Queue Enhancement: Patterns That Make my Geeky Heart Glad

 

Jedi Mind Tricks by Cookie A. 

These are awesome. They remind me of Yoda. I know I'm not a sock knitter (yet), but these do my geeky heart glad for sure. Also, these are not available to everyone yet (will become available August 15, 2013), but if you are one of the lucky few who got it in the Cookie A. sock club...Know that I am jealous. 

Love Bytes by Grace Schnebly

 Grace is right! It doesn't get much better than these cute lovey-dovey robot mittens!! I love that she shows these in two different colours so that you can see the differences for you and your lovey, too! Share some robot lurve~!

 

Bellatrix by Monkey Toes

I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. Although I don't like Bellatrix (and although I think she got a hard knock, what with being in love with the psychopath), I do love these socks. They look like an excellent way to show off vareigated yarn. 

 

Balin by  Gryphon Corpus

I don't think I need to say much about this pattern. Just that it's gorgeous, I will one day knit it, and I think my favourite part is the sleeves.

 

Moustached Cat by Andre Sue

Need I say more?

 

Tiny Unicorn by Anna Hrachovec

Because who doesn't want a tiny unicorn...?? Look at the first picture of this pattern to see how truly itty bitty this little unicorn is!

 

Hwaet! by Gryphon Corpus

These are the socks that inspired the whole post. They take me instantly back to my first few weeks of university, and to my continued love for Beowulf.

Now, my lovelies, have you recently found a pattern that has made your geeky heart glad? Let me know in the comments!

Have fun knitting!

Katie =^..^=

And She Knit the Whole Weekend Long

WiP: Felted Stockings, Jane Richmond's "Oatmeal Pullover"

Complete fail on my part for promising that I would get extra posts done this weekend...But I was so exhausted that I curled up, finished the felted stocking bodies (have to finish the cuffs)...And cast on the Oatmeal Pullover for myself.

I'm already about halfway through the body, and then I just need to knit the sleeves. For my first sweater, I hope it turns out well; it looks go so far, and since it was relatively easy, I'm thinking that I'll have to make this in a few other colours for everyday wear! It seems like it will be a very versatile sweater, which is exactly what I need. Appropriate for work AND play. :)

I ended up watching "The Help" and "Thor" this weekend. I had never seen "The Help" before, although I had read it. I think that they did a really good job adapting the book to the movie, with a split in focus between the two groups so that it didn't turn into a movie where it was focussed on the white girl's plight to write her first book, with the help of the black help; instead, I found it to be a very good balance between both the struggles of a coming-of-age writer in Jackson, Mississippi, in the turmoil and struggles for the black population at that time.

"Thor" is good as always. This is about 50% in part because he's shirtless for that one scene, but also because I enjoy superhero movies, particularly Marvel. (Shhhhhh. I like DC, too.) It also was really cool to watch it again after having seen "The Avengers," since I picked up on a lot that I didn't before watching "The Avengers."

Last night was an amazing mail night, which made me super happy. And...Yeah. That was my exciting weekend. I'm going to work more on my sweater, and get the stocking finished up hopefully by this weekend!

By the way, what's YOUR favourite superhero movie? Let me know in the comments!

Katie =^..^=