how to knit a predalian

Posted under reads, uber pro(jects) aka crafties by mel

BEFORE YOU READ ANY FURTHER! i found an almost too good to be true deal on ebay for bamboo needles. i got a lot of them and they are fabulous. here is the seller’s store if you wanted to check them out. the shipping took a little longer than i’d have liked (i had a pattern i was chomping at the bit to start), but the price is unbeatable. it would have cost me over $100 for these in a store and not to mention some of the sizes are hard to find anyhow. let’s continue, shall we?
so i’ve started some awesome knitting projects and they are as follows:

from twinkle’s big city knits:

if you are thinking about one of the projects from this book, here’s some caveats…1, you need big needles that are expensive. i lucked out and found my size 19 (!) needle on clearance for 4.50…regularly over 15 bucks. 2, the yarn is SUPER bulky. yes. SUPER. that’s size 6. there’s not much selection and it will make a small ding in your wallet. (this project is about 12 bucks of yarn ON 40% OFF SALE!) 3, don’t be fooled by the sizing. this is super bulky large knit. there is a tremendous amount of stretch in the projects. i have a 36′ chest and the size i am making is 32′ and it’s still a bit big.

from a random blog

i am super excited to finish these. SARAH: you might want to try this pattern. here is your motivation: you love this type of glove, you already have the right needles, the yarn (supposing you don’t have it) is your basic inexpensive worsted weight, it’s a quick pattern, it’s uber cute, we can match if you have a pair…email me if you need any more motivation…

and lastly, from berroco:

this is an ambitious undertaking so it will probably be put away and taken out over the course of the next few weeks, but it’s uber cute and i have some great yarn for it! berroco actually has a ton of great (free!) patterns for those of you looking for something to do.

my goal is that after i finish the twinkle sweater and orange glovies, i will move on to these leg warmers. i’ve not done a project with so many color changes, but these look adorable.

we saw AVP II last night. during the majority of the movie i was thinking “wow, i can’t wait to get home to watch the first one” cause this one was awful. but let me explain. i will say that it was filmed very well. no cheesy graphics or any such bologna. they broke a lot of social mores in film (ie killing children/unborn babies…a lot of them), but it was nice to see a non b graded movie push the audience.

having said that. ok, a couple things that really bothered me, but i think i can explain them out. first off, the film starts out at the end of the last with a predator watching a recap of what happened on that ship. then the pred gets all mad and goes off to find the aliens who have boom, crash landed in middle america. PROBLEM: who the crap was this pred? he couldn’t have been someone in power because 1, he would have alerted others that he was leaving as a good leader should and 2, he looked like the bruce lee version (skiinnnnyyyy) of preds. i mean, i had no idea that anorexia had spread across the universe!

alright, so revenge pred gets to earth and starts hunting the aliens meanwhile they are all impregnating the city folk. la di da. bad plot. blah blah. so, here’s where i get a little pissy. preds kills innocents! woah! not cool. one of the reasons i love pred so much is because he is a freaking warrior not some alien jerk that has no respect for rules of war. i was upset about that until i was finishing off my morning yogurt. here’s the difference: this pred isn’t on earth as a test of his predatorhood. he’s there to get rid of the aliens and oh yeah, he’s pissy about his friends getting killed. surely the rules of predation no longer apply. sucks to see a pred take the low road, but oh well.

ok, so the plot was over all dumb, but it got me thinking about something else. so, when the alien impregnated the predator, the result was a predalien right? hmm…then does that mean that when aliens impregnate humans they are part human too? what parts of us to they absorb? that would make a great dinner conversation.

some good books: