The one with all the holes
I was working on the vneck tank in the fall VK. And then I bought Stitch N Bitch and found that my increases could have been done in a more professional way. So I ripped the entire back and half of a front, bought some new needles (I wasn’t very good about checking my gauge) and even picked up some new yarn for the project. This new yarn doesn’t seem to be knitting to gauge, even on 10.5s. I don’t want to go up anymore because if I do it will be come one of those slutty tops with all the holes.
So I put the project down and used some of my Homespun and made the kitschy headscarf thing from SNB. That’s done and I now feel some sort of sense of accomplishment. I can now carry on with the tank, which I suspect will be made of the original stuff that I bought for it. OR no, I can work on the phone cozy. I picked up some sale stuff at the yarn place for the phone and pda cozies. All I need is some velcro I think.
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I’ve read somewhere that some knitters are abandoning straight needles altogether and reaching for circular needles for EVERYTHING. Now, maybe my circular needles suck, or maybe I’m too much of a knitting newbie, but I think this practice is ridiculous. The points on my circs are much pointier than the ones on my straights. I don’t like that. They are short, it’s hard to hold them. And the curly line that holds them together just gets in the way, tangling itself in my working yarn. I don’t think this is the way to go at all. But that’s just me.
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why haven’t you guys told me about manybooks.net? Sure someone mentioned project gutenberg over on the nano forums and I should have caught on from there. Manybooks makes everything pretty though. You can dl your books in .pdf. AND you can even dl them in lots of different palm-friendly formats. That reminds me – I need to recharge my pda.
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