Friday, July 31, 2015

Numbers

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When  did people start using numbers? Neanderthal pursued a number of  advanced tool making   activities for a very long time, then inte...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Great Wheels

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Making yarn is about inserting twist into fiber.  Twist is energy. The essence of making yarn is using energy to organize fiber.  And, ener...
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Monday, July 20, 2015

My Knitting Pins

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In the last couple of years I have made myself a full set of blunt ended knitting pins.   At this point, I have decided that I do not need ...
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A needle for every yarn

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I started with pointed needles because EVERYONE said that is how one knits.  I started with hand hand-held needles because that was how eve...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

SWMBO

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She, who thinks she is SWMBO, says: "No pix, then it did not happen". She is critical of all that I do.  It is time to, point t...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Jealousy and Delusion

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"Wow! You make an awful lot of assumptions about me, Aaron. You clearly have a very active, if completely inaccurate, imagination. I ...
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Monday, July 06, 2015

ECS 3

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A swatch/prototype in progress.  The stitch is eastern crossed stitch.  The yarn is Paton's Classic Wool.  The gauge is 8 stitches per...
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ECS 2

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After some additional swatching, and reflection, I expect that eastern cross stitch was the stitch used in the classic "Jersey" s...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

Eastern Cross stitch

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My attention was originally drawn to Eastern Cross Stitch when I read in Mary Thomas's  Knitting Book, that in previous times, it had b...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Am I an "Elite" knitter?

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When I knit the stuff that everyone else was knitting, I never considered myself an elite knitter. Now, I knit stuff that some (or even m...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Pure Wisdom

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He, that I call "Pure Wisdom" is a member of my most extended family.  He was one of the brightest stars at one of the world...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Speculation from Ignorance

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Recently, I have been seeing a lot of Speculation from Ignorance about my knitting. It is derogatory. What drives them to slander and libel...
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Knit wear supporting a pool of water

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Here is a 5 year old pix of some knit wear including a sweater supporting a pool of water. It was 12 oz cup about 2/3 full, so that is ab...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Flat tipped needles 2

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These days, I make knitting needles by cutting steel music wire to length, grinding the ends flat or slightly domed, and polishing the burr...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

short sleeved Shetland

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A nice beam reach home,  made more interesting by fracturing the main sheet fitting.  It was cool and breezy. The gansey was short slee...
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Sunday, June 07, 2015

Flat tipped needles work with leather knitting pouches

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I was wrong.  Flat tipped needles work very well with Shetland knitting pouches for ordinary knitting, purling, and decreases. Since the ...
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Friday, June 05, 2015

The silver spoon

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You go into history, and find times and places where a the number of professional spinners can be associated in some way with a definite qu...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Lyme Disease

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If you think I am harsh on the conventional wisdom of spinners, wait until I get going on the American Medical community. Lyme Disease ha...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Overconfidence effect

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see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect And http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/impossible-knowledge-are_b_7421574....
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Rhine Gold

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When I was young, I loved Wagner, but was always unhappy that he mixed up German mythology. Looking at the recent PBS special on the a...
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