It has rolled around again, and I wasn’t as ready as I wanted to be for the 2012 Kansas State Fair. I know, big surprise, right? Well, I lost some knitting time after DH’s old laptop went wacko, and it turned out to be the most problematic rescue-and-rebuild I have ever done. I still don’t know why, but that’s water … Continue reading →
Uncle! As in throwing in the towel. Tapping out. Giving up. The Lessa Grafting Project is humanly possible, but not by this human at this point in time. I have enough challenges in other areas of my life that I can’t really enjoy this one. So, having plenty of yarn (amazing but true!), I’m going to keep knitting down to … Continue reading →
Misdirection (according to Wikipedia, as applied to magic): Misdirection in magic may be as simple as a magician rolling up his sleeves and saying “nothing up my sleeve” and then producing an object that could never have been “up his sleeve”… Attention can be controlled in various ways. A magician will first grab attention with a coin, or another small … Continue reading →
It’s been very busy… getting ripped out and re-knit. And again. And yet again. Not ALL the way back to cast-on, but far enough. After that last time, I decided if I needed to rip it out any more, I was just going tostart with a new ball and keep this yarn as a last-ditch reserve ball lump. But I … Continue reading →