Remember The Dress ? Yeah. It no longer fits. It’s gappy at the bust and there’s too much fabric in it. I tried it on today, and voila! I outshrank it. (Hooray!) So now I’m looking for a new home for it, and I’d prefer to give it to someone I know will actually wear […]
My Favorite Noveling Software Was Just Updated
JERs Novel Writer is an awesome, fast, novel-focused application for Mac computers. Jerry just updated it to be a little more stable and so it’ll run on G3’s again. Just in time for NaNoWriMo, which starts in 15 days! Also, as long as I have my fellow writers’ ears, I’ll plug my 30 Days of […]
Obama: Gays are Born That Way
President Obama recently said that he believes that gays are born gay. I don’t. I believe saying that denies gays the agency of choice. Like saying “oh, they can’t help it” about someone with a disability that somehow “bothers” the non-disabled. It’s a phrase we use to make ourselves feel “right,” and to take away […]
Parasol Progress
This project is taking me forever, but I am making progress on the parasol I started in July. It’s hard to believe that I’m now on my 3rd month of working on this project. Thankfully, I’m in the home stretch, working on the last 10 rows or so: Unfortunately, those are going slowly because I’m […]
Errata: V for Victory Scarf
My V for Victory Scarf pattern has an errata! The second line of Row 1 should read “remove marker, sl 1 back to left needle, k2tog, psso,” Add a “sl 1 back to left needle” after the second “remove marker” instruction in the row, to match Row 5. I’m sending an updated PDF to KnitPicks, […]