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cedara for linking to If You Were Gay done in Doctor Who macros Not safe for work or dialup.
Put all drinks in another zip code away from your monitor.
It is very, very scary how many knitters I know will line up for this yarn.
Speaking of knitters, can anyone point me to online patterns for a mostly garter-knit afghan done in blocks? I've decided that the best way of doing something about my stash is to make something that I can auto-knit block by block.
ETA: for the crafty geeks on my list (now, why isn't that an LJ comm?)
Scarf pattern based on playing card "perfect shuffle" I don't understand the math. I do grasp "random, ever-changing stripe width, less intense than Doctor Who scarf, would make good strips for afghan."
Calculator for the above which lets you plug in the number of colors you want to use.
Other geek patterns are the gamer geek scarf/strip unpattern (Roll one d12 or d20. That's how many rows in the next color you use. Either roll or grab randomly to pick the color, depending on the number of colors you have)
and the one for math geeks: Fibonacci sequence in two colors Knit one row in color A, one row in color B, 2 rows in color A, 3 rows in color B, 5 rows in color A, 1 row in color B... (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, changing with every number.) If you want wider stripes, start further up the Fibonacci sequence or go further up it. But to make the stripes alternate in two colors, you have to pick an odd number of total rows to do (1, 1, 2, 3, 5 or 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) NOT 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 or you will be beginning every sequence with the same color.
All bets are off if you're using up your stash randomly, although you still probably want to pick an odd sequence number and go dark-light-dark-light.
And then there's always adapting the sudoku pattern to knitted squares: 9 squares each of nine colors. If you don't want to work out the pattern yourself, crib the "Yesterday's puzzle answer" from the newspaper.
cedara for linking to If You Were Gay done in Doctor Who macros Not safe for work or dialup.Put all drinks in another zip code away from your monitor.
It is very, very scary how many knitters I know will line up for this yarn.
Speaking of knitters, can anyone point me to online patterns for a mostly garter-knit afghan done in blocks? I've decided that the best way of doing something about my stash is to make something that I can auto-knit block by block.
ETA: for the crafty geeks on my list (now, why isn't that an LJ comm?)
Scarf pattern based on playing card "perfect shuffle" I don't understand the math. I do grasp "random, ever-changing stripe width, less intense than Doctor Who scarf, would make good strips for afghan."
Calculator for the above which lets you plug in the number of colors you want to use.
Other geek patterns are the gamer geek scarf/strip unpattern (Roll one d12 or d20. That's how many rows in the next color you use. Either roll or grab randomly to pick the color, depending on the number of colors you have)
and the one for math geeks: Fibonacci sequence in two colors Knit one row in color A, one row in color B, 2 rows in color A, 3 rows in color B, 5 rows in color A, 1 row in color B... (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, changing with every number.) If you want wider stripes, start further up the Fibonacci sequence or go further up it. But to make the stripes alternate in two colors, you have to pick an odd number of total rows to do (1, 1, 2, 3, 5 or 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) NOT 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 or you will be beginning every sequence with the same color.
All bets are off if you're using up your stash randomly, although you still probably want to pick an odd sequence number and go dark-light-dark-light.
And then there's always adapting the sudoku pattern to knitted squares: 9 squares each of nine colors. If you don't want to work out the pattern yourself, crib the "Yesterday's puzzle answer" from the newspaper.
