Harry Potter and Knitting Buisness

So as you know I knitted a fabulous Hufflepuff scarf for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premiere. I havnt blocked it yet but I will soon.
My friend Kinos, awesome guy, is buying a scarf off of me for 25 bucks. Which got me thinking, my hat sales may have flopped but sweaters and the rest wont. I finally got in contact with gerri two weeks ago and shes comming over on wesnesday, technically tomorrow, to draw up a contract.
We wont necisarrily be working together. We profit from what we alone make, however, we will refer eachother, and our buisness will be called falk and finns. We will also be creating patterns together. We planned a falk and finns buisness since we were in 4th grade and its finally happening. The buisness is more of a paying hobby. Well have to look up copyright laws, and buisness laws as im not entirely sue how to handle taxes with this, but Kinos is more than willing to be my "lawyer".
As of Kinos's scarf? It was entrelac but i had to stary over because it wasnt what he wanted. the scarf is going well but my carple tunnel is being a bitch. I need wrist braces really bad.
I am buying buisness cards on wednesday with Gerri, cheap ones, 250 for like 7 bucks, but they will get the job done and the word out.
I'm excited. Are you?

Sorry for spelling errors. My phone doesnt have spellcheck and if you know me, you know ive been a terrible speller my whole life.

Harry Potter

I just finished this Hufflepuff scarf, I will upload it soon to my ravelry. I can not wait to see Harry Potter tomorrow night! I should be sleeping but im just too excited. Jushi and I are going to see the double feature. YAY.

Here is the pattern: I did not create the checkered & H pattern. Just for clarification, i count a row as a finished row. so row one is the row after the cast on. i don't know how normal patters do it, i read it that way.
Yellow - MC, Black - CC




CO 30 in MC
R1-32: KMC
R33&34 - KCC
R35-38 - KMC
R39&40 - KCC
R 41 - K2CC, K2 MC, repeat to end
R 42 - K2MC, K2 CC, repeat to end
R 43 - K2MC, K2CC, repeat to end
R 44 - K2CC, K2MC, repeat to end

R 45 - K2CC, K2 MC, repeat to end
R 46 - K2MC, K2 CC, repeat to end

Start H Pattern
R 47 K2 MC K2 CC, 7 repeats, K2MC, K4CC, K4MC, K4CC, K2MC, K2CC, 5 repeats.
R R48: Checkers 5 times, K4MC, K4CC, K4MC, K4CC, 
R 49: Checkers for 6 sets, K2 MC, K4CC, K4MC, K4CC, K2MC, checkers to end
Repeat 47&48, alternating checkers for 5 sets (1 odd row, 1 even row)
R 59 - 7 Checker sets, K12CC, 5 Checker sets
R60 - 5 Checker sets, K12CC, 7 Cherker sets
Repeat 47&48 for 5 more sets

R 71 - K2CC, K2 MC, repeat to end
R 72 - K2MC, K2 CC, repeat to end
R 73 - K2MC, K2CC, repeat to end
R 74 - K2CC, K2MC, repeat to end
R 75 - K2CC, K2 MC, repeat to end
R 76 - K2MC, K2 CC, repeat to end

R 77 - KCC
R78 - KCC
R79-82 - KMC
R83 - KCC
R84 - KCC
R85-116: KMC
R117-148 - KCC
repeat 85-148 10 times
End with H patter starting at R84 & working backwords to R1

w00t. i wrote my first, probably confusing  pattern.

Anyway, more on harry potter and school later. For now, i'll try to sleep

I need wrist braces already.

So i've been knitting like a freak of nature. I barely stop when I'm not doing homework, and while I knit I watch awesome TV shows like Sons of Anarchy, Californication and, of course, Futurama. My Birthday was awesome. My mom, girlfriend and I went down to the shore and spent a week sleeping in a hammock. LOL i wish, it rained all week. But we still had fun because my mom got herself a Wii and we totally took that over and played all night long.

Ive started a tricked out Hufflepuff scarf that I hope I will have done for the Harry Potter Premier.

An old friend that i haven't talked to in forever contacted me today. She forgot i was a knitter as well, so we're going to have a party where we'll teach ourselves how to crochet, since neither of us know how and many knitting patterns call for crochet hooks. Also, I am good at increasing and decreasing, but bad at cables and she is the opposite. We cal knit together, catch up and probably learn some good things if we hang out soon.

That's all for now.
<3 Dusty

I'm horrible.

So I know that i'm horrible. I haven't posted in forever and I actually don't have much to post. I don't have any other pictures of my past knitting projects, I don't have a picture of the dress i finished and I can't post pictures of the fathers day presents im making because A) they failed and B) my dad reads my blog.

Other than that i have nothing. I'm still attempting to learn how to sew. it's not working out to good, im about to rip apart all my old tee shirts that i don't wear anymore because getting my hands on fabric has been a bitch.

I'm working on a hufflepuff scarf of my own. I'm thinking of doing a new one for Justice because mine is gonna be kick ass, and hers is kinda lame, honestly. It's just stripes, meanwhile mine has a checkered pattern, a huge H on it and it will probably have my name on it. Anyway, that scarf is on hold for now.

Next topic: AnimeNEXT. Anext was freaking awesome. The hotel room was beautiful, i had a wondrous time with my friends. Ruby Tuesdays three days it a row, it was a dream come true. I do have a complaint though. Some asshole at the hotel charged my card instead of my mothers so now i'm overdue on my card, and it freaking sucks. But my mom is going to clear it up for me when she gets back from Denver. The woman at the front desk would not understand that charging my mothers card to hold the room and then charging my card for the room made so sense when i MADE SURE that my card would NOT be charged for the room. I asked three time. THREE TIMES to make sure that my card would not be charged. i want my fing money back.

Anyway. Why are beer cozy's so hard to make? I don't have the needles I need so of course my cozys are alllllll wrong. If i had the money i should have i would have the needles i need ><

Thats a quick update, i will post again once i have pictures. I swear.

New Plan!!!!! (need YOUR help)

So I've changed my mind. Instead of knitting my dress I will make my dress, however I will knit the veil. I'm planning on making EVERYTHING for the dress - even the tulle petticoat. However, I can not find the patterns I need for the kind of dress I want. Perhaps not exactly like the one to the right, after all I need a plus sized dress. Also, the longs sleeves would preferably be a jacket that does down the length of the dress (after all the wedding will be in the Winter [hint: December 5th, 2015]). So I don't particularly care about the neckline and the bodice, but I want a puffy full length princess dress. The dress is going to be Green and White, probably more green than white, and it won't be a dark green, more like a honeydew color.

SO what I need: insturctions on how to make full length 3-4 tier tulle petticoat.
instructions on how to make a full length princess skirt
preferably a pattern for an entire ball gown.

Reasons I need to make my own wedding dress: 1, it will be cheaper. I have a ton of tulle that I can make into a petticoat, it's blue but you won't be able to see it under the skirt since I'll use green at the bottom. 2. I have an awkward body. I'm five foot two and 180 pounds, I have huge boobs, a tiny waist and my hips and ass are gorgeous. I have a belly, but it's not that noticeable - two weeks of sit ups will help the belly. 3. it will take much less time. instead of taking two years to knit the perfect dress this one will only take about 5-6 maybe seven weekends. 4. I have enough time to learn how to sew, use my sewing machine and practice before I have to make the dress. This will allow me less stress to focus on school and take more classes to make sure that I can take maybe 5 classes a semester instead of 4 I can get out of community college within one year and then transfer to a four year school =D

Thanks all for now, love you, bye

My Past and Current Projects!

Figured I would do a few posts of my past crafty projects, so you guys can get to know me better =3

For mothers day I made a tissue paper carnation bouquet. I have so much left over tissue paper I have no idea what to do with it. Here are the instructions for the carnations. They are beautiful, just look! I found out that my mother hates carnations, but she loves the flowers I made her. The best part is that they will never die. I got all the materials, except the glass sprite bottle at a super fresh near me. The glass bottle I got at a little mom and pop deli.

Next up is exciting! I made marbled deviled eggs! I unfortunately can not find the link for this particular crafty adventure but they came out amazing! Since I didn't have vinegar to set the color, it bled a little. The lighter parts of the eggs are supposed to be completely white. I'll be sure to post the next time i do this project, because the eggs from the tutorial i learned from are far more pretty than mine.

Now my most current project are my Harry Potter friendship bracelets. This is the Gryffendor one I'm making for Jushi, Its super thick and really hard to do because, i mean Look At It! The little hearts don't look like hearts at all! Oh well. Jushi will love it because she knows I'm stressing over it a lot and I'm putting a lot of effort into it. =3 I can't wait until its done and she can wear it to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part Two premier. =D And here we have a really bad idea gone really wrong. =/ I gave myself a hair wrap. I didn't want to pay someone to do it for me! My friend Roberto, whom i taught how to do the hair wrap, was supposed to do it for me, but he never did. I kept begging and begging but he had better things to do, like playing Halo: Reach. Also, Jushi isn't at all crafty like I am, although she is am amazing artist, so i would have loved for her to do it for me, but she might have made it look just as bad as I did. But who knows maybe if i teach her she'll be able to give me a beautiful hair wrap.

Thats all for now. Until next time
Chao

Off schedule, and that's fine

I want to have a schedule for my blog, Sunday or Monday and then Thursday or Friday sounds good to me, but I don't know if I have that much to talk about. SO, I will pick a number from http://www.tomslatin.com/80-journal-writing-prompts/

How about a number? Going to this perfectly good http://www.random.org/integers/ i have chosen the number 63

If you could tell the world just one thing, what would it be?

"Stop, smile, laugh and suck it up." We all disagree, lets stop killing each other and just get on with our lives. We have more important things to do than be horrible nasty people to each other, such as eating chocolate, going to school, working, worshiping (if that's your thing), or being with people you love.

Shall we go for another number? No! Then on with my life.

Ive been really bad about my summer of Netflix, but I did watch a few good movies with my mom (one and only follower, woo hoo!)

Midnight Run - OMG super funny Robert De Niro is an amazing actor. =3
Biloxi Blues: Ive seen this one before and the ending always gets me laughing.
The Haunting Conniticut - Ive seen it before and it might have been even more creepy this time than the last time, cause mom and i got into the mood with a dark room and candles lit.

Tomorrow we're going to watch Dr. Horribles (how i convinced her to watch it i'll never know, but she'll love it!) and Walled In, another really good creepy movie. Netflix for the win =3

So, ive decided, and i only just decided this, that im going to knit my wedding dress. Since it should take me two years, i think i'll get started asap. Im thinking tea length. solid stockinette with a lace cover, lace train and lace veil. skip the veil? im not a fan of veils. i love The Veils, great band...we'll see what happens. Im gonna buy a bodice and petticoat when the time comes (far off in the future i hope. need to finish school first). so i'll basically just be making the skirt. but the skirt needs two layers and is gonna be around 30-40 inches in length, unlike the measly 23 inches my skirt is gonna be now. i want the underskirt to be honedew (my absolute favorite color) with white lace. lace yarn is expensive! its ridiculous! but before i can do any of that i need to learn how to knit lace and of course get a job to pay for it all!

I can't wait for my birthday. MONEY FOR YARN!

My first ever pattern...sort of.

so OH MY GOSH, I finished making this last night! I am so excited because I used a combination of two patterns to make this. I know it's more of a variation than a real pattern that I made but I'm still super excited! I am a Hufflepuff, alumni at this point, lol, but a Hufflepuff none the less. Here are the ravelry links to the two patters i used. Battenberg Cuffs and Alphabet Charts I used the cast on and bind off for the battenberg cuffs as well as the k/p stitching for the first two rows. After that i strictly used stockinette stitch, its the best stitch!, until the top most black stripe and then reverted back to the Battenberg cuff pattern.

I am horrible at counting stitches, so what should have been a cuff turned into an anklet, but that's good because i wanted one. On the plus side, the bottom of the cuff flairs out because i was knitting loosely and then tightened my stitches into the black stripes. I'll be making a Gryffindor one soon for my girlfriend =]

Hopefully i have time to make at least one more of these before the HP7.2 Premier =3

Adios mi amigas, bueno suerte.

Summer of Netflix!

Summer of Netflix is a personal project to watch movies and TV shows that have won awards that ive never wanted to see. Some of them never won awards, but are widely acclaimed. So here is my list, in order. Of course I will be watching shows not on my list, so i'll tell you how much I love those as well.

Shows I plan to watch:
The Twilight Zone
Brotherhood
Sons of Anarchy
Weeds
Californication
Prison Break
Jericho
Jekyll
Twin Peaks
The Dead Zone
V
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Movies I will Be Watching
The Constant Gardener
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Serious Moonlight
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Cashback
Wedding Daze
Big Nothing
How to Kill Your Neighbors Dog
After.Life
Before and After
Feirce Creatures
Ripper: Letter from Hell
Redemption: Kickboxer 5
The Last Emporor
The Official Story
The Cove
Man on Wire
Micheal Jackson's: This is It
Young@Heart
Who are the DeBolts
My Flesh and Blood
Raging Bull
2001: A Space Odesy
Gone with the Wind
Duck Soup
Arsenic and Old Lace
The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Lady Vanishes
Young and Innocent
Number 17
Dial M for Murder
The Producers (1968)
The Gold Rush
Slapstick Masters
This is Spinal Tap
A Dirty Shame
Myster Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Harvey
The Third Man
Thelma and Louise
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Plotergeist
The Legend of Hell House
Burnt Offerings
The Haunting of Molly Heartly
The Haunting in Conneticut
The Eclipse
The New Daughter
Body Heat
Speed
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Yentl
Funny Girl
Emma
Four Weddings and a Funeral

The Robe
Becket
Dr. Zhivago
The Turning Point
Kramer vs Kramer
Amadeus
The Apartment
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Prophet
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Equus
Yanks
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dangerous Liaisons
Damage
The Age of Innocence
Kes
Towering Inferno
Defense of the Relm
The Crucible
Two Women
Hud
The Sporting Life
Viva Maria!
My Brilliant Career
Driving Miss Daisy
Doctor in the House
A Town like Alice
The Servant
Darling
Charley Varrik
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
The China Syndrome
Mona Lisa
The Name of the Rose
A Fish Called Wanda
Kagemusha
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Vera Drake
Odd Man Out
The Blue Lamp
Billy Eliot
Gasford Park
Touching the Void
The Summer of Love
This is England
And a ton of other movies i don't want to name here

I am probably going to quit a lot of these movies 10-30 minutes in because i won't like them.


If you have any suggestions, and if i can find them on netflix, i will add them to my list. Ill keep you updated =]

~~~

I have already watched MST3K: The Movie. Very Funny
UK. Office, supper funny, not laugh out loud, but so silly and i like it so much more than the US office. 


Until next time
~Dusty

School Work

School work is piling up and the only one to blame is totally myself. =/
I lost my flashdrive at school on Thursday and it set me back almost a month of my research project for sociology, which i have to get done by tomorrow night.
Also by next sunday I have to make a powerpoint about said paper, which i had already completed on my flashdrive. On Tuesday I have a written assignment due in English, as well as, oh no!, a 4 page paper in Computers. >< Losing my flashdrive was the worst thing that could happen at the end of this semester. I have the worst luck.

Mothers day is tomorrow, im hoping my mother likes the present i made her. I want to go out to eat, but we might not, which is cool.

My dress is coming along fabulously, if i stopped now i would have a miniskirt! I think i will actually be able to get it done by June 10th!

Until next time,
~Dusty