About 7″ into the second sleeve, I decided to check the cuff length against the first sleeve. (You know, something I should have done with the while I was knitting it.) Turns out, I knit 10 extra rows on the cuff of the second sleeve. There is much sighing and frogging taking place. Because this is going to help the second-sleeve syndrome.
Amusing note from this morning’s trip to the doctor. (more…)
I appear to be suffering from Second Sleeve Syndrome. This is, of course, the older brother to Second Sock Syndrome. (After having finished one sock it becomes difficult to go on and finish the second one to make a pair.) I am working on a sweater, and you start by knitting the sleeves. The first one just seemed to fly by, but man… this second one is taking forever. But I suppose that knitting a sweater with one sleeve would just be silly, right?
I’m looking for a solution (or set of solutions) for a small business. I need things in two realms: group project management (notes, files, timelines, tasks), group calendaring. (more…)
I have auto-earwormed myself with, “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am.”
After several hours of unsuccessfully attempting sleep, I now sit in the family room. My spot on the couch. Knitting. Laptop. Fireplace. Buffy and/or Angel. Dragons. A cat or two. The usual.
This is getting very tiresome. (See what I did there?) I have things I need to do tomorrow today, reasons I need to be functional. I’m guessing that ‘not sleeping’ is not a stop on the road for success.
On a related note, do I have any artistically inclined friends out there? I see a great need for a ‘Hello Insomnia’ (a la Kitty).
Since my Hitofude is on timeout, I’ve started a new sweater which calls for 1,470 yards of yarn. I am using a yarn that comes in 110-yard units.
SO MANY LOOSE ENDS.
Well, since the sleeping thing clearly isn’t going to happen, I might as well be up and knitting. Unfortunately, my Hitofude is in timeout for non-compliance issues. So, this leaves me with that favorite task of all knitters: swatching. But, since I’ll be working on a sweater, I figure I should actually make sure it’s going to end up the right size. As an added bonus, if there’s any knitting that will put me to sleep, it’s got to be swatching.
So, as you may remember, I’ve been working on the Hitofude cardigan. Things were tooling along, and, on Sunday, I got to the second and third tricky bits: Undoing the provisional cast-ons (2), and performing three-needle bind-offs for the sleeves. (The first tricky bit was the provisional cast-ons themselves.)
So, yeah. Finished the sleeves, and read the part of the pattern where it says how many stitches I should have: 290. (more…)
Have any of y’all ever gone through the process to get a Google+ API key? Any pointers, or is it pretty straightforward? (A girl can hope, right?)
And, what did you do with it? How easy / hard was it to use? How sorts of ritual sacrifices did you have to make?
Basically, I’m looking to hear about any experiences with the whole process, if you’re interested in sharing.