Augh! I had a post nearly complete, and I opened another Firefox tab to check a pattern name. When I clicked the tab-close button, I accidentally clicked twice, thereby closing the tab containing my post.
Sigh. Time for bed.
What happened to May?
Apologies for my absence, it certainly wasn’t planned. I’ve been having Internet connection problems, they finally peaked two weeks ago and nothing worked. Comcast had to come and fix it… they ended up giving me a new adapter, which works much better, yay! more »
Unexpected Delay
I finished the sockettes on Saturday night, but even though I bound off loosely, they wouldn’t fit over my heel. Which means they wouldn’t fit Grandma.
So…. I undid the bind-off and tried a loose crochet bind-off. Didn’t work. Undid that, and tried a very loose sewn bind-off. It helped, but not very much.
Clearly, I needed something more drastic. But what? I decided to tink 5 rows for some needed yarn, and then did two rows of tubular stockinette and grafted these two sides together. It’s actually too big for me (but then I have small ankles), so I think we’ve finally got it.
Tomorrow, I’ll finish the other sock! :)
Apologies
My apologies to visitors expecting to find my blog and knitting content. I am currently experiencing troubles with public access. I’m trying to get the problems solved ASAP. Thanks for your patience. :)
UPDATE, looks like it has been fixed, yay!
The Other
… Socks, as in the Other pair I’m currently knitting.I’m finally participating in the Six Sox KAL with the Sixth Sense pattern. I started it last Sunday, and it took me all week to complete the hem. It was slow going finishing up the hem, about 2 or 2-½ hours total, spread over 3 evenings after work. I made a silly mistake… I thought there was enough blue in the working yarn to give sufficient contrast to the brownish spare yarn (leftover Opal Rainforest Owl/Eule) I was using to hold the starting hem stitches. Well. I was wrong! WRONG! See below picture for evidence:
Yup, that’s right, I cut the WRONG yarn! Luckily, I had used the two blue stitches below these two stitches, so there is no unraveling, just two short ends. My progress so far (below) shows the hemmed cuff and about two pattern repeats on the leg. I’ll take another picture of the pattern detail after I’ve knit more. Susan P Lawrence used a nice textured rib that seems to work pretty well with most color types; I might try this again sometime with a simple stripe.
As I’ve mentioned before, this is my first experience with STR yarn. When I wound the hank, I was surprised by how slippery it was! I had to re-wind it twice before it would wind without slipping off and over the stem or down and underneath the winder. It’s also very shiny with a silky sheen, but I also notice a light fuzzy halo as I work with it.
Now, I’ve just changed the theme/skin to match Project Spectrum. One thing I really like about this is the three-column layout. More room! I added back some sidebars I had disabled due to limited space. I don’t like how the yellow bars are used overall (too often, IMO), so I decided not to incorporate this theme for long-term use. There’s also a problem some people may notice… for some reason the logo (header) graphics are showing up with a pale green background in Internet Explorer. They are supposed to be transparent, and do display properly in Firefox. Weird!!
Less “eh”
After yesterday’s site meltdown, I spent all morning cleaning up and removing errors. I think I’ve got everything ironed out. There are still a couple of weird errors I’ve contacted my host about.
I took some extra time to try out a few skins and still can’t find anything I specifically like. This one comes close, but is limited in the way only right-sided sidebars are allowed. But I threw together a quick header logo and will keep this until I get time to work on something better. Right now, it’s more important to be able to post stuff here, and be accessible, compared to the past two years, when the site wasn’t accessible. : )
OMG!!
I had some problems with the site earlier today… For a while, I thought I had lost everything… but I preserved, and voila! It’s working again.
Now I need to get some kind of skin/theme up and going. This one is soooo white.
