a) been kinda off-grid lately -- mostly health stuff (migraines, random heart palpitations that have no apparent cause at least yet but yes I do have a doctor appointment because this is a new thing, and stuff like pain keeping me awake last night until after 6am so I only got three hours sleep and the next day or two are going to suck) -- if I've ( Read more... )

So my last, way-too-mopey-to-be-totally-coherent post was about stitch counters, and the trials and tribulations of making them. And I kind of forgot to clarify what I was talking about. Pictures in my head were clear, but that really doesn't help anyone else ( Read more... )

I figured that, having frogged the damn sock anyway, I might as well make proper stitch counters1 while the loom was empty. What I had previously, red twist-ties, was functional but the tips kept snagging on the yarn. Plus, they were, well, beat-up old red twist-ties ( Read more... )

For those curious, here are some pictures of the sock loom in action, with the late lamented partial sock in action.

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Had a run of really depressing dreams -- I can't remember everything, but some of it was me blatantly acting out the "...I don't deserve to be around people, no one wants me around" sigmathink, and some of it was me being abandoned, and the two were partially related but not completely but they were doing that fun self-feeding spiral, and it left ( Read more... )

Okay, so. I am trying to figure out how to do various non-basic stitches on the loom, because I've got knit and kbl/e-wrap and purl all down -- can't do 'em perfectly all the time, but I have them -- and a lot of the patterns I want to do involve either lacework (at least a bit) or shaping or both ( Read more... )