One of the cool new things I saw at Rhinebeck this year was the Holiday Wheel by Norm Parks. Sadly, Mr. Parks does not appear to have a website yet, but you can see the wheel in this photoset that I have up on Flickr.
As I understand it, the wheel can be built with [...]
Another Sheep and Wool Festival has come and gone, and once again I have post-festival exhaustion.
I arrived at the airport just as Anne and Kim were approaching on the highway. They picked me up at the airport and we managed to find room in the car for me and my bags, then away we [...]
Well, here we go. Another Rhinebeck is nearly upon us. Knitters, weavers, and a few people who just have wool fetishes are preparing to converge on Rhinebeck, NY for the annual Sheep and Wool Fair. Once again, I’ll be among them.
Uh-oh . . . Ravelry is down. I suspect there’s a [...]
I’m house-sitting for my mother and stepfather this weekend. I brought my knitting bag with me with the intention of starting some projects, but the weather was so nice outside that I decided to take pictures instead.
Butterflies like flowers.
Birds like birdseed - but not so much the bird feeders that muss up their hairdo.
Bubba [...]
There’s been a lot of turnover in the team that I’m part of at work. Today we are losing a really nice junior tech who is going to start working a different shift at a different office. To see him off, we decided to do a potluck - the unofficial theme is “comfort [...]
My friend VanillaBee just pointed out that I’m teaching a class at Kid ‘n Ewe next month. I nearly forgot about that. In the next month or so I need to work up a lesson plan and make sure that there’s going to be appropriate AV facilities at the fair.
I also need to [...]
It’s not ready to be handed over to the recipient yet because of the conspicuous lack of buttons. But the knitting is all done.
This turned out to be a very quick and fun project. I think I might do another one.
I seem to be talking to a lot of my college friends lately. Last night my friend Robert made me aware of an interesting project called Spyn. The idea, as I understand it, is that a knitter (or a crocheter, if you swing that way) can record audio or video as they are [...]
Okay . . . so you guys don’t seem to groove on the roller derby so much. No problem, I’ve got other things going on.
Like the almost-complete Versatility project.
I am really loving this. Its bulk makes it very forgiving to a clumsy knitter such as myself - any mistakes can be corrected pretty [...]
One last distraction from Versatility before I continue. Sunday was the Alamo City Roller Girls’ championship game between the Prim Reapers and the Dragon Divas (congratulations, Prim Reapers). And I am very happy to say that my experiments with camera settings earlier in the season paid off. At the previous game that [...]