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Just tried to take a picture of the scarf I’m knitting with a skein of hand-painted alpaca I picked up at Knit’s inventory sale, but the batteries are kaput. That’s ok. It just means there will be more to show when I get some new batteries. Blurrrggh. Over and out. Last night I finished the first 6 rows:So far, that’s just over two “I love you”s. For a size reference, here is the needle sitting on the chart I’m using (one standard letter-sized paper): This scarf by heycarrieann is really amazing and it got me wanting to knit in binary. I wondered what kind of information I might try encoding in yarn. I thought, “hey, I love Google and all that it has given me”… so I tried converting the Google homepage source code to binary. After seeing that [...] This scarf is crocheted in about nine increasing rows, which make it cascade from your neck in a fluttery, feminine ruffle or spiral. I took it one step further and needle-felted wispy bits of wool roving to the outer edge to give the impression of rising smoke. It and and four others are all crocheted using [...] Actually, I meant to write “wool scarf”, but my right hand (the one that doesn’t listen very well) decided to type a letter k. This is my first knitting project ever. It’s a gift for the ersatz dad, who has a special affinity for all things woolen. I put this thing in a warm bath to [...] |
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