Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in gamers knit's LiveJournal:

Thursday, April 13th, 2006
5:13 pm [princessdot]	Kingdom Hearts Cell Cozy I tried charting it out in two colors and sort of came up with a 25x25 grid. Pre-string yarn with 78 [for dense heart] or about 60 beads Cast on 34 sts on US3 dpns Join and knit for 3 rows before beginning chart [leave 6-in tail] Place bead in front of each stitch in chart straight stitch another two rows one eyelet row [*YO, K2TOG*] K next row bind off VERY loosely on last stitch, pick up two more and begin an i-cord knit i-cord for 4 inches [or longer if your wrist is wider] and join it to three stitches at the opposite end [this forms the wrist-loop at the top] Make sure the i-cord is situated so that the beaded logo appears on the front of the cozy Bottom: flip the cozy inside out. Take cast-on tail of yarn at the bottom and stitch the two sides of the back together. Leave the middle 1/3 open if this is where your charger plugs in so you needn't remove cell from its cozy. Turn bag back to right-side out and place your cell inside! Fits clamshell-type cell cozily. For wider phones, use US4 dpns or cast on 40 stitches [each of those methods has yielded me a cozy wide enough for a Razr]. Keeping number of cast on stitches even will allow you to make your eyelet row. May also thread a ribbon thru this eyelet row and tie a bow in it. If your bag wasn't snug enough, tie this ribbon tighter to ensure your cell won't slip out. Fuzzy pic of the cozy is here. [I only have my webcam available atm] Chart here Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
8:57 am [dragoncrafter]	A few weeks ago, Clopen (one of the characters in a D&D campaign) got killed. Since we have a druid instead of a cleric, she got reincarnated, and came out as a bear. Before that, she was a human female just like Sand (my character). Another player had a bunch of miniatures, which he was gracious enough to share. Sand's miniature had a tendency to tip over, so I decided that I wanted to use Clopen's miniature. So I made Clopen a new one. ( A bear, of course. ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 7th, 2006
2:14 pm [nenloth]	game-inspired knits? Heya - I joined a little while ago, I couldn't believe this community existed! I can't tell you how many times I've ended up off-path and lost while on auto-run, just because I was trying to finish a row. And the deaths and angry teammates! hehe "Put that crap away, and get back to the city!" Oops. I saw from earlier posts that dice bags were being knitted. I am curious... have any of you knit something game-related? Something in the spirit of what you were playing? I was actually trying to do a tank top based on some EQ2 newbie armor, since a thick basketweave type of stitch I was doing (with 2 strands of gray) looked just like something one of my chars was wearing. I'm going to be playing Age of Conan when it comes out, but since there doesn't seem to be much in the way of clothing so far *cough* I don't really have any ideas. Well, that's that. Hi everyone. :) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
10:08 am [hugh_mannity]	Please allow me to introduce myself... I'm a gamer and I knit. And to make it worse, I'm a guy. I've even been known to Knit In Public. I also spin. I got into gaming with the original Colossal Caves adventure game on a PICK minicomputer, back before Bill Gates stole DOS started Microsoft. I was already a confirmed fiber addict by then. These days I play Magic The Addiction Gathering, and mostly Runescape. At the moment I'm working on a pair of merino/tencel socks and a sweater. Both for me. The socks live on my desk at work (where I knit a bit while watching MS Access do it's thing) and the sweater lives by my home PC where I knit on it while playing Runescape. You can tell when I've been knitting during combat -- the gauge goes wonky. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:00 am [rootfireember]	Introduction Hi. I'm Raven. I'm a gamer. Sorta. Maybe. And I knit. I like to play on Mucks, and Muds, usually vampire-werewolf type things. You know: Monsters, Violence, slightly future world where everything's gone to heck in a handbasket...though occasionally, I've been known to play some FPS-type games...and knit at the same time. I've got a friend who can play UT2k2 and knit at the same time, without getting fragged; though I lack this talent. When I knit, it usually goes like this: *PLZDONTSHOOTME* has entered the game. *PLZDONTSHOOTME says,"Hold on one more row..." *PLZDONTSHOOTME has been killed by HAHA *PLZDONTSHOOTME says, "Hey I SAID ONE MORE ROW!" *HAHA says, "That's what you get for knitting and not paying attention to the screen." I'm not knitting anything gamerly at the moment, though I'm thinking of doing a knitted book cover for the Wraeththu RPG book I have.... That is all. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 24th, 2006
7:36 pm [phonemonkey]	notes from the World of Worsted campaign Lion Brand have produced an Aran sampler afghan that's really shockingly nice for Lion Brand: http://cache.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/patternView.fcgi?itemKey=1922237641 Of course, every farmer can roll a critical hit. Considering that fucking up an aran afghan in undyed 100% wool is quite a trick, I can definitely see this one being played out. "Lion Brand, your move." "OK, I pull out my Fisherman's Wool as a free action and cast aran afghan. And I think I get some bonuses for that." "Give us a minute." *furious ruffling through large hardback book entitled World of Worsted Campaign Setting* "Right, so you're at +8 because it's not a fitted garment, then you've got a +2 bonus for natural fibre and another +2 bonus for neutral colour and another +2 bonus for neutral texture, but then there's a -3 scratchy penalty..." "No there isn't! It's not a wearable!" "OK, -2 scratchy penalty because afghans do go next to the skin sometimes. Did I add the cable bonus on? Oh yes, that's another +1. Right, you're at +13. Off you go." *dice are rolled* (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
1:08 pm [phonemonkey]	Curses! Well, the d4 dicebag has been knitted, but my husband put it in the mail for its recipient before I could get any photos of it. So I'll just have to tell you that it was in the shape of a d4 with 15 cm sides, knit in stockinette from a camouflage-variegated acrylic. I don't normally use acrylic, but I had this stuff knocking around from a failed crocheted-Cthulhu project (don't ask) and I thought that the texture wouldn't matter for a non-wearable and a camo dicebag would look pretty nifty. I used single crochet to put it together, and a zipper to close it, and threaded a loop of crochet chain through the zipper as a pull tab/carrying handle. (This is a really easy and nice-looking finishing trick with zippered items, by the way.) The numerals were embroidered on using white acrylic yarn in chain stitch. This was the bit that I was least happy about, because it looked more homemade than I'd have liked, but I tried other embroidery techniques and the chain stitch was best. I think that next time, I'd make up twice as many panels and do a d8 because there would only be one numeral per panel, so I could use Swiss darning. It's really hard to Swiss-darn numerals that are at wacky orientations. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 21st, 2005
10:07 am [withewovenwilde]	Dice Bags! Yay, Geekling! So, anyone knit dice bags yet? I have some friends (3) who lost theirs in a cross country move, and I'm thinking about knitting dice bags, and seeding them with the dice that they claim they can't get out west. I can't decide if it should be a felting experiment (i've never felted before), or mitred knitting, or if I should go for a crazy shape or not. Probably I will use the opportunity to try out both, plus some intarsia. Hee - I'm going to have to organize a game, so I can knit the bags while I game! (3 Comments |Comment on this)