AKA - why I will never be a professional knit designer.

[Refined from previous notes:  http://misanthrope-mom.livejournal.com/67877.html]

This is a pattern for a knit cover for some bland, boring, and stained IKEA chairs, that children sit on to eat.  HERE is the chair in question.

Skills needed:  Knit stitch, purl stitch, circular knitting, seaming, ( Read more... )

Okay, so, I knit.  You know that.  (If you know me, or have been reading this for a while.)  I've been knitting since I was 8.  An important consideration, however, is that my brain just doesn't work right for knitting from patterns.  So I make my own stuff.  I wing it.  I pick up new techniques here and there, and incorporate them.  For example, I ( Read more... )

I know better.  I know the weather is gonna SUUUUUUCK (make that sound all hair-metal when you say it).  I know it's gonna be crazy as fuck.  I know it's insane to try to find a room at this late date.  I know it's gonna be weird to be there all alone.

But you know, what?  I think I wanna go a little mad.

I'm working on going to Comic Con.  With less ( Read more... )

Twas the year of clever boozing ( Read more... )

My job description at BayCon 08, (coming up this weekend, you slackers!) is that of staff housing assistant.  Like, I'm the one to fix any problems with rooms like not enough beds, need this, need that, etc ( Read more... )

I'm wading through the comments on the FIRST of the "clarifications" posted on ljbiz.  I am finding it extremely aggravating.

Yes, it was sneaky to do this during the Harry Potter abstinence period.

Yes, Fanfiction, and indeed, all fiction, should be regarded in a different light than posts encouraging bad behavior.

Yes, clearly defined/spelled out ( Read more... )

my husband has a magnet on his computer.

*baffled*

His huge porn collection brings tons of tasty bugs, too.....

Baby ate his first sand today.  We went to a park, and he got to crawl all over, including climbing up the play structure, and later while he was digging in the sand with a spoon, he went to put the spoon in his mouth and got a big load of sand.  Unlike his big brother, he did not chew it ( Read more... )