Not a Complete Failure
You guys are awesome to offer suggestions, thank you. Let me see if I can explain my thinking just a bit. When I decided to pick this particular bit of fluff back up, I sort of needed to get reacquainted with it. One of the things I wanted to know was how long each of the pieces I had was. So I wound it off onto my swift, and counted the number of revolutions. Turned out the first skinny strand was 40 turns of the swift, the second one was 60, and the third (fattest) one was 30. But, I [...]
Rank Amateur
I am a crap spinner. No, really. Crap. I have no skill. I have put in very little practice. My approach to date has been 'pretend...I'm sure if I just pretend, I'll grasp it by instinct without the application of any effort.' So far, not much success, but it is amusing. This usually does not bother me much. One of the benefits of this method is that I don't spend any time spinning, so my deficiencies don't have much opportunity to trouble me. But this Saturday I decided to clean out the stash. One of the things uncovered in the [...]
Prep Work
We are now less than one week out from the photo shoot for KCC2. This means I have allowed my inner organizational nutcase free rein. If I feel like pinning tags with lists of photos needed to each item, then I do. If I feel the need to make a list (using 3 different colors of pen and highlighter) of what to bring to each day of the photo shoot, well then I'll do that too. It's either that or gnaw my fingernails clean off, and the office supply approach brings about less bloodshed. But, in the middle of all [...]
Blue
I'm working on some socks. This, this is not news. Alas, the plans for these socks are a wee bit in the air at the moment. The details of their fate need to be secured before I can tell you too much about them. It's making me twitchy. I've actually got knitting on the needles, and I want to show it to you, but discretion demands I not...for the moment. And yet, somehow, I'm still talking about the socks. I'm working with Dream in Color's Everlasting DK (aka the best fat sock yarn in all the land...it's what I used [...]
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 [...]
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