Coping mechanisms
I rarely write about personal stuff here.
This week has been trying, and it's only Tuesday. Hubby flew out on Sunday for a week in San Francisco, and at 7:30pm the water was cut off at home. I was told it would be back on at 8:
Alison Hawke
Tweets for February 16th to February 28th
* Scheduling application performance test, AKA "when can I kill the server and how long will it take to die?" Sometimes I love my job.
* Work PC is bricked, reduced to pen & paper. Never needs rebooting, runs silently, UI needs some gloss but basically sound.
* Note to self:
Design process
I'm making a pair of socks for a friend, and I wanted her to have a say in the design. The yarn had to be wool-free, which means Crystal Palace Panda Cotton or Panda Soy. The design came down to picking between various components.
Cuff
There are four
Tweets for February 1st to February 15th
* Why do Addi needles come in non-standard sizes for the US1 & US2? "Standard" means everyone, including you.
* People on Etsy: If it has SIX sides, it's not an octagon, it's a HEXAGON. Seen this on 2 pieces already and it's annoying.
FO: Lilac Bladderwrack socks
Bladderwrack is a variety of seaweed, and the reverse seaweed rib in Barbara Walker's Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns reminded me of seeing it on beaches in Suffolk as a child. I got this yarn when Chris' Needlecraft closed down in 2009.
Pattern: My own design
Yarn:
Knitting with silk hankies
I saw the Yarn Harlot's silk mittens knitted with an unspun silk hankie, and I wanted to try making a small silk scarf. I've made the Koigu neck cozy before and liked the pattern, it's a small tuck-in scarf with minimal patterning and easy
FO: Kumite Mouth Guard bag
When you're sparring in the karate studio, you wear protective gear: foam padded "boots", shin guards, gloves, helmet, and a mouth guard. My mouth guard lived in a plastic case clipped on to my gear bag, until the mouth guard fell out and vanished. I got
Knitting with Wollmeise
One of my 2011 Resolutions was to knit something with Wollmeise. I wanted to see if the yarn is worth the hype. I have 5 skeins, two of the same colour, collected over 2 years and never touched. I picked a skein of Wollmeise 100% merino superwash in Spina di
Snowpocalypse II: Icecapades
This poor ice-glazed tree is in my front yard:
We're still under a blizzard warning. Ice pellets have been falling all day. This is more scary to me than the foot of snow we had a couple of weeks ago.
Tweets for January 16th to January 31st
* Breakfast included Yorkshire Gold tea made with boiling water, milk, and a little sugar. I have renewed my Englishness.
* What's the weirdest thing you keep in your car? Mine is a spare mouth guard for karate sparring.
* After you've been sick there should be at least