Amphigouri: varnished nonsense

I’m pretty sure I was shown how to knit when I was young, but it never really took. A few years ago I decided to give it another go (after a particularly bad day of too many stupid mistakes with my quilting project), and looked online for some tips and techniques. I found an old video of the continental method, gave it a shot and really took to it… however, I started a knitting class at a local shop in which the instructor was not particularly enamoured with that method, so I switched.

I’ve got a couple projects on the needles at the moment, one of which involves a fair bit of switching between knit and purl stitches - something I recall finding exceedingly easier using the continental method. As luck would have it, today on whipup.net I saw a link to a great YouTube tutorial (see below) on how to tackle this method. Yay! I’ll be switching back shortly, which will hopefully speed up these projects so I can move on to others.

A week or so ago I finally got around to purchasing some of Jonathan Coulton’s music, something I’d meant to do way back when I first read the lyrics to Re: Your Brain (something about the sentiment ‘We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes‘ really speaks to me, ya know?).

We (Hubby-n-I) love this guy. The lyrics are great, and the music has us toe-tappin’ or hummin’ along (often I’ve woken up with a tune of his running thru my head). We both also appreciate his attitudes toward downloads, remixing, and sharing of his music, which make us that much happier to buy his stuff (and purchase swag from his cafepress shop). Check it out!

My favorite song of the bunch so far has to be Code Monkey, all the more amusing to us because of the WoW video set to the song, available via YouTube:

My one question to JoCo: when ya coming (back) to Maine, dude? (preferably central Maine )