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Oh. Hello, June.
Seems I’ve been spending a lot more time than I thought I would over at the knitting blog and at ravelry. Wish I could say I was knitting as much. That’s the way it goes, even though I have at least two gifts to knit in a very short period.
So what else has been keeping me busy, you ask? Certainly work. Now that I’m not going to be continuing in my present position, I seem to be busier than ever.
Blogging will continue to be light for a while. See ya when I see ya.
The inevitable happens
My knitting now has it’s own blog, Ms. Yarnaholic’s School for Wayward Skeins. Come say hi.
Thing is, Yarnaholic Confessions, my geocities site that Yahoo! is pulling the plug on, has been around since about 1999. This is seriously going to screw with my site’s Google juice. You cannot even begin to imagine how many sites have linked to it during the past 10 years. (sigh)
Reset your bookmarks folks!
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Top search terms-June 2008
Some of the top search terms for finding this blog from the past 30 days :
| wysiwyg blog (yep, got that) |
| headers for cutline (yep, got those) |
| ravelry serape (from NaKniSweMo-so got those) |
| photoimpact x3 goodies (got those, not x3 specific, though) |
| pi presets (yep, got those) |
| gourmet yarn store israel (got those, too; now with Google Maps goodness.) |
| wordpress knitting theme viewer (er,um…) |
| dover file download (sort of, but pi-related) |
| goodies pi (yep, got those) |
| “the flavor graveyard is” (hm, thinking the Halloween post got those) |
| wordpress.com +flickr slideshow (sadly, don’t got those) |
| p.i.’s tool (not quite sure about that one; pi’s got so many of ‘em) |
| uol photoimpact (yep, got those) |
| blog+moodstream (um, not really. sure would be cool, though) |
| pi tutorial (yep, got those) |
| cutline headers (yep, got those-see above) |
| just jennifer blog (certainly got those) |
| photoimpact tutorial (got those) |
| israel (definitely got those) |
| world record for blog with no comments (wt*?) |
If I search Google for that last one, my Live Hatikva post is #2 in the search results. =:-O
Work with me, people! Not for nothing is Crabby over there on the sidebar.
Are You A Yarn Collector?
Wow. As of today, there are 1677 comments on that Knitting Daily post. That post and the wonderful comments left on it were a huge reaffirmation that as long as there are knitters, there will be yarn collectors.
My first website “Yarnaholic Confessions” was born out of my addiction to collecting yarn. In the 9 years that my site has been online, I’ve received a lot of yarn collecting stories, some of which were published on the Knit Natterings page or entered in my site’s guestbook, or received privately by email (and some of those were SCARY). Personally, after nearly 28 years knitting and collecting, I can now say I’m a rehabilitated yarnaholic, although the FO to unknit yarn ratio is still screwed. (The hard evidence is on my blog’s Loose Ends page.)
What about Leo?
This is the first project that I’ve knit in a long time that has decided to fight back.
Having worked in a yarn shop doesn’t exempt you from doing stupid things, like changing yarns at the last minute and casting on without doing a swatch. I did do some homework before casting on because I already noticed that even on the ball band, the yarn I was planning on using had a slightly different gauge than the yarn used in the pattern. The original sweater called for 129 sts for the front and back pieces knitted flat, i.e. 258 sts for both pieces, and far too many for my yarn stats. When you’re working with 40″ worth of stitches, even a difference of half a stitch per 4 inches can make a dramatic change in the width of the finished sweater!
As I was also planning on knitting Leo in the round, I checked on Ravelry to see if anyone had done so previously and posted in their blog about it. I was very happy to find Meg’s post about her experience. Her numbers were different, but she pointed out the pitfalls for anyone knitting the pattern in the round. The way my numbers worked out, with 238 sts for both front and back (119 sts per piece, with 2 K sts on each end, not three), the center point for front and back moved from the middle knit stitch in the pattern repeat to the middle purl stitch.
Joining for knitting in the round is usually not a problem for me, but this time…arrrgh! I don’t know whether the circular needle I used was just too short or whether it was particularly twisty, but after (I kid you not) three attempts at getting those blasted 238 stitches joined without them twisting over the needle, I was just about ready to divorce Leo without a second thought. Fortunately, though, we worked it out.
As for the likelihood of actually finishing my chosen sweater during the month of November, I have my doubts. For the meantime Leo greets me in the morning with a cup of coffee and sends me wearily to sleep at night. I hope I have as much determination to finish him as it seems he does me.
