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Backstory
- Julie
- Pennsylvania, United States
- I'm currently a stay at home mother, freelance writing on my off time, wondering how I became part of the ten thousand year old tradition of raising the kids while creating textiles. I grew up in NE Ohio dairy country, married a sailor, lived in Hawaii ten years, lived in SC for five years, then moved back to culture shock and confusion. Nothing but good times ahead.
E-mail me:
- SamuraiKnitter AT gmail.com
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- Stress, a sock, and a baby.
- Oh, and what I'm knitting.
- I'm up!
- Hip, my ass.
- Back to the grind stone.
- Recharge.
- Comments on some comments.
- Nothin'.
- What I did today.
- REVIEW: Vogue Knitting Winter 2007
- Further adventures in dye land.
- Six weird things.
- Nuking it out.
- Sekhmet, you fucker.
- By demand.
- Yarn porn.
- Product endorsement.
- How to use up stash.
- Whining and tidings of great joy.
- One neat turn deserves another.
- Reviews.
- Get the oxygen.
- Fiber content.
- Baby + cold medicine =
- Bamboo vs. Wood.
- ALL RIGHT!
- Some photos.
- Get the ink blots.
- Community.
- Good. Gods.
- Hey, lookit.
- Gulp.
- Vigo, babysweetiehoneydarling
- Musings.
- Dude, this is MESSED. UP.
- I lost my head a little.
- Bugs.
- Scheduled Outrage.
- Some photos.
- Two odd balls used up.
- Hey, readers!
- Where I knit.
- For Bells.
- I'm gonna do it.
- A quick note.
- Martinis, et. al.
- My friends find the best stuff.
- Well, that's done.
- Whew.
- All but one.
- Baby photo by request.
- For your amusement.
- Steek along: Casting on, hem, and body.
- Steek along: Figuring 100% and centering pattern m...
- Year of me! Year of me! Woot woot woot!
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Knitting Links
Knitting Blather
- Lavender for pest control
- Provisional long-tail cast-on
- Occupational thearpy
- Ashford Kiwi review
- Spinning - predrafting
- Stranded color
- Darning ends
- Felting balls
- Choosing a pattern
- Design part one
- Reading and knitting
- Half-Graft Hems
- Types of seamless sweaters
- Math geek: the gauge swatch
- Gauge Part Two
- Row Gauge
- Fractal Thing
- Removing Provisional Cast-ons
- Taking knitting off the needles
- Dye wool with food coloring
- Dye job continued
- Bamboo vs. Wood Needles
- Using up stash
- How I learned to knit
- Washing Wool
- Substituting yarns
- Shaping in patterns
- Hand Care
- Vertical Fold Lines
- Eastern, Western, and Combined
- Thoughts on Copyright
Knitting Lace
Vogue Knitting Reviews
- Spring/Summer 2006
- Fall 2006
- Holiday 2006
- Winter 2007
- Spring 2007
- Anniversary Part One
- Anniversary Part Two
- Holiday 2007
- Winter 2008
- Spring/Summer 2008
- Fall 2008
- Holiday 2008
- Winter 2009
- Spring/Summer 2009
- Fall 2009
- Holiday 2009
- VK editor letter winter 2010
- Winter 2010
- Spring/Summer 2010
- Early Fall 2010
- Fall 2010
- Holiday 2010
- Winter 2011
- Spring/Summer 2011
- Early Fall 2011
Fashion stuff.
Projects of Infamy
Books
- Estonian Lace, Nancy Bush
- Color, Victoria Finlay
- Andean Inspired Knits, Hamann
- Color Works, Deb Menz
- Traditional Knittting Patterns, Norbury
- Latvian Dreams, Willams
- Knitting books, review
- Knitting books, review 2
- Knitting books, review 3
- Knitting books, review 4
- Knitting books, review 5
- Knitting books, review 6
- Lace knitting books, reviews
- Books to learn chart knitting
- Books on knitting history
- Suggested knitting books
- Books about food
- Books that warped me.
- More books that warped me
- Norsk Strikkedesign charts.
History stuff.
- Knitting migration
- Knitting migration2
- Knitting and technology
- Knitting and technology2
- Knitting and technology3
- Bast fibers
- Sericulture
- Religion and archeology.
- Human creativity.
- Spinning
- Inspiration
- Inspiration2
- Ancicent Greece
- N American migrations, Clovis
- Polynesians in S America
- Polynesian migrations
- History of Knitting rant.
- New tomb, Valley of the Kings
- Ancient Egyptian linen
- Egyptian mummy ID
Food, plants, and recipes.
- Dietary history
- Dietary history 2
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Brussels Sprouts
- Poppies
- Stevia
- Legumes and grains
- Apple Jack
- Chocolate
- Food trivia
- Food trivia 2
- Cloned food crops
- Cookie-making shortcuts
- Dressing
- Snickerdoodles
- Almond cookies
- Amish Lemonade
- Lemonade
- Fruit Brick
- Fuckeyes
- Key Lime Pie
- Key-tinis
- Mango-tinis
- Toffee chip shortbread cookies
- Weirdass date cookies
Non-Knitting Links
18 comments:
sorry. I was hungry.
April has been making noises about swinging by to "borrow" the baby...not that I'm making accusations or anything. It just seems like an odd coincidence, is all. ;)
Pfft, no more yarn for you Sheepie.
You couldn't *give* me a Brittany Birch, it's Crystal Palace or nuffin'.
I wish I'd known how nice bamboo is BEFORE I'd bought all these stupid birch needles.
Now Bells needs to eat them all so I can replace them with better.
Send 'em over! :-)
Not me, Mom, I'm knitting with doll needles.
After the last thrift store hit, I now have 18 size 5 dpns. All aluminum.
is brittany birch good? I just started my first sock and it is on crystal palace b/c that is what the LYS handed me.
Brittany Birch isn't BAD - they're nice needles as these things go. But bamboo needles are better for botanical reasons I won't get into unless someone really wants to know. And Crystal Palace needles are made out of bamboo.
Bamboo is nice, it's light, smooth, easy to use... but if you use the needle a lot, the needle tip splits and snags whatever you are working on (ask me how I know this...)
I swear it wasn't me !!!!! I'm a metal type of gal. Give me Knitpicks YEAH for the new variety :P But I'll ask my girls if they ran off with it, it wasnt pink was it, my almost 3 yr old loves pink knitting needles, grrr.
Go into the botanical reasons, Julie!
Its not lost. It was sucked into the void with lost socks.
Not that I've lost a knitted sock. Worn holes into the yes, but not lost.
Okay, so watch out for splitting. I seem to be knitting tighter on the bamboo - which is really good because normally I have to really fiddle with the needle size to get the right gauge. I am aware of the environmental reasons, and would love to hear more about them. I'm considering wood flooring in my house and am leaning towards bamboo for the same reasons.
I like the Brittany because they're just a little rougher--it makes traveling socks less likely to lose their needles when I pull them out at stoplights...but bamboo is very nice too...
Wait a minute...after a certain size, don't they only come with 4?
Depends on the company. I've got a set of five size sevens from Crystal Palace, and I know Brittany usually does sets of five.
Susan Bates and the like do drop down to sets of fours at larger sizes, though.
Yeah, I have a 3.25 (metric, I'm Canadian eh?) from Bates and it only came with 4. Now that I am working with 5 I realize how working with only 4 is annoying.
Im holding it hostage in Niantic!!!Will exchange it for a visit with the niece, stebes and u,of course!!
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