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3/1/2006 7:18:29 PM
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Email Breakdown
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Mousepotato may have more suggestions for you.
I`m no computer expert, but I do have some personal experience. When I worked in an office where we had to use Explorer and Outlook, well, the things were always going down--even with computer gurus on staff constantly downloading patches and updates and stuff.
I think that Firefox is the best browser I`ve ever used, and I`m pleased with Thunderbird. They make sense, and they haven`t broken down!
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3/2/2006 5:53:56 AM
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Absolutely Bowled Over by Your Talent!
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I think that Bets just wet herself!
Seriously, however, Ann, I would think that asking permission to show the entries on the website would be met with mostly positive reactions from the knitters if they were asked individually. Give them a deadline to respond about having their work showcased. In the instance of not getting a response, obviously those folks` submissions could not be pictured. Permission would be necessary to post their images, of course.
Although I love the little running pics on the lefthand side here, the images are pretty small (as we`ve dicussed before), and they don`t allow a person to "zoom in" to see a bigger, more explanatory picture. That`s why I think it would be cool to ask permission and then display on a separate page of entries.
My two cents only.
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3/2/2006 10:49:03 AM
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Sooooo soft!
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My goodness, that`s poetry! Start the college fund NOW!
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3/2/2006 10:50:08 AM
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Beating the Odds
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We love pictures. Send them to me if they need "doctoring" for the Elann site.
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3/2/2006 3:31:40 PM
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Didya see MacChick`s quip?
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Look under the thread "Elann is `questionable`"
HA!
Wish that we had threads that "bumped up" but `till then....
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3/3/2006 2:15:24 PM
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Didya see MacChick`s quip?
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I agree! What a fine-tuned wit!
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3/5/2006 12:41:48 PM
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Poll: What yarn do you fall for???
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I`m a natural fibers gal and love the winter yarns. I am in the process of reorganizing the yarn stash, and I mostly go for plain yarns with a fabulous hand. Handspun and handdyed a plus
--Wool (especially from rarer, named breeds) and alpaca are my favorites.
--Favorite "exotic" has to be the quiviut. Drool. --Exception for the "only natural fibers" rule: Muench Touch Me. But there`s a lot of wool in there as well.
--Pure silk.
Does not need to apply:
--Totally frou frou novelty scarf yarns (with an exception made once in a blue moon for the offerings at artyarns in SF).
--Yarns with squiggles hanging off them.
--Plastic-y yarn
--Anything to be knitted on a ginormous needle.
--Sparkles of any kind.
--Anything Orange
--Anything Yellow
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3/6/2006 3:28:54 PM
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Return of Email!
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HEY! That`s great. Once you get used to Firefox`s tabs, you wonder what you did without them. And hopefully both will be more stable for you.
Somehow the open source (free software) model makes sense to me....if everyone can look under the hood at the computer code, then people are going to figure out together where the problems might be.
After all, folks all over the world who are talented enough to program things to do good stuff are also talented enough to see where evil-doers can plant bad stuff.
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3/7/2006 7:02:13 AM
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Return of Email!
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Mouse:
You can find all your posts if you do a search and search by your name--then repost in the right place. would be nice to know what you said! ;)
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3/8/2006 6:46:58 AM
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We are on the move...
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Oh wow. Driving across the country is NOT my thing. But be thankful they are dogs, not a herd of cats.
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3/8/2006 7:32:04 PM
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Thanks to Mouse and Emily3Cat
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Super!
I LOOOVE the tabs thing; just click back and forth between the normal places that you go on the web in one window.
I`ve gotta check out the extensions.
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3/9/2006 11:54:40 AM
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Thanks to Mouse and Emily3Cat
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You know, I think that people don`t use it because unless you have a certain geek factor going, you might not hear that there`s a cool alternative to Internet Explorer.
And Firefox doesn`t come pre-loaded on a machine you buy, does it?
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3/10/2006 12:17:59 PM
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Any spinners out there?
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I bought two different wheels off of Ebay before even trying spinning. I knew I would like it. I was awful at drop spinning. Loved the Joy wheel, hated the S10. So, off the S10 went to be sold. I really enjoy the spinning, but I do not ever want to start off with the greasy fleeces.
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3/10/2006 12:29:03 PM
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For vamanta
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There`s also the spinnign housecleaning pages where you might find something http://homepages.together.net/~kbruce/kbbwheel.html
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3/10/2006 1:18:23 PM
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Benne - About Max
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I didn`t know either. How very very sad. My creatures are so very much part of my life; I can`t imagine how painful it will be when they have to leave.
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3/11/2006 7:05:13 AM
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What yarn to choose for the B&B
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What the HECK is this B and B everyone is talking about??? I`m puzzled.
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3/11/2006 8:02:02 AM
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What yarn to choose for the B&B
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Okay. I found a picture on a german website. Nice pullover. I`m sure I have the issue around here somewhere--if only things were more in order. But I get that magazine, so that`s a start. I am, however, trying to finish up projects rather than start new ones--I`m brilliant at buying, and starting new projects, and then when it comes to the sewing together and doing loose ends, well, the interest wanes.....
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3/12/2006 6:09:11 AM
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UGH..spinning was a nightmare!
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Hmmm. How many people were in the class? I learned with a one-on-one lesson. I went home after the first lesson happily spinning blobby yarn and over the week was able to get to more even stuff. So, perhaps you need a more personal approach. I think I had three private lessons.
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3/12/2006 6:16:44 AM
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UGH..spinning was a nightmare!
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Also, vamanta, you didn`t say what you were spinning on....a drop spindle? or what brand and make of wheel? I wrote earlier that I got two wheels before the first lesson...one wheel I loved, one wheel I hated.
Really, I couldn`t spin worth s*** with the one I hated. Even after I could produce even, fingering weight two-ply on the other wheel, I still couldn`t cope with wheel #2. So, I ditched that one. I haven`t tried that many wheels, but the difference was amazing.
Also, because I took a private lesson, we kept trying different fibers until I found one that "worked" for me during that first lesson. So, for me learning last year, the combination of the fiber and the tool was CRITICAL during the first lesson. Certain wools were difficult to spin during the first lesson, while others helped me catch the gist of what I was doing. A bit like training wheels on a bike. Figuring out what was the easy stuff (because I don`t think that the same fibers and tools are easier for everyone) so that I could get the hang of the movements.
And there is a whole lot happening--working with the hands and the feet at one time is something that we do with sports and bikeriding. And nobody says that learning tennis is easy and kids have to practice to learn how to ride a bike.
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3/12/2006 4:18:12 PM
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Wow Emily!
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I sent in a closeup of the front of the sweater leading into the neck. It`s a Jo sharp pattern (sometimes I want to be a blind follower.) I think that the stitch is called trinity stitch. You work over three stitches three times, making something that is like a bobble, but not quite. Every inch of the yarn was heaven to work with.
The socks weren`t as hard as you might think. Instructions were top notch.
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