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[oceantheorem]

What Kind of Knitter Are You?

You appear to be a Knitting Adventurer. You are through those knitting growing pains and feeling more adventurous. You can follow a standard pattern if it's not too complicated and know where to go to get help. Maybe you've started to experiment with different fibers and you might be eyeing a book with a cool technique you've never tried. Perhaps you prefer to stick to other people's patterns but you are trying to challenge yourself more. Regardless of your preference, you are continually trying to grow as a knitter, and as well you should since your non-knitting friends are probably dropping some serious hints, these days.http://marniemaclean.com
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Also, I had a knitting party this evening. Nine women sitting around knitting and crocheting (and not talking about science) for two and a half hours.
Rock on.

Also also, I'm knitting a wire box for my mom. It's gonna be soooo cool! Pattern.
And the triangular shawl I'm making is coming along pretty nicely. I'm sort of using the Sophia wrap pattern, except that I'm using kfb instead of yo to increase at the ends of the rows. I started on the third skein today, but I'm not sure if five is going to make it big enough. I'm wondering if I should a) increase on every row instead of every other row from here on (so that it gets wide enough to throw around my shoulders before I run out of yarn), b) split the scarf in two and knit a thingy like this, or c) go back to the yarn store to see if they have any more of the same color (at $8/ball).
Oooh, paid account benefits!
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[fieryminge.livejournal.com]

I said increase more often, but I just thought about it and you'd probably run out of yarn just as fast with twice the amount of increases. So I'm changing my vote to say you should see how it goes, then see if you can get another ball in the same color.

I'm glad your knitting party went well!

And I LOVE that heart box. I'm trying to rack my brain to come up with how I can make it too lol.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Hehe, just go to a craft store and pick up some wire. It's pretty cheap stuff.
Or you could wait a week or so for me to finish mine, and I could mail you the leftover. :-)

All right, I guess I'll just keep knitting and see how far this yarn goes. I guess I could always order more.

[tryptonique.livejournal.com]

Fun fun.

I went to the anti-craft website and read their thing on the difficulty levels.
I laughed that their maximum difficulty level description makes references to the lyrics of Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar album and flips those lyrics to make them funny and non-threatening.

As in "AntiCraft Superstar
Multicolored motif work, complex laces, advanced cables, the ability to rewrite patterns in a single bound, and other craft skillz as needed.

the time has come for bitter things
the time has come it is quite clear
our anticraft
superstar
do you think you're what they say you are?"

The actual Marilyn lyrics are "Prick your finger, it is done the moon has now eclipsed the sun. The angel has spread its wings, the time has come for bitter things.
The time has come it is quite clear our Antichrist is almost here."

Just a little bit of random trivia from a music geek that found that interesting.

That site also makes a subtle Nirvana reference with the "Heart shaped box" thing as well. Kind of cool. Is it an alt-culture site overall or just with it's music references?

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Isn't that an awesome website? I dunno if it's all alt-culture, since it's mostly just punky crafts, and there are only five issues, but it's pretty kickass in general. The (admittedly very small) punky side of me absolutely adores the site.

[fieryminge.livejournal.com]

Thought you might like this:

http://www.helloyarn.com/besottedcarf.htm