blogger: April 2003 Archives
Well, I spent some of the day preparing for my move to my new home: www.keyboardbiologist.net. I'm still working on getting Movable Type to do what I want it to, so it will probably still be a little while before I stop posting at my blogger space. I'm looking forward to the move though, because Blogger just doesn't always work when it should. Tonight, for instance, I can't upload a new template so that I can update my links. Not sure why.
I am still making gradual progress on several projects. Not enough to be worth using up bandwidth on pictures though. However, I do invite you to check out a little something I put together this afternoon: a pictoral guide to Yarn Forward, Knit
It's been one of those knitting weeks where I spend time going from project to project to project working a little bit on each one. The result? Nothing gets finished fast.
A lovely phone conversation with a good friend whose baby was supposed to be due today got me motivated to get back to the secret thing I was making for her. I'd gotten it most of the way through and then was sure that it wasn't going to look good, so I didn't even block it. Well, after blocking it, I discovered that I shouldn't have waited so long to block it, because the blocking really did make a difference. So now I am working on the border in hopes that I can finish it and get it together before the baby is too old. Here's a pic of the border:
When I first started knitting this I had no idea how neat it would turn out. The more things I do by Debbie Bliss the more I really like her stuff. I learned something new with this border as well -- how to handle a yarn forward while knitting. Before this little piece, I understood the part about bring the yarn to the front, but I was sort of baffled as to where the stitch increase came from. Not any more! Thanks to another Debbie Bliss book Learning to Knit that has great pictures (I've learned several techniques from this book), I finally was able to figure how the yarn forward/knit thing works. So after I finish up a few of my current projects, I should be ready to take on Neroli again.
TV time means simple project I can knit in the dark time, so I got back to Mom's sock. Here's a picture of the progress so far:
I'm liking the colors in this sock better than I did when I put up the first pictures. Especially, since the more I look at it, the more I think how well it will go with my mom! The Koigu is so soft and easy to work with, too. It was hard to put the sock down so I could blog tonight.
And, last but not least, for those of you who love quizzes and have been confused about what your gender might be, I bring you the most entertainment I got from the web today:
The Super Scientific Remarkably Accurate Gender Test
Answer some questions, let the test tell you where you fall. I fell right on the middle between male and female (it thought I was male), but my husband got the right prediction. Definitely worth the 5 minutes, even if you don't get some HTML and a cute picture at the end to post on your blog!
Happy April Fool's Day to Everyone!
A Major Sequencing Center (Sanger) in the UK Released the T. rex Genome Sequence today.
Check it out at Ensembl T.rex
I've been subject to a lot of April Foolishness today, but this is the only one that got me -- probably because it would be so totally cool if it really was true. Even if you're not a biologist, it's fun to check out.
Be sure not to miss the section on Unique Dinosaur Genes. You don't have to like science to be amused by some of the entries they created.
Have fun!
Not too much knitting today, but I do have a picture of the progress on the pullover for John:
This is the sweater after casting on the shoulder rows. I'm really quite surprised how nice an edge this makes. Now it'll be pretty much smooth sailing down the armholes and to the bottom.
And what was I doing instead of knitting.... configuring Movable Type at my new webhost. I registered keyboardbiologist.net (I know, you're all heartbroken now that this domain isn't available any more) at GoDaddy for $8.95/year. I'll be at blogspot a while longer while I set up my new place but I am having a lot of fun re-decorating in my new home!
