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Helpdesk

It’s been quiet here and there is no excuse for it. I’m going pretend that nothing happened (which is exactly what happened) and start again.

This past week I made a lazy kate from a plastic box. Exactly like you can find on the internet where they make one from a shoebox. The knitting needles fit perfectly and once I’m done, I can put a lid on it.



On the bobbins there is a mixture of alpaca and tussah silk, bought in London this past July. The spinning isn't equal, the singles on the second bobbin came out a bit thicker. I’ve finished plying, the skein is drying right now.

I’ve been spinning quite a bit lately. I started on Thursday night. After about 15 minutes the phone rang. The parents had bought an iPad and it wasn’t working. I explained that they had to install iTunes on the computer first. Okay, they were going to do that. Before I got in the rhythm of spinning the phone rang again. They had installed the program and it was asking questions. I spend the next 30 minutes playing helpdesk. I think it’s working, I’m going over to see my parents tonight so I’ll know for sure then.

Not much knitting happened. Only a bit on a KAL.

Back home

We’re back home from London. Knit Nation was great. If I had the money to do this every year I probably would. There is no event next year because of the Olympic Games. Maybe I’ll go again in 2013. This is my loot:



I see that I forgot to include my mug in the picture. And yes, I have started a project there. You can never start too early on Christmas presents.

O, the visit to the SnB at iKnit never happened. With thanks to the manager of the hotel we booked. It didn’t quite go according to plan and we had to go looking for a place to stay. We did visit the store on Saturday.

The suitcase is packed

My suitcase is packed and in a few hours I get on the train and I'm off. On my way to London and Knit Nation. We might even stop by iKnit tonight.

Little sheep (and cows)

Once the computer was finally fixed I ended up being a bit broken. I’m don’t often have a cold but when it hits, it hits me hard. I think I caught it when I took public transport last week. I’m not used to it anymore and I must have lost some of my resistance to creepy things. Thankfully it passed again.

I have something fun to show.



These markers are from WeeOnes on Etsy. They are soo cute. Beside sheep and cows there are pigs and all kind of other barnyard animals.
Now to find a project to use them with.

Just learned the IE9 and Blogger can’t really get along, I can’t post a thing. So I switched to FireFox.

The computer has crashed

Last Sunday I was listening to a podcast on my computer and was knitting for a bit before finally starting on a new update for this place. Suddenly the only thing I heard was dididididididididididididididid. The computer refused to respond to the mouse or the keyboard. My only option was to use the on/off button on the computer. Sadly it didn’t restart. It didn’t blink, hum or burp at me. Absolutely nothing. Late Sunday night it worked again. For a little bit.
Monday I bought an external hard drive, I had absolutely nothing backed up. A crashing computer sure makes a person very nervous.
I think I managed to secure all of my documents and most of my pictures. Seems that I’ve lost everything else. Stupidstupidstupid.
I took the computer to somebody who is very optimistic. He’s going to see if he can fix it or otherwise get my data off the darn thing. I hope that he managed that least that. Keeping my fingers crossed.

No shame

The green yarn from last week is done. And stuffed in the back of a drawer. I have seldom suffered so much frustration from yarn. I quit trying to attach the single when it broke, it broke almost every 5 yards. I have no idea how many knots are in there now. Bleh.

Spinning is really contagious. I spun on Friday, Saturday and yesterday trying to fill a bobbin. This morning I had a small amount to go and it’s done now. As soon as I finish plying my yarn for my Vlinder Shawl, I’m starting on this one. I think I can manage enough yarn for Kvothe. That’s going to be my travel project in July when I go to Knit nation.

I noticed today that it really doesn’t matter what people think of my knitting in public. I had a dentist appointment this morning and had to wait more than 20 minutes. With a sock, which caused comments. Usually I politely answer the person, this time I pulled the first sock out of my bag and showed it to the lady. She played along very politely. I showed a complete stranger my knitted sock. Full pride and without shame.