Persistent Knitter

And so we enter the mind of a crazy knitter…

• I finished the baby-boy-blue tulip sweater. It’s totally cute. I’m sick of people looking at me weird when I say I don’t know who it’s for. I am NOT pregnant, I’m not planning on getting pregnant, and I don’t know any pregnant people! I just wanted to knit a totally cute sweater. Eesh
• I haven’t spun anything since I did those small samples after winding the tangerine yarn. Nothing else seems worthy. I keep looking at the picture of the tangerine on flickr and it makes me happy. Partly cuz it’s totally cool to look at, and partly cuz I am happy with how my whitebox picture came out
• I’m taking tomorrow off for a pre-planned mental health day. I won’t be lounging the whole time - I’ve got lots to do on Knit Visualizer 2.0 (yay!!!) and I might play the xbox a bit. I told the husband he has to go to work and let me enjoy my day off
• A co-worker of mine calls me the Knitting Geek. He should have dubbed me that before I called myself the Persistent Knitter. Whaddya think?
• I ordered a memory upgrade for my macbook pro. I’m more excited than I should be to install it and open a zillion apps all at the same time.
• I just IM’d a friend these questions about Knit Visualizer 2.0:

1. Do you want to paint color at the same time you paint your stitches?
2. Do you want to set a preference that lets you choose between “always paint stitches with color” and “don’t paint color when painting stitches”
3. When painting color only, do you want to paint with foreground color only (change color of stitches)
4. When painting color only, do you want to paint with background color only (change color behind stitches)
5. When painting with color only, do you want to be able to paint with both background and foreground colors with one click?

• I’ve added two new modes into Knit Visualizer, now you can Select, Paint (stitches & color), Paint Color only, and pick a color from the chart (either symbol color or background color). I keep thinking of neat tools to make color stuff even more fun; but have to do the more tedious work to let you create your own stitches.
• My current knitting projects aren’t so exciting to me right now. Boathouse sweater, Peacock shawl (hard to work on anywhere but where I can concentrate. So nowhere), A sweater I started for the husband that I set aside. That’s about it. Anything else is so far gone on the project list it doesn’t count. (or has been ripped, like the Morning Glory shawl, and the green/yellow frog socks)
• I need to finish writing up the pattern for the Xander Gansey - and just the other day found the written out pattern notes in a pile of stuff. The sweater was only ever worn for the photo shoot - he didn’t wanna wear it and now he’s outgrown it. (make that TWO baby/kid sweaters I have with no current owners). It’s about time for me to design another sock, but I don’t have much desire to knit socks. I guess I’ll code on Knit Visualizer some more!
• I bought interfacing last night at the fabric store to make a Bagsket. I haven’t even unpacked my fabric yet!