A big thanks to everyone for all the support, nice comments and positive waves. 1000 has always seemed so epic. I’ll be posting a celebratory pattern this weekend

I’ve been on a cross stitch and perler bead kick… and now that I’ll be doing a workshop for each at Tsukino-Con 2011, in addition to my crochet panel, it’s unavoidable that these crafts eat up more of my crafting time and attention.

The thing is… this is “Neridugurumi”, not “Nerdiguperlerbeads” or “Nerdigucrossstitch”… so what I’d like to know from my fabulous readers is, information regarding those crafts, patterns, tips on where to find supplies, tutorials, should I include it (read include, NOT replace… amigurumi is still where my heart lies) here or not? I know I am definitely not up to creating another site just for this purpose, because I barely have enough time to maintain this one, so it’s sort of a go or no go sort of thing… so riddle me this, would you, my awesome readers, be pleased if I expanded this website to include this new realm of nerdy crafting, or should I be a purist and feature amigurumi and amigurumi only? Please leave a comment with your yay or nay or filibuster, as appropriate

Last weekend was the big Vancouver anime convention, Anime Evolution. It was awesome, great cosplays, lots of neat events and the dealer’s hall was cool. I think as with Tsukino, I most enjoyed the artists and crafter’s alley. The panel went really badly but really wonderfully at the same time. No projector, speakers or screen meant the helpful videos demonstrating techniques could not be seen, and more people than we had bargained for meant we had to either turn people away or run out of supplies (we chose the latter and improvised as we could), but it all came together beautiful. People were really happy, appreciative and enthusiastic and there were some amazing guardian angel types helping everyone else out with the techniques, since the demos weren’t visible by most people in the room.

I had a great time though and hope to do this again next year, armed of course with more supplies and more vigilance about chasing down projectors and things way ahead of time!

Overlooking that they severely dissected my “interview”, and that they referred to crochet as knitting (why does that always happen?) I am really happy with the feature. Bigger photos and say… center stage may have been slightly more awesome, but I’ll take what I can get Overall it looks good, I’m happy and feel slightly famous.

It’s official, my Amigurumi workshop has been approved for the Anime Evolution 2010, the anime convention in Vancouver BC. It will be similar to the Tsukino Con workshop I did but with a different (ie: easier) project piece as the main focus. I haven’t gotten the timings or dates down yet, but will post as soon as I know. I am really excited about the convention but there is a lot of work to do. Not so much for the workshop (although, sigh, there is some for that) but for the costume I need to whip up (I won’t be wearing it mind you).

Anyone is the area thinking of dropping in. let me know!

Yesterday treated me to a lovely meal and some fabulous (and rare) yarn stash additions. It was nice too because my mom rules and debuted her second ever needle felting creation, a Noby Noby Boy of her very own. Isn’t he cute?

No new patterns or anything up from me yet, because I was too busy procrastinating and doing these other various horrible things that I have to do in order to earn money to spend on yarn (work, ewww!), but soon my pets, soon, Little Sister and Domo-Kun are coming. I just need to type them up and double check my math (stitch count is such a pain!).

In the meantime, enjoy the awesomeness that is, needle felted NobyNoby Boy, by jojobongbong.