kiba the diva

It turns out when you’re a graduate student, even though you’re online all the time, you’re not actually talking to people about fun things like crochet. What have I pursued in terms of new domesticity endeavors in the past 10 months?  Well, I made a lot of hideous afghan squares in an attempt to use [...]

Our long campaign is over, and you can find the fruits of our labor here.   Show notes and a link to the transcript here. It’s going to take some time for me to come up with the right words to describe in detail the happiness I feel because of this interview.

So I have at last united two of my greatest loves: crochet (and craft in general) and Joss Whedon (oh my husvand!)  Take a look at my new blog, Whedoncraft.  It’s great fun.  And I hope that it will lead to some other projects of mine coming to fruition sooner than originally intended, as well.

If you look up in the address bar you’ll see that the actual address of the blog is http://jossisahottie.com/kibathediva.  That’s because Joss Whedon has a brilliant imagination, which inspired me to start a website called Joss Is A Hottie.  And that was my first domain name, and all my other domains just point somewhere in [...]

If you thought all of my video game posts were geeky, just get a load of today’s post.  Yes, friends, today, we venture into the place where crochet and role playing games – of the Dungeons and Dragons ilk – intersect. First up are these polyhedrals – many sided dice – designed by Peasie. These [...]

I came late to the video game scene, playing classics like Dragon Warrior much more than 10 years after their release.  I remember, lo those 8 or 9 years ago, my brother watching me play.  He was 5 or 6 at the time.  He would get so excited every time a Slime approached.  I myself [...]

Rock Band is going to be released for the Nintendo Wii next week, and I am going to buy it as soon as I am done moving. Apparently, though, the drum set can make quite a ruckus. FunkieFresh over at etsy has a brilliant solution: cover your drum kit with yarn! You can purchase these [...]

I adore Moogles. They are one of the best things about the Final Fantasy series. crafster user bixby2 posted this adorable Moogle Amigurumi. You can find the pattern at her blog. I fully intend to make one of these, especially if I ever cosplay as Lulu from Final Fantasy X. Adorable!

Here’s Link, from the classic and epic The Legend of Zelda franchise.  This was posted by craftster user whyfish a couple of years ago, but its age has not changed its awesomeness. The shield is particularly impressive.

You may have noticed that the Geeky Crochet tends to be inspired by video games.  This adorable creature is a Chocobo from the Final Fantasy series, a game series I highly recommend.  Final Fantasy VII was my gateway game.  (I’m aware that this does not make me special at all.) This was created by peppermintwind [...]

PROVOKATZE over at Craftster posted this back in February. The button is especially brilliant.

It’s done!  I just learned as well that thomcatdesigns lives in a city neighboring mine.  I very much want to become friends now! Isn’t it beautiful?

Craftster user TheSickRose brings us these darlings.

Well, it was the Star Wars amigurumi that caught my eye: But Sammi has a whole blog full of Geeky Crochet over at Geek Central Station, so you should really check it out.  She’s got all of the Fellowship of the Ring, and even published a few free patterns for those characters.  Her boyfriend creates [...]

This beauty comes from The Crochet Kitten.  (Click the link to see a photo.  Or read about it here.)  As the Decepticon symbol is trademarked by Hasbro, no pattern is available.  I’d love to see a matching Autobots scarf!  Then you could wear whichever one suited your mood, depending on if you felt good or [...]

I love this so much.  “The Trouble with Tribbles” is my favorite Star Trek: TOS episode, and back in the mid 90s when I went to the National Air & Space Museum and saw tribbles in the gift shop, I’ve wanted my very own.  Of course, in the gift shop they were incredibly overpriced.  But [...]

From thomcatdesigns on Flickr comes this gem: Later it will feature characters, too!

ovaltine8 at Flickr is posting progress on this Tetris Afghan. Check out ovaltine8′s Flickr page (linked above) for more pictures of this and other geeky crochet projects including a Katamari Damacy blanket, a plush D20, and a Totoro blanket.

Katie at Crafty Crafty designed this fabulous Legend of Zelda Crochet Block. It would be excellent for use in an afghan, or as a hot pad. This sort of thing is really inspirational to me. It makes me want to design a whole Zelda-themed afghan. Follow this link for a chart of this block, which [...]

I feel like I could write an essay on the use of handcrafted wearables in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie.  Instead, I’ll just give you my thesis statement.  This may take a few sentences. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, handknits are present everywhere.  The only place, [...]

I’ve already confessed my love for Sprite Stitch, but I don’t know of any sites where they’re collecting geeky crocheted objects, so I’m doing that here for your perusal. I thought about setting up a separate blog for it, but instead I’m just going to give it a special category here. I feel a need [...]