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Workout
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Blocking boards & mitteny goodness
I finished knitting the 2nd panel for Daughterpinx's poncho this weekend. I also realized i did a sort of half-assed job blocking the first panel and i'm going to need to do it again. i also ALSO realized i need a better solution for blocking. I did a little more research on blocking. I was basically doing it correctly, but i should have made the ( Read more... ) -
Random layout whininess
You know, i really don't like this layout very much. I'm too cheap to pay for my account so I have limited options, but i should try to find something that doesn't squish the text into SUCH a small space on the screen. Honestly, it's kind of dumb. Now I do have a widescreen monitor which is exacerbating the problem, i think, however i still think ( Read more... ) -
Poofy hearts
I decided to go ahead and make a heart for my mom and send it to her as a belated Valentine's Day gift. In the end i wasn't 100% thrilled with the stinky hearts, partly because of my scent-handling technique and also somewhat due to the scent itself. I haven't dealt with that scented oil stuff before, so i think i overdid it. They were REALLY ( Read more... ) -
Sgt. Loomy's Stinky Hearts Club
Happy Valentine's Day! I know tomorrow (ok, today) later on is going to be super busy and i was so tickled by my latest venture that i didn't want to wait. About, oh... yesterday? I suddenly started thinking about how one would knit a heart shape. Then i thought, "oh, i'm sure i've seen a pattern for that..." so i Googled it when i got home. Sure ( Read more... ) -
Attention Deficit Knitting
Seriously, i have so many things i want to try that it's hard to keep focused on one thing. I messed around briefly with knitting up some swatches of the shrinkable wool i've got, so that i could try out some felting. However, it turns out that i bought the wrong thickness of yarn. I bought medium-weight (4) yarn and my looms really need bulky/ ( Read more... ) -
"Research Knitting"
So i finally got some knitting done this weekend. I've been working on a couple of things that i refer to as "research knitting." That's where i think of something i want to try or see instructions for how to do something i haven't tried yet, but i don't want to try it for the first time in the middle of some project that i've spent several days ( Read more... ) -
Random update
Last weekend my parents came down to visit. We went to the Smithsonian Natural History museum on one day and bowling on the next. Fun! When we bowled, it was Daughterpinx, her cousin T, her cousin B, me, and my mom on the lane with the bumpers. The rest of the grownups bowled on the non-bumper lane. They also have these ramps for the little kids ( Read more... ) -
The Tale of the Mysterious Beep
It all started the day we got back from our Christmas vacation. I was the first one in and (as is customary) had dashed in for a potty stop before unloading the car. I had just finished washing my hands when i heard a single BEEP (sort of like smoke alarms make when the battery gets low) followed by a "WAHH WAHH WAHHHH" noise, like when you ( Read more... ) -
dance recital!
Last night was daughterpinx's 1st dance recital. As i mentioned before, this place does it fairly low-key but it was still nice, and well thought-out. They had all the girls split up into two groups. Each group went into the classroom with all their associated parents and did their tap dance two times through. The parents sat on one side of the ( Read more... )