Left Brain, Right Brain

OK, I know this belongs in my knitblog, but I'm putting it here too because I like it.
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OK, when I was in Devils Lake I was trying to find a couple of pictures that would show how blocking lace drastically changes/improves its appearance after you are done knitting it. Well yippee doo-dah day, I found 'em! Someone posted some great before-and-after blocking photos to the knitting community, in this entry (just scroll down a teeny bit to see them both.)

So beautiful!!

And that's the kind of transformation my Peacock Feathers Shawl will go through after I knit it up. Wheee, I'm so excited!!!

5/4-06: EDITED TO ADD - OK, here are some even better pictures. Gorgeous!

Please participate. I can't think for myself.

What should I knit next?

Thank you to all who participated. The survey is now closed.

Hah - it's kind of funny to be blogging about the status of my other blog, but that's what I want to do. Last night I started uploading a few knitting pictures into my Flickr album (which will be for dedicated knitting images, and I will keep other random stuff in my Photobucket). I added some links from my knitting blog, and I even threw a clickable thumbnail into one of the entries for good measure.

Now the only thing I need to do is keep knitting, blogging, and taking pictures!

OK, this is about knitting, and yes, it IS in my knitblog, but I am just pissed enough to want to write about it here, too. ( Ranting about missing knitting stuff behind THIS CUT. )

Ahem. Sorry, I turn into a 12 year old AOLer when I get happy.

Anyway.

I did something fun to the CSS on my knitting blog! I made it so that the sections don't have set widths anymore, so they fit correctly in ANY size browser window on ANY monitor. YAY!!! I know, I know, big deal. Well, it is to me. I didn't like the way the original template just SET the widths. First off, they were too narrow, so I widened them. But then, I realized that not everyone has a super widescreen monitor like mine, so then they'd have to scroll back and forth to see the full page all at once. Yuck. So knowing the VERY VERY little that I do about CSS, I made them a PERCENTAGE wide instead of a number of pixels wide. Damn, why didn't they do that in the first place. I think the default LJ templates do that. You'd think Blogger would have thought of that. Meh. Oh well, it can be fixed, and I've done it.

I know this is pretty small stuff, rather trivial and everything, but bear in mind I know VERY little about any of this stuff, and have to learn every tiny thing that I need to know completely from scratch. Maybe I should get some books or something...

I have this knitting binder that I just put together in the last week or so. It's nice, because now I can keep track of all my WIPs and patterns and notes and stuff. I even made that nice little template that I use to keep track of my WIP notes and details. It's all come in VERY handy already.

So anyway, I have 5 extra-wide tabbed dividers that I want to use to keep the binder more organized as its contents grow. I don't know what to label the tabs!!! I mean, I have some rough ideas, I know I want one section for WIPs, and one for FO notes, and definitely one for Patterns, but what do I do with the other two? Miscellaneous info? Something else? Should I just leave them blank and figure it out later? (Ugh, I really don't like doing stuff like that. I'm so anal. ;)

Also, I have listed 16 categories that I generally sort patterns into. This is PERFECT - it means that I can buy 2 packs of the 8-tab dividers and then sub-divide the Patterns section! However, since the binder is just getting started, I might just hold off on this for now and keep things generally alphabetized until it gets out of hand. ( These are the categories I'm thinking of using )
I really love this stuff. I am CRAZY about those clear plastic sheet protectors - I can use them for patterns printed off the computer, photocopies from books, and patterns torn out of my magazines! Plus, once I'm done with a project, I can stick the notes into one of them so it doesn't get ripped or lost.

I print these out and 3-hole punch them to keep in my "knitting binder", where I also keep lots of patterns I like in those nice clear plastic sheet protectors. It's come in really handy for keeping track of notes I have for each WIP I've got going on.

Click here to open the MS Word file. Please feel free to save, alter, share it, whatever! ^_^