Woo-hooo! I just finished the penultimate texture band on the Prayer Shawl, ready to attach the final color before the ribbing color. I could probably finish it in another hour or so, but I’m antsy/anxious about some other things and not putting my best energies into the fiber of the shawl. That’s not a good [...]
Today is Sunday, the twenty-ninth day of September in the year 2007. I am giving today partly toward the Prayer Shawl and partly toward figuring out how to make the most of Ravelry as a social networking environment.
One of the options there is to start affinity groups — collections [...]
Y’all saw the note from Casey in the previous post’s comments? Apparently there is (or soon will be) a way to link to pictures on my own server, which is the ideal. Having multiple copies of pictures uploaded onto all sort of other people’s servers is [...]
Well, whattaya know.
I got my invitation to Ravelry today.
I was pissed to discover that you can’t upload pictures or link to pictures anyplace but flickr. What kind of crap is that? Why should I have to go through the hassle of saving pictures to flickr first and THEN go link them into my Ravelry account. [...]
Wow, this is moving right along!
Here’s the status so far, already more than half-way done (the white is the middle)
And here’s the front where you can see the texture:
with a close-up of the texture:
Laying it across my lap it does feel feel more heavily textured (and heavy) than a [...]
This is the pattern for the Tuck-and-Eyelet Prayer Shawl I showed you yesterday.
This is pretty much all there is to it. Mostly I alternated SSK and K2tog just for appearance. It is being done on the LK-150 knitting machine (stitch dial=5), but hand-knitters can easily adapt the pattern to [...]
I’m just curious…. how many actually come to the blog to read, and how many get this via an RSS feed somewhere else? Do the pictures also show up in RSS? Do you get the full text, or a blurb with a link to come read/see the whole post?
And can people make comments via whatever [...]
Moving right along! Woo-hooooo!
I don’t always listen well, but when I do listen, magical things happen. Yesterday I screwed up the prayer shawl. This morning I went back to it, determined to make those diagonals work.
I undid the bad part, took it back to where I could begin again. [...]
So I’m lying there in bed, right? Pillow fluffed, blanket covering all important parts, I’m sprawled diagonally across the bed… mind racing.
Guess what I’m thinking.
No, really … guess!
OMG! How did you DO that?
How on earth could you have known that I was wondering how much longer until I get my Ravelry invite?? That’s [...]
I realize that NObody will sympathise or understand when I say that sometimes a pattern is just beyond rational execution, and sometimes yarns don’t behave, or sometimes you think if there is
just
one
more
freakin’
request to
“would you please knit this for me?”
you just gotta take matters into your own hands and then [...]
Barbara just asked for the Sock Knitting Deity image to be put on the big Tote Bag, so I went and swapped out the images. (The Knitivity branding is still on the back, of course.) I also swapped out the image on the larger coffee mug, too, so all y’all sock knitters can brag on [...]
you learn a new skill!
After the last post, I went back to the machine (armed with one of my machine knitting design books) and quickly worked up a sample swatch in something unlike what I originally wanted, but it will suffice:
Done by hand, it would be done intarsia, but this was on the machine, and [...]
Which, when loosely translated, means, “What the heck is going on?”
Yesterday I went to my machine, cast on 7×15 stitches (105) in intarsia for the Prayer Shawl. I was going to do a 2×1 rib. Mind you, this is on a single-bed flat machine, not a dual-bed with ribber, m’kay? Which [...]
I sent out notes to the mailing list, and the sales list, but I completely forgot to post it here as well:
For my First Anniversary (one week from today), between now and October 1, all shipping is just $3.00, no matter how much you order, including all the Down Home Solids and the YarnPacks and [...]
that if you only have a few of your hand-knit wool socks to wash, just take them into the shower with you. When you shampoo your hair, with your hands full of lather, press the lather through the socks a couple times, rinse them thoroughly and hang them over the shower curtain rod or towel [...]
This is SO FRIGGIN’ BEAUTIFUL:
Commonly known as houseleeks or liveforever (a literal translation of the generic name, Sempervivum) this image is just begging for someone to whip up a most amazing shawl, isn’t it? Click on the image for a really big version at Botany Photo of the Day. They have brought [...]
Quote of the day:
“________________________________
________________________________
__________.” - Marcel Marceau, 1923-2007
I grew up enchanted by the work of Marcel Marceau who has now passed. One of the best of his craft, and probably one of the best known. I also like ventriloquists, unicyclers, jugglers, sidewalk chalk artists, sand castle masters, and all those crafty folk who do things [...]
Sock Yarns are up! Some have already sold, so be sure to get yours while they are there.
Carina
Cygnus
Lake Berry
Glacier Lake
A lot of other things to write about, but it is Sunday, I’m unusually tired, and I really gotta learn to live without the computer on all the time! LOL
If it’s Saturday, it must be pictures! (which makes no sense, because I show pix almost any day of the week)
Here’s yesterday’s dye jobs, already rinsed, conditioned, spun out and drying on the racks:
The first on the left is the dyepot I showed you yesterday. It was from the [...]
Okay, ya’member the picture I showed you yesterday?Well, here’s the dyepot that was supposed to go that direction:
I can’t wait to pull it out, rinse it and get it dried so I have a better idea of how I did, but I LIKE it. Y’all keep your fingers crossed, ‘kay?
And this collection [...]
