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BOB looks pretty in pink

May 8th, 2009

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Now presenting further progress on the inventory for Big On Bloor:

pink striped crocheted baby blanket

I took about a dozen pictures of this and not a single one caught the beautiful colours of this blanket. I suppose you’re all just going to have to come visit me at the show (and then buy this).

This blanket is also an excellent example of how wonderful that “no turning chain dc” technique is. Here is a close-up of the edge:

example of the no-turning-chain technique

Isn’t that amazing? If I look really, really closely, I still have a hard time telling which stitches are real double crochets, and which are the no-turning-chain stitches.

I’ve found it to make working in the round a bit easier, too. In the past, I had always had problems figuring out which chain in the beginning chain was the one I needed to make a join in. Using this no-turning-chain method, it’s pretty obvious where the join goes.

If you haven’t tried out this technique already, I urge you to do it. You won’t regret it!

I just realized the other day that I never posted pictures of the motifs I received from craftADDchick here on the blog. I’ve put them under the cut (Dad, if you’re reading this, don’t read any further on this post, please!)

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My apologies to those on dial-up

April 15th, 2009

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This past weekend Charles and I were at a book store after seeing a movie (we saw Knowing, I don’t recommend it) and I found a book full of useless information. Well, I’d disagree that it was all *useless*, but that’s beside the point. One of the entries was something about how, in some companies in Japan, it is usual for workers to dress up a dummy to look like their manager and then beat the effigy with sticks. Apparently this increases morale and efficiency.

This story popped into my head while I was at work yesterday. My boss looks a *lot* like Sylar from Heroes, so it wouldn’t be hard to find a large cardboard cut-out of him, but my boss isn’t the cause of my frustrations at work (one couldn’t hope for a cooler boss!). My frustrations are mostly with my work computer, specifically the crazy things the scanning software does sometimes. I won’t get into them, but anyone who has worked with any software ever can probably identify with how frustrating it can be!

On my commute home yesterday a Dilbert comic strip, running along the same lines, popped into my head. Given that it took me four hours of searching through the dilbert.com archives to find it, I’m not sure how I remembered it, exactly. Basically, Dilbert had a doll that looked like his boss sitting on top of his computer, and he’d smack it whenever the Pointy Haired Boss annoyed him. Again, my boss isn’t the problem, it’s the program!

Then it hit me! I needed an Abuse Cube. Something that would represent the software, with a different issue pictured on each side.

I started working on it as soon as I got home.

Take THAT!