Getting Ready for Comic-Con, part 2

So, the preparations continue for the con.  I have knit and felted seven new hats so far.  They still need to be decorated before next week.  Tuesday is set up day.  This will be a leisurely activity, relative to other years.  Wednesday is Preview Night.  Thursday is the beginning of Comic-Con proper.  I usually set up on Wednesday after work, work up a really good sweat, and then  smile and sell stuff off the table.  Setting up on Tuesday will allow me to arrive on Wednesday, park at the hotel, and then smile and watch stuff fly off the table in a flurry of sales.  Life is good!

I look forward to life after the con, too.  I plan to make me the Stephanie Tee after I finish the Goth Girl Sweater for my 8-year old granddaughter. 

Her sweater was a challenge from the beginning.  The parameters were that it was to be black and pink, similar in style to her cousin's that had just been finished.  She wanted the colors to blend, rather than big stripes.  The original design involved lace, but lace disappears on black.  So I redesigned the whole thing.  I decided, after several false starts, that a basic feather-and-fan pattern would work.  After another false start (due to not starting in the *middle* of the fan part) I finished the body and sleeves, added button bands and gave it to her at her birthday party.

It was too tight around her middle.  *sigh*  I took off the button bands but I didn't have enough yarn left to re-do them bigger, so I went to my trusty KnitPicks.com  to order more and found that they had discontinued both the begonia pink and ebony black.  I ordered a skein of black.  The new black is a blacker black, but it was ok on the bands.  One band, done.  About halfway up the second one I ran out again!  Today I ordered another skein and that should be the last one.  An hour or two of knitting, sew on the buttons, and Voila!  The (cursed!) sweater will be done.  If I can, I'll finish it before the con and give it back to her there.

So, I still have hat labels, snake oil bottle labels, signage, and staging the boxes for the move to the con.  But heck!  I still have a week!