Greetings

[pepper_field]

I am around, and reading, but just... not posting. Dunno why - I just don't feel capable of interesting comment.

Dress Down (But Not Too Much Just In Case Clients Come In) Day For [Charity] yesterday at work. Fun, actually - cakes and balloons and raffles and such. Quaint. Like a school fête. For the raffle, my manager decided that, instead of

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[abyssinia4077]

PEPPER

I have nothing to say except *GLOMP*

(OMG packing!)

[pepper_field]

My sympathies with the packing. Really. But it'll all be good, and oh, I think I forgot to say, but YAY about getting a place!

*GLOMPs you back*

[triskellian]

Hooray for knitting! Allow me to point you at Knitty, for lots of free patterns and articles, and Ravelry for... well, everything. You have to sign up for an account, and as they're technically still in beta it takes a few days for the account to come through, but it's the biggest source of knitting information on the web. Seriously. Lots of cool stuff like looking at the things other people have made with a particular yarn or pattern, and a really good pattern search, and loads of other stuff.

[pepper_field]

I'm blaming you.

*bookmarks*

I don't think my technical skillz are going to be beyond scarves for a while. But after doing an inch or so of stocking stitch, I was getting tempted - "Ooh, yes, this curls up, I remember my mum knitting stuff like this, and she sewed it together into cardigans and stuff..."

Argh!

[triskellian]

I gladly accept blame :-)

Anyway, you can now do everything there is in knitting - it's all combinations of knit and purl. The world is your knitted oyster! I recommend socks - small and quick, and beautiful wool, and much easier than you might expect...

[holdouttrout]

To the handcrafts: uh oh.

To Dr. Horrible: YES and OUCH and GAH!

[pepper_field]

I felt confident that knitting would never interest me much. I was a FOOOOOOOOL.

*flails at Dr. Horrible*