Just One Gifted Gorgeous in July

Hello! Thank you all for drooling over my sugar cookies. They were dutifully inhaled as is Proper Cookie Etiquette. I wondered if I would miss another Gifted Gorgeousness post this month. Why? Remember that I had a new computer build? Well, the battery backup/surge protector for it caught. On. FIRE.

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I think I set a new world record for the speed of shutting down my computer. Luckily there was no harm done to the computer and only minimal smoke to the house. I won't use my computer without adequate protection so I had to wait for a new backup to arrive. Ugh. It arrived yesterday, whew!

click me!

Anywhoodle, you are here for some gorgeousness, not things catching on fire! This is a c-c-combo post for both GG and JOJ.

before

after

YAY! Madame Rathian is done! :D  I had a lot of issues with her.  First trying to pick the colors.  I went with the avocado DMCs for their brightness.  The olives would've been more "true" perhaps.  The original glyph had her eye blue like Rathalos (see below) but at no point does she have blue eyes in game!  They're golden!  So, I picked a drab sort of brownish yellow that I still don't know if I like.  Another issue was the lack of symmetry.  I wish I had made the pattern better!  Her tail came out well though, and that's her annoying important part. Her only goal in life is to poison you with it.

together forever

Technical Details

• "Rathian" glyph from Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, pattern charted by me.
• 2 over 1 on 20-count light tan jobelan fabric.
• Finished size: 3.50 x 3.50" (9 x 9 cm).
• Started: February ??, Finished: July 8. 9+ hours, not including infinite floss issues.  

I intended to continue on with these glyphs as part of Just One July but seeing as I needed a computer to make the next pattern, that didn't happen.  I unfaithfully worked on knitting in the meantime.  Of course once I set things up again, the next one just fell into place!  If you know your monsters, perhaps you can guess by this (preliminary) floss toss:

best weapons ever

This one will be fun.  That is assuming I will have time to stitch.  This post is going up on the day Monster Hunter Generations is released here and of course two copies were pre-ordered.  I am going to bet my guy flies home from work and we'll never be productive again.  \ :D /

Just One (4th of) July!

Hooray, the 4th of July! Go America, escape from those silly Over-Puddlers who sought to tax our tea! Shame!

via Google Images

Yes, I like the 4th. It's probably my favorite holiday. The town puts on a lovely fireworks display... and so do our neighbors. The neighbors might even do better than the town. We will attempt to grill fancy burgers and hot dogs and otherwise stuff ourselves silly. Hopefully we will not be rained out; this has been a very soggy, stormy weekend!  Of course I had to make some cookies, but I was good and sent most of them into work with my husband on Friday.

need all the sugar

Just One July
So, being the sucker I am for one-focus projects, of course I had to join in when Justine suggested Just One July! So, what have I decided to work on? I bet you're thinking FFIII since it's so close to being finished! Welp, you are... wrong! Buu, buu! I have to admit to myself that I really need a good amount of mojo to work on that piece and I am currently lacking the required mojo. So I am not going to force myself into it and wind up hating it.

before

So, Rathian will get some love this time!  She hasn't been touched since early February, which totally shocked me, even more than the idea of this being July and the year half over soon it will be Christmas again o my goodness.  ahem.  There's not much left on her so I will content myself with a possible finish.  I will count working on the next pattern as part of Just One July as well since it's all one project.  I'll leave it to my husband to pick who the lucky monster will be.

Knitting

swimming on the kitchen table

I needed something new to knit and decided that since all of our bathroom washcloths are completely functional and boring, I would make a new one that would be functional and less boring!  It was my first time knitting moss stitch (the border).  I love how it looks but I could happily live my life without ever knitting it again!  It requires more focus than I want to give but it does help me with "reading" my stitches.  I also added the little loop because I didn't want to totally forget how to do an i-cord.  It was good practice.  Small steps. :)

Technical Details

• "Dolphin Dishcloth" freebie pattern by Kelly Daniels, found here (ravelry)
• Yarn: Unknown cotton, best guess would be Peaches n Creme in bright blue
• Size 3 (3.25mm) needles, size 2 (2.75mm) DPNs for i-cord
• Approximately 8.5" (21,5cm) square, 3" i-cord
• Started June 22, finished June 27, about 7 hours.

It helps when there's a two-hour knitting meetup, twice! After the first meetup though, I did wind up ripping it back several inches. I wanted to try knitting on the purl side to see if I could make it reversible but it made for a rather wonky looking dolphin.  At least it boosted my confidence in ripping back and putting stitches back on the needle correctly!

Okay, that's enough Iskabibble Babble! Hope you have a great 4th of July (holiday or not) and if you're in America, give your pets a safe place to hide from the fireworks!