You may remember that earlier this summer I participated in, and posted about, a group knitting project conceived by local artist Seann McKeel. The “You Are The Chosen One” project has been completed, and will be on display in downtown Portland (on Couch St, between 6th and Broadway), through the month of September, 2011. …
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What (Else) Can You Do on Ravelry?
This week, Ravelry posted a message that they had the ONE MILLIONTH person join the website. Wowsers! Hooray! Congrats Ravelry! Just in case you have been under a rock or something for a couple of years, and you haven’t heard of it — Ravelry is a unique free website for fiber lovers that was started…
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“Teach someone to knit.”
A long, long time ago — we’re talking at least a couple of decades — I started one of those lists that are now often called “bucket” lists — you know, things you want to do before you “kick the bucket”. (Only at the time I did mine, the list was titled “50 Things to…
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Knitting Jargon on the Interwebs
Yesterday at the LYS, I took part in a discussion about SABLE. What, you never heard of SABLE? You might even be a member of SABLE! SABLE stands for “Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy”. A person becomes a member of this group when she owns more yarn than she can reasonably expect to knit in…
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Antepenultimate
Huh? It’s the perfect knitting word. “ultimate” refers to the last one of something, therefore “penultimate” refers to the next-to-the-last one of something; and if you throw an “ante” on there, also meaning “before” or “prior to” (as in “antebellum”), you get “antepenultimate“, meaning the one before the next-to-the-last one. Think toe shaping. “Knit…