http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/ Better Than Yarn Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:00:03 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Writing Crafts Relationships http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/450.html Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:34:32 GMT That's right, readership! After wrestling with the RSS feed issues, I've decided to migrate the blog over to Blogger. You can now find Better Than Yarn at: http://betterthanyarn.blogspot.com Now, there aren't e-mail notification options, but you can set up an RSS feed on your computer by doing the following: 1) Look at your address bar. It should look like this: 2) Click on the RSS button. It looks like this: 3) This should take you to a page with this as the header: 4) Click "Subscribe Now". It will ask you where you want the feed to appear. I have a "Blogs"... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=450 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/448.html Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:22:25 GMT I mentioned before that I wasn't going to participate in the madness that is holiday knitting, and that my list of things to finish before December 25th was limited to three items. Item 1: The Top Secret Project The recipient of the Top Secret Project reads the blogs, so there aren't any photos here. But I KNOW they aren't on Ravelry, so it's up there. Item 2: Dad hat number one: Item 3: Dad hat number two. My father asked for two hats, and wanted them to be positive and negative to each other, in tan and brown. Despite my suspicions that he is color... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=448 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/446.html Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:14:28 GMT I don't speak much code, and the little code that I do know is stuff that I tripped over accident. So, after about 20 minutes of looking at other blogs' page source information, I managed to piece together an RSS feed for Better Than Yarn. I think this is pretty cool, only because I did this on my own, and then asked Mike to take a look at it to see if it looked right. Ok, it does! But. On Ravelry, apparently Blogdrive's RSS feed is too slow to be picked up. This is a major drag. At this point, I'm not really sure what my options are, other than moving my blog elsewhere-... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=446 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/449.html Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:14:12 GMT We try to bathe the dogs at least once a month to keep them from smelling too dog-adelic. Playing at the park with other dogs doesn't help, but the once a month regimen seems to work well for everyone. Especially Niki, who loves to be toweled off. Dog Bath Day takes two people, one to be in the tub enclosure and wash the dog (me), and one to feed treats. We do a lot of treat-based positive behavior reinforcement, and it works. For this reason, the dogs love going to the vet, getting bathed, and having their teeth brushed. Niki, our Alpha dog, gets bathed first. He'll hop into... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=449 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/447.html Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:40:25 GMT November 22nd, Thanksgiving: For Thanksgiving we went to the Plumed Horse. It’s a terrific restaurant- it had a very classic feel before, now it’s got a hip-per feel to it. Though I’m not a fan of “hip”, the food and wine are still excellent. We had their Thanksgiving tasting menu (with the wine pairings), and it was all mind-blowingly amazing. After dinner, we dropped Mom off at home, and headed over to the in-laws. The plan was, have some dessert, exchange names, go home. At every in-law gathering, my SIL starts a conversation about eating brains, predominance of elderly... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=447 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/445.html Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:00:31 GMT It's my birthday. There will be shopping, coffee, and excessive TV watching. Party on. http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=445 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/444.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:06:22 GMT For my birthday and Christmas gifts, Andrew is giving me 21 bumps of Crown Mountain Superwash merino roving. If you’ve been reading the blog this last year, you’ve seen bump after bump turn into yarn, and eventually socks. When the new colors went up, I used every last ounce of resistance that I had, and when the Minions ordered theirs, I did not order a single bump. Two days later, while I was driving home, I was listening to Lime and Violet, and they were talking about doing a co-op order. The Minions had placed an order large enough to get halfway there- mine would get us... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=444 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/443.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:39:34 GMT I’m not one of those nice knitters who knits for everyone. “Nice” isn’t really a word I would use to describe myself, but that’s a whole different story. I went to Purlescence for movie night, and Tony read one of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s short bits from The Yarn Harlot- “It”, and I realized, that in the last seven years, I have NEVER been defeated by “It”. Maybe, it’s because one year, where I thought I would knit for The Boyfriend’s whole family, my mother sat down with me, and pointed out that I was killing myself over something that wouldn’t matter to them. Fair enough.... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=443 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/442.html Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:46:16 GMT Andrew and I have been together for a little over six years. In this time, we’ve both gone through some significant life changes. (Duh.) While we were folding a long-overdue load of handknit socks, I asked Andrew to pull out his favorites. From time to time, I like to try and gauge his tastes for future purchases (yarn, clothing, whatever), and I noticed that some of his former favorites are in the “giveaway” pile. I’ve been purging my handknit socks, which entails giving away 20-30 pairs of my handknit socks to make room for the new socks that I’ve finished. For whatever... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=442 http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/archive/441.html Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:43:35 GMT I'll be honest with you- if I'm treated poorly in a store, I won't go back. Having learned the valuable lesson about financial independence at the ripe old age of six, I have always believed in the power of the consumer. [This lesson was courtesy of Auntie Wolf, which I'll likely post soon.] Good customer service always warrants praise; bad customer service warrants the dreaded word-of-mouth anecdotal kiss-of-death. I shop at stores where I am treated well, and I buy products that are of the quality that their pricing dictates. I won't post pictures of yarn from... (more) http://cuteknitter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=441