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b-ark.ca
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| | | | | Solid yarns are perfect for working interesting stitch patterns, so I knew, for this elegant purple yarn with it's subtle sheen, I'd want something more than a simple rib. Yanagi is a pattern I've done before and I knew it would suit this yarn well1. And, anxious of getting the fit right, I also knew I'd have good control of gauge in this familiar mock cable design.? | |
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john.colagioia.net
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| | | | | John has thoughts. Some of those thoughts make it here. Some of those thoughts might even be worth reading. | |
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b-ark.ca
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| | | | | These socks were a bit of an adventure. What with the career break and all, I wasn't sure I wanted to spend money on a pattern, so instead I decided to visually copy the basic motif in this design and then work it up into my typical socks, including a slip stitch sole and a flap heel. This required a fair bit of on-the-fly design work on my part, with things first going wrong in the stripes on the gusset, which required at least two rework attempts before I got them right (first I got the colour alternation wrong, and then I realized I wanted a navy line separating the motif from the gusset). Once the heel flap was complete I then had to work back into the round on the leg, and in my first attempt, I had way too much of a solid navy border between the heel and the motif, which I had to rip out and rework. The final challenge was in the leg motif itself. Having not designed any colourwork in the round, I pictured the repeats as tiling side-by-side rather than spiralling up. That is, it didn't occur to me that row 1 ends where row 2 starts, row 2 ends where row 3 starts, and so forth. As a result, the motif as I'd designed it simply didn't work. So of course I had to then rip that out and redesign it to make it work in the round. Meanwhile, it had been years since I'd done stranded knitting, so much of the initial knitting involved re-learning how to carry yarn and wrap stitches. Truly it was a journey. But in the end it was definitely worth it! | |
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www.java-tv.com
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| | | This video reveals the long lost secret of how to write readable Java code. Self explaining method names, fluent interfaces, DSLs, helpful frameworks... We are always looking for ways to make our code more readable. But in our quest, we seem to have forgotten something. The most effective way to make any code more readable. | ||
