Another musing on the number three.
Three dresses I tried on today - 2 Diane von Furstenberg and 1 Jaeger
Last 3 films I saw at the cinema - The Quartet, Skyfall, Lawless
Last 3 DVDs I watched - The Killing series one, In the Loop, Drive
3 things I ate today - muesli, bouillabaisse, smoked salmon
3 fruits I ate today - apple, nectarine, blueberries
3 drinks today - decaff tea, hot chocolate, diet coke
Last 3 things I knitted - 3 little owls
3 items in progress in my knitting bag - lace cardigan, Noro waistcoat, Noro baby cardigan
3 more items in progress in my knitting bag - shades of tan log cabin blanket, pale blues and greens log cabin blanket, cotton log cabin basket
3 items on charge in this room - iphone, ipad, this laptop (which is no longer charging)
3 people I need to contact to meet up with soon - my cousins Ian, Julie and Karen
3 things I plan to do next week - go to Zumba class, Jive class, Ceroc class
3 favourite pets when I was growing up - Inkie, Tess and Silver
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Monday, 11 February 2013
I figured out a solution - sort of
Many searches for how to deal with ther error messages I kept receiving whilst trying to upload photographs of the Snowdogs revealled that I am not the only one having the problem. Many posts of forums outlining the problem but not many solutions. One suggestion was to upload as html so that is what I tried and it seems to have worked.
So much time has been wasted over the past couple of days in trying to understand technology and other things have been let slide. Last weekend I bought yet more storage for the ever growing stash - moments of weakness in the Sales, and I would like to spend some time organising myself and all my craft work. It is tempting to take over a whole room and we do have enough space. I can picture boxes of wool and patterns and needles and accessories, boxes of sewing paraphenalia, materials, embroidery silks and books of patterns, card making materials, scrapbooks and all the boxes of things waiting to be put into scrapbooks, photographs, family history research, books of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, books about the towns and villages where relatives came from, memories from boxes from my parents, grandparents, great grandparents. Yes - I think I can fill a room - oh yes - then the 2 sewing machines and the bags and boxes of works in progress in knitting and sewing and cross stitch and scrapbooks.......
I can move a bookshelf onto an empty wall for neat storage.
There are almost enough boxes for most of the items.
There is just s slight problem with the chest full of materials - some lovely old Laura Ashley quilted material I discovered in there the other day and I don't know why my Mother had about 12 metres of white satin but I couldn't get rid of it.
Another problem is the chest of drawers full of my "stuff" too and perhaps it would be better to have a table with at least one computer and printer/scanner - so perhaps 2 rooms are needed - rather more difficult to justify but the idea of having some pleasant space with the lovely view ( I know which room I prefer) is appealling. Snow is forecast again this evening and tomorrow so maybe this is a project for a day or two indoors - progress to follow.
So much time has been wasted over the past couple of days in trying to understand technology and other things have been let slide. Last weekend I bought yet more storage for the ever growing stash - moments of weakness in the Sales, and I would like to spend some time organising myself and all my craft work. It is tempting to take over a whole room and we do have enough space. I can picture boxes of wool and patterns and needles and accessories, boxes of sewing paraphenalia, materials, embroidery silks and books of patterns, card making materials, scrapbooks and all the boxes of things waiting to be put into scrapbooks, photographs, family history research, books of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, books about the towns and villages where relatives came from, memories from boxes from my parents, grandparents, great grandparents. Yes - I think I can fill a room - oh yes - then the 2 sewing machines and the bags and boxes of works in progress in knitting and sewing and cross stitch and scrapbooks.......
I can move a bookshelf onto an empty wall for neat storage.
There are almost enough boxes for most of the items.
There is just s slight problem with the chest full of materials - some lovely old Laura Ashley quilted material I discovered in there the other day and I don't know why my Mother had about 12 metres of white satin but I couldn't get rid of it.
Another problem is the chest of drawers full of my "stuff" too and perhaps it would be better to have a table with at least one computer and printer/scanner - so perhaps 2 rooms are needed - rather more difficult to justify but the idea of having some pleasant space with the lovely view ( I know which room I prefer) is appealling. Snow is forecast again this evening and tomorrow so maybe this is a project for a day or two indoors - progress to follow.
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Photographs of the Snowdogs
Well that's the point. I have been trying to upload photgraphs of the snowdogs for days now without success. To begin with I tried on the ipad but that seems an impossibility so I transferred the photos from the ipad to the laptop and tried again - again no joy. This time I get an error message saying invalid response from the server. Yet again I am bamboozled by technology.
Yesterday I found myself close to tears. My son, quite reasonably, asked me to scan two documents and then send them together with 2 further already scanned documents to him by e mail. Not a problem, I thought, as I sat at the computer.
Problem one - a software upgrade meant that I could not, simply, scan in the 2 documents. Never mind, there was another scanner - wirelessly attached ( if you can say that) to the laptop. I could scan on that one. Why not scan in on the second scanner direct to the first computer? For some reason the first computer cannot see the second scanner - with me so far? It gets worse. I scanned in the documents but they didn't appear on the laptop. Yes, they appeared on the main computer - the one which cannot see the scanner yet the scanner can see it. No problem, first job done. Now to find the 2 older documents. I remembered the date of scanning. Stupidly I had not renamed them so I needed scans 3 and 4. Scans 5 onwards appeared in My documents but not 3 and 4. I had no idea why. I knew I still had the original of one of the documents so I found it and scanned it in again - on the wireless scanner and e mailed that one off. An error appeared with the e mail. I still could not find the other document. I did an advanced search and there they were - how I have no idea. I renamed them. They reappeared, were attached and sent off. It was then that I decided to try the snowdogs again. I am doing nothing any different to the times I have attached other photographs to the blog. I despair of technology - the thing that I love and which adds so much to my life - yet it frustrates.
Yesterday I found myself close to tears. My son, quite reasonably, asked me to scan two documents and then send them together with 2 further already scanned documents to him by e mail. Not a problem, I thought, as I sat at the computer.
Problem one - a software upgrade meant that I could not, simply, scan in the 2 documents. Never mind, there was another scanner - wirelessly attached ( if you can say that) to the laptop. I could scan on that one. Why not scan in on the second scanner direct to the first computer? For some reason the first computer cannot see the second scanner - with me so far? It gets worse. I scanned in the documents but they didn't appear on the laptop. Yes, they appeared on the main computer - the one which cannot see the scanner yet the scanner can see it. No problem, first job done. Now to find the 2 older documents. I remembered the date of scanning. Stupidly I had not renamed them so I needed scans 3 and 4. Scans 5 onwards appeared in My documents but not 3 and 4. I had no idea why. I knew I still had the original of one of the documents so I found it and scanned it in again - on the wireless scanner and e mailed that one off. An error appeared with the e mail. I still could not find the other document. I did an advanced search and there they were - how I have no idea. I renamed them. They reappeared, were attached and sent off. It was then that I decided to try the snowdogs again. I am doing nothing any different to the times I have attached other photographs to the blog. I despair of technology - the thing that I love and which adds so much to my life - yet it frustrates.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
The Snowman and the Snowdog
Eldest daughter texts to say that she should have commissioned a knitted Snowman or Snowdog for a young niece's second birthday. Not sure that there are any patterns, I responded. Yes, there are, she replied. Some time later I discovered the pattern for the Snowdog - in a December issue of a magazine. Some more time later is found a site to download old issues. The following day I went off I search of the yarn. If I was to make this in time for the birthday I had precisely one day. The yarn was sold out at one store, out of stock on my, usually infallible, online store and not stocked at my third port of call. They did, however, have just 2 balls of the yarn in chunky as opposed to the required double knitting. I took the risk.
12 separate and fiddly pieces of knitting later the Snowdog emerged and I am delighted with the result. It did take the whole day to complete but is now in the hands of the Royal Mail to arrive in time. For a piece of knitting I am ridiculously pleased with the finished article. Not my usual preferred knitting but a little bit of fun.
12 separate and fiddly pieces of knitting later the Snowdog emerged and I am delighted with the result. It did take the whole day to complete but is now in the hands of the Royal Mail to arrive in time. For a piece of knitting I am ridiculously pleased with the finished article. Not my usual preferred knitting but a little bit of fun.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Another log cabin
Home and deterred from travelling by the snow I decided to undertake the finishing details of another log cabin blanket. This one was started in October last year and its completion was delayed by running out of the final colour and my reluctance to begin the task of the 3 needle cast offs to join the squares and the heavy task of knitting the borders. My usual lack of finishing enthusiasm was exacerbated by the fact that this particular log cabin is larger than the normal size I make.
I bought the initial stock of wool in Bridgend in the colours of a throw I had made for the daughter and son in law of friends. I had liked the finished article so much that I had been loathe to give it away but hand it over I did whilst deciding to make one for myself in the same colours but in a different order. I was in no rush to finish so making additional squares to produce a larger blanket was not an issue until I ran out of purple. The younger daughter was dispatched to Bridgend to source an additional ball but they had sold out. The older daughter was then tasked with the purchase and she had to search beyond one or two stores to get the correct shade and I then had to wait a while to collect the valuable yarn. The impetus to actually embark on the completion then came to provide a distraction from a high volume project that I am working on - more of that one later and as, it being January and the sales, I had gone out, again and, again had purchased yet more yarn to make, yet another log cabin.
I have one border to complete. The colours are wonderful. It will look perfect over the sofa where I spend a lot of time knitting. I now want to finish off the finishing off so that I can embark on the new project. It might have been finished today but a trip to the cinema seemed a good idea to see Quartet. We had attempted to see this last Wednesday but had not anticipated Orange Wednesday and couldn't get in so this week waited until Thursday - much quieter and a lovely film which was followed by a quick lunch out. Now, however, I have the rest of the evening ahead to just get on with a few more rows of garter stitch - except that last night we started to watch a new boxed set that arrived a couple of weeks ago. One episode we thought but 3 later we reluctantly went to bed and there are 17 to go......
I bought the initial stock of wool in Bridgend in the colours of a throw I had made for the daughter and son in law of friends. I had liked the finished article so much that I had been loathe to give it away but hand it over I did whilst deciding to make one for myself in the same colours but in a different order. I was in no rush to finish so making additional squares to produce a larger blanket was not an issue until I ran out of purple. The younger daughter was dispatched to Bridgend to source an additional ball but they had sold out. The older daughter was then tasked with the purchase and she had to search beyond one or two stores to get the correct shade and I then had to wait a while to collect the valuable yarn. The impetus to actually embark on the completion then came to provide a distraction from a high volume project that I am working on - more of that one later and as, it being January and the sales, I had gone out, again and, again had purchased yet more yarn to make, yet another log cabin.
I have one border to complete. The colours are wonderful. It will look perfect over the sofa where I spend a lot of time knitting. I now want to finish off the finishing off so that I can embark on the new project. It might have been finished today but a trip to the cinema seemed a good idea to see Quartet. We had attempted to see this last Wednesday but had not anticipated Orange Wednesday and couldn't get in so this week waited until Thursday - much quieter and a lovely film which was followed by a quick lunch out. Now, however, I have the rest of the evening ahead to just get on with a few more rows of garter stitch - except that last night we started to watch a new boxed set that arrived a couple of weeks ago. One episode we thought but 3 later we reluctantly went to bed and there are 17 to go......
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