I thought I would take a picture of my latest loom project that took an evening. This scarf was made using a little over a skein of Lion’s Bouclé in Lime Blue. The loom was the rose pink rectangular loom knitted every other needle both sides. This produced a K1P1 stitch that made the scarf reversible and flat.
I have been a machine knitter for twenty some years and have never taken to hand knitting. I can’t explain why – there’s just no attraction. However there are yarns out there that don’t do particulary well on the knitting machine – namely the fun fur, eyelash, and bulky flake types sold in 50 – 80 gram balls. The bulky yarns knit up so fast, but that still is no comfort for those of us who just don’t do 2 needles.
I have recently started feeling the urge to knit and have (so far) made 2 scarves for my daughter and daughter-in-law on my Pocket Knitter (by Bond) and have another scarf for Lucy about half done on the Pocket Knitter. That is a great tool for small projects worked in stockinette stitch, but it’s a bear to try and do purl stitches on. I’ve found some Knifty Knitter round and rectangular looms on Craigslist for a good price and I’ll be using those to make hats and scarves with all the fun yarns that were on sale after Christmas.
I’ve been part of the team in the “V” part of the AV at church for several years. Last spring I was asked to put together the visuals for the Men’s Southport Great Banquet, so I did and got a lot of favorable comments. I was asked to do the visuals for both men’s and women’s this fall and got some nice comments, but the best one was from a fellow AV guy from another church. We were talking about tools and he asked me what I used, which is MS Powerpoint. He said that he had even more respect for my stuff because it was amazing and even more amazing because it was Powerpoint. I do a lot with transitions and photos, but the secret to running services using Powerpoint is in phrasing the words on the slides from a singer’s perspective, and knowing when to advance the slides. I advance 3 words before the end of a phrase so the singers know what is coming up next, which has allowed us to eliminate the music stands from the platform and keep the singers eyes up.
The only bad thing about Powerpoint is there is no room for improvisation, at least the way the hardware is set up at church. I’m looking to show the other team members how to do dual monitors so that you can run in presenter view mode. I think once they got past the “different” part they would really appreciate the flexibility of using presenter view.
Well, I decided to go live with WordPress after only one day. I mean honestly, I don’t have to pay much attention to how the darn thing looks (and I think it looks great), only to what I’m writing. It’s not like I’m planning to write a book, or looking to be published. I just need a place to put my thoughts and one of those thoughts was how was I gonna do it?
This is a great little piece of software.
Right now I’ve got “The Millionaire Mind” on CD in my car. I’m on CD #7. The whole book is about what millionaires have in common (besides the obvious).
Most of them own their own businesses (and not particularly glamourous businesses).
They are relatively frugal.
They live below their means.
They are happily married.
This has been a really enlightening book and I highly recommend it. It’s a pretty easy “listen”.