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Hey, I Fixed It! (TessKnits.com Is Back Up)

Feb 9

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Apologies to anyone who tried to check in over the weekend.  :oops:   This "webmaster" thing can be kinda tricky, ya know?

In the past couple of weeks, I'm 2 for 2, what with killing the Polar Bear Patterns store, and then taking the whole blog down.  At least I got this back up and running — and the post I wrote on Friday about recycling yarn is really pretty good, so maybe you can go read that one.  As for me, I'm off to see what I can do about the patterns store…

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Someone At Vogue Knitting Reads My Blog!

Jan 19

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Some habits die hard.  Has anyone ever heard the joke that an engineer only needs two data points to come to a conclusion?

Data Point 1:  A couple of years back, in January '08, I was working on the sweater I dubbed the "Nutcracker", after the name of the spread in Vogue Knitting's Holiday '07 issue.  I ran into a few issues with that project — which are spelled out beginning with this post — but the biggest problem was that I suspected (and can in fact mathematically prove) that the model was photographed with a big ol' wad of fabric bunched up behind her back, to make the sweater design look fitted, when in fact it was not.

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Whoa, What the Hell Happened?

Oct 30

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What happened?  I'll tell you what happened.  I got fed up with things being all wonky, that's what happened.

Well, to tell you the truth, I've been fed up with that for a while — but this time I got fed up enough to actually, finally, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

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Stuffy and Nonsense

Jun 4

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Hoo boy, it’s been a rough week here at my house.  Either I’ve just had the weirdest cold ever, or I suddenly became acutely allergic to something that’s currently in the air in vast quantities.

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Cl@$$ Act

Sep 12

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, or so they say.  And they are right.

I figured out something very wrong with my blog today — more specifically, with the way I set things up here.

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Same Ol’, Same Ol’

Jul 3

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OK, that Patricia is one smart cookie.  And she actually has some real-life experience and knowledge about styling, and how things ought to look.

So I took her advice on the whole "new look for the blog" thing. I have gone back to the "old" template, because it worked fine and did what I wanted it to do.  But, I’ve tweaked the appearance to be fresher, and I still am hopeful it will be more readable.

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New Look

Jun 23

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Whoa!  What happened?!

Obviously, I’m trying out a different look for tessknits.com.  There are a few things that still need tweaking:  admittedly some of the colors on the class pages need a bit of lot of work.  But I thought I’d see what you think before I put too much more work into it.

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The Attraction of Tangles

Jun 17

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What is it exactly about a tangled mass of yarn that makes everyone itch to get their hands on it and start untangling?

Well, maybe not everyone.  Usually, the person whose yarn it is has had it up to wherever with the tangles.

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I Just Want You to Know, I Had Big Plans

Jun 12

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This post was originally going to be poignant, touching and funny.  Everything you always wanted in a knitting blog post.

Alas, due to the machinations of big business, my original vision has been forced to change a bit.

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Behind the Scenes

Apr 7

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What a week it has been.  I had a birthday, so I took a few days off — DH had the flu, so he did too.  Is it just me, or is it darned near impossible to get anything done when your husband is home?  So, not much posting going on.

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Updates

Jan 30

Posted by TessM in It's All About the Blog, Not Knitting, Sox Therapy | 1 Comment

OK, it’s high time I wrote something new & exciting.  Hmmm…!

First, let me tell you that the site has gotten just a teensy bit better, with the addition of two new pages:  look up at the top, on the navigation bar, and you’ll see "Site Map" as well as "Knit Links".

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Comments, anyone?

Jan 10

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Some questions have been raised about about how to make a comment – here’s a quick overview.

When you first start reading, it doesn’t show the comments.  The word “comments” is at the top of the post - click on that to show them.

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It’ll be… just like starting over

Nov 2

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Well, in case either of you wondered – I tried to upgrade my blog software, and instead I killed the whole blog. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. I do have all the old posts archived (yes, I subscribed to my own RSS feed!) so just about everything is recoverable. However, it will take some valuable knitting time… My, I’m learning a lot!

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In the beginning…

Sep 27

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“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

OK, so I’m starting today. Hiya. Welcome to my blog! I intend for this to be a blog about knitting, mainly, with some color commentary about life and whatnot thrown in.

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