Reviews, and NYC

My reviews for Angel's Advocate and Death and the Lit Chick are up on Reviewing the Evidence. Unreality SF has my reviews for Doctor Who: Loups Garoux and Sapphire and Steel: The School.

Today is going to be a flurry of catching up, as I spent ( all of yesterday in Noo Yawk Citeh )

hhertzof, I hope you feel better today! Considering that marathon hike, it's probably best you stayed in bed!

And now, to catch up, write belated reviews, do laundry, and generally be a productive adult.

ETA: Seen in the bookstores, of possible interest:
- The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashebury. A history of personal sanitation.
- The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation by John Baker. The plantation ran for generations and the Wessyngtons didn't sell their slaves, leaving the slave families and family lore intact. Thus Baker has been able to reconstruct his own family history up to Emancipation.

Knitting post: It worked! MWAHAHAHAHAAA!

From the person who brought you numbered needles, another way of keeping track of knitting patterns: color-coded chain row counter. ( digression with picture link )

So many patterns are really just every *other* row. You know the kind - "every even row knit" or "every odd row purl." So what happens if you make a row counter with the rings color-coded to tell you what to do on the alternate rows, the ones that change? Turns out you've got a great little cheat sheet, and all you need is a single box of Boyes locking markers and 1 ring marker.

I test-knitted two: an equilateral triangle and alternating bands of garter, stockinette, and eyelet.

( Alternating Bands )

That was pattern. Next up: shape, and the ( Equilateral Triangle )

I need to clean up the language, but having proven the technique, I'm going to send it off to Monica Ferris. This is why I was in bead stores in NYC - looking for beads that would fit on a split ring.