Saturday, September 29, 2007
I am now in Ravelry. I got my invitation last Sunday afternoon. I haven't yet had a chance to do much in there, because I've been working all week (damn those 5 day work weeks) and I've been busy most evenings. But I'm really impressed with what I've seen so far. If you haven't already [...]
Friday, September 14, 2007
I had a wonderful trip with my Mom to Paris. Not only is it a lovely city to visit, but it was also a real pleasure to spend some time with my mother. As we don't live in the same city, we don't see each other too often. I'm already missing our late afternoon rituals [...]
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
The errant purl stitches are now knit stitches. I dropped down the stitches, on at a time, and using my trusty crochet hook, brought them back up correctly. (I love watching the look on new knitters' faces when you show them this for the first time, especially on their knitting. The wide eyes that appear [...]
Sunday, September 2, 2007
I'm good at math. I'm comfortable with numbers. When I was in high school, math was always my best subject. My first foray into higher education was in engineering (it didn't stick, but not because of the math). I took calculus and linear algebra. My second stab at university (which did stick) was in finance. [...]
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Thanks for all of the wonderful comments on Noel's Blanket!
As promised, I have written up a tutorial for the technique I used to make the blanket piece using short rows. You can find it here (and there's a link to it on the sidebar).
Since I don't seem to be able to have comments on pages [...]
