Oh, Beverly
My husband
survived his dentistry. Shaken but not stirred, might be the phrase. The root
of the broken tooth was extracted, another one filled. Quiet is on order
for today. I finished the ribbing of the 1st Pakokku sock, and was
having such a nice time swirling that I went on for a while when we got home:
before
returning to Relax2. Yet another row of eyelets should be inserted today. We’re
getting there.
Many thanks
for the help with left- and right-leaning increases. Sue, I like the
idea of learning by knitting Stephen West’s
Daybreak Shawl. Who’d like one of those for Christmas? I might well have
enough madelinetosh sock left over from recent projects. And it is enormously
satisfying to internalise a technique which previously had, as you say, to be
looked up every time. I’ve done that with plain-vanilla (= st st) Kitchenering,
and with left- and right-leaning and centered 3-stitch decreases thanks to
Margaret Stove’s observation about the stitch the needle enters first being the
one that winds up on top.
It would be
rather nice to add another technique to this embarrassingly short list.
Mary Lou and Karen, I’ve added your
suggestions to Evernote, of which I am beginning to get the hang. And I am
seriously tempted by Gail
Zucker’s photography class, Mary Lou. Thank you for that. Although I am
distressed by the word “webinar” which is new to me.
Chilli-growing
Big
Nameless and the lesser of the two Apaches had a nice time in the sunshine
yesterday, although the Apache was a bit overcome by the time it got to be afternoon. I am afraid
it is somewhat weak and etiolated.
All these
plants live on a north-facing window in the cosy kitchen. Big Nameless doesn’t
seem to mind a bit. I carry the better Apache through to a south-facing window
whenever the sun is shining, as yesterday. I’ll now have to start doing that with both. The
first Apache flower is fading and my pollinating brush hasn’t even arrived yet.
Big
Nameless is really getting awfully big. The books don’t recommend pruning
chillis, except perhaps in the winter.
Everyone should be distressed by the word webinar. It showed up a few years ago in the corporate world.
ReplyDeleteI looked at some of those blogs on the list and they were dull as dishwater. Some haven't been updated for months and one was actually closed down by the blogger some months ago.
ReplyDeleteAlthough not a follower (which seems to involve selling my soul to Google), I read your blog every day and enjoy it immensely.
I'm hopeful that this time my name won't be deleted as it was before, as I don't intend to be anonymous. I'm April, former student at Birmingham.
evernote is WONDERFUL!!! if you use Chrome broswer - there is a great extension that lets you clip text and create a note using your mouse... right into Evernote. it does not have to be open - the extension also will copy an entire article and start a new note that you can edit, etc. go to evernote.com
ReplyDeleteyou can add just a url, or an entire page or just select text and create a note with that.
its wonderful
also you can save pdf files (like patterns, etc) into Evernote as well.
I made a Daybreak a couple of years ago. Felt very confident of the right- and left-leaning increases. Alas, I no longer remember. I DO remember that they were carefully explained and if I need to know in the future, that would be my first place to look!
ReplyDelete(and it is a LOVELY shawl!)
Beverly near Yosemite CA