You knit what?
Oh man, all you knitters will love this blog: You Knit What?
I love reading the snarky comments from the writers about yarn choice, pattern design, and photographic skills. Too fun.
If you’re a knitter, that is…
Archive for June, 2005
Stories in Pictures
Several stories here.
Story the first: this past weekend Amy and I went to Chicago for the ALA Annual Conference. Amy played for 4 days straight, while I was in meetings galore. Saturday afternoon, however, one of our library’s vendors took 40+ folks to see the Cubs play the White Sox at Comiskey (US Cellular) Park. The Sox lost (sadness), but the game itself was fun. Amy and I have now been to three ballparks this year - Citizens Bank Park in Philly, Oriole Park at Camden Yard in Baltimore, and Comiskey in Chicago.
Story the second: Another photo of the great striped scarf. I think I like this photo even more than the other ones! Working away on the green/blue one still….
Story the last: Maggie hates to have her toenails clipped. We always argue, and I usually end up sitting/laying on her to clip the nails and stay in position while using the Dremel to file the sharpness away. Last night I did one front paw, and tonight I did the other front paw (later I’ll do at least one of the back ones). Afterwards, I praised her lavishly for being such a good girl, and let her out to the backyard. I looked out a few moments after that. Do you see what I see? Look carefully in the center of the photo.
Silly dog! Laying in the hostas is no place for a beast.
Oh hey, if you live in Philly, get out of town this weekend. There’s this big huge concert coming to town along with about two million people. It doesn’t sound like any fun to me. That’s why I’ll be in NYC with Amy and her softball team at the Playing for Life tournament. WAY more fun!
Summer knitting with wool
Knitting in the summer is something I don’t do a lot of. For some reason, I don’t get the same pleasure out of it as I do knitting in the winter. That probably has something to do with the fact that I have an overabundance of wool yarns in my stash, and working with wool in Philadelphia’s steamy summer months isn’t enjoyable.
That being said, I’m working on an extended wool project right now (after I got really frustrated trying to get gauge on a tank top out of Jo Sharp Desert Garden nummy parrot green yarn… not that I’m still annoyed by that or anything!)
I am making a series of scarves in Noro Kureyon. The pattern is from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, called “Child’s Rainbow Striped Scarf“. It’s honestly one of the easiest projects I’ve ever made - just a simple mistake rib scarf… I’m cruising through my second one now.
The premise is that Noro Kureyon is a self-striping wool. So you use 2 skeins in complementary colors, and knit two rows with one skein, then two rows with the next skein. Then you get two striping patterns going through the scarf, intertwining with one another. The effect is rather yummy.
The first one I made was in two bright orange/pink/yellow/lime green shades of Kureyon.
The second is in two green/blue/purple shades.
The third I will do with two balls of the same orange/pink colorway. Not sure what the final one (if there is one) will be in, but maybe the green/blue plus blue/pink skein.
More of the same, from other folks: Scarf-o-matic , Acechick and The Smooch.
Patriot Act and Libraries - Go House of Representatives!
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to block the library/bookstore records seizure part of the Patriot Act. The roll call vote was on H.AMDT.280 to H.R.2862. I just wrote a letter to my representative, Chaka Fattah, to thank him for his vote.
To The Honorable Chaka Fattah:
As a librarian, I am writing to thank you for voting Wednesday to block the FBI and the Justice Department from using the Patriot Act to search library and bookstore records.
The freedom to read without fear of persecution and prosecution is invaluable. A society that scrutinzes the reading habits of its citizens and uses those reading habits against them is not a free, open, or democratic society. It is a society on the slippery slope towards totalitarianism.
I applaud and thank you for recognizing that this portion of the Patriot Act is anathema to your constituents.
Sincerely,
–Megan Adams
Find out how your representatives voted, and send them a message letting them know how you feel about it.
Update: The NYT is reporting on this too. Read the article.
Parrot Love
A delightful book by Mark Bittner, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the story of one man’s foray into becoming an urban naturalist. Bittner, a man who lives on the outskirts of 9-5 society, ends up living on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, trying to find himself. The book, while ostensibly about the relationship he develops with a flock of wild parrots, has a depth to it that the goofy birds on the cover hide.
For really, Bittner chronicles not only the relationships he develops with the flock of parrots and with individual members of the flock, but he more subtly chronicles his path of spiritual and emotional seeking and searching.
Very much recommended. I finished this book in an afternoon and an evening.
