Month: February 2007

  • oh-so-picky head coverings

    Hey all, things are still pretty damn crazy around here. Today I spent a number of HOURS trying to get a new router set up – including talking to tech support, etc. Eventually I just hooked the old one up again and it works fine for now. I need the internet for my schoolwork anyway, and faster would be nice, but it’ll have to wait.

    In the meanwhile…last night at Drunken Knitters, I worked on the second sleeve of the organic wool raglan, and discovered a number of rows later that I’d been increasing too fast! So I had to rip out a bunch – and I wasn’t even drinking.

    I discovered that I’m going to be short of yarn for that second sleeve – I only had 1.5 skeins of yarn to use, and the first sleeve took 1.6. So if anyone has any O-Wool in oatmeal, lot 710002, and would be willing to sell/share half a skein or so, let me know! Otherwise I’ll have to figure out what to do with a different dyelot. It’s quite similar but a bit lighter, so I was thinking of maybe striping it in? Hm.

    I’ve also just started a hat for the boyfriend, who is tremendously picky about his hats. I’m using Nature’s Palette in “Spruce” (he picked it), double stranded. I hope to gift it on Valentine’s Day, so I really hope this works out!

    Back to the books. I’ll try and come by with some pictures soon!

  • a bit o’ admin

    Re: GTA Knit Blog Ring

    I’ve gone through the entire ring and removed all blogs that don’t exist, haven’t been updated in 6 months or don’t have the code on the page – and geez, there were a lot of them. If you’ve been removed and want to rejoin, you’ll have to click the “join” link on the button (in my right sidebar).

  • debbie downer

    1. Camera batteries are dead – I took some using the other camera (sony cybershot) but they’re all blurry. I kind of hate that camera, it never agrees with me! Also,

    2. I’ve been working on the pattern for the buttonup raglan – the pattern has been done for ages, but I’m stuck trying to figure out how to make the photos look good AND have the file size be small enough. I’ve got one copy that looks great, but is 5 MB! One that’s quite acceptable is 4 MB, even though the file sizes of the photos themselves are small – under 200 kb. The copy I’ve got at 1.3 MB? The photos kind of suck. They’re not totally terrible, but not as sharp as I’d like. The photos were taken with the aforementioned Cybershot and they’re not that great. Booo.

    3. I have two papers due tomorrow (pretty short ones) and neither are done, and both kind of suck. At this point I’m just aiming for completion – they’re both in the word range, I just need to finish off some thoughts and finish the damn things.

    4. I want to drop this class I’m taking (language revitalization) but I can’t/won’t because that would mean taking another term. No fucking way.

    5. I really want to cast on for the Bubble Sweater from Knitting Nature, but I have SIX sweaters on the needles at the moment, not counting a couple that have undecided futures. At least one is coming OFF the needles, hopefully to be destashed.

    6. I want to list a bunch of yarns for destashing but I don’t really have time to take photos or write ’em up. Maybe during reading week.

    7. I need a break.

    Sigh.