No Really, It’s OK
Every now and then someone will send me a message either apologizing because they've made one of the Silk Road Socks projects in a wild color or asking if I'd mind if they do. My response is usually 'awesome, can I see it' or 'of course it's ok.' Really folks, once I've sent them out into the world, my designs aren't just mine anymore. They're yours too, and you can do with them what you will. It's charming that you ask, but I promise it's much more interesting to see how you make them your own than it would be [...]
Thanksgiving Sale
All of my Thanksgiving plans are set. I've secured a new game (Mansions of Madness, let's hear it for games with 20+ page rulebooks), we've found a way to consume the requisite Thanksgiving pizza, and we're finishing up the evening with dessert with friends. Should be a lovely day. Tomorrow, I will be staying inside and refusing to shop. We'll call it an act of consumer disobedience. The mall and I don't get along under the best of circumstances, and it's totally banned during November and December. But on the off chance you're the sort who likes to shop, I'm [...]
Finally!
Fellow knitters, because I love you and want you to be happy, I'm going to share my discovery with you. For the last two years I've been bemoaning the lack of graph paper post-its. I've drawn vertical lines on the sort of post-its that come with horizontal lines. I've put tape on regular graph paper. I've even looked into getting custom post-its printed. But none of it was quite right. Then today, as I was doing the pre-holiday-crazies run through Target, I saw them. They were sitting right there on the rack, like they were just normal post-its and not [...]
Maps
I am generally pretty good at spatial reasoning tasks. I can build things. I can tell you if that piece of furniture will fit up the stairs or fit in the living room. And I can fit a whole lot of stuff in a very small suitcase. But I cannot tell you the best way to get from town A to town B. Driving directions just somehow escape me. I can get where I'm going and get back home again, but deviating from the plan leaves me feeling a bit frazzled. The Boy does not suffer from this difficulty. He [...]
Whippersnapper
This was supposed to happen Tuesday, but it's ready now and I'm not the patient type, so I've jumped the gun and done it today. Both the weather and The Boy proved exceptionally agreeable, and many photos were taken. While the sorry state of our yard is usually something of a shame to me, this time it turned out to be quite convenient. There were plenty of piles of leaves to serve as handy backdrops. And our decrepit and alarmingly mossy fence cheerfully lent its services as well (I'm really not sure how it's still standing, but I'm not going [...]
Unexpected
Last Thursday, we headed over to Lakewood to see a show by Puscifer. Some of The Boy's friends from high school were in town for it. They had extra tickets and asked if we'd like to come along. Working on the theory that leaving the house and interacting with people is often more interesting than staying home in my pajamas and interacting with the cats, I went. It was...bracing. I actually liked much of the music, but some of the more, um, theatrical aspects of the show didn't appeal quite as much. I decided to take a little break in [...]
Progress
The gray socks are done and blocked. Tomorrow, if the weather and The Boy are agreeable, I'll get pictures (The Boy is generally agreeable, it's the weather that I have suspicions about). Look for the pattern some time around Tuesday of next week. Meanwhile, I'm going to do something scandalous and take the weekend off from the magical intarwebs. I have a suspicion the world will continue without me, but scientific inquiry dictates I double check just to be sure. If it turns out I was wrong and the world does end, consider me properly apologetic.
Mailing List
It's going to be a busy couple of weeks around here. The gray socks are coming out very shortly (next week if I have my way about it). Even more exciting, the website for Book the Second should be up the week after that. Somewhere along the way there may be a little post-Thanksgiving sale too. Every now and then, someone asks me how best to keep up with what's going on around here. My suggestion is to sign up for the mailing list. There's a sign up box over there on the right (just below the pictures of the [...]
Doing the Math
A tiny bit of calculation has revealed that the current pair of socks will, when finished, be made up of about 14,400 stitches. A further bit of calculation has revealed that I've got about 1,550 stitches left to go before I finish the second sock. This means I am about 89% done. Really, it's three inches and a toe. It's three hours of knitting. So why in the world is it taking me so long to do? And does anyone else figure out how many stitches are in a project and obsessively track how much you've finished?
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