I was at work so I couldn't drop everything and take pictures.  It was dark by the time I left.  Hopefully I will get some done tomorrow.



Today's count: 1,030
Monthly count: 33,986
Finished objects: 2

I got stood-up, again!

  So last week I mentioned that one person who signed up for a crochet class did not show up.  Yesterday was the second day and the day that the second person was supposed to show up.  She did not.  I was looking forward to teaching that class too.  It was a super easy one, but I thought it was still going to be fun.
  Though speaking of fun, I finished a super fast project.  Well, I sort of finished it, realized I had a weird amount of yarn left, took it all out and then remade it with more stitches.  I just need to weave in some ends and add some over-sized buttons.

  Today was not as productive as I thought it was going to be.  I took Mr. Jag to the kitty-doctor and as far as she could tell he was doing fine.  There was some stuff they wanted to send off to get tests done on, but nothing out of the normal for a one year check-up.  He has lost about 5 pounds since last year's check-up.  The vet suggested that I bring him in some time to do another glucose curve.  Since he has been losing weight I have not had to give him as much insulin.  When he came to my house he was 20 lbs and got 2.5 units per day.  We are down to one unit per day and with the recent loss we might be able to go down again.
  Bill and I did go and see Mordecai today.  I really liked the movie.  It was a very cute and funny movie.  I suggest it.

  I was going to start another Multidirectional Diagonal scarf(Ravelry link) but then I thought about how much I would need to keep track of and how much adding would be needed during some parts of the scarf.  I know that once I get one triangle done I could figure out how many stitches there were and just add them together, but I like being able to just take one number and multiply it.  This way I won't have to worry about stopping at some random point in a triangle.
  I started a patriotic stocking cap.  I have had the yarn sitting in my dinning room for a while.  It has been looking at me really sadly lately.  The navy blue looks almost black though.

  Hopefully sometime this weekend there will be some sun and I will be able to take pictures of some finished things.  They are starting to pile up over here!


Yesterday's count: 872
Today's count: 2880
Monthly count: 32,956
Finished objects: 2