Non-knitters will likely not be interested.

From Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac:

Do not feel that you are in any way obliged to possess perfect sets of four needles. Emergency and experiment have taught me that a very motley quartet will finish off a hat quite adequately. I have made a hat on a #10 1/2 circular needle and finished it ( Read more... )

. . . and I won't ask you to, either, but I just submitted a pattern to Knitty, so if you'd like to spit through your teeth or break a mirror, or whatever you do for luck, I won't mind.

And it's not this one. I haven't finished the second prototype yet, for one thing, and I'm still a little up in the air about what to do with it.

I said I'd get some pictures taken to show my shorter hair (not that I had any taken before it was cut, but, you know how it is) (and, of course, the haircut is now almost four months old).

( Picture heavy to the point of obnoxiousness. )

For submissions to Knitty, you need, "A selection of clean digital images [JPG, best possible quality] of the finished project at 72dpi, at least 500 pixels wide." I can manage the 500 pxl part, but how do I know how many dpi it is ( Read more... )

I took this off lathany. I know I've seen it around before, but this time I'm actually taking the plunge ( Read more... )

Start here. ( Then you can read this one. )

We don't have enough underground parking spaces for all of our employees, so us peons share spaces. This is not my month, but the person I share with was not supposed to be in today, so she said I could take the space. I decided this meant I could wear a knee-length skirt, because I wouldn't really be outside much ( Read more... )

Do you use the queue for things that you want to make, or do you put those in your favorites and save the queue for things you actually intend to make?

I'm just curious.

I'm impatient for my KnitPicks order.

My KnitPicks order is on its way! w00t!

I got over my knitting ennui by asking the_original1 if he'd rather I make him socks or a scarf. He suggested instead that Thing Two (and probably Thing One, and Little Cat Z, too) would like a pair of handknit socks. So I found the really bright yellow Lion Brand Wool-Ease, worsted, that I snicked from my mom's stash ( Read more... )

I filled out the order form, wrote a check for 32¢, and put it in an envelope along with the gift certificate from last year. I am finally using my KnitPicks gift certificate.

I am getting yarn for three different projects. Hopefully I will actually feel inspired to work on them. I want to knit lately, I just don't know what I want to knit. It ( Read more... )