Tag Archives: procrastinating

Things I want to write about

– The million xmas knits I’ve finished this week. No srsly, there are so many.

– The million xmas knits I still have to finish before xmas.

– The awesome buttons I bought today that were used in Shutter Island. (Not the exact ones, but the exact design.)

– The awesome sweater I just finished that the buttons are going to be sewn onto.

– The lovely movie I saw last night (Hugo) and how it led to me remembering a name I’ve been trying to remember for the past two years (Busby Berkeley).

– The millions of papers I’ve written in the past two weeks. Only one left and then freedom!!

So apologies for the lengthy silence, but brb.

When Big Kids Wear Warm Knitted Things

It occurred to me yesterday that the title of my blog is “When Big Kids Play Dress-up” and yet there’s hardly anything costume-related in here.

I’ve been sewing since I was about fourteen. I had gone to see Lord of the Rings with a friend and came home having decided to be Arwen when I grew up. Since then it’s grown increasingly dangerous for me to watch any sort of sci-fi/fantasy movies/tv shows because I will inevitably end up at the nearest fabric store picking out fabrics and notions so I can run home and recreate my favorite costumes whilst my bank account shrieks in pain.

In fact, I started this blog as a place to showcase and write about costuming adventures. Except then I learned to knit and since then pretty much everything has been about knitting projects. Whoops.

The point of all this rambling is, I’m going to have to remedy this. So expect some costumey-related posts in the near future.

Progress Report

Laminaria: 50%, just started the last Star Chart repeat and then it’s on to the edging 75%! Halfway through Edging Chart #1

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Rae #2: 30%, I think I’m  somewhere around 50-something stitches

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Papers written: 3 of 4

I’d say we’re doing pretty well.

Oh, except:

Halloween costumes made: zero

Whoops.