Tournament 7 is over and Rangers are champions again!

Times flies when you have fun and knit :) I haven't been updating this blog much, but I was knitting!!!
  So, short version is that Tournament 7 is over, and Rangers won!!!! Our 4th win. Amazing, considering that we are small team and devoted to the show that went off the air 20 years ago. All I can say is never underestimate geeks :)
  And we had one member leaving because of Chuck Norris controversy - one of the challenges was to craft something based on Chuck Norris memes - if you ever played WOW, chat was full of them. Well, looks like real Chuck Norris is involved in politics and that lots of people hates him for it. Unfortunately that was not what meme was about, but some people took it WAY too seriously, and quit Nerd Wars altogether, one from our team... :( EyeAmElise adjusted her normalization formula for that but still :(
  I did finish my dissertation - Philoomena cardigan for Talia Winters, but I need to add button band - task I am dreading, because it involves picking up stitches forever. I got some nice flowery white buttons from Etsy...
 Ok, next post will be picture heavy :)
 

Tournament 6

 So tournament 6 started and I am Ranger again! YAY!
 I am thinking about dissertation now - phrase "socks for Delenn" is in my head :) They had to be purple, because she has so many purple habits...
 I am also rewatching Babylon 5, and yes, there is such a marked change in quality when season 2 started - it's getting better and better by each episode. Season 1 is not bad, but compared to season 2, and especially season 3 is not near by the mark.

Cast on baby!

Hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjsOeC6OcE&feature=player_embedded

Tournament 3 is over! I can't wait for T4 to start!

UPDATE: I've signed up for Rangers again!

3 months gone... and tournament is over. It was lots of fun, and net result is 9 projects done :) And blast with my fellow Team Rangers. I am going to stick to the same team in the next tournament, I still have lots of ideas for Babylon 5 related project.
 We ended up in 6th place, team Tardis got the trophy :(
 So here are my medals :)

1) For Giving Geeks challenge in October, I've made pink baby hat of merino/bamboo blend - some called it berry hat - cute hat with steam and petal on the top:

I was working most of the month on my dissertation (coming in the next post), but I was more productive in November. I did 4 challenges:
1) For Giving geeks, I've donated to St. Jude's hospital - they treat kids with cancer, so I sent a check to them.
2) For Scientific challenge, we had to pick one element from Periodic Table of Elements and make something that will be connected to it. I've picked Hassium, 106, named after town of Hessen. City seal has wide red and white stripes over the lion, so it fit with my Red Star hat for my uncle:

3) For Team Spirit challenge, our team decided to follow opening lines from Season 4. I took:
 "It was a year of fire"
 "It was a year of destruction".
Those lines has to so much poignancy... I've decided to knit squares fro charity blankets for Aids orphans in South Africa - www.knitasquare.com. They accept sqares 8x8 inches and assemble them into blankets.
I did 2 for Year of Fire and 2 for Year of Destruction...

 All for:

Tournament 5 projects...

 Here are some of those projects from Tournament 5 - I've melted a cube in the last round, so lots of projects!

120 projects and counting

Yup, I have 120 FINISHED projects. Seriously.
And I did knit 4 kilometers of yarn this year only. Nerd wars helped that in a big ways.
It helps me feel better about my stash :) But I do plan to stick to the plan :) of not buying more yarn except for presents till Stitches West... February next year.

Nerd Wars again - Tournnament 6 is starting on October 1st and I am in Team Rangers! Again :) And I am excited!Again :) I sound like a Vir Cotto :) But I realized that in last tournament I missed my Rangers, so I started to watch B5 again... and got to that famous episode when Technomages are leaving and Drazi are fighting, hence ta-da:
 Here's my new Ravatar:

Off to think about dissertation - should I do Delenn socks or something for my DS...