yarn!post!thing, as begun on on Sunday:
Bought yarn for Big Huj Sweater, with help (and sanity-saving) from sickyprincess. At nine skeins and 108 yards per skein, it damn well better be enough. It's lighter than that specified in the pattern, but having surreptitiously tested out the yarn on some needles that weren't precisely meant as testers, I have to ( Read more... )

Done with the actual knitting on Soleil. If it fits, I will feel reasonably confident that I can knit actual garments. *shock*

Must finish weaving in ends before starting the crochety parts. There aren't that many, but they still feel like they're multiplying ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've made a nice, pleasant, non-angstastic (new-to-me word!) post about anything. Hmmm, yarn...

I am about 90% done with Soleil, in Elann Sonata Tapestry Blue. Have finished all but the right breast and the edge crochet. It entirely defeats the concept of knitting/wearing things that are not blue, but assuming that the ( Read more... )

from the oh-yes-i-do-need-more-hobbies department:

Last night, gfish let me play with his sextant.
Now I really want to know what was the object I managed to get a fix on.

It was in the northeast at 10:30 PM 10/2/2006, bright, shining reddish. Sighting from gfish's car roof in the absence of a useful horizon, it was between 24 and 35 degrees up. Astronomy ( Read more... )

Put together a fairly good statistical analysis for a problem at work today; luckily, it came out in our favor, if I have not done something colossally stupid like set the wrong null hypothesis. I am under the impression that H0 should always assume no intervention, no change, the commonsense default assumption... but doubts creep in, when the no- ( Read more... )

randomdreams brought his glassworking setup here, and taught me to make beads (along with several others at le chez beaqFirst one, a little transparent leaf-green bead, came out roundish but has disappeared ( Read more... )

I've dreamt in C (not just a myth, apparently) and a couple of times in Spanish, but last night I had zero-gravity nightmares. That's what it takes for the reality of anything to truly sink in for me ( Read more... )

audiblesigh's posts about music theory vs. color theory have caused me to think about the latter, especially as it relates to textiles and painting composition. What makes a shirt 'go' with another shirt or some pants? I've been playing around with color-wheel toys (the Sessions toy listed here is pretty neat) while trying to think of yarn colors that might ( Read more... )

Lace cardigans: Am I insane? Is this idea up there with knitted shorts for pointless fug? Discuss.

(I adore this lace pattern, but I am not big on shrugs.)

Fire Mountain Gems has an online design toy. That would make such a kickass capstone project for somebody... but instead, it's making excellent procrastination from same.

*sighs, getsbacktawerk*