Wet-blocking this #hat. Did the decreases and the cinch closure and the weaving-in and the wet blocking. Fears Assuaged: I was able to get the magic-looping to work out with the circular needle while shaping the crown and thus didn’t require DPNs. I had enough yarn even though I up-sized the needles to make the…
Completed #Knitting : A three color stranded colorwork #Hat that I am probably going to make over and over again in what I am calling “Vaporwave colors” The yarn is Premier Yarns everyday soft worsted (acrylic) in colors Flame Orange, Bright Violet, and Neon Pink (part of the Deborah Norville collection, apparently) And it’s making this…
I have finished using up some leftover Knit Picks Cotlin Reflections (a run of cotlin (cotton linen blend) with varying levels of indigo dye to make ocean-inspired handpaints…) in the colorway ‘Crest’. I turned it into three linen stitch wash cloths and used the leftover to make a ‘scrubbie’ as I often do with some…
Completed my first hat using two handed stranded colorwork. I made it too tall and faffed up the crown reductions… But the colorwork is GORGEOUS. No bad pulling and look at those floats! I attended a #knitting workshop the weekend of Jan 20th and one of the classes was to do #stranded colorwork (also called #FairIsle)…
So, over the last week, we had a tectonic shift in how The Internet manages to reach our house. The changes were technological, material, and locational. It also changed pricing structures and service availability that had a cascading effect with how we get the smorgasbord of television channels we have access-to. To wit, we moved…
The Purple Rain Wingspan Shawl is complete. it is gorgeous and huge, washed and blocked on the mat. I even had enough yarn left over to keep the test swatch. Yarn is Manitoulin Sparkle (Merino, cashmere, stellina blend, light fingering weight) in colorway “Purple Rain” by Blue Brick Dyeworks. Pattern is Wingspan by Kyle Vey. I…
I have been on Mastodon since mid-November 2022 and I have thoughts. BREAK OUT THE LISTS! For what it’s worth, I just really like Mastodon for now and one of the main reasons is the ability to follow a Hashtag. I follow #Knitting and see a lot of different knitting posts. And when I post…
First, read this: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED. It’s Cory Doctorow demonstrating precisely why TikTok (and Meta and Twitter and Google and Amazon GrubHub/Postmates and Uber/Lyft and AirBNB/ENVO and Tesla) and pretty much 93% of every other hyped awesome Internet thing feel so lousy and expensive despite starting out so strong in the 2010’s….
While the best explanation of what Mastodon is and how to use it is here… and the funniest condemnation of the inherent complexity of mastodon precisely because companies that would seek to make the sign-up and login experience smooth for everyone are gatekept away from mastodon is here (“You think someone is successfully explaining this…
Greetings, you are probably here because I linked this in response to something you posted on (Circa Halloween/Thanksgiving 2022) Twitter or whatever always-on-the-cusp-of-profitability running-out-of-venture-capital waking-nightmare-social-networking-site (Let’s stick with ‘twitter’) is having a similar breakdown… asking where you should go next and pre-lamenting the connections you will lose if the site sinks/explodes like a modern-day titanic/Hindenberg…