Kirk is done

And now on to Jason.

Poor Knitting Me

The saga continues, all bar the border Kirk is.... DONE!!

I really like how he turned out.  Now on to the chin!!

Today I replaced my copy of Garage Inc that went walk abouts after a party years ago, before I got married, before the Navy even.  I was driving around on my own listening to So What and there is no way I'd listen to it with my kids.  Now my kids listen to all sorts of music and have spent a great deal of time in my car listening to Metallica but I think we'll stick to disc 1 of Garage Inc which is fine because Astronomy has to be one of my favourite songs EVER!

So I was driving alone and went to Lincraft AND Spotlight buying yarn for this knitting project.  Almost $40 later I'm ready to knit Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Load, Reload, and St Anger.  I need more greys for ...And Justice for All and Death Magnetic and more reds/maroons/oranges for Master of Puppets.  No idea what I'm going to do for the back.  Still considering doing a couple more panels, Black album cover?  S&M panel?  Straight ninja star?  Blank black?  Can you tell I'm flying by the seat of my pants here?

Miss 3 is totally getting into Christmas and often says Santa will bring her Woody.  Hint hint, buy me a Woody? Lol

Drinking tonight, knitting and watching a 3D movie.  Borders are boring.

The Big Metallica Knit-a-thon continues

So James was a smashing success (but don't tell him, I don't want egotistical knitted squares about the joint) so I started on Kirk.  He's looking good so far.  I'll have to keep going before I know whether or not I'm really happy with it, I wasn't entirely sure about James until I cast off the final stitch.  Here, you be the judge.

Actually looking at it like that you can totally tell who it is right away, cute smirk caught in yarn, I do good work.  Ok so maybe if you've spent as much time as me drooling over looking at Kirk's face it would be pretty obvious.  Or maybe it's just me.  Better wait for the finished product.  To work on the chin Jason next or Lars, that is the question of the minute.  Then uncharted territory.  I think I have all the colours to make a start on Kill 'Em All.  Eek!

The Big Metallica Knit-a-thon

I was going to post an "intro" post but I'm so damn excited by my current project that I'm skipping that.

I'm knitting the Metallica album covers into a blanket.

Okay, see the title of the blog, Not Your Nana's Knitting, you probably won't find very many bunny rugs or fiddly shawls and stuff on this blog, if at all.  I have got a WIP of a baby blanket for my sister due in January, and I do have to knit my daughter some shorts for her brothers birthday party in January, but mostly I knit cool stuff.

Who am I?  I'm a 25 year old Australian married mum of two, lover of all things metal with a special passion for Metallica and an extra special passion for Kirk Hammett.  And I knit.  I know knitting conjures up images of grannies in floral nighties making baby booties and watching Dr Quinn Medicine Woman.  I prefer to knit my own patterns watching Some Kind of Monster, Life After People, The Walking Dead etc etc.

And I really like Zombies.

Okay, to the Metallica knit.

So I was listening to the Black Album one afternoon and thought, wouldn't it be cool to knit like the faces from the insert from the album, the contrast really lends itself to being a pretty easy knit and it would make a pretty cool throw rug.

Well one thing led to another, my car magically drove itself to Lincraft and I found myself watching S&M and knitting James Hetfield's face.  Couldn't start with Kirk, if I screwed up his face I'd never forgive myself and I had no idea if it would work.

So now I'm working on a project that when finished will hopefully look something like this...

 

Pretty ambious project, I know.  It's funny the album covers I was most nervous about doing appear like they will probably be the easiest, Load, the black album faces (not the cover I know but I think it works better than the actually cover even with Jason's monster of a chin), Reload, Kill Em All and St Anger will be the easiest ones.  Even And Justice for All will be pretty easy as it's mostly grey tones but a big fuck you to Death Magnetic, Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets with your awesome music and incredibly detailed covers.

 

Oh you think Death Magnetic isn't a detailed cover?  Look at those lines around the coffin!  Hello Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!!

 

 

It all started with the black album faces and has spiralled into a big project, and I'll post here the different sections and then once it's finished and the my other projects, along with other stuff that we're doing and what we're up to.

 

I have to go clean my house and be a responsible adult now.  But tonight, I get to work on Kirk's face!!!

 

Oh get your head out of the gutter, that's clearly where mine belongs ;)