The Knitting Fiend

 
That
yarn
is vile
and deadly.
Like the medusa,
whose tentacles harden viewers,
that poncho freezes all who behold it into stone.

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This fib is dedicated to Jen and La of JenLa on the occasion of their new blog tag line:

Ponchos don’t kill people; people who knit ponchos kill people.

Either way, some ponchos can just knock you dead!

 
 
Use
Ghastly
Loathsome
Yarn
 
 

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I know some of you like the Haiku and are disappointed when I substitute other forms of poetry. But let’s face it; this knitting pattern spat out an acrostic.

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For those wondering, yes, I continue to have blog hosting “issues”. I’m working to resolve them; I’ll report more details later!

March 13– I’ve set the DNS pointers for the Annex and the Forum to resolve to DreamHost. It takes between 1 and 3 days for the pointers to fully resolve, and the whole resolving thing tends to be a bit random. Forum and annex behavior may seem odd over the next few days; some messages on the Forum will be lost because… well… because.

 
k,
p,
m1
ssk,
k2tog,
p2tog tbl.
Knowledgable knitters know these abbreviations.

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knit,
purl,
make one,
slip, slip, knit,
knit two together,
purl two together through back loops.
Knowledgable knitters need to know these knitting terms.

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I now have several fibs under my belt. The Abbreviation Fib is based on the number of non-blank characters in an abbreviation. That’s a bit unconventional. But, if you read the second Fib, you’ll see the first qualifies based on the number of syllables. Does that make it a double fib?