BooHoo YaHoo...

You know the cute little Yahoo Avatars (mine's at the right)... well, I figured I'd send Yahoo some requests for backgrounds (Aussie outback, rain forest, artist's studio, swimming pool and a few others), new hobby items (KNITTING stuff!), and more Plus Sizes clothes (cos they look like real people, but only have 13 outfits, cos clearly fat chicks have the fashion taste of a stuffed newt and hate new clothes, while there are about a zillion stick insect outfits).

And the reply I got was basically saying how they are "committed to answering your questions as quickly an [yeah, an instead of and, ironic really given what comes next] accurately as possible", and then explaining how to use Yahoo avatars. Proving that no-one with a brain had actually READ my email AT ALL. Hubby reckons the response was automatically generated... with typos?!

I've replied very nicely saying Well duh Yes, thank you, I do know how to use Avatars, I'm just putting in a request for your artists to do some stuff. No reply yet. But I have tried to get knitting paraphernalia into the 'Extras / Hobbies' section... not even vaguely important or anything, but, yeah, you know....

20 seconds later....

Oh - they just replied, and said :

"Thank you for your suggestions regarding Yahoo! Mail. It is through user comments and feedback that we are able to continue to develop and improve our service. We will be forwarding a copy of your message to the
Yahoo! Mail team as a product suggestion."

So yeah, maybe it'll happen!

New Knitty & New Kitty

Oooh, the new Knitty is out! I'm definitely going to make the Monica top for my niece Ruby! I really like Isabella too... Lovely to see so many Aussie designers too, must be a record!



Dotter and I visited our lovely friend Susan today (Hi Susan!), and - apart from having a most delightful afternoon tea, with knitting and tea in china cups - we met two of her cats (the third one was hiding). Lulu came along too, and wasn't at all intimidated by the size of Truman; the whole carnivore / herbivore dynamic was just lost on her. I think she was lucky that Truman was more focussed on the sausage rolls than fresh lamb!

Cottoning on, and on, and on, and...

This photo is as risqué as I'll ever get (here, anyway!). I put the cotton top stitches onto waste yarn, and tried it on tonight. The bugger - as I was suspecting - is TOO FUCKING BIG. There was only one thing to do, and I let Lulu help.


I've cast on again, again (is this #5? I've lost count...). 144 stitches this time (instead of 160). I'm doing a few rows of garter stitch this time first, and then starting the lace, which might stop the edge curling up? I'm also going to 1) do my side decreases in a more aligned way and 2) try the thing on more often!

I'm actually not too upset by it, to be honest. I am designing this from scratch, and so I don't feel any frustration of a (printed) pattern (by someone else) going wrong, it's more I'm still trying things out, and seeing what works. Each time I do it again I get (hopefully) better at it - I just hope the cotton can take being re-knit so much!