More New Projects

More medical nonsense over the last few days BUT! I attended a game of the Star Trek Adventures RPG. The Game Mistress had never GMed before so her friend had gathered a bunch of his nerd friends (including my husband, but I got to tag along) to be a test audience.

it was fun! Had a great time technobabbling such things as: could we get past the transporter room bottleneck by simply storing evacuees in the pattern buffers until later? (That one did not stick to the drawing board—fucking with the transporter never goes well.) Could we isolate this virus in the computers by pulling out the infected isolinear chips and the way they seem to do on the show all the time with no ill effects? (She gave us that one even though technically the era we were playing had never mentioned isolinear chips.)

She got very flustered, bless her, but largely because she was running the pregen adventure and it’s very linear. Best laid plans, and all that.

I now have 2 systems I want to run as solo RPGs (and possibly as games with my nerd family? My brain fog feels a bit better since my last medication adjustment so perhaps??) It turns out I’ve actually had the solo rules for the Star Trek game for a few years so I dug those out to take a gander. And you know what else I found hidden in a dusty corner of the home server? Star Trek fanfiction I wrote when I was 14, which was very exciting/embarrassing. I must have carried it in every laptop I’ve owned since mumble mumble when it was written to eventually get backed up here all these years later.

In craft news I’m making my little flower motifs for my wheelchair blanket, and also picked up a knitted blanket that’s also modular so I can switch back and forth between little projects and not go mad.

I fell in love with the colourway of the Origami Blanket a few years ago but couldn’t confidently crochet at the time so I put a pin in it until later. I can crochet now but I’m already crocheting all those flowers and miss knitting a bit but cannot face another sock until autumn, so! Knit pinwheels it is!

Each designer has generously provided the patterns for free!

Origami Blanket, Kirsten Ballering
https://haakmaarraak.nl/free-crochet-pattern-origami-blanket

Pinwheel Blanket, Ksenia Naidyon
https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2025/09/13/pinwheel-blanket/

My birthday present to myself was a bag of Yarnsmith Create DK in my best approximation of that colour palette. That arrived yesterday, so now I have one complete Pinwheel block!

29 blocks to go. It didn’t really take that long? I could finish this in a couple of months, if I assume I make half a pinwheel a day. I won’t, because I’m like that. But in theory, yeah.