Finish Him!

     Well see here! It seems that I have finished a project! : D See I told you I would. Pictures to be added in the morning, you know when light happens. I made two sets of finger-less glove things. I was following a Lionbrand pattern :
(apparently you have to "register" to see the nice pattern.....let me help you out there, size  nine or ten needles, Vanna's Choice yarn, two colors,
cast on 24 stitches
row 1: color 1 knit
row 2: color 1 knit
Row 3: color 2* knit
Row 4: color 2 knit
repeat until long enough to effectively warm your hand and wrist.
cast off
*helpful video for changing colors(pulled from the vault of my YouTube schenaniganry) if you want fat stripes, go here for advice...remember it needs to be an even number!

I got this from their (usually pointless....its funny cause knitting needles) e-letter....news-mail...there really should be a better way to say e-mail news letter.....I'll ponder that some more. As a side note, I keep waiting for their little knitting based web comic to be funny....and it always lets me down as shamelessly bad product placement. Anywho, the first round of these (pictures below) turned out kindah lumpy around the seam because I forgot that the internet knows everything, and decided to show a spark of intelligence, and make up my own way to carry colors along. (this involves knitting the two yarns together on the edges...yah) it ended in a nasty bit of bulkiness. But I wised up, spent an hour watching knitting how-to videos on YouTube and  fixed it in the second pair I promptly made for my jealous older sister Emily. Upon reading that last sentence over, I am suddenly struck by the sad realization of what my life has come to at this point.

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     Moving on. I have decided to start another related project. I may or may not have mentioned to my 4 year old nephew that my finger-less gloves made him have superpowers like iron man....hehe. Anywho I have engineered an adorably AWESOME pattern (which is a surprise)...which I am currently using the extra knowledge that I incurred while  whiling away the hours learning about playing with different colored yarn in knitting on YouTube (see the internet is useful, and not a sad cry for help...I really hope no one looks through my browser history...I'm not sure I could live down the knitting videos and crafting blog to no one). I had one almost finished....when I realized that, it was much to small. Time to restart! however, I practiced my yarn-play. I'm not too bad at this nonsense! Victory. Anyway, I'm now sitting here in my bed at an unreasonable hour, knitting and listening to a mix of bad pop, and indie-hipster music....something is so wrong with me. Peace yo, time to knit in time to the beat!

Seeing Stars

So, when it comes to any project there are two major roadblocks, doing their best to kink up the system. The first among these being finances/constructability(I decided to make a new word today, you're welcome English language, I do what I can.) essentaily can I afford to build or make what I want to on my budget. Sadly the answer is often no (the laws of physics and gravity can also muck things up sometimes). However with a current project of mine, a businessy dress for my older sister, I have both the pattern and the fabric, I even got the pieces cut out. Problem is, that was over a year ago. This is that second road block I was talking about. I imagine I'm not the only one to shoot for the stars only to find that it's tricky and time consuming, and settle for looking at pictures of them on the internet. Well at least I hope I'm not alone.

I figure part of the reason this happens, is I have a bad habit of running 99 million projects all at the same time. If I was to list everything out and go through projects one by one, I might actually finish something one of these days. Hard to say how much it matters. roughly 50% of the fun is in the designing and buying phase, and I can't afford nice things all the time. It's mostly jsut important to keep dreaming.

Welcome!

Well here I am on the World Wide Interwebz! My name is Maddie, and I like to decrease world suck (all of theVlogbrothers fans DFTBA!) and I figure that the best way to decrease world suck, is to make win. But yah, essentially that's it. I want to make win in my life and essentially share all of the win I've made so more people can make more win! If all goes well the amount of win in the world will increase exponentially until the world is just bursting with all of the awesome. A good plan no? So here yah go, Enjoy!