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 [...]
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 [...]
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 be [...]
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 be [...]
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.
Apparently there’s a group of nuns in hiding after their knitting business went bust; they are even said to have mortgaged a monastery to finance their efforts to keep up with the latest fashions in knitting design. More on the story in Nuns on the Run (link from whip up).
On first reading it’s funny; [...]
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