Geek Pride Day

So in honor of Geek Pride Day, I've decided to share with my Peeps the Stormcloak banner I am actively working on. I am knitting it because I like the look of knitted color work to that of crocheted color work, not that I have much experience with either. I just looked at a bunch of pictures.

It is a little bit wider than what it looks in the picture, just because I didn't want to stretch it out too much off my needles and lose my stitches. I have 17 rows done, then 19 more rows before doing the actual color work. 

Here it is charted out in Minecraft because I didn't have any graph paper big enough:

For those of you who are interested I'm using Lion Brand's Hometown USA in San Diego Navy and will probably use either Natural Cream or Neutral Beige for the bear, I haven't decided yet. I'm also using size 15 needles. And I don't think I'll take any more progress pictures of this project because after I put all the stitches back on, I realized I put them all on backwards :/

Baby Sandals

I girl I work with is having a baby girl, and she requested that I make her some baby sandals. These aren't that actual one she wanted, but I used the same colors (pink with white flowers).  So, these were the most butt-fucking ridiculous things I've ever tried to crochet. I took me two and a half hours to finish just one sandal. I consider myself to be a fast crocheter, but it took fooorever to just finish one of them. And I was having such a hard time following the patter, like I don't even know what I was doing because I either had too many or not enough stitches in the previous round. And in conclusion, I, Sabrina "Bena Babysox" Becker, with never crochet baby sandals again. I don't care how much you beg. I don't care how completely adorable your child is. I don't care how much you pay me. I will never make baby sandals again. I will make blankets, hats, jackets, bootie, but I will not make sandals. Gah! It wasn't even that bad, but I just never want to make them again. I do suppose if you offered me enough money, I probably would make some lol.