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Monday, May 27, 2013

on hold


it is daunting to have half of the needles on hold, especially when you're not too sure of what you're doing and you keep running back to the instructions  in the book.
to put needles on hold you advance them all the way to the front and put the carriage lever on (then pray ).  if all goes well those needle will not knit while the active ones will continue knitting.
you also have to protect the yarn of the hold needles in some way or they'll fray with the constant poass of the carriage and its brushes.
but pinning a piece of cloth was not enough to prevent fraying.



i had to transfer the stitches to the garter bar and devise allow tech solution to hang it to the gate pegs-lordy,lord i am already using knitspeak!
the piece was finished without great eventualities and it is simmering in a pot with alum. then it is going to be dyed with the vintage lichen solution.

on hold also the photo department.i am presently uploading to picassa until i decide what to do with my flickr account. their improvements are awful. and their new ways are more proper of china than the land of the free.closing the forums  to squelch dissent, c'mon!
thinking about moving to ipernity. but the thought of bulk migration is daunting. and so is the manual re tagging photos for 1137 posts .












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Friday, May 24, 2013

life and all that jazz




have a good weekend!


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Thursday, May 23, 2013

fashion con


photos via tm collections

tm collections
portugal does it great!

since i started weaving yardage i've become more aware of clothes in general and off beat fashion in particular. in other words nothing that a super model would wear, but stylish nonetheless. adding to this my new ambition: knit to wear


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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

on undoing


3 prong


you can learn  much when you undo, as much as when doing. computers have  altered that learning  experience because you just hit a key and poof! gone.
frugal ms neki is undoing a knitting sample to re use the yarn again. the sample was for teaching myself  how to to increase and decrease and in the undoing operation i really saw how the stitches had been altered. or reformed in knitspeak.
what undoing could not teach me was how to manage the three prong transfer fiend, a treatise on kludziness in itself.

this all ties in with the improvements-so they are marketed- at flickr.it would be wise for them to undo.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

how to get a perfect gauge swatch




the best system i've seen out there.
have a great weekend!



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Thursday, May 16, 2013

for weavers, stitchers, knitters


calla



pattern generator

lace generator

random pattern generator

the pattern generator provides endless fun. keep scrolling to the right! it can be used for weaving, stitching knitting and your take.  the random pattern generator is multivalent and the lace generator is more for knitters, but with such creativity out there who knows?



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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

sayings and truisms

when in need of counsel odysseus turned to mentor.

penelope



isolation

the osysseus part has to be re-woven to the correct aspect ratio.





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