MondayLunchCrew

Pattern:
Cable Rib Better than Baby Booties(PDF) by Ann Budd from Interweave Knits Magazine

Yarn:

Some very beautiful pieces. I’m not a reader of Piecework Magazine so I was not aware of this contest. It looks like a great way to promote needlework. I also like the idea that the nominations are by shops (I’m assuming their Local Needlework Shop -LNS). I think I like the idea that there are [...]

When she was a puppy we took her for a puppy trim and it wasn’t a good cut. G decided we should just groom her ourselves.
Since the winter she’s grown a lot of hair and was going to be too much work to cut for the warmer weather, so we sent her to the groomers [...]

If you use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and flickr, it might be in your workflow to upload your finished photos to flickr.
At first, I would export the photos from Lightroom and upload to flickr separately, but I found a slightly faster way. (I only know this works on OSX, no clue what to do with it [...]

Photo is of me wearing the sock, I’ll get G to model the final finished pair.
I managed to finish the first sock of the pair of boyfriend socks yesterday.
G came home and I immediate made him try it on. The fit wasn’t perfect for his foot due to the type of toe. I [...]

I saw the ad first online [via] and haven’t seen them on tv yet. I thought the commercial was pretty stupid even if the actors are engaging.
Then I flipped through the print ad online. My thoughts, Oh, Kyra Sedgwrick, I love her.*. I totally dismissed the pants.
I was walking through the mall last night [...]

Start Date:
January 30, 2007
Finish Date:
March 21, 2007
Design:
Picoti Picota: R .. comme Rose (blanche version)
Comments:
A total joy to stitch. I was a little concerned about having enough floss to finish kit, but there was just enough. Probably more than enough if you didn’t have to rip out like I did, or didn’t do complete cross stitches [...]

When I lived in NY, I saw many organizations asking for old cell phones to be dropped off for battered women charities etc.
I don’t get out much these days in Toronto, as I work at home and most of my hobbies are home-centric. I haven’t seen any of those drop off boxes, and I [...]

Chasing Chiang: Follow The Leader in Taiwan – washingtonpost.com
Interesting story of how the current Taiwan government is renaming memorials etc. to try to remove the association with Chiang Kai-Shek. I didn’t know they changed the airport name, nor that they are changing the name of the memorial hall. To me, since I grew up with [...]

There are precious few occasions when I’ve had to pull all-nighters.
During university, I think there was two or three times when I had to stay up late to finish a project. Once for a civil engineering course bridge. (Boy that was challenging.) Once for design lab (we built a voice recognition controller). Once for a [...]

One of my favorite magazines is Fast Company. It’s from this magazine that I heard of this book: Small Giants by Bo Burlingham. I love reading FC because of the stories the write about smart and interesting businesses. To me, it’s interesting to be presented with different ideas and different industries and companies. I started [...]

When I first moved into the apartment nearly two years ago, I insisted on having an office of my own. I wanted a place where I can do computer work. I wanted a place to do some design. Later on, it became the place I worked from home on my web design business.
Changes are coming [...]

For the short row heels of the boyfriend socks, it calls for wrapping stitches. I had no idea what that meant, but as always, a little search on the internet and I got my answer:
Wool Works: wrapping a stitch
I have to say though, I thought the answer was more confusing than 100% necessary. However after [...]

Mobile number portability arrives in Canada
About Time!

The last two day have brought some knit related news that made me happy.
Yesterday, the announcement on See Eunny Knit of her new job as the editor for Interweave Knits
Today, the opening of cookiea.com

I’m happy to report that Boyfriend Socks are well on it’s way. This was the progress from after I posted yesterday.
To prevent me from getting too confused, I kept increasing on two needles until it got to be about 40 stitches around when I then switched to four needles.
The pattern is really easy [...]

The boyfriend socks pattern calls for a figure-8 cast on. The socks are knit toe up.
I figure, sure, I’ll take the challenge. I’ve never done a toe up sock before, but why not? Querying Figure-8 cast-on in google gets you plenty of links. Most are for magic loop socks. But some are for dpns.
The [...]

World Disaster Map [via] shows serious widespread problems but also localized issues. It’s quite current. For example, it indicates a problem at the Woman’s Hospital in Toronto which I had also just heard on the news this morning.

Internet Black Holes by Reporters without Borders. [via] I find it hard to express why seeing this map [...]

Here’s the most recent progress on the cross-stitch piece I’ve been working on. It’s really moving along. It’s so close to completion that I can taste it.

Flour poses here nicely sitting but it took a while to stop her from tasting the cross stitch herself. It’s a good thing I’ll wash this one before framing.
I [...]

ToysOnMyDog-1.jpg

Yes, I was inspired by stuffonmycat.com. I couldn’t figure how the cats could stand it. But Flour was sleepy and willing to let me pile her toys on her.