I tried on my Wonder Woman costume on Friday, considering whether to wear it to Comic-Con again this year. It was a little loose. I realized that if I lose any more weight, like I plan to, this costume will soon be too big for me to wear. So, I decided that I would wear it one more time, but that I wanted to kind of re-mix it to make it a different look. The idea came to me at the end of my nap Saturday afternoon: Nerdcore Hip Hop Wonder Woman! I talked to my buddy earthdog, and he thought that it was a fun idea. I had the red fishnets and gold boombox necklace (hard to see in this low-res camera photo), and I went on a scavenger hunt for the red hi-top Chucks and the yellow baseball cap. The yellow cap turned out to be the hardest to find. I had to go to two malls to find a plain yellow cap in a small/med and have the red star embroidered on.

After last year's fun with the knit Wonder Woman costume, I struggled to come up with something equally awesome to create to wear to this year's San Diego Comic-Con (July 22-26). I didn't have as much lead time this year, with baby projects to create for the beginning of June, so I knew that I wouldn't be doing another full bodysuit arrangement. It was also tiresome to be trussed up underneath that outfit, and I won't have the convenience of a nearby hotel to retreat to this year. I decided to create a Green Lantern Corps outfit, knitting a sleeveless Green Lantern sweater and mask, but wearing bought pants and power ring to fill in the rest of the look. I crocheted up a mask last night, and I am down to the last few inches on the sweater. I'm going to skip on white gloves, though I am thinking about possibly knitting white armbands or gauntlets, since it looks like I may have time to. Do my readers have any opinions on whether armbands would be cool or not?

I finished knitting a new sleeveless top last Friday and wore it Sunday to an alumni event at the Heard Museum. This was a quick and easy knit for me, which I needed after the labor on the Wonder Woman costume. The costume, which has now made the "featured" list on Craftster. The thread has been viewed over 20,000 times, putting it up on the second page of most viewed entries in completed knitting projects, which I think is pretty darn cool. I still haven't had anyone buy the pattern yet, though. I'm hoping that people will start thinking about their Halloween costumes at the end of August and start buying the pattern.

That would work out fine for me in the meanwhile, since I have a heap of stuff to do before going to Hawaii in a couple of days.

The Heard Museum was more interesting than I expected, BTW. I thought that it would be the usual ubiquitous Katchina dolls and blankets, but they had a lot of unusual things too, and a lot of work by contemporary artists. I have some photos up on Flickr.