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[bubosquared]

So gran, as grandmothers are wont to do, insists on buying me stuff. Lots of stuff. Since I own pretty much every material thing I need (except for a better computer, which I feel would be a bit much to ask for), I hate clothes shopping, and I prefer to buy my own books, that leaves food. And now, yarn. Lots of yarn. Random yarn. And needles, and assorted stuff. I now own a huge ball (skein?) of dark teal yarn. Not enough for a jumper, and they only had the one, but still, pretty! And a £0.50 random leftover ball of rainbow yarn, and black yarn and double pointed needles for gloves, and tomorrow we're going shopping for yarn for the HP scarves (BRONZE YARN YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME FOREVER!) and for my Weasley jumper, and I plan to latch onto any prettu-looking cheapish yarn she'll buy me and stock up for a while.

... Which, um, means I'll need new ideas and patterns and stuff. Right now, my main problem is that I really don't have that many clothes, and I don't want that many clothes, and I don't need more than one scarf and hat, and a pair of gloves, and there's only so many socks I can knit and/or scarves I can make you lot and/or pullovers I can force onto my brothers and whatnot.

All of which is my roundabout way of asking for knitting community recommendations. Something fannish-raleted would be nice, and if anyone knows of a good place to find things to knit that could be used for LARPing, I'd love that.

[ETA]Hm, yay or nay??[/ETA]

Comments

[anothersuperboy.livejournal.com]

Damn living in a tropical climate that renders scarves pretty useless. *pout* And your Gran sounds fabulous. ^_^

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I KNIT MY LEFTOVERS INTO A DR WHO SCARF IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!

... It may or may not be way too late for me to be up anymore. *shifteye* ANd my gran is fabulous. :D

[anothersuperboy.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Whee!

[thelionforreal.livejournal.com]

i don't know what's considered cheap (i want to learn to knit, but i haven't done so yet), but i decided to go bronze yarn shopping online for ya (also, i'm sure this isn't anything you haven't done before, but i wanted to feel useful):

http://www.yarnmarket.com/product.cfm?action=show_product&product_id=639

http://www.yarnmarket.com/product.cfm?action=show_product&product_id=618

http://www.yarnmarket.com/product.cfm?action=show_product&product_id=506

http://mystery-ld1.yarnware.com/__852568590074724E.nsf/0/095B7266F2342A27852568F5006DCAFD?Open&Highlight=2,bronze

http://www.yarn.com/specials/garagesale/4-10Worsted.html

[above ship internationally via USPS]

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I may indeed have to turn to the internet for the bronze. Sigh.

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you could make a Hogwarts quilt. With blocks in each house's colors, or blocks made of blocks (like, 2x2 blocks in green and silver for Slytherin); it might be a little visually busy, but it would be cool! (now I'm forgetting the colors... Gryffindor is red/gold, Slytherin is green/silver, Hufflepuff is yellow/black, and Ravenclaw is blue/______?)

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

HP Lexicon says it's blue/bronze. So yeah, that would provide lots of opportunity for color clashes!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's an idea! Thanks!

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

I have a set of the Denises and they're fantastic (using them right now, actually). I'm a member of the weasleysweaters community, but there's also hp_knitting.

And you can always donate your knitted goods to charity if you don't want to push them onto the siblings. Homeless shelters need warm things. Hospitals need tiny warm things for preemies.

[rsadelle]

Donations! I think that's a fabulous idea. Think of all the fun things you could knit for people who need something warm. This is also much better than my suggestion that you take up crocheting so you can learn to make chain mail.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yep, and I can do things like boobie scarves for breast cancer awareness and stuff. Although knitting/crocheting chainmail also sounds like fun. :D

(My geeky obsessions are mating! Help!)

[rsadelle]

Geekier.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

... Yes, it is. AND I WANT THEM!

[rsadelle]

Hee!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can knit little stuffed versions of those. X-Men plushies!

[rsadelle]

There's a bamf pattern somewhere (you have read Kitty's fairy tale, right?), but I think it's a sewing pattern, not a knitting one.

And costume-wise...

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of capelets around -- things that tie around the neck and keep the shoulders warm.

My friend knit fingerless gloves for a Gandalf-esque costume (to wear under her cloak).

Oh, and the suits of armor in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Knitted and spray-painted silver. Gotta love small budgets!

Re: And costume-wise...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Gandalf gloves sound good, too. And I think at my LARP in Belgium, people had the spray-painted knitting "chainmail" too. That might be a good idea.

[ktnb]

I've heard both good and bad things about Denises. I know people who love them and worship them, and I know people who have had serious problems with the joins breaking. Plus, the lowest size needle is like 5 or 6, so they're not all that helpful for people who knit a lot of socks and lace and tiny things like that.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I don't tend to knit lacey things, at least not yet, and they do sound very good for the kind of stuff I'm mainly knitting now. The problem is that they don't take PayPal and I have no proper credit card, boo. And you can't seem to order extra parts online. Hrm. Must ponder this.