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Tag: Great Ideas

  • It… brings you back? groaaaannnn

    The Mad Vortex has many fine entries relating to the subject of knitting, but this new one might be my favorite.

  • “I have nothing interesting to say, so let me show you what I bought.”

    It is a kitchen scale, just for yarns! It is a bright, beautiful orange! It is telling me that I don’t have enough Jo Sharp Alpaca Silk Georgette to make the Pinch Hat. Dammit. Plan B: Best Friend purses? And what in god’s name am I going to make Pinch with now? I borrowed the…

  • My Favorite Rectangles

    A. Tubey B. Sassy Stripes C. Accidentally On Purpose Vest D. Summertime Tunic E. Oh God I Suddenly Want Knitted Cotton Pillowcases What Is Wrong With Me Most of the time I really enjoy my career as the eternal grad student, but some weeks (especially right at the end of the quarter) it’s like a…

  • The Mother Of Invention

    For the young and the swiftless: It is a working swift made from Tinkertoys, and it is totally awesome.

  • A Brief Return to Internetland

    It feels like gasping for breath. Our new place now has working interweb functionality, but tomorrow I’m headed to the ol’ family seat in NJ. I predict that there will be little web contact during that time. Lots of bowling, though. I’m hoping that all of the box-hauling I did this week has strengthened my…

  • Comics friends, help a knitter out.

    I’m pretty sure that this blog gets more hits from my comics buddies than from actual knitters, and I think it’s pretty rad that you check in here at all. This message is mostly for you. Over on Needle Exchange, Eve is trying to gather data for what seems to be some really awesome comics-related…

  • Yep, this blog sure does bring the belated research.

    When Interweave Crochet goes quarterly, it too will have an editor who started out in internet-land: CrochetMe’s Kim Werker. The intent of this post is not at all to cast aspersions on the accomplishments of Eunny and Kim. God knows they deserve to be editors, and they both will do awesome jobs. Nay, the purpose…

  • Why Gamercraft Would Totally Rock

    I’ve only just realized this year that I’m a huge fan of niche self-organization within the knitting community. In college I thought that knitting was the universal language of friendship, but duh, the only knitters I met were other college students living in a designated nerd dorm. Today there are no shortage of loud and…