Update July 11, 2009
I have decided to stop offering free blog templates and tutorials and have taken down the Faces of Yve site.

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The web design site I referred to in a previous entry is now live!

Faces of Yve features a bunch of web design tutorials (code and graphics) and free blog templates. The current issue is specifically targeted at bloggers who may have done a little bit of tweaking to their templates, but want to do more on the customization front.

Please go take a look!

[The camera swoops in from somewhere scenic and focuses on a wind-blown man with a distinctive New Zealand accent walking among scores of knitters who are stitching away excitedly.]

Phil: I’m standing on the roof of some famous building in some scenic part of the country, where…lots and lots of teams…will depart from their everyday knitting and embark on a lace around the world.

Teams consist of one individual and one piece of lace who don’t have much of a pre-existing relationship. Contestants will be lacing around the world in teams of two without the benefit of…well, they’ll pretty much still have everything they normally have.

But they’ll also have each other! Or something like that. Yvonne and Print o’ the Wave Stole are roommates from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They haven’t lived with each other long and hope that they won’t kill each other during their time on the lace.

[Camera cuts to the swinging (ok, not really swinging) grad pad where Yvonne and Print o' the Wave Stole live.]

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Sorry about the lack of updates! Between work and trying to get my web design ezine/tutorial site ready for (re-)launch next week, there hasn’t been much knitting going on. But here’s a more recent picture of the Print o’ the Wave stole:

I took this picture last weekend and I’ve since finished a fourth fifth repeat, but this is basically how it looks now. If you’ve been following the comments on the previous entry you know that I frogged the entire original stole and re-knit it on bigger needles.

For some reason I didn’t think to, y’know, check the ball band on the Kidsilk Haze when I bought it, and randomly decided to knit on US 1s, for really no good reason at all. Now I’m knitting it on US 4s, thanks to a prod from poster Calamintha at Knitter’s Review and everyone is much happier for it.

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