And now a word from our webmaster…me.

I’ve been messing around on the backend of all my blogs, upgrading things, installing things, uninstalling things, and whatever the web-equivalent of kicking the tires is. I pressed my luck by mucking around in the main database itself without making a proper backup.

I was a computer science major. You’d think I’d know better than to do that, but I don’t.

Anyways. I don’t think I’ve broken anything, but if you notice anything odd, please let me know.

One of the things I’ve been working on is the feed. I’ve disabled hotlinking site-wide because I don’t have the patience or the money to deal with bandwidth thieves. This site sucks a crazy amount of my bandwidth as it is. But the upshot of that was that the images didn’t show up if you were using a feed reader.

I’ve enabled the images for Google Reader, and I’m working on Bloglines as we speak. If you’re using some other feed reader and can’t see the images, please post a comment and let me know what that is.

Or maybe I should just hotlink all the images from Flickr. I had to put them all over there for Ravelry’s sake anyways, and bought a pro account in the process, so I might as well suck their bandwidth, right?

We will return to our regular knitting content shortly!

Don’t wear hand-wash only wool to a bar that allows smoking. BLEGH! And since even hell must be frozen over, air-drying my scarf and sweater will probably take until March.

Life has been crazy around here for the last month. I finished exactly zero of the projects on my December projects list.

A belated Happy New Year to you all, and here’s to a more knitterly 2008!

Shortly after I cast on for the Haruha scarf, temperatures dropped below freezing. I traded Shedir and Achernar for my Cold Weather Big Guns: a double-thick wool hat I bought from Montreal and a giant wool/angora scarf/wrap that my mom bought for me, and then I made it that much warmer by a slight accidental felting. Cold’s got nothing on these guys.

It occurred to me one night, as I sat on my couch, wrapped in aforementioned scarf and covered in a blanket, knitting away on some delicate black lace, that this was foolishness. Haruha is no match for winter. Haruha is a lovely fall or spring fashion scarf, not a cold-weather workhorse.

I put Haruha aside and cast on for the Anemoi Mittens.

Made double-thick by stranded knitting and sealed tightly at the wrist with a cuff of corrugated ribbing, these mittens will be just the thing to replace my current gloves, which just stop abruptly at the wrist without the faintest gesture towards actually keeping out the cold. I’ve taken to wearing these gloves over my Endpaper Mitts, otherwise they do no good.

And of course now, we are back to warmer fall temperatures. Knitting for the weather is clearly about as good an idea as trying to time the stock market.