Assorted randomosity

[oyceter]

For some reason, my brain hasn't been up to handling anything remotely like my normal activities (aka, obsessively reading manga; obsessively reading, period; obsessively blathering on about my latest obsession; obsessively watching anime). Instead, I have been obsessively knitting and obsessively watching figure skating.

Granted, the second isn't that surprising, and since it's very easy to knit and watch figure skating at the same time (less concentration required for watching), no wonder I am obsessively knitting. Not that that means I have cleared my stash any....

I will finally give in and admit I am a closet sports fan, even if the sport is figure skating. Um, given that this is my third year obsessively watching the Grand Prix events and comparing each skater to what they were doing in the previous two seasons, it was a little hard to avoid.

So... we're almost done with the Grand Prix series, which means there's really only assorted nationals, the European championship, and world's to go. And it feels like a bit of a downer, since it's the year right after Olympics. But still! Exciting things are happening!

Dear Johnny Weir,

You continue to irritate me; I think this is because everyone goes on and on and on about how artistic you are, while you attempt to be a Speshul and Unique Snowflake. I don't care if you are Speshul and Unique. You are not skating that great. But at least your fashion sense has improved a little! Then again, anything would be better than rags and tatters and fishnet. Alas, you still have one costume that involves grey-blue velvet pants (YouTube vid). I have nothing against grey-blue, but really... velvet pants? For a long program that is supposedly telling the story of Jesus? Because you identify with feeling persecuted? Oh, the wank, it writes itself.

Yours, Annoyed person


Dear Evgeny Plushenko,

I miss you! Wah!

Signed, Fan of big noses


Dear Evan Lysacek,

You are still cute! Thankfully, I feel less guilty about this now that you aren't 17. Still...

And even though you are skating to Carmen like every other person, I don't care because I like it and it is cool and your footwork sequence still kicks ass.

Signed, I swear I'm not a pedophile


Dear Brian Joubert,

Hey! You're back! And being good! And you are no longer dressed in brown naugahyde! But I'm not sure if your current outfit is an improvement, given that you have weird fake tribal tattoos all down on arm and other strange shiny metallic things elsewhere (link is a video). But you did three quads! In one program! And you didn't fall! It was great! Exclamation point!

Signed, Newly converted fan


Dear Kimmie Meissner, Mao Asada and Yu-Na Kim,

Why are you all so young and good? Gah! Also, I cheer for Yu-Na Kim in particular because hey! South Korean figure skater! Go you!

Signed, Boggled and impressed


Dear Belbin and Agosto,

Wah, I want to like your program so much, but I liked last year's and the year before that's so much better! Although I have to say, I do like the new costumes more than the ones from Cup of China.

Signed, Still hopeful



My first attempt at fingerless gloves, courtesy of Noro Silk Garden and Stitch & Bitch Nation. I'm irritated that the colorways are off because one ball of the Noro had a random colorway knotted in. Argh. The purple thing is a scarf for my sister, made out of very nice alpaca.




More scarves! The one on the left is made from the dewdrop lace pattern with Rowan Plaid, which I love. It is giant and soft and squishy. The one on the right is Branching Out from Knitty, made with Cascade Highland Wool. I think I need to block it to make the pattern stand out, but I'm too lazy.



My first ninja, courtesy of rachelmanija. This set me down the long, lonely path of Naruto figurine obsessive hoarding collecting.




The figurines rachelmanija bought when she was here. I love the Naruto with ramen, the Jiraiya, and freaky!Gaara.




My figurines! Sand sibs, yay!




An attempt to show that the bookmarks that come with the figurines piece together. Pls ignore general messiness of the coffee table




My Bleach figurines! I love them so much! They are so cool!




And my FMA figurines. Cool points: Ed is taller than people, thanks to being part of a different set! And if you take Al's head off, there's a teeny blood seal painted on the inside. So cool.

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Ohhh -- I see! It's panels of yo/k2tog alternated with garter panels. Duh. It looks so cool! I guess the biasing causes the curves.

[oyceter]

Yes that's it! I probably could have said all that much shorter ;). I think it alternates between panels of yo/k2tog and ssk/yo between rows to also create the curves.