Hey, I ain’t your Mamma!

Posted by ann

Your Birthdate: January 24

You understand people well and are a natural born therapist.
A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around.
You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even
to those older than you.
You enjoy your role, and you find that
you are close to many people.

Your strength: Your devotion

Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness

Your power color: Lilac

Your power symbol: Heart

Your power month: June

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

[via Carole and Cara]

ps. am I wrong, or did a quiz just call me matronly?? I actually get that alot.

next subject, English. Get out your notebooks.

Posted by ann

the word of the day? Semantics.

Let me just say that Lisa Lloyd is not only a wonderful designer, but a sympathetic knitter as well. And she answers her emails right away. (I think Mary Beth must still be in bed!) The confusion is all in the way the directions are read.

To refresh: the directions for the size I am knitting read: work across (83) sts, place center (36) sts on holder for front neck, and complete row." the problem being that there are not enough stitches on the needles to knit 83, put 36 on a holder and then knit another 83.

What you are meant to do is knit 47, put 36 on a holder and then complete the remaining 47. The 83 in the directions include the 36 for the holder 83-36=47. The reason for writing the directions this way is so that the working yarn ends up on the other side of the neck edge for use on the other shoulder.

Today’s mantra:

math really is my friend math really is my friend math really is my friend math really is my friend math really is my friend

Posted by ann

It’s 11:52 pm, do you know where your math skills are??

I have sent out two SOS emails, one to Mary Beth aka BlackWater Abbey Guru and the other to Lisa Lloyd, designer. They each went something like this:

I am knitting the size that calls for 130 stitches and have reached the neck shaping for the front. The directions state: "work across (83) sts, place center (36) sts on holder for front neck, and complete row."

My math tells me if the neck opening is to be 36 stitches across the front, then the amount of stitches on either side should be 47 for this particular size.

Of course, I am not known for my math skills am I misunderstanding something crucial?

ps. you all realize of course, that it’s a rhetorical question and I really don’t think it’s me? I wonder what Mary Beth is doing, do you think she is reading her emails? someone go wake her up!