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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
8 comments:
DUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDEEEE......
Messed up as in a mess, or messed up as in sick, wicked, etc...?
Messed up as in, I feel like I'm smoking something not legal when I look at the thing. And also very strange because complicated though it looks, it was rather simple to do; just read the directions and follow them.
It's not right, I tell you.
Very cool...but it makes my head explode just a little, tiny bit. I seem to recall doing something very similar by accident when I was first learning how to knit in the round!
what's it like to be in your brain Julie????
I think it's byooful. I love you, man, I mean I really really love you.
Heh.
Except my friend L. has made a couple of moebius scarves, and I wish people would just quit tempting me with them, eh?
Like I need to start any more projects!
My brain is kind of weird. I have the ability to visualize from written words and apparently that's not normal/average. It's probably obvious by now.
My brain is the mirror image of yours: although I always did great in "reading comprehension", that doesn't extend to figuring out stuff like tatting or netting or knitting from words. Must. Have. Picture.
A lot of the time I get ideas in my head and can't be sure, for sure, that they will work out unless I can draw myself some kind of picture/diagram/sketch.
However, I seem to be able to write text descriptions that *other people* can translate into those actions.
I find this completely anomalous. It's like a deaf person being good at describing music.
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