You are NOT my Mother.

"You know, you could stay forever, if you want to. There's one tiny thing we have to so first..." 

I've got a quick little post for you today! I'm from Long Island, so i'm trapped inside today, a "victim" of hurricane Sandy. So i though i would share with you two pairs of gloves that I finished recently. Both of them i found on Ravelery, which as my fellow yarn crafters know, is an amazing resource.

First, we have my new Coraline gloves:

The right glove right after i
finished knitting

All finished

Those of you that have seen Coraline might remember the scene where Coraline and her real mother go shopping for some school clothing, and Coraline is quite unhappy with the idea of dark, dull colored clothing that the store has, but as she wonders she finds the pair of gloves that these gloves are modeled after, and begs her mother for them. Anyone that hasn't seen Coraline should track down a copy because its an awesome movie!

You can find the pattern on the authors blog:

http://theyellowjournalist.blogspot.com/2009/02/coraline-gloves.html

The second pair of gloves i love, largely because i am big on comics. When i found this pattern i knew i had to make it! It is a pair of fingerless gloves, that i chose to use sparkly grey yarn and black yarn for. The whole thing is done with intarsia knitting, for a cool look:

 

I found this pattern on Ravelry as well. They were fun to make, although i had to pay a lot of attention to my knitting as the pattern was mainly based on following the chart.

Heres the link to the Ravelry project page:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fightin-words

Until next time!

Simply Meant to Be

"Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!"

So my Sally costume was a hit! It took me a long time to finish but in the end was certainly worth all of the work. The day of comic-con i broke out the liquid latex to paint my skin, which stayed on well but was rather painful when it decided to stick to itself... and getting it off at the end of the day was like pulling Band-Aids off.... ouch. But it looked awesome! I used eyeliner to make all of the scars and it stayed on the liquid latex well. 

So the other person in the photo above is my younger brother, Tommy. He's dressed up as oogie boogie. It was very much a last minute costume so it isn't quite as good as i hoped it would turn out, as you can see by the lack of covers over his shoes.... i ran out of fabric and i was finishing it the night before comic-con so there was no way to make more. I also would have liked to spend more time on the mask, but like i said the time was limited. 

While i'm here, let me show you my other costumes from comic-con!

On Saturday i went as Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and a friend of mine went as the mad hatter. I'm obviously not blond, so i tried to make do with a wig. The dress i'm wearing i found at a thrift store a few months back, and i made the bow and the apron with some scrap fabric i had around the house.

And on the final day of comic-con i went as Kim Pine, the drummer from Sex Bo-omb in Scott Pilgrim. I even got to meet Bryan Lee O'Malley, the author of SP which was awesome! The whole outfit came from a local thriftstore, and i made the sign. I cut the wig myself, which was somewhat outside of my comfort zone as i don't typically cut hair, but it came out pretty good for the character. I stole my boyfriends drumsticks to complete the costume!

All in all, i would say comic-con was a pretty epic weekend.