Monday, September 28, 2009

Monday Miscellany

Another week means another Weight Watchers meeting, and I'm down another pound. My total lost is 19.4 pounds 14 weeks. I didn't bother to count points this weekend, while my mouth hurt. I ate soup, scrambled eggs and the like, and figured I wasn't eating much. Getting back to normal and eating some crunchy vegetables will certainly be nice.

I went to see the dentist today, who explained that I have a gum infection. I am supposed to take the rest of the penicillin and use Peridex with a syringe. Between the pain of her probing around, and the amount of bone damage on the x-ray, I was pretty miserable.

On the other hand, I felt better by the end of the workday. I had balanced the operating cash account and gone to a CPA luncheon, where we listened to a very interesting talk about Texas prosecutions of securities fraud.

Best of all, I got about 800 hits on the learn-to-knit videos in the last 24 hours, probably because the garter bar videos were mentioned on the Machine Knitting listserve.

It's time to finish up the beginning ribber course. I have been working on a slip stitch ribbing video and a drop stitch video. They're not ready to put up yet, though. I am debating about double jacquard - to do it efficiently, one uses the double bed color changer, and this class is just about ribbing. I think I'll do a little, but change the color by hand. The color changer needs to have its own lessons.

After that, do you think a few knit-with-me projects are in order? I've got some very easy ribber project ideas.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, I do hope you'll do some double jacquard lessons. That's one of the few knitting tasks I've been hesitant to try. I've been away from mking for a while (quilting hiatus) and your videos have been a wonderful refresher course. I've learned new things, too. Thanks so much for your generous sharing of information.
    Donna in Asheville, NC

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  2. Hiya, Ithink your videos are amazing, the first thing I do each morning is check to see if there have been any new ones posted, my partner thinks I am obsessed. I bought a garter bar as soon as I saw how easy it was to use and am currently enjoying the ribber lessons, I only knew how to do circular cast on and 1x1 ribbing before I watched your lessons. I am looking forward to the knitalong videos you are planning. Thanks so much for taking the time to do these videos, Best regards, Helen

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  3. I think double jacquard is going to be its own group of videos. It will require the double bed color changer. There are several different ways to do DJ, besides.

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  4. Obsessed? Why, that's the word my husband uses about me and my videos all the time. I guess John is correct, as usual. He is one of those aggravating smart people who is usually right.

    Here I am at work, eating my bag lunch and checking the comments...obsessed!

    My dream is to teach a great many people to machine knit, by breaking everything down into workable information. And, I'm making friends as I go!

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