Anime Boston 2014

What a weekend!

Anime Boston was this past weekend. I know I hadn’t mentioned anything coming up to the weekend, but as I wasn’t actually making a costume this year (I reused Luna from last year) there wasn’t much to blog about until it was all said and done with.

The worst part about the weekend is that Friday I came down with a really bad cold and was a bit zombie-like for the weekend. I still did my best to enjoy myself and have a good time regardless of how my Nyquil I had to take to be able to breathe.

I ran into someone I know from back in high school who had a table in Artist’s Alley, that was awesome.

I got mistaken for a female Doctor on Friday because I wore my Doctor Who scarf. I also had a panelist give me a hug for taking notes during her panel which was awesome.

Saturday I dressed up in the costume I made for AB2013. If you remember, I did a series of blog posts about making the outfit (though not how I did the wig, which was a whole lot of making-it-up-as-I-went). I ended up at a Sailor Moon photo shoot.

I’m second from the left of the image.

I don’t have a photo of the whole group you (I’m keeping an eye on the Anime Boston forums for group shots. Hopefully some pop up soon!).

Sunday, I didn’t dress up at all, only went to one panel, but by that time I was so exhausted from being sick that I just wanted to get home. I tried to have a good time, really I did, and I tried to make sure that I wasn’t a downer to my friends who I was with, but it only worked so well.

As for buying anything… my boyfriend only got me a few things (I didn’t want much anyways), but I’m happy with it. A lot of things in the dealers room are available cheaper online, and in Artist’s Alley, there were things I”d consider buying later but not as an impulse buy at a con.

That’s everything I got! The badge with the ‘con-plague’ button (I thought it was appropriate because I was sick). An AB2014 t-shirt, and a couple of ‘badges’ and buttons from an artist in Artists Alley.

If you can’t tell from how sick I said I was, I barely got any knitting done over the weekend. Last year I knit almost a whole pair of socks in the various panels that I went to. This year was a very different story.

Don’t worry, there will be more knitting soon. I’m still recovering today, but tomorrow or Thursday we should be back to regular knitting.

Follow Up Part 2

The Yarn Harlot’s blog has been updated!

You can find it HERE.

First picture I’m there in the front row with my Neville’s Cardigan (my smile is quite creepy unfortunately).

Further down is the link to the knitting nuns that apparently show up every year. One of them dyes and sells fiber to spin. Isn’t that cool?

Follow Up

This is the follow up to two posts from this week. About Selkie and the Yarn Harlot

I had hoped that the Yarn Harlot would post a blog post about the event on Wednesday so I could link back to it, but alas, she hasn’t posted anything yet. I’ll definitely link to her post once it goes up though!

For now though I’ll post the pictures I took on Wednesday at the event.

Obligatory crowd shot from before the talk began.

She needs no introduction but she got one anways.

The talk/reading itself was great and as you can tell I had an amazing seat.

I actually made her a mini-hexipuff as a present. She was who inspired me to start blogging and to learn to spin. She said she’d put it on her Christmas tree.

Then she signed my book!

Great book!

And there it is!

 

Now onto my Selkie. Like I said on Tuesday it was blocking and drying as I typed that post. Yesterday I finally got around to sewing the buttons on. The cables themselves flattened out a little bit more than I would like but it’s completely wearable.

I also went for the optional ‘sleeves’. Basically you sew the bottom of the raglan seams. It has the added benefit of keeping it from flaring out in the back which is nice.

 

One last thing.

Remember this yarn? That I dyed last year?

Well, it’s finally going to become something! It took me almost a year to decide what to do with it but I know what I’m going to do now. A simple scarf that will show off the color but will also have a visible pattern. I think I found the best of both worlds.

 

Enjoy your weekends!

Seeing the Harlot

I promise more details tomorrow (I’m wearing for Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the author I went to see tonight put up her own blog post about it). I want to be able to link to her blog because, yeah, I was in the front row. In front of a group of nuns (fiber dying nuns!) and I know she’s going to be posting crowd pictures.

It was an awesome night, she was funny and witty and overall great. I’ll give you guys a better write up about it tomorrow when I’m not so tired from having a late night. Had to drive down to Brookline. Before that I went into Boston to pick up my mom from her work and then the two of us went into Brookline. If you haven’t driven in Boston, a word of warning. If you’re used to a grid system (like most cities in the US) and you’re used to roads making sense, don’t drive in Boston. Nothing is straight and nothing makes sense. Just an FYI for y’all.

Again, I’ll have a better write up for you folks in the morning after I’ve gotten some sleep, for now, have a picture of me with the “Yarn Harlot“, she was awesome.

FO – Selkie (minus the buttons)

It’s done! As I type this it’s blocking on my bed, hopefully it’ll be dry soon (given how dry the house is it should be done by the time I go to bed tonight).

Project: Selkie

Patern: Selkie by Melissa Schaschwary

Yarn: Cascade Ecological Wool in colorway #8087 purchases from Twill

 

This wasn’t a particularly difficult knit. But there was a bit of a slog towards the end when the rows got really long as you kept up the raglan increases. I did far more of the back cable than the pattern said. Why? The Cascade was working up more like a worsted weight rather than the bulky the pattern was designed for so I ended up with more cable repeats than the pattern says.

Overall I did 6 cable repeats plus an additional 6 rows.

I’m happy with it and it needs to dry faster so I can sew the buttons on! I’m planning on raiding my mom’s piles of buttons for some appropriately sized ones in black or brown.

Now that I’m down to four WIPs so if I cast on one or two more things it won’t be that many, and really, two of them I can’t really take anywhere so there’s that.