One Geek to Stitch Them All

So its March. Month three of the plan to empty out the stash. How is it going? Slow going but there is progress. Also I found out the name of some mystery yarn when I saw it at Gotham Fine Yarns. It’s actually Noro Cash Iroha. I also found another skein of some purple lace.

And an update of the Year’s Goal:

Tally

Skeins Likely to Use: 138
Total Yards: 25, 558
Cast on in 2010:6

Days without a yarn Purchase in 2o10: 72

Completion

Projects: 4
Skeins: 12.25

I started yet another Dalek in Worsted Weight, and its been flying off the needles. I ran out of the yarn and that is likely the only reason its not my fastest finished Dalek ever.

It knit up in about 2 days which was great and reminded me that I may have been using lace for a little too long, for the Christmas cowl, beret, and dalek.

So I went back to the Marvel scarf and have mad some progress on DareDevil.

But along the same Marvel Plan I want to make a Captain America Circular shield shawl.  So the first part I wanted to get down was the star. I figure once that was done I could work out the lace and increases simply enough.

With that in mind I knit this star pattern, Stars From the East which was quick and easy. I think I would need to eventually make the star via a provisional cast on then work my way back out. There will likely be a lot of frogging and hair pulling but that is how the JLA scarf came to be so It shall be interesting. I have a couple other designs planned, we’ll see how that goes.

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SD Card purchased so this post is full of pictures. I may be over compensating. Yarn Crawl starts tomorrow which should be fun though I don’t plan on doing anything before Saturday.  And we’ll see how quickly I get started. I may just end up doing my talk and going to the 2 particpating  yarn stores in Brooklyn as I can walk to them both.

So Captain America is done.

Not sure  who’s next. Possibly Ms. Marvel.

There are also Stitch Markers

Gryffindor  Markers – Harry Potter

I could have sworn I had more of these beads so they may become earrings but I think they are wonderful markers. There just happen to be three of them at the moment.

Face of Boe Markers – Doctor Who/Torchwood

These are my favorites of the sets I created, and I like the fact that each is in a different color. I wanted Boe Wavy bits but I thought that would be much to likely to snag to be any fun knitting with.

Department of Mysteries – Prophecy Orbs – Harry Potter

Execution of these makes me wonder, and there may be a return to the drawing board. But these beads reind me very much of the prophecies as seen in movie 5.

And below the cut the pictures of the squares.

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So I have stopped the squares as I’m not quite sure what they will become and they were becoming quite addictive maybe they will slowly become a giant geeky quilt. Currently I have, Batman, Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and Green Lantern.

There will be pictures once I get and SD card reader. I found my older camera that is being held with tape. But it works unlike the one that looks like its in perfect condition. Ah Kodak you perplex me so.

So to stop from making squares I have started a Marvel Scarf. Right now I have started with Captain America or to be more specific:

Of course its double knit, so there will be more fun with three color double knitting or as a fellow knitter has dubbed it triple knitting.

Next up is:

Our  friendly neighborhood Wall Crawler or possibly the spider on his back that looks like a spider tracer. 

Other Marvel people on the to do list include  S.H.I.E.L.D (ultimate logo), Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers), Fantastic 4, X-men, Phoenix (dark/light TBD).

On the maybe list are Thor, Venom, Wolverine, Dr.Strange, Spiderwoman, and Quicksilver.

On the if I can figure out something to represent you: Hulk, Ironman, Storm.

And I’m drawing a blank.

Lastly Follow me on Twitter: 1Geek2CraftAll You know if you do that sort of thing.

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