Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

     I'm going to be difficult and start with other news.  I finished the mittens!!!!!!  Those poor cursed Baby Llama Hermione Mittens.  I should have informed you all sooner as I finished them back on June 1st but Nerd Wars had just started and I had other things on my mind.  I need to block them yet, once I figure out how to do that, and then get some better pictures.  Here is the photographic proof that they're done.      The eyelet section just rolls under the stockinette on both sides.  They are quite cute once on, I just cant wear them and get a decent picture at the same time.  I'm just very happy that they're finished and nestled together in my "needs blocking" pile.  I still have nearly a whole skein of the Baby Llama left over to do something fun with too.      So I've melted the cube again.  My last project was Giving Geeks.  Heres th...

     I talk about Nerd Wars quite a bit, but I don't think I've ever really explained what it is and what we are asked to do.  So I'm going to walk you through one (or two) of this rounds challenges and what I submitted to answer said challenge.  Each round there are six challenges which fall into six standard categories:  Geek Pride, Scientific, Intellectual, Technical, Giving Geeks and Nerd Culture.  Each round the team must also come up with a team unity project.  It is optional to complete, but mandatory for each team to come up with.  It means extra points so many of us strive to complete it.  It must fit into one of the six categories.  So to demonstrate all this complicated stuff, I'll outline what I did for team unity this round.  Our team unity for this round was to make a project that would fit into the episode "200" (Season 10 of SG1).  That's the short version.  We w...