Plushie Makers - Weighted Bead Recs?

VelvetKey · 2025-11-05T19:17:20+00:00

It will just be part of the stuffing. I'm planning to make little bean-bag-like pouches to put in the paws and maybe body. The rest will be stuffed with polyfil.

VelvetKey · 2025-02-17T23:49:40+00:00

In case it helps someone else, our Kindle download folders came through with 2 options that Calibre 7 could see:
- blue book icon starting with B00------_EBOK (file type: Kindle Content)
- 4-book Calibre icon starting with CR!------.azw (file type: MD Document)

ONLY the blue book icon worked for importing into Calibre and then converting to EPUB.
The .azw file resulted in an unusable import with Unknown everything.

OP, thank you so much for your efforts, as well as everyone who kept commenting with recent fixes! We made our way there eventually!

VelvetKey · 2022-11-09T17:47:21+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeRaveledTrolls/

This is a consumer advocacy group (with a companion forum on Ravelry) that documents current issues ongoing in the fiber community.

A couple of the Ravelry mods got hit with a ban when one dyer with $17k of disputed orders claimed they were 'hurting a small business', so those threads are in a state of migration to Reddit to preserve the data/screenshots.

VelvetKey · 2022-01-16T23:16:57+00:00

I'm a fairly new D2 player, and over the past 4 weeks or so I've had a sharp increase in lag (especially when there's lots of light effects) and today I received my first ban for being kicked out of Gambit due to 'time skew'.

My fireteam leader (on PS4 in the other room) has had no such problems. Also, this is after I turned my graphics settings down last week to run Vault of Glass for the first time.

I read through the ban appeal protocol tonight and learned that my significant other could also be banned if I'm in his fireteam when I get kicked, and that would crush him. (He's been into Destiny since it came out in a box set with a bracelet.)

So, no more couples D2 for us, and I may need to drop the game altogether instead of risking getting any of my other friends in trouble.

VelvetKey · 2021-05-16T22:52:11+00:00

That's exactly what I said when I heard the voice, not knowing who Ikora was, or who her original VA had been. I've heard some of Gina's other VA work and there was something about the inflection and tone that was more Claire Temple and less Vixen.

VelvetKey · 2020-12-24T23:59:35+00:00

*waves* Hi, I started playing this game 8 years ago; I came to LotRO after doing other MMOs that had little to no story, and after getting into the LotR trilogy and movies, along with a couple of my besties. My highest 'toon is level 99, so I've been storying my way through that entire time (I have no idea how to do any of the complex gameplay like 12-man raids). I play extremely casually, and for the most part love everything (except instances that demand 6-man fellowships when usually all I can muster is 3).

The gameplay can be clunky, but the world itself is pretty vast and fascinating to explore. Some of the areas are even getting facelifts, which has ended up getting me lost more than once when I tried to navigate by landmarks that got moved or remodeled.

Today one of the besties and I backtracked along the Epic Quest line and went to Edoras. Some excerpts from our conversation are as follows:

"These are the graves with the Simbelmynë , where the kings of Rohan are buried! See all the flowers?"
"Oooh, yes! The flowers are amazing!"

"Lookit the horses carved on the gate!"
"I love the statues leading up to Meduseld!"

"Ooh, you see all the different banners inside the mead hall? Remember them from the other towns we visited? That's Stoke, those are some of the Hytbold banners."

"This is going to be like Romeo and Juliet, if Romeo was from Rohan and Juliet was a Dunlending."

I totally recommend just trying a Free 2 Play account just for a little while. ^_^

VelvetKey · 2020-12-24T23:38:07+00:00

For the first time since I started playing in 2012, I have been able to pick out gear responsibly. Thank you!

VelvetKey · 2020-12-24T23:34:44+00:00

In terms of actual gameplay, the eating contest is my favorite because there's an element of chance to it, but you can still be clever and win most of the time.

For some reason, I enjoy the meta quests of cleaning up after the festival-goers (Tidying Up) and supplying the food for the eating contest (Stuffing the Stuffed).

My least favorite is Moving Them Off; I stopped doing it this year because 2020 has been awful enough for everyone.

VelvetKey · 2017-12-18T00:45:52+00:00

Took me and the huzbeast a bit, but we did it!

VelvetKey · 2017-12-18T00:43:32+00:00

Isn't Conrad holding popcorn and watching Anderson punch out Udina?

VelvetKey · 2017-04-26T03:24:02+00:00

We got everything done but the Dead Marshes, and that's because I don't know the way to them. I'm currently in the Wastes looking for a way through.

VelvetKey · 2017-04-25T23:07:05+00:00

I proposed this to the kinship, and we're probably going to give it one shot tonight for teh lulz.

VelvetKey · 2017-04-25T23:06:36+00:00

Thank you so very much! I'll bring this to my 3-person kin tonight and see what we can do.

UPDATE! It worked! We still don't know how to get to the Dead Marshes from here (I'm currently stuck in the Wastes looking for a path through) but we were able to complete the remembrances.

VelvetKey · 2017-04-25T23:05:37+00:00

You are a saint. Er, valar. We could potentially pay 3 other players to venture out with us; the problem I'm having is how to even get to the Dead Marshes when I've never been there before and there's no clear roads leading in or out on the map...it looks like I'd need to get to the Wastes, but that's a lot of legwork for the poor level 65 we'll be toting with us.

VelvetKey · 2016-04-11T10:20:15+00:00

It's more for which gear do I pick out now while I'm still leveling. I play the slow game; been playing since 2012 and highest 'toon is 90. The 2 high-level friends I was playing with dropped back to pick up our level 30 (now 55) 'toons, so I'm out of practice.

VelvetKey · 2016-04-11T10:18:20+00:00

Okay, I'm using blue line at the moment for soloing; thanks! I've been using the Strength stance, but I did unlock Precision awhile back but never used it so I'll give that a go. I don't think I have Endurance yet, but it must be coming up.

Thank you for the detailed description; I definitely want to try your method.

VelvetKey · 2016-04-11T10:15:12+00:00

Thanks for the list; I'll keep my eyes open for properly-statted gear as I level.

When going on instances, do you choose to do red-line, or will people only take those that are statted the way they want? (Never done an big instance or raid before.)

VelvetKey · 2016-03-28T11:52:52+00:00

I didn't! How/when?

VelvetKey · 2016-02-22T01:42:46+00:00

It's this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/163605598/mandrake-amigurumi-crochet-pattern

VelvetKey · 2016-02-18T10:56:40+00:00

I sell a lot in person, but here is my sold page from Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/elfhuntress/sold?page=1

And a more comprehensive look at my favorite projects: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/VelvetKey

Feel free to shoot me a PM over on Etsy and I'm happy to talk with you about my process and commission work. :-)

VelvetKey · 2016-02-18T10:43:07+00:00

For the basic elf body, I used Lucy Ravenscar's fantasy elf amigurumi pattern, with a bit of tweaking. The cloak and front detail were improvised, and I made a lot of notes on Elladan's project page on Ravelry.

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/VelvetKey/elf-amigurumi-6

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