Raise your hand if you are done with 2020...I know I am!
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Silent Sunday Again
Raise your hand if you are done with 2020...I know I am!
Friday, June 26, 2020
So Much to Talk About but I'll try to be Brief.
So many things happening in the world over the past few weeks.
It seems hard to believe that it is nearly the end of June! In some ways the first six months of this year have flown by, but in others it has already lasted a decade.
I heard a thing where someone said that 2020 is probably proof that time travel does exist. Someone came "back" to fix something and set another thing in motion, came back to fix that and something else started...at least they seem to have prevented the murder hornet invasion!
I usually don't get political here but...
Some of the things going on are really important social issues that have needed to be addressed for a very long time...and yes I fall firmly in the camp of All Lives Don't Matter until Black Lives Matter.
But, as the governor of the state I live in says...we can do two things (or more) at once.
Another area that has needed to be addressed for a while is the way we treat our disabled and neuro-a-typical population.
Ravelry didn't take their needs into account when they rolled our a web-site wide redesign last week. Within hours of the new site going live the complaints were coming in..."the brightness is giving me headaches, vertigo, the drop down box shadows are making me sick to my stomach, the moving graphics set off a seizure"...and at first the answer was "It's not brighter, you're imagining things, it's the same white it always was." and an absolute refusal to roll back to the previous version while they sorted out what was happening to some people,
Over the past couple of days they have made some "minor" improvements...you can switch back to the old style as your own preference (for now) and made the moving graphic on the landing page to log in static unless you click "play"...but I know that for some people even those changes haven't been enough to make Ravelry a space they feel safe going to, which brings me to the "something to talk about"...
I now have an additional place you can go to buy my patterns. They won't show up in your Ravelry library (I'm still trying to figure out how to provide individual codes to each purchaser so that you can add them once Ravelry is safe for all again.) and I don't have all my patterns uploaded there yet, but I will get them there!
Welcome to my new store on Payhip!
I was going to release a new pattern this week, but, I am using my time to get my patterns in the new store rather than finishing up the pattern for you.
~M
It seems hard to believe that it is nearly the end of June! In some ways the first six months of this year have flown by, but in others it has already lasted a decade.
I heard a thing where someone said that 2020 is probably proof that time travel does exist. Someone came "back" to fix something and set another thing in motion, came back to fix that and something else started...at least they seem to have prevented the murder hornet invasion!
I usually don't get political here but...
Some of the things going on are really important social issues that have needed to be addressed for a very long time...and yes I fall firmly in the camp of All Lives Don't Matter until Black Lives Matter.
But, as the governor of the state I live in says...we can do two things (or more) at once.
Another area that has needed to be addressed for a while is the way we treat our disabled and neuro-a-typical population.
Ravelry didn't take their needs into account when they rolled our a web-site wide redesign last week. Within hours of the new site going live the complaints were coming in..."the brightness is giving me headaches, vertigo, the drop down box shadows are making me sick to my stomach, the moving graphics set off a seizure"...and at first the answer was "It's not brighter, you're imagining things, it's the same white it always was." and an absolute refusal to roll back to the previous version while they sorted out what was happening to some people,
Over the past couple of days they have made some "minor" improvements...you can switch back to the old style as your own preference (for now) and made the moving graphic on the landing page to log in static unless you click "play"...but I know that for some people even those changes haven't been enough to make Ravelry a space they feel safe going to, which brings me to the "something to talk about"...
I now have an additional place you can go to buy my patterns. They won't show up in your Ravelry library (I'm still trying to figure out how to provide individual codes to each purchaser so that you can add them once Ravelry is safe for all again.) and I don't have all my patterns uploaded there yet, but I will get them there!
Welcome to my new store on Payhip!
I was going to release a new pattern this week, but, I am using my time to get my patterns in the new store rather than finishing up the pattern for you.
~M
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
It's not about Politics
We are all weathering the same storm, in different boats.
My family is luckier than many...we're all essential workers so there has been income (although reduced for some of us) but none of us are "hero's" so no Hero Pay or Thank You Free donuts, coffee, meals, oil changes or special hours to shop...we ran out of TP (thankfully only briefly) and food costs more than it did,,,but to see and hear people saying they won't wear a mask has me questioning why?
When the CDC wasn't suggesting it as a help...I agreed with them, but mostly because the average Joe will wear the mask incorrectly...once they did suggest it...we all donned them!
Maybe, just maybe the push back is because it is protect the people around them and not the individual themselves...but consider...we are all in this together...
I have no idea what the video game this comes from is about...but gosh darn, I really like this song today!
~M
My family is luckier than many...we're all essential workers so there has been income (although reduced for some of us) but none of us are "hero's" so no Hero Pay or Thank You Free donuts, coffee, meals, oil changes or special hours to shop...we ran out of TP (thankfully only briefly) and food costs more than it did,,,but to see and hear people saying they won't wear a mask has me questioning why?
When the CDC wasn't suggesting it as a help...I agreed with them, but mostly because the average Joe will wear the mask incorrectly...once they did suggest it...we all donned them!
Maybe, just maybe the push back is because it is protect the people around them and not the individual themselves...but consider...we are all in this together...
~M
Monday, May 25, 2020
Happy Towel Day!
It all began when two different people
asked me “How many stitches should I cast on for a sock?”
“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything
is...42!”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
But that really wasn’t
what they were asking, you can cast on any number of stitches and knit a
sock…what they really wanted to know was “with this yarn, these needles and
that stitch pattern, how many stitches should I cast on to get a sock that fits
me?” (Even though they didn’t think that information was relevant.)
“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know
what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Being me, I then of
course had to backwards engineer a sock pattern that used “The Ultimate Answer”
as the cast on! But beware…Gauge really does matter!
Sizes : 7
(8, 9) inch circumference. [18, 20, 22 cm]
Materials:
Briggs and Little Tuffy 80%
Pure Wool/20% Nylon, 215 yards[196m] 113 gms [4 ounces] Shown in Greystone
US 5 [3.75mm], or US 6 [4mm],
or US 7 [4.5mm] needles for your preferred small diameter in the round
knitting, OR size needed to obtain gauge.
OR Any yarn and needle
combination to obtain the gauge for your size below.
Notions: Cable needle, stitch
markers
Gauges:
Small: 24 sts and 28 rows = 4 inches [10cm]
Medium: 21 sts and 26 rows = 4 inches [10cm]
Large: 18 sts and 25 rows = 4
inches [10cm]
While I continue sorting and arranging the yarn room, why don't you pop over to either Ravelry or LoveCrafts and find out more?
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Almost Quiet
The flooring is done...and the annual "tossing, reorganizing and sorting" of the stash has begun!
It looks even messier than that, right now. I decided I wanted wheels on the floor standing storage units...which if you notice that even without them one of them barely clears the ceiling means....shuffle things around once more!
The astute among you will notice that the one cabinet is missing a door...I just hadn't put it back on yet. The prior arrangement of books in that cabinet meant that the doors wouldn't close, putting my ColourMart Stash in there means they will.
If you look carefully you can also see the edges/screen of my home server...Hal...If I was better at programming I would have all of his error messages tell me "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!"
Instead usually I get messages saying I need to be the admin powers to do that..."But, I am the admin!"....
For those in the US...tomorrow is a holiday. Memorial Day, but for the rest of the world tomorrow has significance as well...Towel Day ......And...The Glorious 25th of May
In honor of such a trifecta of holidays..tune in tomorrow for a special pattern release. I'm going to test some new release pricing, because so many people I know are seriously hurting financially right now... but...because I honestly feel that pattern prices are too low for the work that goes into them already, so it will be a very limited time offer.
As always, for the best deal, sign up for my newsletter over there on the right hand side of this page...
Until tomorrow....
Remind me why I felt that the hottest day we have had so far this year was the perfect time for a full on roast dinner?
Knit Happy and Safe!
~M
The astute among you will notice that the one cabinet is missing a door...I just hadn't put it back on yet. The prior arrangement of books in that cabinet meant that the doors wouldn't close, putting my ColourMart Stash in there means they will.
If you look carefully you can also see the edges/screen of my home server...Hal...If I was better at programming I would have all of his error messages tell me "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!"
Instead usually I get messages saying I need to be the admin powers to do that..."But, I am the admin!"....
For those in the US...tomorrow is a holiday. Memorial Day, but for the rest of the world tomorrow has significance as well...Towel Day ......And...The Glorious 25th of May
In honor of such a trifecta of holidays..tune in tomorrow for a special pattern release. I'm going to test some new release pricing, because so many people I know are seriously hurting financially right now... but...because I honestly feel that pattern prices are too low for the work that goes into them already, so it will be a very limited time offer.
As always, for the best deal, sign up for my newsletter over there on the right hand side of this page...
Until tomorrow....
Remind me why I felt that the hottest day we have had so far this year was the perfect time for a full on roast dinner?
Knit Happy and Safe!
~M
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