January knitting post
So, of my goals for 2009, which ones have I made progress on in January?
Well, this month I've made some progress on Miranda's Christmas present, and have completed two socks:
Note that I did not say I'd made a pair of socks.
The one on the left is my timed sock (Goal #2). (For the curious, it took about 10½ movies.) It's made according to my generic toe-up double-gusset short-row-heel sock recipe that I use by default.
The one on the right is half of my little sister's Christmas present (part of Goal #1a). It's from Grumperina's Jaywalker pattern, modified as described here.
After a few cold days in Chicago, I decided I needed a facewarmer more than I needed to finish my Christmas knitting by August. So rather than casting on for the second sock of either pair, or working on Nancy or Rob's present, I started on Goal 3, and did something with the qiviut:
I don't really have enough for a scarf. So I'm making a cowl, which means "a scarf sewn into a tube, so you don't have to waste any fabric holding it on; it can all go into covering things".
The cowl is mostly in 1/1 ribbing. The idea is that it should stretch big enough to get around my face (22"), but should still shrink small enough that if I pull it down to my neck (13.5"), it shouldn't be too ridiculously loose. There's one little narrow lace panel, just for the visual interest.
And in the meta-knitting front, I've made some progress on Goal 11, making a knitting font:
This is the leaf and acorn lace from here (messy and difficult to follow chart my foot, Ms. Bradberry).
The font is mostly made in MetaFont, with some virtual-font stuff to add in the grayscale (which I use to mean "the purl version"), and so that I can nick the numbers (and the letters B and m) from Knuth's fonts.
I have no idea how, or even if I can, get this font to work with Word/Excel. See, I've got it set up so that, if I use the font with TeX, the typesetting program I like, it will do some automatic combination stuff---the gray-5-with-a-hat on it, for example, I get from the keystrokes [5, and I get cables with things like ppKK. TeX is smart enough to turn pK, Kp, Kk, and kK into the four mini-cables, but I don't think Word is. And there's a lot of other nifty stuff I do in TeX that I can't do here. So I may have to just tell everyone who likes this font that they have to use TeX.
Any suggestions for this font? My artistic visual-design skillz are not all they could be.
Well, this month I've made some progress on Miranda's Christmas present, and have completed two socks:
Note that I did not say I'd made a pair of socks.
The one on the left is my timed sock (Goal #2). (For the curious, it took about 10½ movies.) It's made according to my generic toe-up double-gusset short-row-heel sock recipe that I use by default.
The one on the right is half of my little sister's Christmas present (part of Goal #1a). It's from Grumperina's Jaywalker pattern, modified as described here.
After a few cold days in Chicago, I decided I needed a facewarmer more than I needed to finish my Christmas knitting by August. So rather than casting on for the second sock of either pair, or working on Nancy or Rob's present, I started on Goal 3, and did something with the qiviut:
I don't really have enough for a scarf. So I'm making a cowl, which means "a scarf sewn into a tube, so you don't have to waste any fabric holding it on; it can all go into covering things".
The cowl is mostly in 1/1 ribbing. The idea is that it should stretch big enough to get around my face (22"), but should still shrink small enough that if I pull it down to my neck (13.5"), it shouldn't be too ridiculously loose. There's one little narrow lace panel, just for the visual interest.
And in the meta-knitting front, I've made some progress on Goal 11, making a knitting font:
This is the leaf and acorn lace from here (messy and difficult to follow chart my foot, Ms. Bradberry).
The font is mostly made in MetaFont, with some virtual-font stuff to add in the grayscale (which I use to mean "the purl version"), and so that I can nick the numbers (and the letters B and m) from Knuth's fonts.
I have no idea how, or even if I can, get this font to work with Word/Excel. See, I've got it set up so that, if I use the font with TeX, the typesetting program I like, it will do some automatic combination stuff---the gray-5-with-a-hat on it, for example, I get from the keystrokes [5, and I get cables with things like ppKK. TeX is smart enough to turn pK, Kp, Kk, and kK into the four mini-cables, but I don't think Word is. And there's a lot of other nifty stuff I do in TeX that I can't do here. So I may have to just tell everyone who likes this font that they have to use TeX.
Any suggestions for this font? My artistic visual-design skillz are not all they could be.