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Rebooting a project

Way back in October, I started making a sock using this scrump-dilly-icious sock yarn.  Over the course of many months, I even got as far as turning the heel and starting the foot.  I even posted pictures of the sock in progress.  Said sock was also the source of Dramatic Exit post After I got ... VIEW POST

More girls knitting

Three of the Girl Scouts came back this afternoon, after school, to work on their projects some more.  It was much more subdued than yesterday's chaos.  They got started and seemed like they were OK, so I went back out front to continue the endless bookkeeping that I'm so far behind on, it's not ... VIEW POST

The Girls

Yesterday afternoon, Knots & Bolts was invaded by some 6th grade Girl Scouts.  (These girls are all...about 12 years old, I guess.) They are working on a fashion badge, and part of what they'll be doing to earn the badge is learning to knit. Not surprisingly, some of them took to ... VIEW POST

Yummy

I thought this yarn would be here tomorrow, but whoopee!  The UPS man came today! This isn't even all of it, bunches of it is already priced and put away.  I'm sitting down to cast on a new project** for a few minutes before I get back to it.  This is not waht I'd planned for today, but sometimes ... VIEW POST

Computers, part deux

Shortly after I wrote my earlier post, I decided to actually attempt to do a little troubleshooting, and fired up my laptop.  Network worked just fine on it, so now I don't know what to think.  I'll have to try moving the laptop to the front counter to see if it is locational, and if it's ... VIEW POST

Sock on a Keyboard

I've mentioned before that one of the things I want to do is learn more about Photoshop and specifically, photo editing.  I'd also like to learn more about how to use my camera, a Sony Alpha-100.   The other day I was just playing and figured out how to use the Custom White Balance setting, and ... VIEW POST