Black Sheep

At Katherine’s Request

September 20th, 2004

Here are pictures of my husband’s socks post-hiking trip:

In the second pic you can really see how they shunk to fit his foot. I don’t know if you can see the felting, so much. But the fact that they are standing on thier own tells you something. Amazing, no? The fact that this was done with sweat is hilarious, I think.

Also, yes that sweater that he is wearing in the post below is one from Knitting Without Tears. It’s one of her seamless sweaters. The drop-shoulder one, I believe. It’s a really easy, nice knit. Like I said, it was the first sweater that I ever knitted and I managed it just fine.

Okay, now for some non knitting stuff. I wanted to direct your attention to another reason to download Firefox. I downloaded the most recent version today and discovered that there is a built-in RSS feed reader. I noticed that there has been some chatter about Bloglines on some of my favorite knitting blogs (here and here, too.). Bloglines is awesome and I have used thier service for quite some time. However, I no longer need to. Firefox’s rss reader is more convienient. It is going to take my blog surfing to a whole new level. When you use firefox you will see a little orange “rss” button on the bottom right of the screen. If you click on it will give you the option to subscribe to the feed on the page. When you choose a feed it will bookmark it. In your bookmark menu it will show up as a folder. When you choose it you will see the last ten or so posts and can then go directly to the post you want to read! It is sooooooooooo awesome! I’m in love with it. You can download Firefox for free here.

And finally, I’ve finally got buttons. Here they are. I’ll also put them on the right side.

     

One last thing. I ordered some of that Den-m-nit from elann. I got it in the darkest indigo color available. I am pretty sure that I will use it to make the cute little denim bag in the Rowan 35 catalog. And since there is a truckload of yarn I might make this:

or this:

I don’t think I’ll have enough yarn to knit all three….We’ll see. I really want a little backpack-type purse and I really like the one pictured above. I also like the one I posted on earlier, from Rowan 35. And I found this one at Fuzzy Galore. I also really really like it, but it seems like lots of work. I read through the instructions and can’t seem to understand them in my head. I might have to save that one for when I’m a bit better.

Entry Filed under: Miscellaneous, Thinking about Knitting..., Socks, Bertie, Techie Stuff