26°C – rain

The Yarner August 8, 2010
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Well, I got one trellis done, ready to be mounted as soon as the paint dries. After that it started to pour.

So I spent the day researching pattern makers. Not the colorwork type this time, but the symbol charts for pattern knitting or crochet. There seems to be only one decent one out there, which I might try the demo version of.

But I found a set of symbols for download as a true type font. Four bucks. Very cool. The tiger suggested a vector graphics program  for writing the charts, and I must say I like. I have to work my way through one or the other Inkscape tutorial now. Exciting stuff this. I know I get excited about the weirdest things.

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Still investigating pattern generation

The Yarner August 6, 2010
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There are programs out there to turn pictures into a sort of pixelized version for counting patterns, but the tiger (bless his heart) don’t need no stinking program. He writes his own. Did I mention he rocks? Now I can do my own colorwork charts. :o)

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Still stormy

The Yarner August 5, 2010
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… but much less so.

I finished a lace silk shawl that I’m very happy with. It’s light and airy, and the colors are woodland soothing:

shawl

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Still no rain

The Yarner August 2, 2010
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Watering the geraniums
Originally uploaded by hianja

… but it’s very muggy, overcast and stormy looking. I’ve been running around with the hose and watering can to give some emergency relief to those most affected.

We have steaks for another BBQ tonight, but no clue if the weather holds.

I was going to paint the trellises, but frittered the day away on pattern making instead. Computers are such time eaters; it’s scary. Cool stuff, though, designing your own patterns. Maybe more about this later.

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Annual yarn sale today

The Yarner July 24, 2010
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I got up suuuuper early for a Saturday morning (6:30). The tiger proclaimed me nuts and pulled the duvet over his eyes.

But it was sooooo worth it. I came home with the yummiest Handmaiden seasilk  and Fleece Artist lace imaginable, some really nice Lucy Neatby sockyarn, a cool, breezy bamboo for summer knitting and my coveted Berroco Seduce at half price. Of course I couldn’t wait to start a scarf with the latter, even though I’m in the middle of a test knit. Baaaad. girl.

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26°C – showers

The Yarner July 20, 2010
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The slightly cooler weather has brought back the knitting joy, and I decided to do another test knit. A cowl this time, in two-color double knitting. A technique I’ve been wanting to learn for a while now. The start went well, then I read a chart wrong and had to tink 1,5 rounds, but now I’m on my way again. I have to concentrate, but it’s not as impossible as I feared.

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30°C – sun and clouds

The Yarner July 14, 2010
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Just took my Noro shawl off the blocking pins and thought I’d share a picture:

shawl

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Still hot

The Yarner July 8, 2010
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Though it rained for 5 minutes around 8:30 pm, which dropped the temp two or three degrees and upped the humidity by a factor of 2. I don’t think we can call that a win:win situation. The good news is, I’m slowly getting used to heat and feel less dead. Our fingerless mitten swap was today – hilarious show to see people try to model their woollen mittens on sweaty arms and then pull them off stat after the picture was taken. All the mittend were awesome, and I absolutely adore the pair I was given. Too bad I’ll have to wait half a year before I can use them. Can’t wait for the next swap. This was fun.

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28°C – showers (it’s a Chinese laundry out there)

The Yarner June 28, 2010
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While I do have my ASJ as a world cup project, I needed something quick and mindless for the more involved matches and finished three more marketbags. Here’s the one I’ll keep for myself this time:

market bag

My knitniters will have first dibs on the other two. After that, if they’re still around, they’ll go up for sale at buntart.

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Yesterday was hot (and veeery humid), but awesome

The Yarner June 20, 2010
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Even more so as we managed to hit the restaurant juuuust as the thunderstorm broke. And I bet Knit-Knackers didn’t mind a bit that we raided their yarn store after lunch. ;o)

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