i have committed blocking!

hi all!

having gone to the trouble of knitting not one, but two of the Summer Mystery Shawlette by Wendy Knits, i finally had to do something about the whole blocking thing.

i recently moved a very large plywood bookcase into my bedroom, where i have, if not more open floor, at least an openable floor with no(t much) cat hair, so i tacked a sheet to the bookcase and pinned the wet shawl to the sheet! this wasn't quite as straight forward as i'd have liked, especially since i was sort of MaGyver-ing the whole thing. but...


and a close up!


(there's a right side up pic on flickr, if yer interested!)

the blue one will get its turn either tomorrow or when i get back from Origins... hopefully tomorrow, since i'd like to wear it in Ohio!

maybe someday i'll get blocking wires, and blocking mats, and proper pins (instead of lace pins, sigh) ... maybe...

blocking, squee!

wiki knows lace!

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Basic-Puncetto-Valsesiano-Stitch

came up on my "How-To of the Day" on my Google home page.

hee!

8-)

muy macho!

i feel very macho tonight.

i went to the home improvement store and bought a woodworking hand tool. i brought it home and used it to alter my house in a useful way. i breathed hard and sweated. i made a big mess and someone else cleaned up after me!

very nice.

and now my bathroom door closes.

sweet.

8-)

quite an article

folks, this article contains not only computers, math, textiles, and art, but also Unicorns!

how could it be bad!

i may have to visit this museum someday!

8-)

The Mindgamer

Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

The Mindgamer

Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.

Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.

You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?

You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.

Take The Fan Fiction Personality Test at OkCupid

this would have gone better if they had more multiple-answer questions... sigh... here i am, destined to never fit into a genra... sigh...

songs i wish i'd written

a filk-y christmas

Soup!

i made Soup!


(no the floating round things aren't hot dogs!)

Yummy happy lentil soup!

(why, yes, i am extraordinarily pleased with myself, why do you ask?)

ingredients: onion, carrots (cut up), olive oil to saute the preceding, leftover ham from Christmas (frozen), H2O, lentils, carrots ("whole" baby cut), french onion soup from a box, salt & pepper added at end ('cause i forgot)

recipie? yeah, right. i did take hints from Alton Brown & the lentil container (New Hope Mills), though.

8-)

dani