The Knitting Fiend

I upgraded Wordpress. Dreamhost resolved my issue with “one click installation” and it worked fine.

Unfortunately, one of my plugins was causing problems with feeds by adding a blank line. Bloglines seemed to auto-correct the problem, but Feedburner didn’t. That particular plugin was supposed to help people who arrived from google find their search text. I thought that was a handy feature, but since it really messed up feeds, I turned it off once I found the problem. I’m still not sure my feed is “perfect”, but I think the majorbugs is fixed.

If feeds are fully functional, you’ll see this delightful picture of Cosmo, who, you will notice is not knitting. . You should also see some links to categories “Cats” and “Blogging” and other miscellaneous stuff at the bottom of the feed.

Comments seem to be working.

The few calculators I tested seem to work.

Anyway, let me know if you see any glitches. (Meanwhile, I’ll be deleting the short “test” blog entries so people arriving at my site don’t need to read those.)

 

Let’s get medieval
and wear chain links ’round our necks:
but please, knit the links.

 

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According to a Vanessa of Entre Nous, scarves like these are all the rage in the UK. I live in Chicago, so I really don’t know. The scarves are kind of neat though.

I wonder if Vanessa sells the pattern?

Ok… so you’re wondering: How did she find this? And is this haiku a “blog-o-mercial?” Is Lucia making progress on earning megabucks by associating odd commercial products with hand knitting?

Well, it’s not a blog-o-mercial! But the haiku comes to you as a direct result of my attempt to write a knitting haiku blog-o-mercial to promote tobacco hookahs. That’s right, tobacco hookahs!

Mind you, I don’t even approve of tobacco. And I’m not sure the hookahs are really intended for tobacco. But hey! I’d be doing this both for the mega bucks– $7.50 plus the challenge of finding an associating knitting with hookahs. Which is quite a challenge because what in the world do tobacco hookahs and knitting have in common? (Both recreational? Both habit forming?)

My first thought: Why not do a google image search on “hookah knitting”. I did, and found zero images of knitted hookahs, or knitters smoking hookahs, or even knitters knitting in a tobacco (or opium) house.

Around page five, I did find an alluring cartoon of a glamorous woman wearing feathers. She was not knitting, but I was intrigued.

I clicked and went to Lux Totus, where I read the author ooooohhing and aaaahhing over these hand knit chain link scarves. That lead me to the crafter’s blog, and eventually her Entre Nous, Etsy Store.

Then, the Haiku came to me!

Spiffy sunglasses
protect your delicate eyes.
They need this knit cozy.

This hand knit cozy is from Lion Brand. Yes. That’s fun fur.

Well, I guess it’s a decent beginner project, though I’d prefer an eyeglass cozy in colors other than purple and orange. I mean… really.

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Ok, if you look below, you’ll see I joined “Loud Launch”, which is a way to supposedly make mega, mega, mega bucks reviewing products on your blog.

Having joined, I can say this: There is no way you can make mega bucks. At best you can make tiny snippets of money describing products; most are products one could not possibly review on a knitting blog.

Anyway, believe it or not, I’m actually going to try to see if I can find a knitting related item to match each totally non-knitting related item an ad campaign for at least a week. We’ll see how long I can stretch this out. I mean, there are about 50 campaigns and most are for things like nose jobs and mortgages. How in the heck can anyone really review these things? (And I don’t mean just how can knitters review them? I mean anyone?)

Still, today I saw I could make $7.50 by mentioning Polarized Sunglasses which, I think everyone admits, are a good product. I can even say good things about polarized sunglasses because I use them! My eye doctor recommended I get some clip on shades to attach to my regular glasses and I did. They really help when I face the sun while driving to the yarn store.

Do I know anything else about polarized sunglasses? Nope. Hope they pay me the $7.50 anyway. I mean, I wedged the phrase into a knitting haiku.