Archive for December, 2006

Govern yourselves accordingly

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Once upon a time — like, more than a year ago — Claudia said something that only a lawyer would think was a compliment (look for the phrase “corporate lawyer”). And I thought to myself, “self, I should write something to express my gratitude”.

So finally, I got around to finishing it, here [PDF].

It’s just a humdrum raglan pullover.

So sue me.

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you like green yarn, right?

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Well, today is your lucky day. It’s time for another ritualistic destashaganza. Time to make room for all of the other yarn I’ve bought over the past couple of years.

I think there might be a picture or two missing, but that’ll get fixed later. Further updates to that blog as excavation warrants. And there will be updates.

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N.B.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Some notes:

  1. Some very nice person had written to me a while ago about speaking to a guild about copyright. I’m really sorry, very nice person, but I totally lost your e-mail before I had a chance to respond… and therefore I didn’t. I didn’t mean to be rude.
  2. Note to self: when they say “join without twisting”, they mean you, dumbass.

    3. (Solution: keep knitting, steek and untwist before starting the colourwork. It’s just ribbing.)

  3. Note to all and sundry: I’m sorry, I do not collect Beehive patterns or patterns for Aladdin heels, etc. If you read my post about the patents on sock heels, then you’ve seen the links to the patents that contain verbose instructions on knitting those socks. That’s the best I can do for you.
  4. Artfibers seems to have updated their website to include some more yarns, and to remove others that are now out of stock. I’m rather sorry they don’t keep a little archive of their previous yarns, because I find myself wondering how certain new yarns differ from ones that I had previously purchased from them, in an attempt to persuade myself that I don’t need any more yarn. Because I don’t. I’m going to have to destash pretty damn soon.
  5. … destash, like Sirdar PLC, which announced that it has “significantly reduced” its expectations for the rest of the fiscal year, due to “a more severe than expected downturn in demand for fashion hand knitting yarns and continuing difficult market conditions”. And you know what “fashion” meant in that last sentence. What’s the matter, was that re-invention of the hairpin lace technique not moving enough novelty yarn?

Oh, by the way, the Get Smart DVD set is all that. Possibly I wound up paying a premium to get it right now, as opposed to waiting several months, but waiting was never an option.

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