Posts from January 2007

» with a little help


Hey, Liz! Look what I got to working on last night. I figured I shouldn’t let it sit around any more, so I started putting the pieces together, with crochet no less. At this rate I’ll be done in no time! I also had fun taking pictures with my new camera. [...]

Posted on: January 31, 2007 by Meg | Tags: , | 1 comment

» Where Christmas goes to die


I was coming home from work this afternoon, and as I was pulling up to my building in the apartment complex I live in, I thought, “Oh, they’ve put in some new bushes.” It seemed strange to me that they’d do this in the middle of winter, but then again, it’s not like we’ve had [...]

Posted on: January 30, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 3 comments

» Mountain Goat redux


After yesterday’s photograph of the BJ Bass Mountain Goat swatch was taken, I washed it, and laid it out to dry. I thought about it a lot during the day, mostly worrying that the shape I’m intending for this sweater would end up looking like this. Not a good thing for our Bassman. So [...]

Posted on: January 30, 2007 by Meg | Tags: , | 1 comment

» What I did on my day off


The inaugural Sunday afternoon Knit-In was held at Yarn Expressions yesterday, and it was a hoot. Even though I was busy taking pictures, I still had some time to knit. I usually only take to the store projects that are available at the store, but yesterday I wasn’t “working”, so I took BJ [...]

Posted on: January 29, 2007 by Meg | Tags: | no comments

» Log Cabin Blankets


I was browsing around the web reading old blog archives tonight, and I happened to stumble upon this old post of Cara’s over at January One about her Chance Log Cabin. The idea of using a random number generator to create a blanket is really awesome to me, and I think I’m gonna add [...]

Posted on: January 29, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 1 comment

» How to make your knitting pictures look good using Photoshop


I am by no means a photography expert. I like to dabble, but I’ve only ever taken one photography class in college, and these days, the only things I really take photos of are snapshots of social events for memory’s sake and, of course, my knitting. My photos are by no means spectacular. [...]

Posted on: January 28, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 1 comment