We have a winner!!! (sort of)

Way back in April, I submitted one of my Proto the Robo brooches to the TNNA/Piecework Magazine brooch contest.

While I did not win any of the fabulous prizes, my brooch did make the group selected for display in a special exhibit - and is pictured in this month's Piecework Magazine.

Super-wohoo!

Little proto can be spotted with his 52 new friends at the Embroiderer's Guild of America Museum in Louisville, Kentucky through September 23rd, 2009.

P.S. Take note ye who scoff at the social media revolution - I found out about this contest on Twitter!!

In search of the Mecha Dunny

I have a small addiction. I've been collecting series 5 Dunnies. The lure of the blind box. The quest for the rare Dunny. I only buy one. Here and there. The problem is that most of them are really so, well, ugly. And the object of my desire is so very rare...


Surely going to the source - the Kidrobot store in NYC - would bring me luck? No soap. Drat and double drat. A duplicate Dunny!



Oh Mecha Dunny, where are you??

Finally finished with the Tab Button Jacket

Finally done after sewing in 8 million ends.

Nuff said.

RoboGames: Olympics for the circuit board crowd!

Wish I could have made it out to RoboGames 2009 in San Francisco June 12-14 this year. Looks like it was a lot of geeky fun! Now that's an Olympics I could compete in! (maybe...)

Take a peek at this documentary from the RoboGames site. Best quote "Anytime you get geeks thinking in mass, you get societal benefits from that."

Kerchief done, end-sewing commences

Finished the kerchief. Not sure I love how it looks on me, but it does keep the hair out of my face. I ended up knitting "between" sizes, and it came out a bit too big. So, I single crocheted through two layers of the band to tighten it up.

Want to try it again with a more springy yarn than the Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmere I used. Overall, a fun, fast pattern.

Have the tab button jacket all sewn together, just need to tuck in all of the ends (how can there be so many!) and sew the pockets and button. Soooooo close!

Kerchief time? Nope. Back to the Tab Button Jacket

Do you like how you look in a baseball cap? Not me. And yet one needs some means of hair concealment for those feeling-less-than glamorous days. Enter the kerchief.

Mom made one recently from a pattern called Kitschy Kerchief in Stitch N' Bitch, and it got me to thinking about adding a kerchief to my wardrobe du hair.

Though I like the pattern Mom used, I r-e-a-l-l-y like the free Lacy Crochet Kerchief pattern from a recent Classic Elite email - one of the nicest knitting-related emails I receive. (Sorry Knitting Daily, but you send too many offers masking themselves as "content"...)

With all of the yarn I have stashed about the house, there MUST be something that would make a good head covering, right? Hagrid and I went digging through all the yarn we could find. We decided cotton would be the best choice for a summer head covering. Alas the stash options came down to navy blue (too dark to show the pattern), drab olive (maybe, but no love there) and red (saving that for a baby hat). Or... there is that lovely Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmerino... but in order to be sure I have enough to finish the sweater I'm making from that yarn, well, I have to finish the sweater.

And so, I'm back to where I should have been anyway -- counting down the last rows to finish a project before I cast on something new. Really should have it done by next weekend. Bets anyone?

Robot Pooch is in the houuuuuuuse!

I received an order from central command to add a robotic pooch to the robot line - and "poof" here he is, "Cyber Bow-wow".

Thanks for the idea CB.

Now should there be a Cyber Puss? Somehow, the idea of a cat behaving in a human-serving manner does not compute. Much as the cat-haters out there would love the idea, I'm thinking not.