Picturesque: A Blog



About Name: Margaret Location: Earth Age: School age Sign: Scorpio Hobbies: Knitting, reading, web design, crochet, sewing, gymnastics, violin, competitive cheerleading, music, shopping, surfing internet Likes: Science, math, Project Runway, sci-fi, documentaries, cute but weird stuff, orchids, redecorating, museums Dislikes: Clamshell packaging, mornings, Tuesdays, needles, my laptop case Current... Obssession: My busy schedule Book: Emma by Jane Austen (review) Music: Rhianna Mood: Bored Archive June 2008 May 2008 March 2008 Links Collection de Fleur Knitty The Daily Knitter Amigurumi Kingdom The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive littleoddforest Rahoi.com Credits Aethereality.net Index Stock		Progress July 25^th 2008 Just a little note to point out that you can now comment on posts! Make sure to take note of the date of the post you're commenting on before you click the line, though.... The socks are coming along nicely; I'm nearly at the heel on the first one. And I swear that I will not mess up the tension on these. Really, I won't. Comment on Post 0 Comments (View) Redemption! July 24^th 2008 So, those socks? I chucked them in the wash without agitation, and they shrunk to the perfect size-- and they're almost the same legnth, too. (Even thought it doesn't look like it in the picture, they are) What's more, they didn't felt, not even a little bit. My next project is more socks, this time with some yarn I bought on my trip to Maine. It's this pretty dark red color. Comment on Post 0 Comments (View) And I'd Been So Good, Too... July 22^th 2008 AAARRRGGGGHHHHH! Stupid really pretty layout! Just as I'd been SO GOOD about updating several times a month, you had to go and eat it all!!! Allow me to explain... My progress making a layout had been slow, if not stagnant. So, I decided to just go with a freeware layout instead. And I did. Only, when I uploaded all of the files, including the index.html one, I conviniently forgot that Geocities replaces any old files with a newly uploaded one of the same name. So, all of my July blog posts are gone, never to be recovered cries So, I'll be doing some work in the next few hours, getting all of the archive pages and stuff to match this one. And, everyone, learn from my mistakes: When uploading a freeware layout, change the name of your old index page or else you will be very, very sorry. In the meantime, here's that pair of socks I'd mentioned that I'd been knitting: Basically, I messed up the tension on the second one (on the top), and that one ended up 2.5 inches longer and 1 inch wider than the smaller, better fitting, first one. I have enough yarn left to knit a third one, but I'm so sick of the pattern... It's all stockinette on dpns... I knit the Pippi Kneestockings from Stitch and Bitch by Debbie Stoller with Brown Sheep Company's Nature Spun Sport 100% wool yarn in Nervous Green, Amethyst, Bordeaux, and French Clay. And, just because the entry with this one was lost in the index.html incident, here's an armwarmer that I knit a few weeks ago out of the same yarn, only in Plumberry: I used this pattern from Knitty, but I altered it a bit: I used size US 1 and 2 dpns instead of 2 and 3, and I added more pattern repeats to make it longer than the pattern for the smaller ones suggested. +EDIT+ Learn from my experiences lesson number two: Don't update web pages when you're hungry and tired: you'll only delete your April post archive when you meant to delete your old March one. Today is really not my day... Comment on Post 0 Comments (View) Copyrights & Credits Picturesque: A Blog © Margaret Designed by Aethereality.net Images © Index Stock Textures © The Blooming Effect and Hybrid Genesis Brushes © Relished.net and Cirratus.org and Roshiweb.com