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Archive for July, 2005

Don’t you just hate it when…

Friday, July 29th, 2005

… you have an ‘emergency’ that gets in the way of your real work?
One of the Servers at work decided it would be a good idea to destroy people’s profiles.
We did a restore back but a few were corrupt on the restore. It takes about 30 mintes per profile to rebuild, if you don’t [...]

I’m up too late again!

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

I know, I should have been in bed an hour ago!
I’ve been mussing about with 2 things.

Handbag is 98% there, I just weave in my ends, block it up, and make the pull cord to go through the eyelets.
I spent the last hour fruitlessly fidding with the WIP page, so that I can [...]

‘A Handbag???’

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

This is my “small diversionary WIP” to take my mind off of Lauren and 2×2. Although, this bag seems to be doing that far too well! As you can see from my WIP bars, I am nearly done on this one.

It is a really easy “Knit kit” from Marks and Spencer of all places, I [...]

Lauren - needs a DND sign!

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Don’t get me wrong, once this is finished, she is going to be stunning… but like any lady, Lauren needs your undivided attention!
You knit her in sets of 3 rows, and as each row is over 100 stitches, it take about 40-50 minutes for me to do a set. It is a rather convaluted process:
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Revelations…

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

… or "The night I learned to Purl properly…"
One of the reasons why my 2×2 scarf has taken me so long to do is that until about 2 weeks ago, I was unknowingly twisting my purl stitches.
I couldn’t understand why the rib fought me so much. On the WS, I found that I was having [...]