Double the photos, double the fun! Without even meaning to, I’ve managed to post two pictures for every project in this post. Go me!

First, a small status update.

I finally finished my Herringbone Gloves, thanks to a week long computer conference in a very, very warm auditorium, and I’ve started work on a t-shirt pattern, Yosemite from Knitty. I even managed to join the last few squares from Cathy’s Baby Blanket and add a border, but I still haven’t woven in all the ends. I have to sew them in, you see, because the blanket is cotton and cotton yarn likes to pull itself loose and try to escape. Blah.

Here’s one of the gloves, front and back:

And…here’s the baby blanket so far, with a closeup of the border as seen from the back of said blanket. Please note the ends sticking out every which way. These will be fixed soon, I hope.

Now, for the rest.

In other news, I’ve spent a busy two weeks test knitting and test crocheting a few patterns. There’s a group called The Testing Pool on Ravelry that is full of people like myself that think we’re up for the challenge of following potentially buggy patterns. Much like computer code, both knitting and crochet patterns tend to come in cryptic forms, full of abbreviations (like sts) and acronyms (like CO, BO, ktbl and many others) and all sorts of special instructions that take a few readings to understand (my favorite show stopper is “reverse all shapings”). The original consideration was almost certainly to conserve space and save paper when published (useful, I’m sure), but it makes it hard for designers to catch errors in their “code.”

In the past two weeks, I’ve made two hats (both crocheted), half of one scarf thing (still in progress), and one lonely little mitten. Isn’t it a cutie? The pattern is called Baske, and you can buy it on Ravelry.

I’ll post pictures of the rest once the respective patterns have been published. I haven’t checked yet this week to see if they have, and I’m planning to do one more run through on one of the patterns, just to be sure.

Now, in case you’re wondering, I didn’t get paid for any of this, but I did get free copies of the patterns each time. (And sometimes, the pattern is going to be free anyhow, so your payment is getting first crack at it before everyone else.) Getting the free pattern was nice, but I pretty much just got a kick out of testing my ability to proofread a different sort of code. After all, I’m more accustomed to following code of a different sort, the kind you compile and run on your computer.

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