neotoma

I went up gblvr's house the night before, because she was driving and it was easier to go straight from her place than to circle around to my place and then go the festival. I wore my feather and fan stole, since I finished it Wednesday and the weather was a bit chilly out. ( But boy did I have at the festival (with pictures) )So now I'm taking the day off and going to be lazy lazy. I might order a pizza later, I'm feeling so lazy...

I had a "what? WHAT?" start to the weekend on Saturday. I lost the knitting out of my backpack, the store was out of this week's bus pass, and the stylist dyed my hair burgundy when I asked for violet. I did manage to find the knitting by backtracking my path three hours later, and wasn't too late for my plans with sanj.

I had planned to show her the last three Sharpe's Rifles episodes, the ones with Alexis Denisof playing one of the antagonists -- basically playing Wesley Wyndham-Pryce at his worst -- a Napoleonic Wars era Life Guards officer. However, I did want her to get some context, so I brought along my collection of the first five episodes as well.

( In which the straight girl, the bi girl, and the lesbian watch tv about pretty men... )

So we finished watching with much squee and good will. Hopefully I'll get to show them the third, fourth and fifth episodes soon.

This morning, I went with sanj to her church choir sing, and got to wear my hifu coat. It hits me right about the knees, and is absolutely gorgeous. We ran into abka and denis77and his mom, and had brunch as Cafe Deluxe. My french toast was good, but their potatoes were cold, and so I think the consensus was it's a good place for dinner, but not brunch.

Afterwards, Sanj helped me find some gorgeous shoes at Comfort One Shoes -- El NaturaLista brand. I bought Iggdrasil N091 shoe with its cute little frog, but I want the Vedoira N570 clog , Iggdrasil N090 clog and maybe even the Iggdrasil N096.

I finished the Swans Tam. This is the matching hat for the Swans Jacket pattern I bought from
Yarns International at this year's MD Sheep and Wool.

( It's pretty nifty )

I think the Swans Jacket will be a rather nice project, but I'm not going to work on it until the weather gets a cooler, and even then it will be a do-at-home project, since I doubt travelling with it would be anything other than frustrating.

Tomorrow, I submit my two enteries to the July show at the Strathmore though, and it will be interesting to see whether they sell.

I got my book-Ravenclaw scarf finished in time for the movie yesterday. Go me!

( It's the full version of scarf -- 14 bar altogether, and longer than I am tall... )

I have a hank and a half of the blue left, and half a hank of the bronze. I'm either going to make a tam, or pair of gloves. We'll see what works out.

Having seen the movie twice now, I'm rather wanting to make one of those all-house Hogwarts scarves. They're rather nifty, but also very dark and subdued, being mostly black.

Just trying out a potential Halloween costume, inspired by last week's excursion to the Ren Fest during "Pirate's Weekend".

( Avast ye, scurvy dogs! )The corset and shirt are costume pieces from the Fest, the hat is my usual thing, the skirt is my best velvet piece, and the coat is my new treasure. I just need boots and weaponry to completely the image.

If I don't wear it for Halloween, I'll wear it to The 5th Annual Privateer Feast to Save the Boobies -- a breast-cancer fundraiser in February -- if I can get tickets as well as time off for it.