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March 20th, 2012 at 08:01 am

Even A rapper can be right once or twice

in: Wheat WISHES She Wrote

This may be the ONLY time I have to agree with Enimen.


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March 16th, 2012 at 10:59 am

TheDonald explains Dumbo Care

in: What The Hell?!?!?!

Gotta Love the “Just Business” Attitude of the TheDonald

TheDonald Trump

Let me get this straight . . .

We’re going to be “gifted”

with a health care plan we are forced to purchase

and are fined if we don’t,

Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people,

without adding a single new doctor,

but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman

says he doesn’t understand it,

passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes,

with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,

for which we’ll be taxed for four years

before any benefits take effect,

by a government which has already

bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,

and financed by a country that’s broke!!!!!

‘What the hell could possibly go wrong?’

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March 1st, 2012 at 18:24 pm

short rant

in: Passing Thoughts

I willl NEVER understand people who call me up, complaining because the price SOMEONE else is charging too high, or their Postage is too high, so they are not going to order from me. Maybe I should stop answering the phone, but then I would not get to talk to so many nice people.

Or who call me up to find out if I know anyone who charges less than I do for a particular item.

Or a manufacturer who says because someone who did not order merchandise before their price increase in January and I did so can offer these at a lower price, should raise my price to be fair. FAIR, what about FAIR to my customers. All this of after years of promoting this product both because it is great AND made in the USA.

Okay I fell better, back to helping all the people who call, write and order in the most pleasant of ways.

Thank God TOMORROW is Friday

I think I need to take off for the week and find something to do that involves my turn to

Enjoy The Making

Wheat

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February 13th, 2012 at 12:12 pm

Tiplet: Combining Colors

in: Tiplets

Most importantly, maybe you have not been color trained, but if you look at a combination, made a small swatch and LIKE THE RESULT – then the rules be damned –

CAVEAT: I do not currently sell any of the products mentioned, but I probably should since they are so personally helpful – That changes, I will edit this Tiplet

Must be something in the air, the same day a question comes up in Tunisian Crochet, I also get two emails asking me about learning aids.

There are so many excellent color references books and tools out there, but these are the ones, I like today.


Useful to “have in hand” the “Creative Color Wheel”

It is described (and with a bit of practice really does work much more effectively than a basic color wheel) as “a tool for designers in all artistic mediums to help create color combinations and to understand color relationships… Helps organize colors to make choices and combinations easier… ”

Although I AM going to have to get them to include Crocheters and Kumihimists (braider) into the list of “artists”

Now if you want an insight into just how restrained my importance of swatching really is, I can be… another product those who are as wacky as I can be (I prefer wacky to a diagnosis of AR) is their Create-A-Wheel
An uncolored color wheel ready for you to paint your own favorite colors. A practical, hands-on, tool for teaching … color relationships. Although designed for use by painters, I have been know to make a larger copy of this and then glue yarns and fabrics to it until I find the combination that make me happy.

Because of the first can be just as useful when made last…
maybe you have not been color trained, but if you look at a combination, made a small swatch and LIKE THE RESULT – then the rules be damned

Enjoy the Making

Wheat

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February 9th, 2012 at 09:53 am

Standardization Dilemma

in: Let's Talk About It,Standards,Tech-Talk

In a pretty much unrelated conversation in a designer’s group, a comment was made that “got me thinking” about one of my favorite topic – Standardization.

This is not really to say that how a technique is taught should be standard, but what the end result “looks like” should have a common name.

As most know, I Love Standardization and several of us are currently involved in trying to get some into Crochet beyond the 5-8 basic stitches. There is another group that tries very hard to create at least standard terms in “English” for Japanese Braidmaking – Kumihimo.

Not making a judgement here, but I have never understood calling the part of a “threaded needle” project that was the “Stitch Key” a graph or a chart. Although I can, for purposes of illustrating stitch placement see where either term could be reasonably interchangeable.

However the dilemma is that terms “cross craft”. We could spend hours and pages on why, but let’s don’t and just stipulate that it is so.

Using graph as an example, to say that it is limited to Cross stitch just does not work. Graph is commonly used in Crochet, Knit, Beadwork, weaving – Not to mention the one place where it does have a fairly standard meaning – Math and in every case including Math – if there are more than one person at the table, we could site at least 1-4 other terms commonly used to describe again placement be it of stitches or color.

Parallel development is so common in craft technique that there is always going to be someone who thinks they “invented” a stitch or whatever and even when others can, often as not, show that the “end result” of the stitch already exists, with a different name but with the same steps in its execution – they will still choose to claim authorship and name it as they please.

Then you have the main stream (or as main stream as niche publisher can be) craft book houses who have, because of the vacuum in established standards, make their own so at least the bulk of their publications would be the same and thus more usable for the consumer.

Is there an answer to this? Probably not, that won’t stop some of us from trying to make it easier for those who love the techniques from trying to make it easier for all to share.

Maybe we need a “Design Author Pledge” where egos are set aside and common factors are defined, common names used, and then it will be up to the individual to decide how to teach the process/technique.

Okay obviously I needed something to rant about – but really, what do you think?

Enjoy the Making

Wheat

P.S. A thank you to Linda Reinmiller for her comment that helped me “finally finish” this commentary

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