meme: Me Me

Not one to do memes, but I saw this one, and finally, was intrigued enough to do it: a photo meme. And, as the rules would have it, my name is the answer to the first and last question. Click on the photo to open the flickr page and read the notes/answers to each of the questions.

This meme's rules

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

 

No Muss No Fuss No Wraps No Holes Short Row Heel

This heel is the unvention of Priscilla Wild and is included in the Lifestyle Toe Up Sock guide. It's so easy, that you really have to see how easy it is so you just quit thinking and keep knitting!

You'll have to forgive that I start off using the royal "We", and as I only do this for fun, there are a few lagging moments, but you will get the idea!

Stepping up to the "I'll show you mine if..." challenge

Answering the call to show all the different ways that we knit (and purl) I videotaped myself knitting (video length is just under 3.5 minutes). If you are a member of Ravelry, see the discussion thread here. My submission to this thread was post #245.

You can view many ways of knitting, purling, spinning on You Tube. Just search on "knitting" or ["spinning" "yarn"] for a long list of short videos.

Yes! But, of course.

 Yes, of course, knitting helps you visualize the universe.
And it helps to calm the spirit when waiting in a long queue too.

Spinning: Wrap and Roll technique

Saturday I had an impromptu spin-in at my house, and Katie, The Knitting Mama*, demostrated how to do local fiber goddess Sarah Anderson's "Wrap and Roll" plying technique. View a short video of Katie showing how:







This technique is described in detail in the Spring 2008 "Spin-Off" magazine. They also have videos of the process - Click to view their videos.  This technique creates a novelty yarn spun on a core fiber (the core fiber does not show). The core is wound onto a hand spindle and serves up the core while you wind/ply a yarn onto it and feed it into the wheel. The trick with the handspindle is that you get it spinning in the opposite direction of the plying wheel, inherently creating a balanced novelty yarn.

*Visit Katie's blog, view the 15 May 2008 entry and see more details about how to do this plying technique.