| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
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Mulch those leaves, my pretties, MULCH! |
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amused.| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
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I actually started holiday knitting in September! And have finished a complete project already! (This is utterly unheard of for me. But apparently having a little niece and nephew and wanting to knit sweaters for them both seems to motivate me.) ( FO photos and description ) |
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relaxed.| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
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For Nebula nominations! Those of you who do these sorts of things, I present my 2009 publication list (don't worry, it's short!): NOVELLA: The Convent of the Pure, Apex Book Company, April 2009 SHORT STORY: "Six Seeds," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2009 VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN! ^_^ |
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I finished the first sock a month ago, and then the second took a while coming since I got a two week visitor and got a lot of work I had to finish up. But, I've finally managed to finish the second sock! FInally I can see why socks are such great little projects. All together I think I finished the second sock in about 5 hours, since it's quite easy once you get the hang of it (but everything is, come to think of it). There is one small mistake on the first sock that you can't see unless it's pointed out to you, and for some reason the slipped stitches on the gusset on the second sock became very large on one side - things to keep in mind for the future, I guess. Info: Pattern: Roll Top Socks - note: I did not do the roll-part but started right on the k1,p1. Needles: Susan Bates DPs, 5US Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in now unknown colorway (I've lost the little info cards since the yarn has been in my stash for about 4 years now). ( Pictures! ) |
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( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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Happy early birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} adamantrealm, sneezythesquid, bibliotrope, hinluin, and m_stiefvater! May you have a wonderful day and a fantastic year to come!The remake of The Prisoner is here! The new miniseries will air over three consecutive nights beginning tonight, Sunday November 15th, with two episodes each evening, from 8PM to 10PM ET on AMC. As you may know, The Prisoner is my favorite television series of all time, so I am looking forward to this miniseries with a mixture of anxiety and excitement. Here are some related links: * My review of the original The Prisoner series for Revolution Science Fiction * The Prisoner Portal * AMC's home page for the new The Prisoner miniseries * The Prisoner in Pop Culture * AMC's home page for the original version of The Prisoner * Watch the original episodes of The Prisoner And here is the trailer for the new miniseries: “Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.” - No.6, "Free For All," The Prisoner |
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This is what I've been doing in lieu of rewriting my thesis conclusion: ( Started this morning ) ( Finished last night ) I really need to join a "Second Sock Syndrome Sufferers Anonymous" group. Hey, 6 pair finished out of 10 isn't bad, right? ETA: Pattern names. Sorry for not catching it right off! |
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
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Has anyone seen Jennifer's Body yet? Its a great film anyway, but there are some fantastic knits in it! In particular, theres one scene where Needy wears a chunky, cropped two-tone cardigan in blu and cream: its a bit 80s but i totally loved it and want to re-create it... but i'm struggling to find any screen shots to think up a suitable pattern. Does anyone else know what i'm on about? Am i the only one raving over the knits in this film? Am I just a knitting nutter? |
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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
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Ok, if you don't then move along, nothing to see here. |
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
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( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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I am so behind on NaNoWriMo today. (So, naturally, I'm posting instead of writing.) I've been playing with AO3 today and haven't even put word one on my NaNoWriMo story. I've got a comfortable cushion at the moment, but my goal is to be done before I go to my Mom's to become her Thanksgiving helper. The cooking process begins, ideally, two days beforehand, so that doesn't give me a whole lot of time. Granted, we're celebrating on Friday instead of Thursday this year, but that's only one extra day. We're having Thanksgiving a day late this year for a number of reasons, one of which is that my sister lives in North Carolina. Many of you probably heard about the 1-40 landslide closing off the main route through the Smokies from North Carolina to Tennessee. A lot of you also probably saw the video of the landslide that occurred a couple hundred miles south, on Highway 64. What you probably don't know, unless you live in the area, is that Highway 64 is one of the better alternate routes through the Smokies if one is heading from North Carolina to the area around Chattanooga, especially if one's hometown is right on 64 (like ours). My sister and brother-in-law are probably going to make lemonade from the lemons and just detour all the way through Atlanta so he can visit his family, but that's a pretty significant detour. So, Friday Thanksgiving. At least the grocery stores will be open if we run out of stuff. |
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Hello, I will be going to Eastern Europe soon and I was wondering what would be a good gift for my aunt in law who knits as well. Any suggestions? I was thinking of getting her some yarn but if I do I want it to be something cool that would be hard to find over there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Now I will get my husband to translate what I said in Russian. Я собираюсь в Восточную Европу и думаю, что подарить тете мужа, которая тоже увлекается вязанием. У кого-нибудь есть идеи? Я думаю подарить ей клубок шерсти, но тогда она должна быть такой, которую сложно найти там. Буду благодарна за любую помощь. |
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Should have posted this yesterday when people were actually yanno reading LJ and work and stuff. But ah well. So, Phina, my "happy-go-lucky" gypsy. She started out as a bit of an in-joke, a bit of a Mary Sue in-joke. But see the book she's in came out and people are really wanting more Phina stories and I have this online presence, see, and built on my nickname Saraphina and really? Umm, it looks just too contrived. So, I am pondering changing her name (because it is a little late to change mine). She whole name is Delphine Nabokov. Because her immediate family are all named Greek things. (You'll recall Auntie Io from a piece posted earlier here and that you'll *fingers crossed* be seeing in print sometime soon!) And she's named Delphine because the Delphi shrine was where the seeresses were- Sybil and the like. There is already a Cassandra (Phina's cousin who cameos in Matt's 1001 Insomniac Nights- coming soon [again]!). I suppose I could call her something like Apollonia (although cmpriest 's main character in Fathom is named that) or find another legendary Greek seeress.So, I ask you, is it just too damn silly to have a Phina? The name suits her so perfectly well, but I get really tired of explaining that no, I wasn't really Mary-Sue-ing, I mean not really, it started out as a bit of an in-joke back when 20 people read my LJ and I never thought I'd actually ever publish A Year and a Day. It takes a bit of explaining and sometimes folks really don't believe me and I wonder if it damages my credibility. What do y'all think? And do you have any better name suggestions? For your convenience, I present this here poll: Poll #1485409 The name game
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22 A Phina by any other name would be just as awesome!
View Answers Yes, change it to whatever you want, I wouldn't care. No! ARE YOU NUTS??? You have a point, but you should change it to something specific that I will detail in comments. |
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| Hi everyone. Do any of you know those fics with Methos and an immortal named Grey? I think Sylvan writes them. Well her web page was hacked by a russian bot or something, and I feel like reading her fics! Does anyone have a link to some of her stuff? Thanks! | ||||||||
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
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| Several months ago I asked for recommendations for yarn stores in Sydney. A couple people recommended http://www.morrisandsons.com.au/. They're great! And they were having a sale when we were there! Also, someone recommended Featherdale Wildlife Park. It was awesome! Thanks so much for the suggestions! | ||||||||
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Such an easy and satisfying pattern! They're taking a bath in Eucalan right now to soften the Trekking XXL. More details on the Ravelry project page. ( Photo )
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( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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Aaah, the twice-yearly hard drive purge. Nine whole gigabytes in which to stretch out, for a while anyway. I tend to dread doing it, because while my backing up involves sticking a thumb drive in and throwing over the few tiny text files that are new, the Great Hard Drive Purge involves actually moving computer stuff around and disconnecting drives from PCs and hooking them up to Macs and other gargantuan efforts. Which is why I only tend to do it when I'm having to delete yesterday's podcasts to have room for today's. I realize that 9GB doesn't sound like much, but my entire hard drive is only 80GB, and frankly, if it wasn't for my habit of saving certain podcasts, I'd probably not even be close to filling it up ever. Fan fiction, after all, doesn't take up a lot of space. It took me three years of obsessive story saving to hit 500MB on my Torchwood folder, after all. Though, admittedly, if I saved the HTML instead of just the text, it would likely be about ten times that size. Which is why I save the text. :) Then again, I have about two terabytes hooked up to the PC, so it's not like I'm practicing hard drive economy anywhere else. |
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Whee, I knitted things! Check it out under the cut. ( Why yes, I do mean this cut. ) As usual, more pictures can be found on my Ravelry Page (feel free to friend me) and crafts of all sorts (not just knitting) are documented on my blog. Stop by! |
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Yes, the included Solstice in that list of holidays. I am pleased. |
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In case you are interested, Michael's has Paton's Classic merino on sale 2/$5 through tomorrow. EDIT: I don't know if this is nationwide, I posted because I just scored a ton in Racine, WI. Be sure to check your local store first, I guess. I just checked the website and the 2/$5 sale is listed... |
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Happy birthday to a wonderful woman, writer, teacher, and scholar who has been and remains an inspiration to me: st_crispins. May you have a great day and year to come! * The first Clash of the Titans trailer is out. Look for Liam Neeson as Zeus at the 36-second mark. * In honor of today (Friday the 13th), here are two videos for the H.P. Lovecraft lovers... If knowing the unknowable is crazy, I don't want to be sane: Their souls make his tummy happy: "Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." - H.P. Lovecraft, "The White Ship" |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
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I'm knitting a sweater with some relatively intense cables. I noticed that about 5 rows back, I dropped a stitch in one of the purl sections of the cable. I'm hesitant to rip the sweater back, because I don't have any life lines in, and I'm worried about losing the cables and being able to pick up the whole round of stitches, etc. I was considering just threading a piece of yarn through the dropped stitch and trying to sew it in place so it doesn't run. I don't mind the slight blemish this would make in the sweater. Is this a decent idea, or do I really need to risk ripping the sweater back? Thanks for your help! |
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I am knitting Veronik Avery's Military Cardigan from "Knitting Classic Style" (Rav link: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib I am three rows in and already stumped. It says: Row 1 (RS): K4, [work Row 1 of Chart A, pm, p4] twice, end K1 (edge) Row 2: P1 (edge), work sts as they appear to last 4 sts, K4 Maintaining edge st and 4-st garter edging, work even until piece measures 2 1/4", ending in WS row. So... do I work in the chart? Or do I work even, literally, following the knits and purls. Looking at pictures on Ravelry, it seems like it's supposed to be worked in the chart, but then I get confused because Row 2 throws me off the chart. (Row 5 of the chart is a cable, so it needs to be a RS row.) But if I start row 2 in what's technically my 3rd row, I'll be on the WS for the cable row. Does that make any sense at all? I hope I'm just overlooking something really obvious. Any insight? |
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So I was reading up on a few different knitting sites and I stumbled on somethingabout 'twisted stitches' and how what might look like stockinette isn't *really* stockinette, etc, etc. Now, when I *first* started knitting, I knit through the backloop. I then learned differently, but upon looking at my knitting, I discovered that despite being even and relatively quick, the way I loop the yarn still results in a twisted stitch! I tried looping it the other way, but there was a *serious* awkwardness to everything I tried. It did produce a straight stitch, but it also felt too loose and to do just a line of it took me quite a while. What I'd like to know is: if I'm a somewhat casual knitter, and I have made quite a few items with my stitches like this and been pleased with the results, is it worth it to take the time to retrain my hands to try and untwist my stitches? Other than a slight (to me) aesthetic difference in the produced stitch, is there some structural or pattern-related reason to change? Are there things that I won't be able to make/do with my stitches like this? I know I probably sound like a philistine, but I was wondering what you all thought. ETA: ...have discovered, much to my own Thank you for your answers. ( FO scarf ) |
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( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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The first half of Season 3 caps are up. :) ( Season 3 under here ) |
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A few weeks ago, I posted asking for help finding or extrapolating a pattern for a hat I'd seen in a catalog. I wound up going with the Gilligan Bucket Hat, and I thought I should make a post showing the result: ( Mom's bucket hat ) |
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My mom is very interested in Norwegian knitting and I would like to purchase a book of patterns for her. Since I know nothing on it really, other than what Amazon and google tell me, I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions on a good book for her. She just wants to do scarves, mittens, sweaters, etc. She's been knitting for longer than i've been alive, so skill isn't an issue. And would Norwegian and Fair Isle knitting be considered the same or similar? What about Scandinavian? |
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Let me try this again. Some FOs I have been meaning to post |
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
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( Aeolian shawl in Sea Silk ) Definitely one of my favourite patterns ever! ( Hand-spun, hand-dyed beret hat thingy ) I loved making my own yarn and dying it! What a fun experience! ( Calystegia cowl ) First time working with Malabrigo... instant love!!! ( Victorian Lace Today Capelet ) I actually hated pretty much every aspect of making this shawl. It was really boring, and took FOREVER and although it looks great, I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone who doesn't have INFINITE patience! PS: I would really love new friends on Ravelry (I'm shystreet on there!) :) bye! |
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I'm trying to knit a hat that has some stripes in it. Is it possible to have just one stripe, one row high, and not have a jog? I've Googled a bunch and come across the jogless stripes technique, but does this work for just one row? I've also come across the barber pole technique, but I want just the one stripe. Does such a thing exist? EDIT TO ADD: I'm knitting this hat in the round :) |
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Mods, please delete if you aren't happy with this. All sci-fi & fantasy fandoms/pairings/ratings welcome, including crossovers. The posts for prompts are now open until Nov 17th so why not toddle on over and throw in a suggestion? There are only a couple of Highlander crossover prompts so far, so if you want your favourite series to have more prompts and more fic, get prompting! |
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My brother requested a Gryffindor scarf for christmas, and I was pretty set on knitting him one of the scarves from knit.atypically.net. Alas, the website is offline now and the GoogleCache doesn't work for the patterns, which is really disappointing. So, can anyone recommend a good Harry Potter scarf pattern? I don't want to do an illusion scarf, just a simple stockinette stitch scarf, so something along those veins would be perfect :) Thanks. |
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I am making the Heelhead Scarf (http://carissaknits.blogspot.com/2008/1 If anyone can walk me through it or point me to a tutorial, I searched but to no avail :( Thanks! |
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| Just a reminder: I'd like to send you a holiday card! Please reply here to this screened post if you'd like one. Thanks! | ||||||
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In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. |
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contemplative.| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
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I'm having some trouble with increases. I'm making a scarf that will be wider in the middle than at the ends. It's in 2x2 ribbing, and I want to make the ribbing wider for the wider bit. Problem is, every kind of increase I try leaves a hole underneath. :( I've tried m1-r, m1-l, bar increase/Kfb (doesn't leave a gap but I *hate* that little bar), a modified kfb that goes back into the stitch and slips it purlwise. I've tried purl increases, which seem slightly better, but still with the hole. The gauge is fairly loose (Drops Merino (dk) on US 5 needles), but not so loose that a gap like what's happening won't bug the hell out of me every time I see it. Is there a trick to increasing on ribbing that I'm not getting, a magic increase that won't leave a hole (some of the ones I've tried normally don't, which is why I'm stumped)? Or will I just have to deal with either the bar or the holes? Any advice/opinion/commentary would be appreciated. :) |
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