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techknitting, naming stuff
I stumbled across the TECHKnitting blog and whoa, wow. I wanna knit like that when I grow up :)
Have gone through most of the entries, and even the smallest tips (such as this one which gives advice for pushing the left needle back when moving stitches around, without hurting your finger.
Equally awesome, she has an entry where she lays out how to fix a dropped stitch down the side, especially pointing out why the dropped stitch down the side looks so hard, and not twenty-four hours after I read that entry, I'd used the knowledge to fix something -- thrice!
Saved me having to undo and redo several hundred stitches each time :)
Got the second backup drive finally. She's Western Digital, 2TB, USB 3.0 and not too expensive. She also hase a name.
I tend to give my gadgets names, when I remember, and so far, I have, in the order in which they were named:
I think that covers everything!
I have a phone as well, which is unnamed because I thought that it would only be temporarily mine. At some point, about a year after my sister handed it to me (supposedly temporary), I realized that it was actually mine, but by that time it had just never gotten a name.
The series of USB thumdrives named Meowser/Data-fu (and along those lines) all met with a bad end. One got squashed underneath a falling laptop and is held together with tape. Another went through the washer, and a third just overheated as I was transferring data off it. So I got the message and abandoned that line of naming before I lost any valuable data.
Have gone through most of the entries, and even the smallest tips (such as this one which gives advice for pushing the left needle back when moving stitches around, without hurting your finger.
Equally awesome, she has an entry where she lays out how to fix a dropped stitch down the side, especially pointing out why the dropped stitch down the side looks so hard, and not twenty-four hours after I read that entry, I'd used the knowledge to fix something -- thrice!
Saved me having to undo and redo several hundred stitches each time :)
Got the second backup drive finally. She's Western Digital, 2TB, USB 3.0 and not too expensive. She also hase a name.
I tend to give my gadgets names, when I remember, and so far, I have, in the order in which they were named:
- laptop: Blanket
- blanket: MacBook (actual blanket, not a gadget, but named all the same)
- portable HD: Pillow / PILLOW-FAT
- USB thumbdrive: Baby Pillow
- ipad: Black Marshmallow
- HD: Featherdown Quilt (new :D)
I think that covers everything!
I have a phone as well, which is unnamed because I thought that it would only be temporarily mine. At some point, about a year after my sister handed it to me (supposedly temporary), I realized that it was actually mine, but by that time it had just never gotten a name.
The series of USB thumdrives named Meowser/Data-fu (and along those lines) all met with a bad end. One got squashed underneath a falling laptop and is held together with tape. Another went through the washer, and a third just overheated as I was transferring data off it. So I got the message and abandoned that line of naming before I lost any valuable data.
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That is brilliant and why did I never think of doing that?
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I found that I wasn't pushing the needle tip, more of gripping the left needle lightly by the sides, but even that made my fingers sore (though it took longer than if I had been pushing back the point directly)!
I'm still trying to get used to this, but (when I remember) I feel the difference :D
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My brother's cat's name is "Dust Bunny," but it always gets shortened to "Bunny." My brother was talking about getting a rabbit at some point, and I said that he should name it "Kitty."
(Also, the "X comments," "Reply," and similar links are so light they look like they're means to be grayed out and unusable.)
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Heeee. That sounds about right.
(And ohh yeah. Maybe I should tweak that. I made this layout originally when I was feeling stressed because there was too much stuff around me, so that was actually deliberate, but it may not be helpful to anyone who's not me :x)
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(I *used* to push the left needle back with the tip of my finger, and I recall it can get painful. But then I a) stopped using metal needles and b) stopped knitting so tightly.)
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The other situation involves knitting with very fine yarn in the round. The sheer number of stitches generally required plus the size of the loops poses some problems with gliding and moving, no matter how loose the knitting is. Generally, the joins on circular needles get in the way of the small stitches, making for a pause. (When I've knit lace on metal circs, I didn't have this problem...but I did have a very big problem of "Ohshit, my stitch just committed suicide!") Moving to the less slick bamboo or wooden circs helped, but it means I have to do a pause-n-shove every now and again. (Right now, for example, I'm procrastinating on Anna Dalvi's Mystic Star because my version has 500+ stitches silk stitches on bamboo needles in New Orleans. Hot, sticky summer, here we come! I do not enjoy moving those stitches around the needles myself.)
Generally, I agree with you, re: too damn tight.
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I'm not quite sure how to pull the left needle back. I can get the stitch off the left needle by tugging it off with the right needle, but I still need to apply some pushback to the left needle to adjust the remaining stitches upwards. (I usually do it by grasping the left needle and pushing back, instead of pushing back on the point itself -- or well, did, until I read the techknitting article!)
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