Quizilla JoinMay 19, 2006
Do a Wikipedia search of your birthdate, minus the year;
list three interesting events, three people who were born, and three people who died on that day.
Events:
* 1354 - Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
* 1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
* 2004 - On National Freedom to Marry Day, two days after Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, issued a directive to the county clerk, the City and County of San Franciso begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Births:
* 1881 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
* 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
* 1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
Deaths:
* 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
* 1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (executed) (b. 1536)
* 1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)
....originally posted on WIKI
May 11, 2006
For the last few days my partner R.O.E and I were training, getting ready for the Amazing Lace. We have suffered a set back. I had a misunderstanding over the directions for part b of the pattern.
The pattern called for (K.1,M.3)3 times. I did the increases the way I normally do a make one, by lifting the bar between stitches and putting on the left needle.then did a k,p,k into the the loop.
It appears *clears throat* that as this is an older pattern, they have different knitting terms. The book is British and from the late 50's maybe early 60's. It appears they wanted me to take the next stitch on the needle and increase by doing k,p,k into one stitch.
Thus by doing my boo-boo I was increasing by 3 stitches each time I came to that part of the pattern instead of only 2 stitches. in just a few rows rapidly approaching 100 extra stitches.
So frogging insued, and we are trying to get back to our former row as quickly as possiable. Now on row 7, I might of made a mistake on row 3. faints
The pictures are of a rare breed of goat that when startled falls to the ground in a full faint.
...moved from the ugly wiki to here may 27, 2006
May 07, 2006
I hope to use this wikiboard as a means to track my progress in all things knitting.
Been thinking about re-joining the National Knitting Guild, at least at this time only on National level. Might try the Master Knitter Level 1.
Signed up for this summer's The Amazing Lace.
The Panopticon
He's a complete blast, you'll love to read his blog.
I hope he won't get mad if I share abit of his work....I just loved these too much
May 07, 2006
Sooooo..........
I decided to return to college after a laspe of ten years. Well I survived my first semester, and have a GPA of 2.875.
The summer semester doesn't start till May 22nd., and I have to wait till May 12th to be able to buy my books. It will be tough as I am taking 14 credits. Somehow I will get through it.
My alternative is to live the rest of my life with family and who knows.......
this could be my future!
PLEASE NO!!!!!
May 07, 2006
just couldn't help myself when I saw this picture on the web today. Almost pee'd my pants!
