Announcing . . .
I’ve installed a message board on my site for all of us to use. It works pretty much like any other message board you’ve seen. I thought it might make it easier for some of you who would like to chat amongst yourselves to do so.
Right now there’s just a “General” Forum. If you have any ideas on what kinds of Forum topics you’d like, leave me a comment and I’ll create them.
I don’t know if this board will see much action, but I thought it would be fun to try it out. The link to the board is in my sidebar, and will remain there for easy access. There’s a FAQ section there to help you out if you get stuck.
A Pleasure to Know!
I was surfing through blogs yesterday and read this on Kerstin’s blog:
While the cyber world can be a creepy place and full of miserable people, I have personally found that for every nut case out there, there are at least 100 fine people who are a pleasure to know.
Amen, Kerstin! I receive proof of this over and over! The latest proof:
Monday afternoon I got a package in the mail, from a blog reader, Karin in Princeton, NJ. Inside:
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A set of dpns, with a note. Karin had read on my blog that I spent part of my childhood in Pinner, a small village in England. Coincidentally, she passed through Pinner a couple of years ago, and bought some knitting needles in a charity shop there. She sent me one of those sets as a souvenir.
I’ve never met Karin, our only contact is through her reading of my blog. How’s that’s for a kind and generous act?
Q&A!
Lisa asked:
When you are doing colorwork such as you are now with Abalone, do you have to look at the chart for each row, or do you memorize it and just know when to change colors by looking at your work on the needle?
I look at the chart at the start of most rows. I don’t for the small 6-row pattern in between the large pattern repeats — that’s easy as pie. But at the start of each row of the main pattern I glance at the chart. That gets the pattern repeat stuck in my head, so I can complete the round without referring back.

Gratuitous Sentimental Cat Photo du Jour

Lucy, in weird lighting.
Scary Sighting du Jour
Seen (and heard) out my office window:
An open truck loaded up with Lyndon LaRouche supporters, blaring the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah.” I think Handel must be turning over in his grave.
Not that I’m making a political statement here, mind.


















