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Woah! Two weeks worth of updates!

So, the Sunday before last (August 30th).

Who: Heather and Graham

What: I worked on Erin’s “Little Red Cap” and Graham did some other stuff that I don’t remember. We both mink oiled our sweet-ass Son of Sandlar boots.

Eats: Pizza for Graham, plain chicken wings for me. Unless I made that up because honestly I don’t remember.

Watched: The Tudors! Neither one of us has seen this show, but thanks to NetFlix now we can. Someone described it to us as “kings and soft-core porn”. I am here to tell you that this description totally apt. Lots of nipples.

This week’s craft night was moved to Monday to reflect the holiday and the fact that we were playing The Beatles Rock Band all night on Sunday (Sept. 6th). You did read that right, getting my copy early FTW.

Who: Graham, Heather, Laura

What: I finished A’s 2008 Christmas present (which she will now be given for 2009 instead), worked on an amigurumi Redcap (carnivorous fairy), worked on Erin’s “Little Red Cap”, and cast on Presents Knits “Dandy Scarf”. I am making this with a heavier weight cotton yarn because I love the shape and think it will look awesome in Mirasol’s Hapi. I know the drape won’t be the same but I’m cool with that.

Laura finished crocheting a scarf she’d been working on for something like 4 years. She then started a crocheted headband. I completely respect the fact that she works without patterns. I am too chicken for that when I crochet. I’m going to teach her the little bit she needs to know to get to amigurumi.

Graham virtually crafted in WoW. He needs a good light to be able to paint at the new place. The existing lighting just isn’t bright enough.

Füd: We ordered from a new Indian place Passage to India . Graham and I shared baingan bhartha and the best aloo paratha I have ever eaten. It was so freakin’ good! The baingan bhartha was super fresh and yummy. We got it medium spicy level, which was spicier than other places and just about at my tolerance level. Laura got vegetable korma and naan. As far as I know she enjoyed it.

TV: We caught up on the last two weeks of “Project Runway”, watched some reruns of “How I Met Your Mother”, and finished an episode of “Being Human” that Laura hadn’t seen yet. Ok seriously, Malvin getting kicked off instead of Mitchell? Come on! You always have to choose creativity over crap even if isn’t great. At least Mitchell got kicked off the following week. Dude didn’t do anything to help his team.

I'm still not doing so great with taking pics. I borrowed Whitney's camera but ended up not really using it. I seriously have to replace mine and then we'll get some sweet ass action shots up in here.

But I'm talkin' about Craft (Then we can dig it)

Who: Graham, Heather, and Laura

What: Laura came over to frame a picture for Luke's birthday. It was a sweet print of St. Michael driving Satan out of heaven that she picked up at the ren faire this past July. A few weeks ago we went to Michael's picked out a frame, and backing board, and glass and stuff. Graham was called in to cut the print down to size for the frame. The frame was 16x20 and the image fit inside it quite well but there was too much extra paper. The other problem we ran into was the frame not having those little metal doohickeys that hold the backing in. So Laura borrowed Jae's drill (that's what you get for not coming over, Sucker!) and is going to pick them up at the hardware store later this week.

Graham did more painting on his "Dark Elf Riding Horse" Warhammer miniature. Last week I told you he used yellow, but it was actually gold. He had a little trouble with the washes he used over the gold and silver trim, but was able to correct that this week. The cats tried really hard to drink his paint water.

I tightened the elastic on the zills I purchased at Pennsic. They are copper to match the tray I attempt to balance on my head every week in class. There was a lot of pocking my fingers with the needle. Then I uploaded some photos to Facebook.

Füd Ordered: One small cheese pizza, sixteen chicken wings.

Füd Recieved: One small cheese pizza, ten chicken wings. But the pizza place gave us back $4 to make up for running out of wings.

T.V.: Project Runway, natch! I think this will be a regular staple of craft night viewing. Then we watched "Baby Cakes - The Role Play Tournament", a long time favorite that Laura had never seen. After Laura left Graham and I watched, like, 30 episodes of the "Gilmore Girls".

Breaks Taken: We stopped doing stuff to really focus on Baby Cakes. At one point Graham and I stopped to play a game of Cock Blokus. He won, but I am pretty sure he cheated.

Excuses: Apologies for the lack of photos again, my camera suffered and unfortunate roller skating accident and will need to be fixed or replaced.

Sunday Crafty Sundaaaaayaaay

In attendance: Graham, Whitney, and Heather. Jae wasn’t there because he “forgot.” I’m pretty sure he was just paying us back for missing fencing. –Such- a vindictive bastard, that Weisbrot.

Food ordered: Baingan Bartha, Vegetable Jalfrazi, Paratha, and Naan from Kebab Corner.

Food delivered: Baingan Bartha, Chicken Tikki, Paratha, and Naan from Kebab Corner. I called them up to tell them inform them of their mistake, about which they were very nice and quite accommodating. They rushed an order of Vegetable Jalfrazi back to the house and were there in less than half an hour. Unfortunately their Jalfrazi contains paneer, a thing I can’t eat and Graham won’t eat. So the Jalfrazi went to one lucky Laura on Monday. Who even puts paneer in Jalfrazi?! Apparently it’s regional thing, so I don’t feel bad for having not known that it could happen, since my previous Jalfrazi experiences were all paneer free. In any case, their food was super tasty and I would totally order from them again.

Crafts worked on: Graham painted Dark Elfs. Looked like a dude on a horse. He used some black paint and some yellow paint. Whitney worked on a quilted thing. She sketched a design, cut out the fabric, and started piecing it together. She’s using shades of lavender and a sagey kind of green. She’s probably the most diverse in her crafting amongst us. My intention was to mink oil everyone’s boots and then make boffer swords, but I had neither mink oil nor pipe foam in my possession. Instead, I knit. I worked on Erin’s Little Red Cap for ToV, using blood red Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted. I started this cap awhile ago but am just now getting back to it. It’s the weirdest thing, but suddenly all my knitting is easier. This pattern, which contains both a lace and a cable pattern, terrified me at first, but now I am excited at the diversity in stitches. I think knitting Leethal’s Circle Wrist Cuff helped me get over my “stitches that aren’t knits, purls, or yarn overs” fear.

Things we watched: The Daily Show, the Milky Joe episode of The Mighty Boosh, The Venture Brothers, and after Whitney left “Saawariya”. I forgot how sappy that movie is. My favorite parts are those that feature Salman Khan because he adds a level of dark and broody to an otherwise somewhat hysterical and overly saccharine piece.

Next time: Pictures! (I forgot to take any this time)

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This blog is set up to chronicle our weekly craft nights here in Somerville. I expect there will be a diverse cast of characters, and an even more diverse cast of project-types--from knitting to nerdcrafts, it'll all be here.