In which I woke up with a BIT too much serotonin and blather a few things that remind everyone that I can be a problem precisely because I am probably too smart and listen too well for my own good sometimes. Health, Wealth and Success: Seems to be pretty good. I have aged into my…
The short answer is: I’m part of the control group. The long answer is: I am currently a 40-something and grew up with a lot of television and have spent enough of my life in a “TV Show Hype Cycle” and nearly every show I was ever excited over or held dear is either problematic…
So, way back in my formative youth, I remember the great saga of Calvin and Hobbes’ Battery Operated Fan Beanie. In the comic, Calvin sees that he can turn in Cereal Box Tops for a plastic, child-sized beanie with a fan on top that would be spun by battery power. Bill Watterson perfectly captured the…
Finished Knitting the Alfajor hat using Shibui Knits Pebble in the color “Ash” The pattern is Alfajor by Lisa R. Myers and it’s using this Shibui Knits Pebble yarn (made with recycled silk, merino, and cashmere) in color “Ash” that has a very “soft but nubbly” texture that was given to me as a gift….
As an almost 42 year old who remembers logging into university servers before AOL to chat with friends/relatives to get around Long Distance telephone charges… I have been on the Internet a Long Damn Time. Also, my entire career seems to be “You have been saddled with this anxiety that will make you spend your…
Wet-blocking this #hat. Did the decreases and the cinch closure and the weaving-in and the wet blocking. Fears Assuaged: I was able to get the magic-looping to work out with the circular needle while shaping the crown and thus didn’t require DPNs. I had enough yarn even though I up-sized the needles to make the…
Completed #Knitting : A three color stranded colorwork #Hat that I am probably going to make over and over again in what I am calling “Vaporwave colors” The yarn is Premier Yarns everyday soft worsted (acrylic) in colors Flame Orange, Bright Violet, and Neon Pink (part of the Deborah Norville collection, apparently) And it’s making this…
I have finished using up some leftover Knit Picks Cotlin Reflections (a run of cotlin (cotton linen blend) with varying levels of indigo dye to make ocean-inspired handpaints…) in the colorway ‘Crest’. I turned it into three linen stitch wash cloths and used the leftover to make a ‘scrubbie’ as I often do with some…
Completed my first hat using two handed stranded colorwork. I made it too tall and faffed up the crown reductions… But the colorwork is GORGEOUS. No bad pulling and look at those floats! I attended a #knitting workshop the weekend of Jan 20th and one of the classes was to do #stranded colorwork (also called #FairIsle)…
So, over the last week, we had a tectonic shift in how The Internet manages to reach our house. The changes were technological, material, and locational. It also changed pricing structures and service availability that had a cascading effect with how we get the smorgasbord of television channels we have access-to. To wit, we moved…