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Crafts of various sorts, including knitting

Montréal in August

Sum­mer wouldn’t be sum­mer without a sum­mer con­fer­ence or two. There’s some­thing about walk­ing the streets or sit­ting in cafes, talk­ing about tech­no­logy, in balmy weather (well, when it doesn’t rain like it did at last year’s CSW XML Sum­mer School in Oxford). This year I’m off to Mon­tréal for Bal­is­age in the middle of […]

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2008 05 27 Conference Comments (0)

Retreating Fibre

I went to my first fibre retreat ever over the week­end (actu­ally, a four-day week­end, includ­ing Valentine’s Day, which struck me as ironic). The organ­isers of the retreat did a great job, given that the hotel was being ren­ov­ated, with some of the res­taur­ants and pub­lic spaces closed, and work­ers crawl­ing over much of the […]

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2008 02 20 Travel Comments (0)

Ravelry

I finally got my Ravelry invite today. I got on the wait­ing list about a month ago, so it didn’t take long. I spent a few minutes pok­ing around, though I will have to be care­ful as it could prove to be an immense time-sink for me, with all the dis­cus­sion about knit­ting and crochet. […]

2007 10 25 Comments (0)

Knitting and XML

Eve’s XML and knit­ting ana­logy got me think­ing. You can think of a writ­ten knit­ting pat­tern as being the schema, with a set of instruc­tions, just like the schema’s con­tent model. Then each knit­ted item you make that con­forms to that knit­ting pat­tern is like the doc­u­ment instance that con­forms to the schema. Schemas can […]

2007 08 27 Technology Comments (4)

Knitting and Copyright

There was quite a lot of dis­cus­sion about copy­right issues in the com­ments to my knit­ted cush­ion piece; this is an import­ant enough sub­ject that it deserves its own blog post­ing. Oblig­at­ory dis­claimer here. The issue was whether a knit­ting pat­tern can be copy­righted. I believe that the com­plete pat­tern with all the words can […]

2007 08 10 Comments (12)

Knitted Cushion

A friend in Eng­land got mar­ried, so I decided to knit her a cush­ion. Here­with the pic­tures, and the pat­tern, for those read­ers of my blog inter­ested in my knitting posts.

2007 08 01 Comments (6)