Don't forget to watch tonight's new episodes of Stargate Universe and Caprica on Syfy starting at 8 pm CST!!!
Right, then. Getting on with it.
I've got a couple of finished crochet projects for you today. Here's the birthday present I was working on week before last. It was a poncho for a good friend of mine, her birthday was this past Saturday.
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| Poncho of Happiness by Cori 2010. |
The pattern I used for this was the Groovy Granny Poncho from Lion Brand's free pattern database. (To see the pattern you may have to register with the site, but that's free, it just gets you a newsletter, which you can even opt out of.) I love LB's pattern database. Because one of their big lines is Vanna's Choice, designed by Vanna White, who crochets, they have a ton of crochet patterns as well as knitting. And they have patterns for all sorts of different fiber types.
For this project, I used their Homespun yarn, in Baroque, Amethyst, Edwardian, and Black. I absolutely hated Homespun the first time I tried to use it because I am really just not used to the bulkier yarns, but now that I've worked with it a bit, I have to admit, I kind of love it a little. It is so soft and warm. The pattern called for one skein of each color, but didn't use it all up, so I ended up having enough left over to make one (with a few modifications to the pattern) for my daughter as well.
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| Pint-sized Poncho by Cori 2010. |
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| Baby Girl models her new duds. |
I am now hard at work on my next project, another birthday present, which I'll post more about once it has been given to its recipient.
In other news, I thought I would share with you some photos of my kitties, since I am bound to mention them from time to time. They are my furred children, so I thought you should get to know them a bit as well. I have two kitties that live inside with us and suck up all of the love that I don't give Baby Girl. They've done a pretty good job of adjusting to her arrival over the past year. Wally pretty much took to her right away and has adopted a "big brother" attitude of sorts. He is extremely patient with her and endures her vigorous "petting" attempts, because he knows he will be well repaid with love from me after the baby has gone to bed. Also, they both love to play with my yarn when I am right in the middle of the tricky part of any given project. Tony finally seems to be warming up to the newest addition to the family. He no longer flees the room when she enters it, and will even let her touch him occasionally--though not without flinching. I think a big part of his deciding to come around (aside from the realization that she is clearly not going anywhere) is that now that she is feeding herself, there is a lot more people food being dropped on the ground for him to get to.
I do also have two stray kitties that I have more or less adopted, though they stay outside. One of them, a Siamese that I have oh-so-cleverly (insert sarcasm) named Sy, is very personable and sweet. Part of me really wants to bring him inside to live with us (after a visit to the vet and a bath, of course), but I know that wouldn't be fair to him, because he is so completely an outside kitty. So for now I am just doing my best to make sure that he has a safe and comfortable place in our backyard, as well as a regular food supply. The other stray (who I don't have a photo of) is definitely Sy's companion, and I know he eats the food I put out, but I only see him very rarely. He is extremely skittish around people and tends to dash off the moment he realizes he's been spotted. I have dubbed him Skittles.
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| Sy, the stray Siamese. |
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| Tony, who will be 6 in December. |
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| Wally, at 9 years old. |
I started playing Star Wars Republic Commando last night, but alas, I don't think that I am going to be able to play this one all of the way through. It is in the first person point of view, and you're looking out through your character's helmet display, which is just crazy. It made me a bit nauseated. I had this same problem when I played Portal, but that didn't have the added craziness of a whole slew of control buttons to remember, so I was able to adjust to it, though I had to limit my playing to only about an hour at a time. I don't think I'm gonna make it through this game though. It's sad, because I really really love the books and was hoping that playing the game would add an extra dimension to my enjoyment of them. But it doesn't really have the RPG aspect I prefer in my games, and with that plus the controls just totally throwing me off, plus the POV, I may just have to set this one aside. At least for now. On the plus side, I only paid $6 for it, so I don't have to get mad at the waste of money. So it looks like I might be finally diving into Morrowind next instead, to my husband's great excitement. He has been trying to get me to play that game forever.
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