Persistent Illusion

Duffy and Audrey at the Fair Hi, everyone. I know I've kind of disappeared for awhile. I think there have been rumors making the rounds. Yeah. It wasn't anything that fun. Really. I've just been really busy with one thing and another and sort of vaguely decided to take a little hiatus to get caught up a little. I'm not caught up, but I've missed you. So there. I haven't done a lot of knitting. For...

EEK! ears The other day, Amy asked a question that comes up all of the time, so I thought I would post an answer because I know that others have this same question. In the first picture, you can see a sock toe. This toe was knit with some unknown stash yarn on Knit Picks size US#1 needles. I cast on 10 stitches on each needle using Judy's Magic Cast-On. Then I increased every other row. The...

I just updated to the latest version of WP. As always, if you find something that doesn't work, please let me know. If you are looking for the WP write panel usability hack, the new version can be downloaded here: http://www.persistentillus ion.com/wp-write-usability -2-6.zip a Wordpress Update Related posts Git'cher Wordpress 2.5 Hack Here! (16) Done! Done, Done, Done! (8)...

mystery yarn from Germany Look! I have actual yarn content! Of course, it's a mystery as to what it really is, because this is the yarn that #1 Son brought back from Germany in his guitar case sans ball bands. And let me just repeat, gentle reader, how proud I am of him for going into a yarn shop - not his native habitat at all - and making himself understood and finding sock yarn. A very nice...

new toy Yes, I have a new toy. I'm not going to talk about it much - just show you a picture. I only have one of them, but thanks to the magic of Photoshop, I am able to show you both sides at the same time. Love it. What I really love is going to meetings with a bunch of geek types. For quite awhile, now, I've been forced to watch them casually set their iPhones down on the conference table,...

At 3:30 AM Pacific Time, my phone rang. At first, in my confused and asleep state, I thought it was my daily wake-up call (have I mentioned how much I love my landline voice mail?). But voice mail doesn't answer back when I say hello. (Please note while you read this that it was around 12:30 PM in Germany.) Mom: Hello ? ? ? #1 Son: Oh! Hello! Hello there! Mom: Hi ? ! ? !...

steering wheel cozy #2 See... I have been knitting! Even though it's been hot, here — too hot to do a lot of wool knitting. #1 Son had admired my steering wheel cozy. One for his car is the perfect finishing touch. (Note how clean it is inside!) As before, th pattern can be found in Son Of Stitch 'n Bitch. I know from experience in my own car how nice this cozy feels to my cold hands on a...