Round 82, Hour 24

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Good evening, everyone. I managed to put aside my little game and come online for like … we'll see for how long :o)

Is there anyone around? Any penguin incidents? Words? Knitting or sewing? Anything you can report?

Comments

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

I'm playing D&D! :D

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I want to play, too! Tell me ALL about it! =D =D

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

I'm around! I got distracted watching Leverage (For fic research purposes!) And now I'm watching a rather odd Japanese film...

More words...probably not until the morning to be honest...

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Research is muy importante!

What's the film? And how is it odd? I'm asking because I love discovering new stuff =)

Tomorrow is just as fine. The words won't go anywhere *nods*

[clocketpatch]

I've finished my chocolate_box assignment and am now on the look out for treats!

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

The film was Yakuza Apocalypse (its a Takeshi Miike film which may or may not tell you everything you need to know...) and umm...there are Vampire Yakuzas and some form of God with a bad attitude who looks like a man in a fuzzy frog suit. Very odd, though I kinda enjoyed it.

[stasia]

I've got two charts in my complicated RPG knitting MKAL done (I'm only three weeks behind, yay!) and I hope to get at least one more chart done today. (That'll leave me still 3 weeks behind, but closer to being done).

And, I've made pretty pictures even prettier for posting to my Social Media accounts. Which is 'work', even though it feels frivolous.

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, chocolate! Very nice! Well done =)

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that tells me everything :o) It sounds like I must check it out!

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Hooray! (Although … what does RPG knitting MKAL mean? Lol).

Work and frivolousness aren't necessarily mutually exclusive!

[stasia]

So, I'm a knitter. *grin*

MKAL is Mystery Knit A Long - it's a pattern in which the steps/instructions are doled out in chunks called Clues. Usually one Clue/week, with an approachable set of instructions to do each week. More than one row, not usually more than 80 rows (depending on the project, of course, but still. Socks might have more rows per clue than shawls, for example, as sock rounds are ~60-72 stitches around and shawl rows can end up being over 400 stitches per row (with each row getting longer as the shawl is knit), so 80 rounds of a sock is less work than 80 rows of a growing shawl.

This MKAL is a scarf, but worked in double knitting, so each face of the scarf is the same, but in mirrored colors. (Here's a page with a couple of examples: Double Knitting. If you have pinterest, you can find some really amazing things.

So, the RPG part is that the pattern writer is having us choose our own patterns from her sets of patterns by using Role Playing Game rules - we've rolled up a character and a feline companion and then we use dice to roll each successive chart to work. She's designed up to 10 different charts for each section; some of the charts are huge.

If you're willing to join a website you might not use except to look at pretty knitted things, try joining ravelry.com . It's free to join, they NEVER send emails, and it's lots of fun to look at yarn and patterns. If you join there and search for 'Yarn Quest 2017 - Heroes of Yarnia RPG MKAL' you'll find the pattern I'm doing. Click on the "Projects" tab and you'll see pictures of these that other people are knitting.

... this might have been longer than you were expecting. It's such a fun hobby, though, and this is a really exotic and fun example of it.

[naemi.livejournal.com]

This sounds super exciting and fun! Not that I know how to knit (I was supposed to learn it in fifth grade or so, but my mom and grandma always did my homework for me because I'm SO not talented, lol), but still though, that's pretty awesome! What a unique way to knit, too :o)