Author Archives: HappyGoth

About HappyGoth

By day, I'm a graphic designer. By night, I'm a knitter. I'm doing my part to keep Hotlanta stylish. I imagine that if you don't already understand the title of the blog, you're probably confused and perhaps slightly annoyed, but never fear - I do have a reason (and it's a good one). Having gone to hear Stephanie Pearl McPhee, and then having been inspired to blog about knitting, I found myself wondering what to call the blog. I recalled a conversation I had with Mouse and the Chicken Goddess about why it is a Bad Idea to anger knitters - this conversation was following SPM, aka the Yarn Harlot telling the assembled throng about Those Who Do Not Understand Knitting and Therefore Belittle It Much to the Chagrin of Others, or TWDNUKTBMCO, which is not the acronym she used but is the one I'm using because I forgot hers - that is, we are numerous and we all have very pointy sticks, easily transforming into an angry mob. Therefore, knitters = angry mob.

Backing up a bit

The books stuff I’m working on now is not the only thing I’ve accomplished, book-wise, over the past month or so. I forgot to take photos, but here’s Master Lorenzo’s elevation gift (no, it’s not magic – he took some … Continue reading

Posted in Cool things, sca | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Endbands!

I am in love with endbands. No, really. It was necessary for me to sleep last night, so I had to quit but I didn’t want to. Also, did you know that if you hunch over something for six hours, … Continue reading

Posted in Cool things, sca | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

(untitled)

Before I became a graphic designer, I was a fine artist. I made gigantic collages out of stacks and stacks of the same magazine (all Time, or all fashion magazines, etc) plus these weird contour drawings I painted over with … Continue reading

Posted in other links | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

What a weekend.

No, seriously. I had intended to clean house, which I sort of did, but then I did a lot of other stuff. And while that’s all well and good, I still need to clean my house. Oh, well. Anyway. Here’s … Continue reading

Posted in Cool things, General stuff, sca | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Moar chain-stitch

Plus pizza. The fiber of today’s friday is not the yarn kind, but instead my current obsession, which is chain-stitch embroidery. (I went looking for examples of this sort of thing, and wanted CC-licensed stuff, and lo and behold this … Continue reading

Posted in Fiber Friday, General stuff, india, other links, sca | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

So.

I forgot this lovely little webcomic gem yesterday, and so I’m correcting that today: Wondermark This comic is so completely brilliant, I can’t even explain it. You’ll have to go look and see for yourself (today’s contemplates the logic of … Continue reading

Posted in Fiber Friday, General stuff, knitting | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

I love you, internet.

So then there was this other exciting thing that I’m learning to do, which is to build webpages, and I just realized that I love CSS. A lot. But you probably don’t care about that. Moving along, the top 5 … Continue reading

Posted in Cool things | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

All righty, then.

Remember that thing I said about being distracted easily? It’s so true. Case in point: That there is tambour embroidery, which I spent a little over an hour working on last night at Project  Night. A while back, I’d made … Continue reading

Posted in General stuff, sca | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

[SCA] Aha! Progress!

It feels good. Anyway. I’ve made some progress on the bookbinding front. So far I have cut and folded (and am pressing) all the pages for the test book. I went on an outing this past weekend to purchase leather … Continue reading

Posted in Cool things, knitting, sca | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tsock

It has occurred to me (well, over the weekend it occurred to me) that while I am thrilled about the artichoke tsock, which I saw and then commented on and then drooled over some more, I have not yet knit … Continue reading

Posted in knitting | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments