Jun

05

Fragile Heart – testers needed

Knitting
Fragile Heart lace scarf

Tanti cuoricini

The heart scarf is done and I love the semi-solid red of Anzula’s Wash my Lace. Much brighter than anything I’ve had in a long time; sometimes you just have to dare beyond gray, my default color these past few years.

I am writing up the pattern and will need testers soon. If any of you are interested, please leave me a note in the comments or email me at dada @ fluffbuff .com. The scarf itself is a decent time commitment (well for me it was, because I knit slowly), but even testing the stitch chart would be very helpful. The stitch is complex and requires some maneuvering (p2tog tbl, lace on both sides, dropped stitches picked up in subsequent rows, short rows).

Fragile Heart lace scarf

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P.S. I’ll revert to a weekly posting schedule soon. I don’t know what’s come over me this past week… I know posting too frequently becomes a bore.

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Jun

03

Best blocking prop

Knitting

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Yes, the lace scarf is drying as I type.
before blocking

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Jun

02

Attraction

Nature

When we went to Santa Barbara last week, we brought home another orchid in addition to the Licaste aromatica. This one is a tiny plant with a white flower as big as its foliage and is another fragrant orchid that has been releasing a subtle scent in the early evenings while it was advertising for sex. At least this one doesn’t smell of cinnamon but rather like a subtle gardenia, so it has a place on the windowsill in my office.

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So far it seems to attract the wrong species.
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Jun

02

House of ragù

Food

I blame Elaine. Since she posted about grinding her own meat, I bought the meat grinder attachment for our old KitchenAid and made three big batches of ragù in 15 days. In the pre-grinder days I would make a batch, have garganelli al ragù for dinner, and file the rest of the ragù away in the freezer in double-portion packages that would last us a few weeks at the rate of one package per week. Those days are over. The first two batches of home-ground ragù never made it into the freezer. We had pasta al ragù, Sloppy Joes, crostini, and even ragù taquitos. You’d think we’d be sick of the stuff already but I had a new batch bubbling slowly on the stove all day Tuesday. The interesting thing about grinding my own meat has not been the improvement in taste and flavor (that was expected), but the fact that now I

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May

31

Riva goes live

Knitting

Riva pattern cover page

Riva is up on Ravelry and I also set up a pattern support page with: notes, photos, links to tutorials for techniques employed in the pattern, a link to download an excerpt of the PDF (cover + overview), and a button link to buy the pattern.

At some point I will design and build a proper website at SlowKnits.com, but until then the pattern support page will provide background information and links to resources. It may not be pretty, but the important stuff is there.

This was a learning experience that took longer than I had anticipated because everything I did was new to me: document every little action, write down instructions so that they would make sense to other knitters, refine them so they would be as concise and clear as possible, design the document, get my software to do what I wanted (I am still fighting with Illustrator and InDesign), learn the ropes of testing on a public forum, consider all the feedback and decide what to incorporate and what not, set up a store on Ravelry, and the list goes on.

Along the way I got an enormous amount of help, first from my friends who gave me thoughtful feedback on the logic and structure part of the document, then from my testers on Ravelry who spent about 20 hours each knitting the scarf and providing detailed feedback on the instructions. Not to mention some cheering up when I was getting discouraged. :)
Thank you girls! (Bethany, Carolyn, Priscilla, Betta, Loredana, Annie, Alyssa, Maria, Concetta) I am a little sleepy and hope I haven’t forgotten to include any of you when I sent out the final PDF in my pre-caffeine daze.

Off to make a big batch of ragù.

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