@Ariel Lol! We're even now. :p

Well, I liked my hat so much that I looked up a different pattern and I'm now making a red cabled hat to match my red coat. It's gonna have off white flowers on the brim too because I learned how to crochet flowers today. ^.^

*grins*
Well, the past couple days, I've had the urge to mess around on the piano. I've played through the easy (well... define "easy") arrangements of "Forbidden Friendship" and "Romantic Flight" (both from How to Train Your Dragon) a couple times each... with both hands all the way through (previous attempts to do so tended to eventually drop the left hand completely and just continue with the right, lol). Both are ridiculously rough, but hey. I love HTTYD music enough to suffer listening to my own botched playing. 😛
And I played by ear the next part of a Narnia/Christmas medley I started working on before Christmas. But I have to actually write it down now, lol.

@Ariel I've been eyeing "Forbidden Friendship" and "See You Tomorrow" for a while now, but I haven't tried to conquer them yet. 😛

I had to start over with my hat because I didn't like the brim. I found a better pattern, but it called for a bigger loom, which I'm really hoping is gonna fit my head. If it doesn't fit maybe I can shrink it in the wash? Or find someone with a bigger head than me. Or take it out and start over again. 😛

@Engee: I don't recommend "See You Tomorrow" yet unless you're confidant about it. At least, not if you're looking at the same sheet music I am (fantastically arranged by Sebastian Wolff, who, btw, also did two Narnia arrangements).

@Ariel 😆 That's why I haven't tried it yet!

Edit: After re-starting my hat about three times today, I have finally made progress and finished the brim! Yay! 😀

Ooh pretty hat Islie! *Is inspired*

Engee, so are you knitting, crocheting, or both? I love to crochet things, such as this ballerina kitty I made some months ago for a cousin of mine:

I went off of a pattern for that one but recently Eria and I have begun to make our own amigurumi, (crocheted animals), by putting together different patterns or by completely going from our heads. I've made a few other things by crocheting and it is so much fun, especially when one learns to do different 'artsy' stitches like the cable stitch you mentioned. ^.^

Cute!

@Elanor I'm knitting the hats, but crocheting the flowers that I put on them.

As far as hat progress goes, it's looking amazing! Unfortunately, I'm running out of yarn and I can't find anymore to match. So...I'll see how far this lasts and it may turn out to be a hat for my littlest sis. Oh well. I bought some more red yarn today. I'm not sure if I like the texture or not.

@Norelle: Adorable! I did ballet for about eight years...

Thanks Ariel and Berry. ^.^

Oh I see Engee, I'd love to see how it turns out! As for the yarn, yeah it can be tough to find a similar yarn sometimes with a good texture. I like to use 'Caron Simply Soft' or 'Red Heart Soft Yarn' where ever I can or use colours I can easily find again. Rougher yarns can be good for things that need to be stiffer and sturdier, like some amis or things like purses.

I have a random question for the TLCers from England: Do you guys refer to yourselves as "British" or "English"?

Do we have any TLCers from England?

We have at least two (used to be three), but neither are very active at the moment.

I may be able to kinda answer the question, though. I had this conversation with a number of my English friends and it seems to depend very much on their view of things. Some were completely opposed to being called "British" whereas others preferred it. It seemed to depend on their sense of identity - whether they wished to separate themselves from other British peoples or not. It depended on the way they were brought up and their own personal views of their "ethnicity". Welsh, Scottish and Irish people tend to be labelled as such, so some English people insist that they too should be differentiated. Other people, proud of the idea of a united Britain, would embrace "British". It might also depend on their own family background - whether their parents and grandparents were all English or whether they had an ancestor that was in fact from one of the other British regions. As far as I can tell, there seemed to be a slightly higher proportion who preferred "English", but it might differ in different parts of England. If you were trying to work out what to call someone, you'd probably be safer calling them "English" - at least less likely to offend/annoy them.

*waits for Stew or Silk to jump in and correct her*

Cool! I did not know quite a bit of that stuff. I often wish that I were British...(Just a random fact). I'm half-Scottish (Just a random fact) although I do not have the accent. Be cool if I did, though. 🙂

Ooh, that would be cool, Dill. 🙂 I can put on a Scottish accent if I want. My mom went to school in Scotland for a semester, and I've been there on a trip. I loved it! It's so beautiful.