Creating Things with Yarn - A Resource List

Hi everyone!

This is my list of favorite online resources for knitting and one on crocheting, and a bit about why I like them:

1. http://www.knittinghelp.com/: This website is awesome, apart from having a very extensive glossary of knitting terms, they have videos that explain how to do each type of stitch for both Continental and English styles (curious? read their site! I couldn't do as good a job as they do at explaining stuff).
2. http://www.knitty.com/: Online magazine with not-your-grandma-style knitting patterns. They are very fresh but don't go extremely out of the norm, so it's a safe place to explore if you're convinced knitting is for boring people. Be sure to check out their archives and look up Norberta!
3. http://www.crochetme.com: This website has tons and tons of patterns you can crochet. They have things from dainty wristwarmers to a dodo bird to a hat-and-Groucho Marx Glasses-combo. I'm almost done with the Thirds scarf (...it takes a while).
4. http://www.theanticraft.com/: This site will definitely remove the "old lady sitting in a corner, waiting for her life to end and in the meantime force you to wear ugly sweaters" perspective that people have on knitting, sewing and beading. They're a bit snobbish and have a very "more-evil-than-thou" writing style, but if you ignore it they have some interesting stuff; I already have a request for a Cthulhu, let's see if it doesn't kill me first.
5. http://www.domiknitrix.com/: I put the Domiknitrix in more for the book than for the site; she preaches the domination of yarn, so knitters become more confident in their own work. Plus, it's pretty cool to think of yourself as an accomplished Domi.
6. http://www.maggiesrags.com/: This is another one that's more the book than the site. If you EVER get stuck on ANYTHING knitting-related, this book will most probably have the answer. This is one of the less-scary links I have on here.

Alright, now that I've given you all my little secrets, go knit something, will ya?

*sigh*

hola gente!

ok, here I am, staring at a blank post, trying to figure out what to write, or even if I have any interesting stuff left to post about. I guess that now that I changed my job I don't have this need to remind myself and people around me of what makes me happy (Isn't that depressing?). It's very sad, because now that I'm ok with what I'm working on (even when the work culture becomes very frustrating), I don't feel that telling you what I'm doing is that cool.

Before, it used to be pretty awesome to say "hey, my job stinks, but I'm making this really cool scarf I got from a kid's instructional kit!", now I'm not so convinced. It might also be that I have to choose what to make now, and it's not as easy as having a box inform me of my next project (I was working on a very detailed crocheted scarf, which consists of a bunch of triangles put together, and I worked on it so long that now I feel that I'm overexposed to that project, so I had to stop. Cool side of it: I'm working on a baby dragon that's coming along very quickly and he's totally adorable :) ).

Also, they have a bunch of distribution lists at work where they post random videos and pictures, and I'm like "that would be great for my blog!" but then I'm like "but I didn't come up with that, that's plagiarism!", so even though I have a number of interesting items to tell you about, I can't really tell you about them because they came to me without me doing any effort (so it doesn't feel like it's mine).

I think everything took a turn for the worse right around the time I did the Fairly Oddparents post...

Well, thanks to you who read on until now, I'm glad you did, because writing out loud helps me think and makes me not think that it's so bad. So here are my two top favorite things to post right now:

This is my favorite contestant ever from Animal Planet's Pet Star:

And this is a dog they sent out at work:

Next project: Change the look of the blog!