burgerville: sustainable, locally grown fast food burger joint. Bacon somethingorother combo: $7.69. Nice

The decision has been made. Kami was depressed, refusing to eat, actively resisting all attempts to feed her, and was pretty much at death's door. I decided to make sure she's out of pain now, rather than putting her through more while waiting for the inevitable. She is nibbling on Ringo's tail in lizard heaven.

the next couple entries are me blogging about sustainability for the supercomputing 2009 conference..

item 1: take the max (portland light rail from the airport

I have (reluctantly) decided to use a buttonhole band with a knit facing on this cardigan I'm working on.  Don't get me started on why (do you ever wish certain pattern writers should be shot and their patterns burned before you can knit to the part where THEY SCREWED UP?)*

Anyway, I just wondered if anyone here has a simple method they like for aligning and anchoring the buttonhole to the facing buttonhole?



*Truth is, probably every Scandinavian who knits could have followed this with no problem, in fact, they don't even use the instructions, just the stranding charts and make the sweater the way they learned at  the age of 9!

I am trying to knit Best Friend as a christmas gift. I'm using Patons Grace, and I'm getting frustrated because for the life of me I can't figure out what the heck is going on with my scrunched up yarn. Case in point this photo:
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Can anyone tell me why my stitches look so scrunched up? Is it me or is it because the yarn simply scrunches up like that?

I have trouble picking appropriate yarns for projects. I mostly crochet and the stuff I do it doesn't make too much of a difference, BUT - I have a fancy scarf I want to knit (for my boyfriend's MOM!) and need help!


I want to knit this Lazy Angles Scarf. From what I can tell, the yarn used is a worsted weight wool/acrylic blend. I want to be able to make this for not too much money, and preferably yarn I can find a Joann/ Michaels.


I want it to be cheap, but nice.
I would love to use something cheap like Vanna's Choice, but am afraid that might be too "cheap". Then I was looking at this Paton's Silk Bamboo yarn, but I don't know if it'd be too "silky" and too slippery for the pattern??


I really honestly have NO idea how to pick yarn!!
Can you help please - maybe recommend a yarn to use for this pattern (keeping in mind I'd prefer something I can pick up near me.)


Thanks!

I'm doing a vine lace scarf, over 51 sts ( from interweave 2000 spring).

And there's 4 yarn overs per knit row, 2 ssk, and 2ktog.

By my math, this should mean one winds up with the same number of stitches at the end, right?

ie: row 1 k4, yo,ssk, k2tog, k2, then a repeated section of k1,yo,k2,ssk,ktog,k2,yo, ( repeat this 3,times,and then k3 to the end.)
row 2 and 4 are purled. row 4 is essentially the same, just offset from the first by one. (I can clarify if this isn't clear.it's late, I'm frazzled.)

But in the repeated section I seem to be gaining more stitches. I don't think I'm doing the yo wrong, but my otherwise great lace eyelets are going all over.

I haven't knit in a while, but never lost my skill, and now I'm thinking I'm thinking it too much, ( 4 yo's per row and 2ssk and 2 ktog should mean no net increase in stitches, right?)

I'm assuming stitch markers will be of no help, it seems to make it worse when gaining/losing stitches.

I got a free Canon MP210 printer when I bought my laptop a year and a half ago. It worked fine (you know, for a free printer) until I let it sit for 6 months. Now it seems to have a broken brain - it can't get over the fact that the color ink cartridge is missing/dried up/otherwise malfunctioning, even when I tell it to print in black and white, or even (ugh) just scan.

I'm not interested in doing what it might take to get it working again, but chances are it could still be useful to someone. Before I go and recycle it or attempt to sell it to some sort of dealer, does anyone want a chance at it? I live in Baraboo, but I swing through town often enough that I could drop it at your doorstep within a week or so.

Vital stats:
Canon MP210 printer/copier/scanner
New black ink cartridge
No color ink cartridge
USB cable NOT included
Acquired spring 2008.
Minimal use.
Good shape, but with a crippling case of the stupids.
FREE.
And I'll drop it off.

Interested? Comment.

I'm catching the van Galder bus to Chicago on Friday morning and I'm wondering what to expect in terms of who else rides the bus (I'm a UW-Madison student), etc? Do I need to purchase a ticket ahead of time for a specific time slot, or if I have a ticket, can I use it whenever? Thanks.

so a friend on mine lent me idiocracy to watch and I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.. But it seems like i'm listening to the real life version on the television inthe airport where they are talking about whether or not Mitt Romney is going to run for president. WTF

Hello all you fabulous knitters! I come begging your help. I'd describe myself as a somewhat-advanced beginner, in that I've completed a few toys (a boob, an elephant, and a lobster!) and scarfs and I've started some fingerless gloves, although I just put them down a while ago and can't quite find the motivation to pick them up again. I kind of have a short attention span... but I'm pretty comfortable working in the round on double pointed needles or circulars and I've done some stuff with flats as well. I even taught myself how to crochet to do the ears for the elefante pattern.

My question is this: I have a friend who is a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I want to surprise him with a gift but I'm having trouble finding any patterns out there, save for a few things I don't think I could finish before Christmas (like the really cool but very big crocheted Avatar blanket at ravelry). I thought maybe a hat with an arrow on it (like the one on Aang's head) or maybe a knitted Appa or something, that might match better with my experience knitting toys. I found a mention of an Aang hat in the community here, but it's kind of old and my searching skills failed at finding the finished product. Not to mention how to do it (and it sounded kind of hard). I also looked in the avatar crafts community but couldn't find anything there.

I'm hoping maybe somebody can give me some recommendations of either patterns or places I could look for one? I've never designed anything myself and I think I might fail miserably at it. I love the idea of knitting a hat with an arrow on it, but I don't know his head size and because I want it to be a surprise I don't want to ask. Which might make that impossible. Plus, I've never knitted a hat before. Also, I live in rural Japan, so finding pattern books in English is a near impossibility for me, unless I can get it off the internet somewhere.

Help me, please?

This time, Writers With Drinks features Lost writer/producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Butch Is A Noun author S. Bear Bergman, Campbell Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal, poet Naomi Quiñonez and fantasy/mystery author Kat Richardson. At The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF, for just $3 to $5 sliding scale.

This time, Writers With Drinks features Lost writer/producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Butch Is A Noun author S. Bear Bergman, Campbell Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal, poet Naomi Quiñonez and fantasy/mystery author Kat Richardson. At The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF, for just $3 to $5 sliding scale.

So, they're a bit late. Imagine, if you will, that it's Halloween.

And I'm coming for your braaiiinns....

Note the "blood-spattered" T-shirt (I couldn't rustle up a hospital gown on short notice)

And I didn't spend nearly enough time making evil faces in the mirror. But it was fun to go to work looking like this!

Yeah, I know, it's fashion. Still, I could totally wear a SACK by cutting out the bottom and some little slit for my eye! Look at me, teacher! I'm so creative! NOT!

Lara Torres, just WHAT were you thinking?!?!?!



Source: Reuter's Strange and Unusual Pictures; Picture 14 out of 20

Been a bummer of a week. Halloween weekend is over so it's back to nursing the ulcers (which I think are getting better maybe) and being somewhat frugal and boring again. And that uncle I mentioned in the last post suddenly became very ill and Sunday I got a call from my sister saying he wasn't expected to live to see the next day. Funeral was Thursday. When it's time to come home it's time to come home, but not when you're as young as he was and have a wife and 13 year old kid.

The time I've had off from school (in the middle of a 3 week break) and the days I got off from work this week gave me time to relax finally and get my head unfucked from school (again), even if it was a rather depressing time. I feel like doing things with my life again but that will change once school starts unless I do whatever I need to do to not have a crappy work ethic.

• is only just learning that there are cheap, nonstop flights from Milwaukee to Tampa Bay. Damn it all... #
• Go BUCS! #
• For the last time, Jew is a noun... Not a verb! #
• That win. Was like. Sex. Good sex. This is why I'm a football fan!! & Bayshawn? You owe me 10. Go Bucs!! #

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