knitting stuff
1. I totally rocked in my knitting yesterday. The second R.I.B. sleeve is done, and I've started on the collar. Yet again I wish I had the camera here. You have to see the delicious mess that is the collar. A bajillion ends. Half a bajillion more than are necessary, due to me doing silly things like picking up stitches with the wrong strand of yarn, and then starting again with the right yarn when I was running out of the wrong yarn. It's a big mess, but will eventually be okay. Picking up the collar stitches was a bitch, though. They are not exactly evenly spaced (by design, not incompetence), and I had to pick them up in a manner that would make them kind of match the body. I'm not sure how great the spot where I picked up stitches is going to look. I'm sure it will be better than I'm imagining right now, but the whole mess of junk makes it hard to be too optimistic at this point. My goal for tonight is to finish the collar, and maybe start on some seaming, if I have the time. Each round of the collar is about as long as the a row of the top parts of the sleeves, and about as comlicated (or uncomplicated) to knit, so I kind of know what's ahead of me. Though doing these on DPNs with the stitches unevenly divided up will make things go a bit more slowly. (I choose unevenly divided stitches because it will make it easier to keep track of where I am in the round. Helping myself in one respect will always make something else more difficult.)
2. I'm starting to think a bit more seriously about post-LJ blogging solutions. My paid account runs out on October 10 (I think), unless there is another great LJ blackout or other disaster that convinces the LJ spirits to give us subscribers more extra time. I looked up what happens to things like my photo album, and it goes *poof* rather quickly after my paid subscription expires. This means I either have to extned my LJ subscription or get moving on finding other blogging solutions.
I think I'd rather move away from LJ, as it really has its limitations. It is a bit awkward to have personal and knitting stuff here, even with the use of a friends-only filter for the former. Also, peeking back at the poll I did a few months ago, I know there are people on my friends list who are not at all into my knitting posts. I'd like to stop bugging them with that stuff, since it's a large part of what I'm currently posting. Also, LJ has technical limitations - non-LJ people have to comment anonymously, and certain customizations that I want to make would be really difficult.
Money is really limited right now, and I'm not sure how much I want to pay to support my blog. One solution I thought of is just moving my knitting stuff to blogger. Blogger would let me host 3 times as many images as LJ does, at no cost. Also, I get the impression that it's easier to tinker with it to add stuff to the sidebar. And, of course, it allows non-anonymous commenting by people who aren't subscribed to the service.
I was also thinking about blog-city. I'd have to pay for the features I want, but it's a lot cheaper than many of the other non-free options. I signed up for a free account, but the features available with one of their free accounts is so limited that it didn't really tell me anything. Too bad they don't have a free trial period, as does Typepad.
Right now I'm really leaning towards Blogger. It's free, I think it has most of the features I want, and to some extent I'm reassured that it's now affiliated with (owned by?) Google.
Any thoughts on this? I've already signed up for a Blogger ID, and may play around with it some more, if I have the time. Whatever I decide to use, I think it would be nice to double-blog for a few weeks, so the new blog isn't completely content-free when I make the transition. I hate when I click on a link to a blog and find that it only has 3 posts, so it would be nice to spare any new readers (if any) of my post-LJ adventures of that content-less disappointment.
2. I'm starting to think a bit more seriously about post-LJ blogging solutions. My paid account runs out on October 10 (I think), unless there is another great LJ blackout or other disaster that convinces the LJ spirits to give us subscribers more extra time. I looked up what happens to things like my photo album, and it goes *poof* rather quickly after my paid subscription expires. This means I either have to extned my LJ subscription or get moving on finding other blogging solutions.
I think I'd rather move away from LJ, as it really has its limitations. It is a bit awkward to have personal and knitting stuff here, even with the use of a friends-only filter for the former. Also, peeking back at the poll I did a few months ago, I know there are people on my friends list who are not at all into my knitting posts. I'd like to stop bugging them with that stuff, since it's a large part of what I'm currently posting. Also, LJ has technical limitations - non-LJ people have to comment anonymously, and certain customizations that I want to make would be really difficult.
Money is really limited right now, and I'm not sure how much I want to pay to support my blog. One solution I thought of is just moving my knitting stuff to blogger. Blogger would let me host 3 times as many images as LJ does, at no cost. Also, I get the impression that it's easier to tinker with it to add stuff to the sidebar. And, of course, it allows non-anonymous commenting by people who aren't subscribed to the service.
I was also thinking about blog-city. I'd have to pay for the features I want, but it's a lot cheaper than many of the other non-free options. I signed up for a free account, but the features available with one of their free accounts is so limited that it didn't really tell me anything. Too bad they don't have a free trial period, as does Typepad.
Right now I'm really leaning towards Blogger. It's free, I think it has most of the features I want, and to some extent I'm reassured that it's now affiliated with (owned by?) Google.
Any thoughts on this? I've already signed up for a Blogger ID, and may play around with it some more, if I have the time. Whatever I decide to use, I think it would be nice to double-blog for a few weeks, so the new blog isn't completely content-free when I make the transition. I hate when I click on a link to a blog and find that it only has 3 posts, so it would be nice to spare any new readers (if any) of my post-LJ adventures of that content-less disappointment.