i have finally, FINALLY, cracked the code! surprisingly, IT WAS NOT ME!
well, it was sort of Not Me.
ok, maybe i should have known that safari was not as compatible with my blog software as some other browsers, but i didn’t . . . and finally after a week of reading wordpress support sheets til my eyes glazed over, i found what i needed: someone else was having the SAME problem! YAY! (er, hmm-mmm, my sympathies).
(anyone out there rolling their eyes at the trials and travails of an internet newcomer can skip down to the pictures now. ditto for anyone just here to look at knitting or knitting-related stuff)
anyway, apparently there are actually buttons you can push to make things happen when you write a post. things like adding pictures, and italicizing text. snazzy things. the buttons are supposed to be installed with the software. i discovered that a few days ago. ok, so i didn’t have the buttons. and another thing; my plugins were not showing up (the ones i added to help me put in the pictures that i couldn’t seem to get in there. anyway, now i see them!! the buttons. and the plugins.
so. i guess now we can move on to more important, even crucial subject matter.
i haven’t just been playing with the website; the only way to salve my insecurities about not “getting” the software was to indulge in frequent bouts of spinning and knitting. frenzied bouts, i would say, even.
ok, actually, i hid in my workroom for two days this weekend spinning and listening to a story which took place in the 1700s; that’s how computer traumatized i was. i made myself completely unavailable by electronic means. this followed, of course, my birthday on friday, which would normally not bother me (i really love my birthdays). however, the the two events, a) becoming one year older and b) discovering that one can actually become computer senile, collided to cause a crisis of competence not seen in this house for some time.
but, spinning this
made me feel a lot better. actually, i spun that during the evenings these last 2 weeks, but it took almost all day saturday to ply it (there was a lot of yardage . . .)
now about those olympics, eh? i’ve been training by spinning some beautiful soft shetland wool from beckie rice into laceweight yarn for a shawl (which i still need to choose the stitch patterns for; it will be my own design). more on that tomorrow or thursday.
did i mention i was on a lace-knitting jag? aside from the other 3 or 4 small projects i have on my needles, i have several lace things going. my current main project is this
i love it! it’s handspun falkland that i dyed in the fiber and then spun up to keep the loong repeats of subtle color changes. the stitch is ostrich plumes, one of my favorites. it’s going really fast because i am enjoying it so much. i know it will be done either tonight or tomorrow night, and i am already panicking about what will replace it that will feel as right as this? i do have a cable and lace scarf started and i need to design my shawl, but this . . . this is perfection to me.