What’s with the comment moderation/closure of comments on old posts?
It’s not for editorial reasons, it’s for spam reasons. First-time comments from new commenters (as identified by e-mail address) are automatically held for approval, along with the hundreds of spam comments. Once a comment is approved, the writer is automatically pre-approved for future comments.
Comments are occasionally closed on old posts not because I don’t want to receive any further comments, but because there are too many attempts to spam the comments of those posts. If you want to say something, do feel free to e-mail directly, or comment to another post in the same category, if it seems appropriate. I’ve never closed comments on a current post, or rejected a non-spam comment because of a contrary or negative tone, and I don’t intend to start doing so. (Although you might have noticed that I have, from time to time, edited a comment by posting my own responses in the comment itself.)
Do you have the instructions/pattern for the knitting patent/device/other artifact you wrote about, and could you please give me a copy?
First, if whatever document you’re referring to is still under copyright, then chances are the answer to the second half of your question will be “no”. However, it is highly unlikely that I have the document in the first place; if it’s available on the Internet, I’ve probably linked to it.
I can say that I can’t find the EEZE KNITTER instructions, which I did have, but using that product is not really any different from using any other knitting board; it just happens to be curved. Instructions for a straight knitting board will work as well, and you can find that information in an Internet search. Also, I don’t have any Beehive patterns involving trick sock heels; I wrote about the patent, and even linked to a copy of the British patent hosted on my site that contains the explicit knitting instructions, but I don’t have any Beehive leaflets.
I couldn’t find the knitting book Mastering the Obvious on Amazon, although your site clearly shows that it is.
Right.
I don’t really care about your blog categories, but could you please explain them?
Why thank you, I’d love to explain them.
“Knitting” posts are about generating products from sequences of Type II Reidemeister moves[1], or at least talk about doing so.
Some knitting posts are sub-categorized:
- design: comments or ramblings on the knitting design process
- errata: announcements thereof
- free patterns: announcements of my patterns available either on this site, or elsewhere
- patterns to buy: announcements of my patterns available for purchase
- stash: random commentary on stash acquisitions or whatever I was thinking at the time
- stitch: dissertations on knitting that may prove useful
- bitch: dissertations on knitting that won’t
“Themes” posts are journal entries that follow a common thread, very frequently knitting-related.
- chronicles: publicly available information (or information that was publicly available once) about a certain designer who is not me
- useful arts: knitting-related patents and the patent process
- stitch v. bitch: about trademark disputes, and especially about one relating to the phrase “stitch and bitch” (only in New York, kids)
- knitdotbiz: about the knitting business, and especially the business online
Some categories are infrequently used; “Splurge” is presumably something like “stash”; “Covet” contains random and highly infrequent material yearnings (I generally don’t covet things); “General” is uncategorized mishmash, and “Site updates” should be self-explanatory.
More, please.
Er… well, there’s the about page.