Tonight I'll start on the next leg of my writerly journey and submit two stories to publications. I've been putting it off for too long, and today is a great day to take that Leap!.
Given that I'm pretty bald (by choice, though nature has had a big hand in it), I've made the choice that almost all my userpics will feature a bald being. I've got about 100 "bald being" userpics. Of Zhaan, I have four.
I've realized recently that I could use some aliens and some zombies. I might have to go searching. There goes the afternoon...
I am working on a new risk (http://ysolda.com//wordpress/lace-up-opera-gloves/) too. It is extra risky as the pattern instructions are...minimalist, let's say.
Those look like pretty ordinary instructions to me - at least I understand all the abbreviations for a change. That doesn't mean my glove would come out perfect, of course.
The last pattern I found that I wanted to try had Os in it. Not YO, just O, and used both by itself and as P2O. I'm not sure if it's pass 2 over or purl 2 pass one over or what - and the O is just plain puzzling. :)
I hope you enjoy making and wearing these! They do look like fun.
I'm not sure I'm doing the slipped first stitch thing right. I have a notion of why that's there, but I can't solidify it enough to make sure process matches product.
As you have probably figured out, when you slip one at the beginning of a row, it can help keep your edges from getting a loose look - it has a tightening effect because not working that stitch until the next row means it stretches to fill 2 rows of stitching instead of 1.
So if you are simply moving that stitch to the other needle you are doing fine. It shouldn't make much different here, but as a general rule, on a purl row I would slip it as if you were going to purl it, and on a knit row I would slip as if to knit.
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Date: 2008-02-29 06:44 pm (UTC)I think this year I'll make bread instead.
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Date: 2008-03-01 02:36 am (UTC)Making bread is a very worthwhile endeavour. I highly enjoy it. I hope you had it with tea. ^_~
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Date: 2008-02-29 09:01 pm (UTC)LCD Soundsystem rocks! Great writing music.
T.S. Eliot could put some words together, too :-)
liking all the references,
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:49 am (UTC)(And thus, in his comments, Yeff revealed his true decrepitude.)
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Date: 2008-03-01 10:36 pm (UTC)and I have cool, bald, gals too...
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Date: 2008-03-01 11:34 pm (UTC)I've realized recently that I could use some aliens and some zombies. I might have to go searching. There goes the afternoon...
- yeff
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Date: 2008-03-01 03:28 am (UTC)I am working on a new risk (http://ysolda.com//wordpress/lace-up-opera-gloves/) too. It is extra risky as the pattern instructions are...minimalist, let's say.
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Date: 2008-03-01 06:52 am (UTC)The last pattern I found that I wanted to try had Os in it. Not YO, just O, and used both by itself and as P2O. I'm not sure if it's pass 2 over or purl 2 pass one over or what - and the O is just plain puzzling. :)
I hope you enjoy making and wearing these! They do look like fun.
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Date: 2008-03-01 09:31 pm (UTC)Right now they're a pain in the butt, but I think the lovely's coming any minute now. :)
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Date: 2008-03-02 01:32 am (UTC)So if you are simply moving that stitch to the other needle you are doing fine. It shouldn't make much different here, but as a general rule, on a purl row I would slip it as if you were going to purl it, and on a knit row I would slip as if to knit.
And that's all I know about that!
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