Social Bookmarking with Diigo

Tips from Kids on Commenting

I thought this video with several tips on commenting on blogs by kids was really cute.

A Favorite Sock Knitting Tip I Found

I've got to try this technique and see if it works to make the hole where the gusset joins the heel corner invisible. It's so annoying. Sometime I can make it almost invisible and sometimes it's just there. I can't seem to do the same thing twice.



Sock Tips - Gusset Techniques

CNI: The Ivory Tower and the Open Web

How Many Does It Take?

How many library trustees does it take to change a light bulb? Apparently three.

4 Dpns

All things electronic have been put on hold recently with the wintry snowstorms we've been getting rather regularly. Instead, with the inspiration of my friend Hollaye, who decided she wanted to learn to knit socks and found a knitting tutor to help her, I've also been learning to knit socks. I'd tried to knit them before, but my knitting tension is so loose, I would lose the doublepointed needles; they would just fall out of my stitches. So I gave up. But with the basic pattern Hollaye got from her tutor, and a determined effort to control my tension, I am finally knitting SOCKS! on 4 double pointed needles.

This may have been a mistake, because it seems to be addicting. I don't know if it's a passion for knitting socks as Hollaye claims, or just wanting to have warm feet. Handknit wool socks + wool clogs=warm feet. And that is not a bad thing in NE Minnesota or Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

















If you've a desire to learn to knit socks, I found a very helpful tutorial online Silver's Sock Class. It has good step by step illustrations if you need a visual reference and I found it a great help.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The memory of the November storm in the UP thirty-five years ago is still fresh in my memory. The waves were crashing over the sand dune along the shore in Ontonagon and the water pooled in the yards of homes along Lake Superior's shoreline. I've never seen that either before or since the night the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.