This really didn't start out to be a knitting blog, but here I am posting another one of my projects. I just finished knitting this sweater for a pal's baby's first birthday. This morning I sewed the buttons on, picked as much of the cat fur off it as possible, put it in a gift box and was about to wrap it when I remembered -- just in the nick of time -- to take a picture for the blog. It was a really fun sweater to knit. It's done by knitting back and forth on circular needles, starting from the collar and working down. At the bottom of the yoke, you put the first sleeve onto double-point needles and knit down to the cuff. Then you knit across the back and do the second sleeve on dps. When the sleeves are done, you knit the rest of the body, so it's all in one piece when you're finished. Brilliant. I want one in my size! 
Remember Mr. Peabody, his Wayback Machine and his boy Sherman on The Bullwinkle Show? Mr. Peabody invented a time machine, and he and Sherman would travel backwards for historical adventures. Now the web has The Internet Wayback Machine. This is the front-end to an archives of zillions of pages that are no longer shown on the web. I did a search for my old site that used to be on the Hampshire College server (Hampshire deleted my webspace when I stopped working there). The old site is in the archives! Not all of the pictures are there, but the text is, so the story of my roadtrip to see the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota lives on. One photo that wouldn't load is the one of the larger-than-life chicken somewhere west of Minneapolis -- that's the photo I use in my profile on my Frappr map, which at the moment looks like I have no pals so you all should add yourselves pronto.
A possible downside to the Wayback Machine for all you LiveJournalers -- that trashy stuff you post may live forever in Cyberspace.
I only had a little bit of time this weekend to play around with the camera, in between two loads of laundry and meeting pals to see Match Point (which was great, BTW). I'm using Picasa to organize and edit photos (I'm not really thrilled with the software that comes with the Canon camera). On this photo, I tried experimenting with the color saturation and a couple other effects. I've started a photo page on Flickr called A Trailer Full of Pix and have put a few things up this week. I'm just trying Flickr out for a while, so I've got a free account with limited space, i.e. there's a 20MB monthly allotment of bandwidth and I've already used 55% of it this month. So, I'll probably wait till the end of February to decide if I have any more pix that are Flickr-worthy.
Here are two of the socks I knit using self-striping yarn from KnitPicks. It's machine washable - the orange and green socks have been washed and get softer with each washing (and a little stretched out).
I've been knitting like crazy the last two months -- 4 scarves and 5 pairs of fingerless gloves (presents for pals), and a couple pairs of socks (for me). I just got a digital camera and can start posting pix of my projects. Not to be outdone by Anju, who posted pix of fingerless gloves she knit, I'm showing one of mine. The pattern has a placket with two buttons on each wrist -- I knit one pair according to the pattern, but then skipped the placket on the next two pair. The yarn is Casablanca -- it's 100% nylon and really slippery to work with, but I like the shimmery variegated look.
