TessKnits.com » It’s All About the Blog http://tessknits.com where smart knitters have more fun! Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:45:15 +0000 en hourly 1 Hey, I Fixed It! (TessKnits.com Is Back Up) http://tessknits.com/3161/hey-i-fixed-it-tessknits-com-is-back-up http://tessknits.com/3161/hey-i-fixed-it-tessknits-com-is-back-up#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:40:20 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=3161 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/3161/hey-i-fixed-it-tessknits-com-is-back-up/feed 0 Someone At Vogue Knitting Reads My Blog! http://tessknits.com/3091/someone-at-vogue-knitting-reads-my-blog http://tessknits.com/3091/someone-at-vogue-knitting-reads-my-blog#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:33:35 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=3091 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/3091/someone-at-vogue-knitting-reads-my-blog/feed 1 Whoa, What the Hell Happened? http://tessknits.com/2668/whoa-what-the-hell-happened http://tessknits.com/2668/whoa-what-the-hell-happened#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:15:14 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=2668 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/2206/stuffy-and-nonsense/feed 3 Cl@$$ Act http://tessknits.com/666/cl-act http://tessknits.com/666/cl-act#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:10:36 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=666 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/666/cl-act/feed 2 Same Ol’, Same Ol’ http://tessknits.com/171/same-ol-same-ol http://tessknits.com/171/same-ol-same-ol#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:32 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=171 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/171/same-ol-same-ol/feed 0 New Look http://tessknits.com/167/new-look http://tessknits.com/167/new-look#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:47:55 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=167 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/167/new-look/feed 4 The Attraction of Tangles http://tessknits.com/110/the-attraction-of-tangles http://tessknits.com/110/the-attraction-of-tangles#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:28:26 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.henchal.com/?p=110 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/110/the-attraction-of-tangles/feed 0 I Just Want You to Know, I Had Big Plans http://tessknits.com/159/i-just-want-you-to-know-i-had-big-plans http://tessknits.com/159/i-just-want-you-to-know-i-had-big-plans#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:45:31 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=159 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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]]> http://tessknits.com/159/i-just-want-you-to-know-i-had-big-plans/feed 0 Behind the Scenes http://tessknits.com/112/behind-the-scenes http://tessknits.com/112/behind-the-scenes#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:56 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/archives/112 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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