October 07, 2004
Site Unseen
As you can see, Madame Glitchbane has been playing around again with graphics and layouts and cascading style sheets, inspired by yet another site, whose link escaped me long ago (it wasn't hard, I assure you, in my minimum security brain), and always inspired by Mary with her Knitting Notes.
"Why do you keep doing this?" I hear you ask. I have a theory about how to know whether a design works or not. I'm sure it's not an original one, but if I can come back to the same page or design over and over and over and always be content with it, then I know it is good. On the other hand, if I come back to it and find that it is too perky or bright or dull or obnoxious or amateur, then it is wrong. Right now the NWKniteri home page is wrong, I just haven't had time to deal with it.
I'll have the blog and other links back up hopefully today, by the way. I was horrified to see that I had left off the wonderful Ryan's Mossy Cottage Knits and my Australian mate's Fuzzy Dot! Also, you will find some former links missing. Even if I love the blog and the writing and the person, if there are links to pornography or other wholly objectionable material on the blog page I'm sorry, I can't and won't knowingly link to it. Why, even Sherlock's young eyes are offended by the stuff!
NWKniterati has also been successfully updated to MovableType 3.11. After a lot of thought, it seemed to me that Ben and Mena Trott of SixApart volunteered their time and talent for years in return for nothing but donations. A huge number of people have taken advantage of that, and it's only fair that SixApart should start charging, especially since the cost is extremely reasonable. So here we are. There are a few bugs that they are working out, but I think they have done a fantastic job, don't you?
Project Gray, did you say?
The twin sleeves of Project Gray are growing at a steady (if slow) rate. When they grow up they will be able to tell their cuffs all about the presidential and vice-presidential debates of 2004 (don't forget Poland!); about John Stewart, the wonderful fake news man of the The Daily Show, and how Madame G continued to plug away at the twins even though there was nice soft alpaca close at hand.
I really like the new design, it's very elegant and warm.
Posted by: Sisina on October 7, 2004 09:55 AMWelcome back, Sheila! I really like the color and style of the new site.
We tape The Daily Show every night (it comes on after our bed-time) and watch it in the AM in lieu of the "real" news. Goes down real good with that first latte. Don'tcha love it?
Posted by: Katie on October 7, 2004 10:52 AMI'm glad you like it, there are a couple of fixes that need to be made but I think I like it too.
I like John Stewart because he doesn't let the twisting of context slide in his fake news reports. Any fake news man that gets the President of the U.S. to appear has to be pretty darn good... and funny. I think I'd like to invite him over for dinner. Not the president, John Stewart. I watch him at 7:00 in the evening, which is usually a repeat of the prior late night show.
Posted by: Sheila on October 7, 2004 12:34 PMQuestion about Project Gray's sleeves.... Are you knitting both at the same time? Thanks so much for putting your blog together again. Love it.
Posted by: Jewel on October 7, 2004 02:35 PMJewel, yes! If I don't knit them at the same time it is highly likely I won't knit the second one, so I always do this. It's pretty easy if you start out with two complete balls of yarn so that you run out at the same time on each sleeve. You just have to be careful that you knit a row on each of the sleeves before you turn the work, otherwise you can easily mess up your increases.
Posted by: Sheila on October 7, 2004 03:40 PMThank you for adding Mossy Cottage back to your list of links! I can hold my head up in polite society again! People have been sneering at me and throwing rocks in my general direction for the last few days.
Posted by: Ryan on October 7, 2004 03:53 PMPlease don't forget to remind the upper sleeves of the Aussie election to be held tomorrow (Saturday).
The blog looks blogalicious!
Posted by: Dot on October 7, 2004 04:40 PMLooks good, Sheila, although I do miss your original picture of yourself.
Sue
Of course many thanks for getting Mossy Cottage Knits back on the website, Sheila -- but note to Ryan: really, don't you think the sneering and rock throwing has more to do with what happens whenever you think of Bunnies in tu-tus?
Posted by: joan on October 8, 2004 09:38 AMYeah, Ryan... when you go around laughing at hares without hair, you've got to expect a few rotten tomatoes.
Sue, thanks for the feedback! I've added me back.
Posted by: Sheila on October 8, 2004 10:05 AM