With my army, I will be unstoppable.

[charloween]

...the Gryffindorish one belongs to serrico. Brent (the green one) will be sad when the red-and-yellow one goes to live in his new home.

ETA: in previous posts about this project, I'd given credit to the pattern's designer. penwiper337 figured it out, I just built it. All credit where credit is due.

Comments

[starsoohpretty.livejournal.com]

I WANT A KNIT ROBOT!

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

*slaps hand away* No! Not until you've watched Doctor Who and can understand just how awesome a knit Dalek really is. (Then you can have one.)

See? Yet another reason to watch. naturelf will back me up on this one. You. Must. Watch. Doctor Who.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I do! I do back her up on that. D. thought it was cute, but after I sat her down and made her watch the series she was able to see how awesome Daleks truly are.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Oh, and they're not technically robots, either.

See? If you'd watched Doctor Who, you'd know this!

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Never fear, I'll remedy this as soon as we get back to school. 2 weeks!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

And after you have some Dalek epsiodes under your belt, you can enjoy The Genesis of the Daleks (http://stage6.divx.com/Doctor-Who-Classic/video/1316206/Doctor-Who-Classic-E078)! Wooo!

[deleriumd.livejournal.com]

Please please please tell me you're able to share the pattern?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

serrico found it for me, it's not of my design!

http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html

[thucyken.livejournal.com]

How would a wizard stop a Dalek?

No, seriously, I have no punchline, I am wondering which combination of spells would work.

I guess iron doesn't make magic wonky in the HP-verse, though.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

A shield spell would work until said wizard had time to figure it out, I guess.

Iron and magic work all right together for HP-verse: flying vehicles, repairing glasses, horcruxing jewellery, iron cauldrons, magic clocks. Yeah, no problems there.

Maybe heating it until the metal melts and the Dalek inside roasts? Kind of gross, but still effective. Ditto extreme cold, then shattering it.

'Course, there's always the venerable Exterminatus (http://glassesreflect.net/james/exterminatus.php) spell...

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

*showers love upon the GryffenDalek*

YAY.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

*does happy dance*

Next: a TARDIS! This one I'm going to try to figure out on my own. :)

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

I've seen a couple awesome TARDIS patterns but I think that'll be shelved for a while as I found SO MANY excitign animal patterns yesterday. Like a squid! A knitted squid! How cool would that be!?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I wouldn't be adverse to snagging a pattern. Not using brain > using brain.

I had a squid-hat bookmarked, but it's disappeared from the intarwebs. *sadface*

[jissa.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! You've sorted your daleks into houses! You rock so hard!

Can I worship at your feet?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

No worship necessary! Just make one of your own (http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html) and spread the cuddly alien love.

It just goes to prove that EVERYTHING can be sorted into houses.

I'd like to think the Gryffindaleks are always the first into battle, noble and brave.

[jissa.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, but the ravendaleks . . . actually I've got nothing here. The slytherdaleks probably come up with the newest plans for world domination and the huffledaleks absorb some of Rose and get confused . . . but the ravendaleks are smarter than them, so it's all OK! 8^D~~~~

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Ravendaleks probably miss the invasion every time because they're stuck in the library.

huffledaleks absorb some of Rose and get confused
Hee!

[jissa.livejournal.com]

Ravendaleks probably miss the invasion every time because they're stuck in the library.

Well those darned stairs are just so hard to manuever! They say the libraries are handicapped accessible, but do they really mean it?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

HA! I meant they'd been absorbed in reading, not physically impeded as they attempted to egress. But I like the 2nd way better. All those poor bookworm-bots, doing their damnedest to queue up and get the heck out of the library. *pets Ravendaleks*

Though... they can fly.

[papatya.livejournal.com]

you need to teach me how to knit, i've had like 3 balls of yarn or so, to make 3 different scarves and i still haven't made them.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hey, no probs. Knitting is pretty easy, once you get the hang of it (and I don't mind teaching!)...

[amyisyellow.livejournal.com]

This makes me miss you pretty bad.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

*hugs* But I'm sure you're having a crazy time and will come back with lots of stories. :)

*hugs more*

[penwiper337.livejournal.com]

See, now you have successfully blown my mind with Gryffindor Daleks. Seriously, that would have made Book 7 SO much better.

These are fantastic! It makes me really happy to see my pattern being useful, yay! (And not even any comments like 'What the heck was she thinking with that bit on row 23?', which makes it even better.) And you have way more patience than me if you're making more of these. Two Daleks worth of bobbles and I was bobbled out. ;) Great work!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hee! Oh, totally - I can just see Voldemort and his Death Eaters: massed outside Hogwarts, waiting to launch their attack, when over the ramparts come a legion of flying robots, all screaming "EXPELLIARMUS! EXPELLIARMUS! EXPELLIARMUS!"

Thanks for a great pattern. It's easy to follow, and despite all the bobbles (grrr... bobbles) was quite fun to make. I knit when I commute and had all these people coming up to me on the subway, asking what I was making. I haven't the patience to sit down and figure out all the math-bits of a pattern like this, so major props to you!

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Just dropping by to mention that naturelf pointed me at this pattern and I tackled it as my "gee, I've only ever knit. I should learn to do other things. Like purl" project. While I cheated a bit (knit flat and eschewed bobbles), I did finish the little bugger, see (http://piratefanatic.livejournal.com/84321.html)?

Right. Point. Thanks for writing and sharing that pattern. It was certainly a challenge, but totally clear and understandable (and this from someone who hadn't ever followed a pattern). So you = win!

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. So. Awesome.

How long did it take you to make one?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. It took somewhere in the neighbourhood of 8-12 hours, I think. (I don't keep track, though I suppose I should, because people ask...) Each bobble-row (there are four) took about an hour, the k1 p1 ribbing on the shoulder-bits took a while because the all the k's were one colour and all the p's were another colour, and the base is bigger than it looks.

I did most of the knitting while watching TV or on the TTC so it doesn't feel like I spent much time. A few weeks of picking it up when I had the chance, that kind of thing.

Um.

Short answer: 8-12 hours, I think.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of time... but really, in the grand scheme of things, not that bad.

[beeblefish.livejournal.com]

Ah.. Sarena was right.. you are awesome :-D

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Tee hee! Thanks!