Holed up in a corner of Juno’s chesterfield couch in NJ, (carding polworth and shetland with Juno and Cassie is an extraordinary way to spend a day off.) I sat here not more than an hour or two ago and told Kelli-the-wonder-publicist that not only were things on the road good, that they were perfect. Really perfect. I had navigated the airports with success, I had met charming cab drivers. Amanda had come home from NYC safe, and I had spoken with her on the phone. The events had been great, the knitters charming and the coffee excellent. All of my hair had not fallen out simultaneously while I was public speaking (I worry) I had not yet left an expensive computer cable in a hotel room (my specialty) and despite learning (rather sadly) that the fly on my new pants doesn’t like to stay up, I have managed, through careful vigilance and paranoia, to not give a talk standing up in front of a whack of knitters with my panties showing. I was sitting here, really feeling pretty smug, when I plugged in my digital camera to tell you about Pittsburgh and Doylestown and my new sock (Life was too short for the pastel garter stitch baby jacket that wasn’t even knit long enough for me to show you.) and show you pictures of all of that when the planet decided to dish a little balance.
The computer refuses to acknowledge the existence of the camera.
Just a little smackdown to keep me humble. More later, when I can get the thing to do my bidding. For now, Juno and I are going to ricochet out of her house to go to Loop. (Ann and Kay were there Friday. They have to be a hard act to follow.) I’m hoping the camera is all my life has planned for me in the way of evening up the score.
It’s something in the air. My computer refuses to acknowledge my camera either. I suspect it’s jealousy that the camera gets to travel so much, but then you don’t have that excuse, so it must just be something in the air.
Well that’s not SO bad….I mean, they’re still in there, right? Stinkin’ universe attempting to teach your readers patience no doubt. Poo….
I’m glad everything else is going so well.
Good luck with the tour. Wish I could have seen Pittsburgh, it’s my hometown. Any chance you’ll be in the Baltimore/ DC area? Sheep and Wool in May? Sorry to hear your camera and computer are having a little spat.
If you need any help with your computer (it’s an Apple, right?)or your camera, it’s my specialty. I’ll be there tonight early.
I’m glad you are getting a few hours “off” here and there and enjoying yourself. May the house be spotless, the laundry done and the homework complete when you get home. Not that that’s going to happen, but even IF part of it is, you will have had fun in the meantime. Wish you could come down south to visit us.
I think you deserve to buy yourself some yarn to make yourself feel better after the technological snafu.
CAUTION: the following comment may contain subliminal messages.
Glad to hear everything is going so well. [come to Kingston]. I offer my condolences and what is (sadly) my very best (non)techno advice… [please, come to Kingston!] did you wiggle the cable?
[I believe there is excellent tech support in Kingston. Someone here could absolutely fix your connection.]
Thanks again for visiting Pittsburgh!! I hope you have fun with Juno and that the folks at Loop enjoy you as much as we did!! I’m so happy to have met you, Stephanie!!
Great seeing you in Doylestown… even in the pouring rain! Gonna try to run over to Loop to catch you before you hit the road!!!
I’m so glad the trip is going well and that you’re getting the occasional break. Now if you could just come to California…
You can always count on technology for a little dose of reality, can’t you? Until your pieces of hardware kiss and make up we will all use our overly vivid imaginations, which (in my case anyway) would otherwise be used to think of all the ways my knitted gifts could be found wanting. Just another public service you provide.
The Universe does like to let us know where we stand in the scheme of things, doesn’t it… (Can I tell the other posters how jealous I am of everybody who has gotten to meet you thus far? The chances of you coming to Sacramento are slim to none… we’re barbarians here… acrylic crocheters by the drove…)
The Universe does like to let us know where we stand in the scheme of things, doesn’t it… (Can I tell the other posters how jealous I am of everybody who has gotten to meet you thus far? The chances of you coming to Sacramento are slim to none… we’re barbarians here… acrylic crocheters by the drove…)
Dear Harlot – if you’d like, you can always try a public computer, or maybe someone else’s, if they’ll let you near it when the universe is clearly gunning for your technical demise. Anyway, upload your photos to something like Yahoo Photo or Photobucket (both free) then download them (right click and select Save As) to your laptop.
Good luck, and we’re all glad Amanda had a safe trip to NYC and home.
Is your camera the kind with a removable memory card? If so, then the easiest thing to do is head to the closest computer store (or radioshack) and buy the appropriate card reader. My camera did something similar last summer, and I’ve just used the cardreader ever since; it works beautifully.
Oh, and to keep a fly up? Pin a safety pin right below the zipper pull, right across the zipper. Works like a charm, though it does require a bit of extra effort in the bathroom. I find it’s worth the peace of mind.
(I loved seeing you in Pittsburgh, by the way. Thanks for coming!)
Sorry I missed you at Doylestown, but my partner just had to go to Allentown on Saturday. I did buy your book however, and giggled like a fool while she drove home. Good luck with the rest of the tour!
Trust me, all electronic devices like to do this when you’re in a hurry. My suggestion, disconnect the camera, turn it off, restart the remote blogging system, plug in the cable (at both ends) of the camera, turn camera on. Hopefully, image capture/iPhoto will now say “Oh there you are!” and play nice together. If that doesn’t work, take the card out and use a card reader. I suspect that there is limited patience available for electronic gremlins on the road.
I’m so glad that the universe has balanced itself. Have fun on the rest of the road trip. Perhaps I’ll see you next week.
Glad things are going well aside from the camera snafoo! Wish you were coming to Kansas! 🙂
Have a great day!
Ordered your book this morning. I can’t wait! The Blue Heron Bookstore in Uxbridge would be a great place to go for a book talk by a famous knitter/author (hint, hint). Close to Markham, Newmarket, Stouffville and even Oshawa (hint, hint). We’re not THAT far north of the big city. Continued success on your tour.
It’s probably my fault. I’ve been waiting (not so) patiently to hear what you thought of Pittsburgh and see if my orange cabled vest shows up in your photo of the crowd. 😉
Thanks for the visit – I had a fabulous time! And, I found out that one of my classmates from architecture school is a knitter, too!
So the worst thing to happen is your camera didn’t work, and the time you would have spent uploading pictures was instead spent playing with Juno’s fibre?
Poor baby.
Sounds like things are going well! I’d almost forgotten you were in NJ this week, but sadly, I can’t make it to Rutherford tomorrow night . . . I don’t suppose you’d like to detour through Denville on your way, huh?? Have fun!
I used to have that problem with my camera (and various other peripherals) going incommunicado without warning. I decided to cut out the middleman. Get a little knick-knack called a card reader. Sits in your USB drive, and will read the stuff directly off the memory card. Nifty. Then you can wave your knitting needles threateningly at the camera download software with no risk of (meaningful) reprisal. /nodnodnod.
On actually *reading*, I see several others have already made this suggestion, so I’ll just point and say “what they said” and sit down quietly now. /blush.
Are you still using that ‘antique’ digital camera? It may be time for a new one. They make them about 1/8 of that size now, which would free up space in your luggage for oh, I don’t know… yarn, maybe?
It was great to see you on Saturday,
I have no technical advice I can give you except make sure the batteries are fully charged and turn everything off then back on again.
We Loop customers are so lucky!
See you soon!
Lot’s o luck! Wish I were able to make it to see you.
I look forward to meeting you at Loop.
may good luck and strong zippers follow you to philly tonight!
It was great to see you in Doylestown. About the nicest author reading I’ve ever been too!
And so nice to hear someone speak ‘normally’ 😉 for once (most of my extended family are Canadian).
Really sorry I can’t make it down to Loop this evening (but real-life needs to happen sometime).
BJ
Sorry life is doing that! I’m in Delaware (dela-where?!) and wanted to come up to Loop tonight, but sadly life took over and I am drowning in schoolwork. Sorry to miss you.
Some cameras need to be in picture-viewing mode in order for a computer to read them.
I know this from experience – the kind of experience where you spend an hour looking for the CDs to reinstall all the camera software, and then you spend an hour reinstalling all that software, and then realize an after an hour of trying to figure out why it STILL won’t work, that all you really needed to do was turn the little mode dial on the camera one click further.
Thank you so much for coming to Pittsburgh. You were wonderful.
I’ll see you there. Even better, I’ll bring my camera, just in case. 🙂
My ‘day off’ was spent herding a bunch of 3 to 6 year olds and their assorted keepers in a bowling alley. I’m too sore (and jealous) to type anything nice and reassuring about your camera woes. Give Juno a hug for me.
It must be something in the air – my computer (or maybe my printer) is refusing to acknowledge the new Magenta ink cartridge I installed. Everytime I log on a window pops up right in the middle of the screen saying that I am out of Magenta ink & need to refill. It won’t even print in grayscale & I have to move the window to the bottom of the screen – most annoying. On a happier note, I bought your new book & the Fiona Ellis & Mason Dixon knitting books you so highly recommended. I have to say that, if anything, you were not fullsome enough about those books. I stayed up way too late last night entranced by all three. Great, great books.
Steph – quick and dirty solution to connectivity issues with your camera: buy a card reader. They’re cheap (usually under $20 or less because online stores like eCost use them as loss leaders), they tend to have faster data transfer than directly hooking your camera to the computer and they’re multipurpose. I’ve got one and I use it to transfer pictures from my camera’s XD card and mp3s from my PDA’s compact flash card. I stick a spare memory card in it at other times to use as a spare place to back up documents.
PS – check your email – I sent you a note on an article.
Bother. No pretty pictures of adoring knitters today. No worries, entropy happens.
I hope you will be coming to the Nashville Area sometime so that I may fawn over all of your loverly stitches, listen to your knitterly wisdom, see if you’ll sign my book, and secretly want to knit you socks.
Better no pictures than spontaneous baldness I always say!
Could be you just need a new “memory card” (I learned this the hard way!)… or whatever your make of camera calls the digital “film”.
Good Luck.
The universe always seems to have a little slap down in reserve for those moments when things look just a little too bright. Good luck w/ the technology.
Sorry about your recalcitrant electronics! I just give up and let DH(2b) deal with these problems, but I guess that’s not an option for you on the road. Hope it’s up and running soon, and am looking forward to seeing you in Rutherford tomorrow. My friend Martha and I will be the ones who made the pilgrimage from the city with our respective socks-in-progress.
Steph, I’ll be at Loop tonight if you need help with your camera. I may even have an extra ‘expensive cable’ if you get this in time.
whoops, you *didn’t* loose another cable. Reading..Monday..hard.
I will let others provide technical advice since anything from me…well, you wouldn’t get anything from me.
I choose a more spiritual route and promise to send good vibes to you, your camera and the computer and hope that a bit of a cosmic nudging will help! Oh, and your zipper too!
Sorry to hear about the camera (and the zipper). I have to say I LOVE your book. Wrote about it on my site yesterday …
Well, I hope that your camera eventually cooperates and that you do give a report on Pittsburgh. I was all excited to think that you might go to Pittsburgh Knit & Bead, which was my LYS before I moved home to Maine last year. Tonia is just a wonderful person and was most helpful and encouraging when I decided to pick up the needles and give knitting another go. One of my big regrets was not getting a chance to tell her goodbye before I left.
Totally jealous of Juno right now, and when are you going to be in/near northeast Indiana? I swear living here is like living on Gilligan’s Island, nobody ever comes to visit. 🙂 However, I suppose my chances here are better than they will be when I move to Germany in a couple months. Do you think your wonder publicist would extend the book tour to western Europe? You’d have a place to stay and all the european chocolate, coffee and wool your little heart desires if you’ll just say “yes”. (Yes, I’m begging, and no, I’m not ashamed.) Give it a think!
It must be the photo that had me in it, in Doylestown.
I confess that I sometimes have that effect, on cameras.
I never got to show you what I’m knitting. I get flustered around greatness (smile) and turn into Super Dork.
“What am I knitting? Uh, socks and sweaters.”
DOH! Head smack!
You were great and your pants stayed up.
What more could an audience ask for?
I’m so glad your tour is going well so far. Is it safe to say that you haven’t lost a shoe out a hotel window yet? 🙂
Machines and I don’t get along at the best of times so no advice or comments here. Just wanted to say how glad I am for you all that daughter got home safe and sound. Hope she had a great time there. I’ve been reading your book 3 and enjoying it very much. Got all the neccesities in the knitting bag now . Only problem was I had to go buy a BIGGER bag and stopped at the LYS on the way .. Another addition to my “”Stash”” and all is well in my little corner of the world . Ohhhhhh there is something I’ve been meaning to ask. WHAT is knitting classified as ?? I’ve heard and read it called everything from craft, art, addiction, hobby , habit and sport!!! We should have a universal word that describes this ????? “”whatever”” don’t you think so ? Stay well and enjoy your trip .
Try Picasa. It is a *free* image management program at Google and is awesome. It senses my camera as soon as I plug it into my computer and begins downloading pictures immediately. Hope this helps.
Ang
I have the same camera issue! Or it will recognize the camera, but not that there are any pictures to download.
It must be some cosmic disorder or something.
There were rumors that you were coming to Portland, OR in August. I’m trying to talk the baby into a birth date that lets me come see you. I hope he’s listening…
I can’t believe that three brilliant and talented women can’t beat the camera into submission.
Show that camera who’s boss.
We’re sitting on the edge of our seats here for the camera to cooperate. My YS Ian is hoping to see pictures from the “Yarn Carlot” with maybe Mom in there somewhere. We’ll think good thoughts to get the camera to cooperate for you. 🙂
I hate that…just when you think you have it figured out, the machine (or the blog in my case)decides to kick your A**. You have my sympathies. I’ve decided to have a little lie down and then knit through the evening, probably accompanied by an adult beverage…..or two.
Thank goodness! I thought it was my ineptitude. Now I know it’s just that the computer (or the camera) is jealous of the time I spend with the needles;-)
Dear Stephanie,
Yeah!!!! My sock and I will be at Rutherford tomorrow night! (The universe has already served notice that it would be “really asking for a smackdown” to bring along the Aran in progress, since even listening to books on tape can destroy my concentration!)
I’m so excited! (I just wish there were yarn to buy. I suppose that is asking too much from the Library?)
Funny, I’m having that same pants problem.
Hi Steph, I really enjoyed your talk in Doylestown on Saturday; it was the highlight of my weekend. Truly, you are far too self-deprecating. But in that vein, I have an embarrassingly gushy post about your reading, and a nice pic of the both of us. Save it for a day you’re feeling down about yourself. It is nice to know what others think of you on days like that.
Thanks again.
You have some witty and funny blog-followers! Miss Ewe is especially cute 🙂 When will your next book be coming out?
Do you ever look down at your knitting and suddenly notice: “This stuff is HAIR!”?
Stephanie
I’m impressed that you spelled Pittsburgh correctly – congrats are in order. I was very happy with your talk when you were here last Friday. I wasn’t feeling well when the evening started but I felt great when I left Knit One that night. You certainly know the mind of a long time knitter and communicated it remarkably well. I was very glad I came to hear you speak and I am enjoying your books very very much (a little too much of me in there though). Keep up the good work and come back again one day.
CathyJ
Has anyone offered to be your official photographer, and to follow you about on your book tour? No cash payment required – maybe just yarn!!!
I was in the audience in Pittsburg and really enoyed your talk. I was in the group that drove over from Columbus Ohio. We had lots of fun and hope to see you again. Hope you get the camera thingy fixed so we can see those pictures from Pittsburg. If you look at my blog you will see the picture I took of you and our group.
http://www.auntgerrysyarnspinnings.blogspot.com
Yes. My camera played that trick on me before. It’s not funny. But you can’t tell the camera that. I had to have the Best Buy Geek Squad in to fix it.
Geeks can fix it.
knitting humans could not.
~nod
we have technical support in Southern California too……
I wish i could have been part of the “whack” of knitters tonight at loop, but homework ate my soul. Anyway, I hope you are enjoying my Philadelphia. I wanted to say hello to you so very much. Make sure you eat at Sabrina’s if you can. It is the best.
Dear Stephanie,
I just finished your latest book yesterday, and I loved it! First, I love how, in the book and in the above post, you call a group of knitters a “whack”…you also do this for s group of socks, but I prefer to think it’s special for knitters? Like an “ostentation of peacocks”, or an “unkindness of ravens”? I love that.
Also, could the mystery shawl that one begins from the top, and decreases until one runs out of yarn perhaps be an “Ode to an Inverse Parallelogram Shawl”?? In the spirit of your maxim that it’s not a mistake, it’s simply a road to inspiration. And although your books definitely are not mistakes, they are inspirational. Thanks mucho!
I so wanted to see you in Philly. My car is not co-operating.
I’m glad you’re having a great book tour (except for the picture thing & the fly on your pants). 🙂
Your new book arrived today, thanks for keeping me laughing. You wrote the funniest thing I have ever read, the story of ice skating, white yarn and bowling with children, remember? I laughed so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. I hope there will be more books to come.
Not that I’m a tech guy or anything, but the same thing happened to me and my digital camera a few months ago and I had to go buy a new cable (the one that connects the camera to the computer during the upload). Turns out that the original cable had too many kinks in it from being folded and slammed shut in the computer desk drawer. And by the way – good luck with finding a new cable that fits your camera. I had no idea those weren’t “universal”. Because that would be too easy. Instead I spent several days shopping every store in town who “might” have the right looking cable end to poke into that little spot on my digital camera (which I had to smuggle into the store in my purse so that I could compare the poker with the poke hole). Many stores later and many moments spent in contemplative comparison – I found the right cable. Brought it home. Plugged it in – and I was back in business with the uploading.
Good luck! You’ll need it.
My Powerbook got in the same snit a month or so ago. Wouldn’t acknowledge the existence of the USB or the camera chip plugged into it. Then it started working again. Go figure. It took a couple of weeks, and sucked.
Soooooo glad your daughter got home safely; thanks for letting us all know. Nothing like knitters poised at the ready to swoop to the rescue.
One more fan to tell you that you were wonderful at Loop. Only for someone whom I clearly adore am I dismissed from the reading/tuck in at night. Last night the girls sent me off happily, knowing how much it meant to me. Juno is pretty neat too. Daryl
I’m glad to hear the tour is going well. Tell your Wonder Publicist that we would love to see you in Michigan!
I second the Picasa suggestion! i wish I could see you on your tour, good luck!
I’m no techophile, but I would try an external card reader for your digital camera media. You can acquire one for around 15 bucks. They plug into a USB port (I’m PC, not MAC; I hope MAC’s have USB ports!) and they don’t use up the camera’s batteries.
I was in Philadelphia and missed Ann and Kay — had a birthday party to attend Friday night. I was just 12 miles away from Doylestown and missed you on Saturday! I had a wedding to attend. I’m so hoping that Kelly the wonder publicist will book you a trip to lovely Minnesoooota! I’m dying to meet you and get you to autograph your book for me and several knitting friends. Happy tripping/knitting.
Jennifer
Aw! I was looking forward to the Pittsburgh pictures too! Hope you get it all sorted out!
Yea for a great tour! We loved you in the ‘Burgh!
-the big pregnant birthday girl from Pittsburgh-
(Seriously, I did just go home and go to bed after that! Cake is highly overrated. Yarn on the other hand. . . mmmmmmmm)
You are so kind to keep up with the blog while touring. Of course I linked to Juno’s website and I am glad that you are visiting her. Based on her last blog, it sounds like she could use some cheering up and I know if you visited me I would be on top of the world! BTW, what is “polworth”? Haven’t heard of that before but I’m assuming it is a species of sheep?
Charming cab drivers!?
I haven’t met any of those in NY.
You see, if I didn’t have guests coming this week I would have been in Doylestown taking and posting pictures, instead of mucking out the spare room…
Rats, rats, rats!
My exceedingly thoughtful stepdad’s wife… no… my stepdad’s exceedingly thoughtful wife (better) just sent me ‘Meditations’, and I just wanted to say how exceedingly tickled and delighted and touched I am while reading it. When I first saw the title some time ago I thought, ‘How silly. Why would anyone want to read thoughts about knitting instead of just knitting?’ I was greviously in error and owe you an apology for that errant wicked thought. The demon has been exorsised. I even caught my husband reading from it this morning when he thought I wasn’t looking, but he’s still adamant that he too feels that there is no knitting accomplishment worth awakening him for.
So what would it take to lure you to Maryland’s fair Eastern Shore to give a talk? I confess we boast a rather inhospitable local yarn shop, but I’m sure other options could be found as there are plenty of knitters hereabouts. And I’d be honoured to put you up in your very own room with giant windows overlooking the lovely Tred Avon river, replete with swans, ospreys, and a blue heron.
Thank you so much for coming to Pittsburgh and declaring knitting a sport! Your talk was the highlight of my day, and you made me laugh and giggle. Thanks! One thought though: since sock yarn does not count as official stash (since it is small), how about dishcloth cotton? I have a lot of it and don’t count it.
Lin 🙂
Glad to hear your tour is going so well! My computer refuses to do my bidding all the time. Repeating commmands and yelling haven’t worked, threatening time outs hasn’t worked, telling it I’m going to sell it to the highest bidder hasn’t worked either. Eventually I’m going to have to break down and read all those manuals and help links darn it!!
Why is it that we can read technical patterns and graphs, but, run screaming when the computer manual shows up?
Just some belated zipper input here. The pale one creates a strong vertical line…could give a lengthening effect. However, we all know how slimming black is. I know, no help whatsoever. D’ya wanna go for tall or for slim? Heck, you’re already slim! (My pick is still the black one, though, ’cause it ‘pops’ less.)
And good grief, regular colours are whatever colours we regularly knit with!
Sewing shop employee: “Yes Pat, I’d like to buy a clue…”
I LOVE that – “buy a clue” .
I have to apologize for rushing into the Doylestown bookstore wild-eyed and crazed, desperate to make sure that I met you before you were carted off elsewhere. I had visualized this whole nice, civilized conversation, in which we shared our mutual interests in knitting and social justice. But no, I could barely speak coherently, and felt like a 13-year-old meeting Justin Timberlake for the first time.
We did make it there on time. Just. And we didn’t kill ourselves doing it. My husband is a wonderful driver.
Thanks for the visit to the Mid-Atlantic. Hope to see you in Baltimore (between Philly and Washington, DC) soon.
Glad your trip went well and sorry that your computer has rejected your camera. Computers are temperamental. I know you love to knit socks and you have some gorgeous left over sock yarn. I have been making a blanket out of my leftover sock yarn, with 5″ diagonal squares. I call it the Full Body Sock blanket. Of course, your blanket would be more beautiful than mine, but if you want to check out my progress, go to http://www.sskyop2.blogspot.com.
Meanwhile, may a computer geek appear mysteriously at your door!
Might I suggest that you copy the drivers for your periphials (camera,etc.)onto a flash drive? They are small, compact and can save your bacon when your away and your computer refuses to recognize something. They are not that expensive (cheaper than 5 balls of Noro Kureyon)and well worth the investment. You can plug it into your usb port and have all your drivers handy!
Well, I just met you in NJ – what a trip! I felt like a groupie, like a Deadhead or something. You have a beautiful speaking voice, did you know that? Kathe and I are musicians and we both remarked on it on our way home. We too are in the business of small repetetive motions coming together to make something bigger. And you should know, Stephanie, that you are way cool simply because you followed that one piece of advice, “be yourself.” So many of us waste so much time wanting or trying to be someone else – someone taller or richer or more beautiful or talented. You are completely yourself, and thus completely cool. My father was most fond of this quote, “To thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day thou cannot be false to any man.” Keep on keepin’ on, girl! And many thanks.( I’ll keep you up to date on the sock.)
What Mardi said. All of it. Great to meet you in person, even if I did have to go to NJ to do it!
Just found your blog after reading “Yarn Harolot” cover to cover. I laughed till I cried and cried till I laughed. I have mastered knitting in cars, planes, airports, hockey rinks, horse shows and family reunions (it keeps me from strangling excessively annoying relatives), but I still need to find a way to read a paperback and knit. “Yarn Harlot” made me want to knit and knit, but I couldn’t knit and keep reading. Oh well, the book is done, but not the shawl.
Good luck with your tour.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
My computer likes to mess with my head anytime it has to do something new. May I suggest you follow my simple rules?
1. Take a quick nip of something strong (for courage in the face of the grinning malevolent demon — ah, computer). 2. Tell it that either it works now, or its being given to a) the niece heading to college who’s killed 3 computers in the last year, b) the boy who likes to take apart things and see how they work, or c) the repairman who boasts that he can beat any computer into submission.
Weirdly enough, it usually works. Sorry I missed you in Doylestown — coward that I am, I opted for the wedding . . .
Sigh. I was one of the screechiest employees who begged my employers to beg you to visit Western Mass and now we’re expecting such crowds that I hear you won’t be in the store at all, but a near-by hotel! The teachers, students and yarn pushers are are mega-bummed out. See you at the signing, though!
Hi,
I just googled Loop-d-Loop Twisty Turns wrap and your blog came up. Did you finishe the one for your sister? I am just finishing the cast on rows and am a pretty new knitter. I swear there are some mistakes in the last two rows (11 & 12) I am just not sure. I am knitting over the purled side and purling over the knits. Did you have any trouble with this?
Thanks.
Non-knitter delurking again just to share a tip:
If you have a pants zipper that keeps falling down, poke a small rubber band through the hole in the end of the zipper pull. Pull the rubber band through itself so that it loops onto the end of the pull. Zip your pants shut. Loop the rubber band around and around the button of your pants until there’s no significant stretch left. This will keep your pants zipped without constant vigilance.
If you do this, though, be sure you don’t wait ’til the last minute to rush to the bathroom when it’s time to go. Respond to your earliest warning in order to give yourself an extra minute or two to disassemble the security measure.
Cheers!
Steph!! oh gosh oh gosh I was so over whelmed that you knew who i was!! i used to think i wasn’t important.. well maybe not important but a person that people remembered, thought of, etc.
you see no one from my high school remembered me after just one year! ugh.. i never thought that i was a wall flower.. but maybe not as perky as now 🙂 anywho I was thrilled that you knew who i was when you saw my name 🙂 thanks for making my day, evening, week, month, year, decade, century, etc. 🙂
Kori and I leave for hilton head island tomorrow morning.. so i’ve got to run.. hope i can get on line while i’m away and look forward to your wonderful thoughts, view points and basically reading my thoughts 🙂 hugs Karola (you know the lunatic with the cane from Harlem hee hee
And here I thought I was the only one who knit to avoid strangling the in-laws. And why do people think you’re rude to knit at social gatherings? Didn’t women do that for hundreds of years? Besides you know what they say about idle hands. 🙂
Re the zipper–run a small safety pin from the inside of the pants across the teeth just below the zipper pull. It can’t fall then, and it’s quite discreet. Good luck with the tour!
Hi, I’m delurking to say I went to the bookstore yesterday with twenty unexpected dollars and I decided to buy a knitting book. After sitting on a chair and the floor and enduring a man behind me chewing loudly for no less than 15 minutes, I bought your new book and I like it very much! Thanks for… um…. writing. And existing. Please continue to do both.
Grateful for the opportunity to see/hear you in Pgh! You are obviously touching uncounted knitting lives with your writing. Hope you liked the moonshine pin and the thought that someone in West Virginia is knitting along with you.
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