Stacks
Yup, still amused. Part of the stacks series. Click for a bigger pic. Books shown are The Origin of Humankind, Naked, Fragile Things, Making Sex.
New Pattern, Ameliorate (Plus Coupon)
ameliorate: verb -to make better or more tolerable Every now and then, I hear from someone who says they like my designs...they just wish I put them out more frequently. Now my first response is to be flattered. That's actually a lovely thing to say. My second response is a tiny bit less charming. As of today, I've got 93 designs listed over on Ravelry. The first one came out in March of 2009. That's 93 designs in 44 months, or a bit over 2 a month. That's an average of one every other week, for more than three and [...]
Repairs
I'm undertaking a bit of sock surgery. The feet on one of the socks for Book The Third are a bit too long for the person who is going to model them. So I've picked out the end, ripped back the toe and an inch or so of the foot, and now I'm going to reknit the toe. But before I do that, I've got to address one small issue. See this? See how the yarn is all curly and springy and kinked up into little nests? Yeah. That's what happens when you unravel knitting that's been set for a [...]
Engineering Sphere
Back when I was a (delusional) engineering student, I had to take my fair share of physics classes. Some might say slightly more than my fair share. One of my professors had an odd and somewhat alarming propensity to set us problems that involved livestock. Cows on ice skates. Sheep in catapults. Horses on pogo sticks. The imagery was actually quite disturbing and rather makes me wonder about his misspent youth. Each of these problems would end with the line, 'for ease of calculation, assume the animal is a sphere.' Now the distinction between a mathematical sphere and an engineering [...]
Advance Planning
Next month is going to be busy. It's the good sort of busy. Actually it's two good sorts of busy, first the super productive slightly frantic sort, then the relaxed chill sort. It should all be fun, but it does require a bit of advance planning. So, I'm polling the collective here. First, any must know tips for Rhinebeck? I'm going (yay), and it's my first one, and I want to be sure to do it right. Second, any marvelous yarn shops in Maine I should know about? Maine's big, and we'll be staying on the coast, so nothing too [...]
Blocked
One morning next month I will wake up, collect a large box of knitting and props, and head off to do the photo shoot for KCC2. This is both exciting (because holy wow is seeing all the pictures fun) and terrifying (because it's the point in the process where the greatest number of things have to go right at the same time in order for the day to go well). I deal with this tension in a variety of ways, some rational (lists, lists, and more lists) and some irrational (like asking everyone I know to keep their fingers crossed [...]
Reveal
You recall our little trip the other weekend? You recall I mentioned I was knitting as we drove around? But for some mysterious reason I didn't show you the knitting (unusual behavior for a knitting blogger). That's because it was stealth birthday knitting. But the birthday has come and gone, and the knitting has made its way to the intended person, so I can come back and retroactively show it off. These are the mitts I made with the Alisha Goes Around yarn I mentioned the other week. First, proof that I really did take them on the trip. We [...]
Instant Gratification
It's starting to get cool. Not cold (cold comes later) but just slightly cool. It's that time of year when you haven't gotten out the winter clothes yet, but your summer clothes aren't quite warm enough (sorry southern hemisphere folks, I know it's only doing that here, not there). It's the time of year you start pondering scarves. Not thick chunky ones, light fluffy wispy things. More fashion statement than insulation, but just what the weather demands. The sort of thing that, were you to actually knit it, would take you a freaking year because it would be on lace [...]
Ran Away, Part 4
Alrighty, this is getting ridiculous. We were gone just over 48 hours, you'd think I could tell you all about this in less than half a dozen posts. When we last spoke, we were pulling away from the Schaefer yarn outlet. After such an experience, we needed something restorative. We headed over to Finger Lakes Distilling. We've been going there since they opened and their products have just gotten better. We supplemented the basement supplies and set out for lunch. Somehow, no one quite knows how, Finger Lakes Fibers just happened to be between where we parked and the restaurant. [...]
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