Thursday, January 12, 2006
Goals
I was thinking last night about what my goals are for this blog. Here's what I came up with:
1) Learn html and page formatting. (Eventually learn more complicated things like how to set up data tables and searchable databases.)
2) Begin to create content that I can migrate to tiarasaurus.com when I get the domain hosted, so that it's not just a vacant room.
3) Collect all the various links I find to knitting techniques, patterns, shops, and online retailers in one place, and so that I can access them from any computer (currently they're stored as "favorites" on multiple machines).
4) Have someplace to chronicle my finished knitting pieces, especially since I anticipate that many of them will become gifts.
5) Document my progress as I learn new knitting techniques.
Speaking of techniques, here are things I'd like to know how to do, but currently don't (or think I know how, but haven't actually tried yet):
- YO (I've read how, and it will be covered in class tonight)
- cables (ditto)
- Continental knitting (I'm taking a class next month)
- I-cord (spaghetti monster noodly appendages)
- Provisional cast-on (tubey sweater)
- Applied I-cord edging (samus sweater)
- felting (yorick)
- button holes
- double knitting (for the edging on the Pixie hat)
- trick to keep stripes from jogging in the round
- short row shaping
- socks, and how to "turn a heel"
- gloves, including thumb gussets and reserving stitches for fingers
- entrelac
- lace
- fair isle
- intarsia
- lots more cast on and cast off techniques
It will be fun to review this list next January and see how many things are left!
