heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Dec 8, 2009, 1:11 pm
Around this time back in 1956 I was busy plotting an early entry into the world. Sometime earlier that year, my mother was trying to get her knit on in anticipation of my arrival. My mother, like he...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Dec 1, 2009, 10:16 pm
Or back when my mother and I both really liked my profile, my mother had this silhouette piece done of me. I think I remember the hat -- a modified cloche with a wide velvet ribbon that was my Easter...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 28, 2009, 11:03 pm
Although in the knitting early days my fingers/brain seemed intent on not learning the rhythm of the pattern, the Brilla Prudence lace collar knit up quickly once it really hit the front of the knitti...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 26, 2009, 11:19 pm
I'm not much for the holiday itself but I'm pretty good at being thankful or at least I try. Today's posting is one of those life's simple pleasures to be thankful for in this case, a...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 25, 2009, 6:16 pm
In either a tweet or a FB status update, I noted that one of the problems with creating databases is changing sort strategies. It isn't a big deal when the sort is purely theoretical and/or bits ...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 24, 2009, 6:19 pm
I finished knitting my version of Colonnade on the 11th and did a first pass on the blocking shortly after. Even before it was off the needles, I did some checking into my notes on polygons and confi...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 22, 2009, 6:19 pm
If you know me at all you may have noticed that I tend to notice things that other people gloss over. This can be considered amusing, charming or annoying -- whatever your perspective it is one of my...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 21, 2009, 6:19 pm
Careful readers and folks on Ravelry will know that my pal Stacy (aka Artmama) got a wild hair to do a service project called 44 sweaters in honour of the 44th Prez of the United States of America. F...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 18, 2009, 6:19 pm
Today's posting is yet another one of those stuff seen around the hood shots. One of the now you see it now you don't shops that have been part of the business turn over here in Hillcrest is...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Nov 14, 2009, 6:15 pm
This started as a posting about older embroidery projects but drifted. Sometimes things work that way. Okay, so things work that way more often than not -- bite me. The bite me is an homage to pal Ka...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Oct 19, 2009, 1:51 am
I can choose to phrase this as either I'm short waisted or as I have crazy long legs. Crazy long legs may be the sexier and ego boosting side of the house but it doesn't quite get to why this ...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Oct 16, 2009, 2:44 pm
The room that is my yarn studio, like most of the rooms in this apartment, has a less than ideal layout -- limited wall space (lots of doors/windows and door swing stuff). It was far from perfect at...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Oct 15, 2009, 8:56 pm
When my original knitting instructor (Mrs Maclaren) took me on as knitting student when I was a mere kidling, she had high hopes for me. Those hopes were based in part because, although I was well u...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Sep 28, 2009, 11:49 pm
My late aunt (often know as MATB) apparently wasn't a really great knitter. Okay, it could have been age, eyesight and pride, but when she died I ended up with some of her unfinished stuff and it...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Sep 25, 2009, 9:46 pm
No, no, really there were drafts in the queue (even some that had been in the queue for quite some time) but at the very near end of the month, it only seemed right to note that blog entries were pret...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jul 14, 2009, 4:34 pm
I'm a bit of a bead whore and jewelry junkie and I'm also very big on repurposing things. My parents were frugal folk and it did not skip a generation. Based on my projects at Teradata/NCR, ...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jul 6, 2009, 10:26 am
One of the perils of knitting with non-standard materials is that the materials don't always have to meet any sort of knitting QA standards. I mean, come on, the world will not end and the job w...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jul 5, 2009, 10:08 pm
When I was a kid I loved hats and I wore them well. Later on my little pin head and lots of hair combo made hats a more problematic issue but I was still not above stealing Panamas, Cookie Cutters, ...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jul 3, 2009, 4:29 pm
The last update on the fish blanket/afghan was that the # of stitches picked up along the edge of one panel was way off from the live stitch count of the other panel it was to be grafted to. Live sti...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jul 2, 2009, 7:29 pm
So what do you get if you knit five stitch icord using rainbow nylon twine on 3.25mm needles? If you're me, you get a perfect rainbow cord suitable for Pride season. Or for someone who likes ra...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jun 26, 2009, 2:41 am
The launch party for KITS was at Knitting In La Jolla on the 16th of the missing May. I was really fun to see the other designs, the other designers, the book and knitters. In true show of maybe I&...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jun 22, 2009, 11:19 pm
I was so charmed by Lisa Limber's jacket in Knitting In the Sun that, even though I have said that I don't want to knit anything for the size I am now, I decided to make an exception. I looke...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jun 17, 2009, 12:05 am
One of the "new in the hood changes" I've seen recently is a funky vintage boots, vinyl and some such shop in the ever changing small kine space next to The Flame. The new shopkeepers are origina...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jun 12, 2009, 6:16 pm
On the 8th, an all too familiar scent wafted through the window of the office -- diesel fuel. With all the construction that's surrounded me in the last few years I'd be shocked if my lungs ...
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heather b. posted an article on walkabout knitting - Jun 6, 2009, 10:53 pm
The date on the edited image is mid-May so I probably snapped them earlier still. I love the toaster but I wish it had wings -- flying toasters appeal to me and flying toasters on a sidewalk appeal e...
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