Sentence Fluency!
OK. Big duh.
I realized that one of the big reasons I haven't been posting...or was getting frustrated when I DID post...is that when I type in the Blogger post window on my vintage 1998 iMac (with its little weenie processor) I get this weird bounce-back echo effect and it takes FOREVAH for my letters to appear on the screen after being typed. (Sorry, bad sentence.) And so I would often get about 1/4 of the way into a post and then just think: screw it. You can imagine the angst this has caused. I just looked back at my post manager and found that I was leaving over 33% of my posts as drafts, never finishing them.
Although Dr. Freud might make all sorts of speculations about my inability to finish off (ahem)...and other knitters might categorize me as a startitis sort of person, I really was just plain frustrated by my technology's inability to meet my needs. I literally could not post what I wanted to--the words in my head did not translate quickly or easily to the electronic page, and not just in the normal composition/editing sort of cycle. (This must be what people with learning disabilities feel like all the time. Should probably note this feeling for future reference with students.)
Then, today, I'm sitting shuffling through Ravelry and spinning through my favorite blogs and all of "the sudden" (as my students would say) I have a little mini-epiphany. Text Edit is my friend.
I can WRITE in TextEdit, then CUT, then PASTE into blogger.
Why oh why did I not realize this before? How dense am I?
Anyway, here I am, typing with fluency and a little behind-the-scenes magic and, voila! I'm a blog-o-matic. A blog-machine. A whizblogger.
I've been doing a bunch of knitting lately (insomnia having its silver lining) and here are a few of the projects in the hopper:
1. I finished charting the cable from our wedding rings, and have started a top-down raglan for my husband. {ravelry link} Dear readers, if any, do you think I should post the cable chart? I'm really proud of figuring it out on my own, with a little inspiration from Alice Starmore and The Girl From Auntie.
2. I finished the body of my Stefanie japel top-down raglan {ravelry link} and am on the arms.
It is a bit big, I fear. I'm going to finish the arms and neckband, and I reserve the right to rip back part of the bottom ribbing after I block it. Right now there's a weird sort of blousing effect between the stockinette and the ribbing, and I hope that will calm down after I block it. I had a lot of trouble getting gauge on this one--the pattern calls for size 9s and I had to go up to 10.5, but now I'm worried that my gauge ended up relaxing as I worked more on it. It's supposed to be just about my bust size and it feels really big. (No, I haven't measured it. Yes, I'm in denial.) May end up being a gift or a sweatshirt-type sweater instead, which is disappointing, because I love this pattern.
3. I've made bunches of hats lately. Been on a hat tear. Soon I will assemble them in one location and have a hat fair.
So that's the knitting of note.
I realized that one of the big reasons I haven't been posting...or was getting frustrated when I DID post...is that when I type in the Blogger post window on my vintage 1998 iMac (with its little weenie processor) I get this weird bounce-back echo effect and it takes FOREVAH for my letters to appear on the screen after being typed. (Sorry, bad sentence.) And so I would often get about 1/4 of the way into a post and then just think: screw it. You can imagine the angst this has caused. I just looked back at my post manager and found that I was leaving over 33% of my posts as drafts, never finishing them.
Although Dr. Freud might make all sorts of speculations about my inability to finish off (ahem)...and other knitters might categorize me as a startitis sort of person, I really was just plain frustrated by my technology's inability to meet my needs. I literally could not post what I wanted to--the words in my head did not translate quickly or easily to the electronic page, and not just in the normal composition/editing sort of cycle. (This must be what people with learning disabilities feel like all the time. Should probably note this feeling for future reference with students.)
Then, today, I'm sitting shuffling through Ravelry and spinning through my favorite blogs and all of "the sudden" (as my students would say) I have a little mini-epiphany. Text Edit is my friend.
I can WRITE in TextEdit, then CUT, then PASTE into blogger.
Why oh why did I not realize this before? How dense am I?
Anyway, here I am, typing with fluency and a little behind-the-scenes magic and, voila! I'm a blog-o-matic. A blog-machine. A whizblogger.
I've been doing a bunch of knitting lately (insomnia having its silver lining) and here are a few of the projects in the hopper:
1. I finished charting the cable from our wedding rings, and have started a top-down raglan for my husband. {ravelry link} Dear readers, if any, do you think I should post the cable chart? I'm really proud of figuring it out on my own, with a little inspiration from Alice Starmore and The Girl From Auntie.
2. I finished the body of my Stefanie japel top-down raglan {ravelry link} and am on the arms.
It is a bit big, I fear. I'm going to finish the arms and neckband, and I reserve the right to rip back part of the bottom ribbing after I block it. Right now there's a weird sort of blousing effect between the stockinette and the ribbing, and I hope that will calm down after I block it. I had a lot of trouble getting gauge on this one--the pattern calls for size 9s and I had to go up to 10.5, but now I'm worried that my gauge ended up relaxing as I worked more on it. It's supposed to be just about my bust size and it feels really big. (No, I haven't measured it. Yes, I'm in denial.) May end up being a gift or a sweatshirt-type sweater instead, which is disappointing, because I love this pattern.
3. I've made bunches of hats lately. Been on a hat tear. Soon I will assemble them in one location and have a hat fair.
So that's the knitting of note.
1 comment:
Heck yeah, you should post your cable chart! Then you should offer the sweater pattern plus chart as a free Ravelry download. It looks beautiful so far.
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