Bodes Poorly
The universe hates me and wants me to die young. This is clear, because they have allowed an establishment called Sweetie Fry to open down the street from us. It started out as an ice cream and french fry place, which was quite dangerous enough. But now...now they've added a new and even more horrifyingly tempting item to their repertoire. Have you heard of funnel cake fries? No. I hadn't either. I knew about funnel cakes. And I knew about french fries. But I never knew about extruding funnel cake batter into french fry shaped pieces, dousing the whole thing [...]
Snow!
Apparently I've sunk to the level of using my blog to record the weather. This is doubtless shameful. But I've checked, and there are far more shameful things on the internet, so I'm letting it slide. Because people...it snowed yesterday. And I almost missed it. I...erm...like snow. Especially the first snow of the year. It gets less charming some time around February, but for now it's awesome. This snow came while I was asleep and was almost melted by the time I woke up. As such, I've made the executive decision that it's not quite the first snow. It's more [...]
Change of Plans
I was going to show you the gray sock's mate (heel just turned, coming along nicely). But for now I'll have to leave it to your imagination. I've got something much more amusing to show you. Do you remember back when I put carpet down in my side entrance? The swearing and the finger slicing? Yeah. Fun times. The carpet is still going strong and the fingers have healed. But ever since then I've been getting Flor's catalog in the mail. Normally I drop it straight in the trash. It's not that I don't like the product. I totally do. [...]
Snag
From time to time, even the nicest yarn has little slubs and snags. This is, at most, an irritation. It's much less of a problem than knots. Knots mean you've got extra ends to weave in and they can mean breaks in the color progression. Slubs often just mean a quick twist to fix. But since I've heard of folks cutting out slubs, I thought I'd show you how I fix them. This is pretty basic, but I know the last several folks I mentioned it to were gobsmacked that you could fix these things, so...I thought I'd share. [...]
Just One
We've established that patience isn't my strong suit. Not really at all. And we've established that one of the oh-so-very-nifty things about having your very own website and writing your very own books is that you can more or less do what you want. And I've also confessed that the pictures came and that I like them. Taking these three things together has led me to the conclusion that I can show you a picture if I want to. Just one for now...I want there to still be plenty of good stuff when the website is ready. But for the [...]
Saturday Evening Post
I had two things I was supposed to do this weekend. Usually those things happen on Sunday evening. This weekend, I was feeling unusually noble and productive, so I did them on Saturday morning. Most of this week has been spent with my ears attuned to the tromp of the postman's step on the porch. I've been (none too patiently) waiting for the photos for the book. Just as I sat down to work on Saturday, I heard the postman come. I decided it was a reward for my virtue and dashed to the door. Bills -- no pics. I [...]
There’s a Plan
I'm a firm believer in the importance of plans. The current stage of Book the Second's plan involves double checking everything on paper. The way I do this is to *print it all out, read it, and make notes (the kind in ink on paper) of problems, go back to the computer, make the changes. Repeat from *. Once this gets to the point where I can't find any more errors, I put it aside for a day or two. Then I read it over once more. Usually something else makes itself apparent. But eventually...eventually you get to a new [...]
Getting Organized
Some time this weekend (when depends entirely on when I wake up), I'm going to go through and change the prices on some of my patterns. The goal here is to make the prices consistent across types of patterns. When I'm done, all sock patterns will be the same price, and all the other sorts of patterns and pattern sets will be more consistently priced. It means the prices of some patterns will be going up (not a lot...most of the changes will be less than a dollar). But I wanted to give everyone a heads up so no one [...]
What to do with that Scarf
This will probably make its way around the knitting intarwebs, but on the off chance you haven't seen it yet, you totally owe it to yourself to go check out the 25 ways to wear a scarf video. Not all of them will work with knitted scarves, but a bunch of them totally would. Super nifty all around. And the behind the scenes link makes it all the more impressive. Edited to add: I have it on very good authority that a package containing the images from the photo shoot is on its way to me. If you hear an [...]
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