Birthdays and Afghans and Scarves (oh my!)
Yesterday was Karyn's birthday. After church, we went to a photographic exhibit of a friend, Elena, which was excellent. Then in the evening, I managed to take Karyn, blindfolded, to a local Red Lobster. There we were met by a number of 
friends for dinner. She was reasonably surprised, but she thinks too much and draws too many conclusions from the small things I say. Ah well. We all enjoyed ourselves though.
My afghan progresses. I recently completed
Square 23:Honeycomb. This is a simple pattern and shows that dropping stitches need not be the end of the world. The slightly diagonal stitches are dropped, other stitches worked, then you pick up the dropped stitches again.
I've also recently completed three scarves, all using the same pattern as before, using doubled yarn, in 2 colours. One in
red and black, one in two shades of 
blue and one in two shades of 
green. They've really come out well. These are imminent gifts,and I look forward to reporting the recipients in due course.
I received something excellent in the mail today. My mum sent me The Harmony Guide to Knitting Stitches. It's a great book, with all sorts of fabric patterns in it. I like it a lot! I was most amused by a small box that reads "For North American Readers" which gave some terminology translations.
I also have an interesting project - or I will have soon. Alison (of The Blue Blog) is organizing a Sockapalooza Knit-along. This will be my first pair of socks I've knit, and my first KAL. First step, I have to submit my measurements and what I might like in a sock (apart from my foot, ha ha!) and I will shortly after receive information on the person I will be knitting for. The thing is, we don't know who will be knitting our socks, we just know whose socks we will be knitting.
Lastly, I've been doing some Perl programming to make my picture archive more useful by making it easy for me to provide descriptions for the larger images when you click on the thumbnails. I've started with the first four squares of the Afghan and will update others as time permits.
friends for dinner. She was reasonably surprised, but she thinks too much and draws too many conclusions from the small things I say. Ah well. We all enjoyed ourselves though.
My afghan progresses. I recently completed
Square 23:Honeycomb. This is a simple pattern and shows that dropping stitches need not be the end of the world. The slightly diagonal stitches are dropped, other stitches worked, then you pick up the dropped stitches again.
I've also recently completed three scarves, all using the same pattern as before, using doubled yarn, in 2 colours. One in
red and black, one in two shades of 
blue and one in two shades of 
green. They've really come out well. These are imminent gifts,and I look forward to reporting the recipients in due course.
I received something excellent in the mail today. My mum sent me The Harmony Guide to Knitting Stitches. It's a great book, with all sorts of fabric patterns in it. I like it a lot! I was most amused by a small box that reads "For North American Readers" which gave some terminology translations.
I also have an interesting project - or I will have soon. Alison (of The Blue Blog) is organizing a Sockapalooza Knit-along. This will be my first pair of socks I've knit, and my first KAL. First step, I have to submit my measurements and what I might like in a sock (apart from my foot, ha ha!) and I will shortly after receive information on the person I will be knitting for. The thing is, we don't know who will be knitting our socks, we just know whose socks we will be knitting.
Lastly, I've been doing some Perl programming to make my picture archive more useful by making it easy for me to provide descriptions for the larger images when you click on the thumbnails. I've started with the first four squares of the Afghan and will update others as time permits.
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