I am finally knitting the i-cord onto the Volt wrap I finished a few months ago.
I didn't know how to pick up stitches to work from the finished sides of the wrap, so I googled (a new verb! Isn't that nice!) How to pick up stitches for an applied i-cord, or something like that, and up came this video that showed me exactly how to do it.
Then I needed to turn a corner, so I googled something along the lines of How to knit a corner for applied i-cord, and up came this video, showing me exactly how to do it.
So I am i-cording along (not my made up verb but that of the narrator of the video) and it is going well, and certainly more quickly than I expected.
Also, before I even began, I checked out this blog post to see another way of joining the i-cord to the wrap. Much neater, much quicker.
So I am in love with the internet.
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Now, as a bonus, especially for you non-knitters (shame on you), this is a photo I have borrowed from younger daughter. It is a billboard in the Los Angeles area:
I'm confused. Is the current correct response to becoming engaged to use obscenities???
Nice.
Lucky guy.
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Oh, and while we are talking about verbs (we were, weren't we?), this topic springs to mind because of a conversation older daughter overheard the other day. There was a mother at ballet practice talking with another mother, and she said that she was so upset that movie-makers had violentized (I'm not even sure how to spell that) The Hobbit movie. She was just so tired of everything being violentized. Now there's a verb. I wonder if it will catch on.
Then I needed to turn a corner, so I googled something along the lines of How to knit a corner for applied i-cord, and up came this video, showing me exactly how to do it.
So I am i-cording along (not my made up verb but that of the narrator of the video) and it is going well, and certainly more quickly than I expected.
Also, before I even began, I checked out this blog post to see another way of joining the i-cord to the wrap. Much neater, much quicker.
So I am in love with the internet.
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Now, as a bonus, especially for you non-knitters (shame on you), this is a photo I have borrowed from younger daughter. It is a billboard in the Los Angeles area:
Nice.
Lucky guy.
*******************************
Oh, and while we are talking about verbs (we were, weren't we?), this topic springs to mind because of a conversation older daughter overheard the other day. There was a mother at ballet practice talking with another mother, and she said that she was so upset that movie-makers had violentized (I'm not even sure how to spell that) The Hobbit movie. She was just so tired of everything being violentized. Now there's a verb. I wonder if it will catch on.
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I really enjoyed the post. For all the fun things and educational things, the internet is also a time-stealer: time from housework, sometimes from knitting, time from sleeping. Would I give it up?(I mean the internet, not housework, knitting or sleeping)#$%@ No!
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