Saturday, February 13, 2010
Knitting Olympics redux
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I am happy to hear that Yarn Harlot is hosting its knitting olympics this year (hat tip to The Village Sheep)!

Ravelry is hosting Ravelympics, but in my opinion it's rude for them to set up a competitive game vs. the founder. There is a point of view that says the world can handle more than one but wouldn't it have been far more gracious for Ravelry to work with YH and have a joint enterprise? I mean, other areas of the world don't set up games to compete with the athletic Olympics? They sometimes put on different games but they don't call them olympics and they don't compete. Why didn't Ravelry just joined forces with YH?

Anyway, here's the YH Knitting Olympics form and there's still just time since the opening ceremonies were yesterday. I'll post a photo of the finished project and the medal, when it's done. Happy knitting!!

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Knitting olympics
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I'd really like to do the knitting olympics this year, as in 2008, but Ravelry co-opted it from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and that seems downright mean so I'm not sure I'll do it. I'm curious as to how that came about since I didn't think the upper echelons of the knitting world were particularly known for back stabbing or anything similarly nefarious and since it's kind of sad actually.

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Monday, February 8, 2010
2-8
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I want to sing the praises of a thoughtful and generous friend of mine who had bought some yarn that she wanted to use for a skirt but she didn't like the way it knitted up - a bit holey and not as pretty as she'd anticipated - so she tried a couple of alternatives (smaller needles, tighter knitting, etc.) but to no satisfactory avail - so, rather than trying to sell it on eBay or Ravelry, she gave it to someone who quite liked it and will enjoy making something with it.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
26
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I've been knitting a little girl's tank top - in sock yarn so it has some stretchiness, and it's really looking nice - from a pattern a friend designed; the periwinklie color is lovely.

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Monday, January 25, 2010
Yarn blogging
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Yarn Harlot has posted her sixth anniversary essay - her posts are often more essays than posts and she's almost always interesting, intriguing, funny and provocative. I wish I could write like her. No wonder her blog morphed into several popular books and she's so popular that posts commonly garner 200-300 comments apiece.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010
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Store proprietors would do well not to outright lie to customers (assuming they want repeat customers) as in the knitting store owner who replied, "no you can't test our needles" when I asked to try a 16" circular because I wanted to be sure I could work in that small a circumference on a small size (2.5mm) (and was set to buy four if I could) and then, rather than just stand by her pronouncement, added that "our needle packages are all glued shut and I can't open them unless you buy them" except that when I did buy one (I really needed at least one and no other store would have been open by the time I'd have arrived), it turned out - surprise - to have the usual zip-lock closure of the Addi plastic bag seal and was in fact NOT glued.

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Monday, January 18, 2010
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This was supposedly Blue Monday - the saddest day of the year - (who comes up with these things?) - but I proved it could be anything but. I took a pleasant drive to Chatham, NY and found a positive slew of fantastic charming, hip and fun stores including a terrific yarn and many other things store, The Warm Ewe; Ralph's Cafe whose coffee is delicious and where they make their own chips and even asked if I wanted foam in my coffee and when I said yes enthusiastically offered me a "dry cappuchino" (a/k/a tons of foam) and thereby earned my undying fanship; The Chatham Bookstore that combines small with independent with modern with cool; a store called American Pie with tons of both useful and decorative stuff that will require time to explore further; an awesome pottery store; a bagel store; clothing stores for sports and chic; on and on and on.... and I cannot wait to go back for a whole day instead of couple of hours partly so I can also visit the Old Chatham Sheepherding farm and cheese company.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Knitting and knitting and....
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Perhaps those cute hairy cows got through to my subconscious. In any case, apologies for a bit of a hiatus. I've been knitting somewhat furiously partly because I've rediscovered it - which happens now and then, I find - and partly because birthdays and holidays are impending. I'm not going to overdo it this year. Well, I hope I won't - I do have a tendency to start huge projects but start them too close to when they are due. This year I have planned projects that are realistic (I think). Anyway, that's my excuse for the last few days.

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