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Day Three: Experimental Photography And Image Handling For Bloggers. I'm not good at super spiffy pictures.  I'm lucky to get half-way decent pictures of my FO's before they get used or go to a new forever home.  I try to take close ups with a minimal amount of crap in the background.  If I have a good day with good light, my things actually look presentable.  As the proud person of three cats, I always have direction and assistance.   I have a Nokia Lumia, it comes with Nokia apps, specifically Nokia Creative Studio.  I thought it was high time I played around with my pictures.  (I may have gone a bit overboard.) I did some cropping, color adjustment and blurred out the sides.   I guess the blurr effect is supposed to make the focal object really pop.  I don't know if it really works with knitting... This one is fun, its the color pop feature.  I had the app pull out just the orange from these multicolored mitts.  More color pop.  I was trying to pull

Here we are at day two.  The prompt for today is: Write a dating profile for one of your past finished projects. I'll start out with this; I've never written a dating profile since I was lucky enough to stumble upon my husband at an early age and never had to jump through the veritable hoops that some other people have had to.  Hi all, my name is Cassis.  I'm a spunky little shawlette who was knit up in the lively city of Syracuse.  I'm only three months old, a nice little catch fresh out of the cradle ;)  I'm just a small crescent shawl, a scarf if that's what you prefer, but I'm pure Merino so I'll keep you warm in a cool situation.  I'm also the proud owner of 987 cobalt beads.  I may be small, but I pack a sufficient amount of bling; perfect shoulder candy for that night out.  I love to go out, be it on the town sprucing up the go to LBD, dressing up that blouse and jeans.  (I am the perfect shade of blue after all.)  Or just wrapped aro

     Here we are at day one already.  The topic for today is:  Describe a day in the life of a project that you have made, or are in the process of making. So here goes nothing.  I woke up this morning and she wasn't beside me.  My love, my only, my mate was gone.  At first I wasn't too worried, I thought, maybe, she had awoke earlier than me.  I got up and wandered around the Drawer.  Mr. and Mrs. FirstSocks were outside pruning the hedges together.  I could see the HermoinesMittens sisters down the way having coffee.  Where was my wife?  She wasn't to be found in our space.  I was starting to get worried.  I hurried down the way to the new high-rise to see if anyone knew where my wife had gone.  I found ThreeBelow first.  She had just returned from the Work Bin a few weeks back and was still nursing her new graft.        "Mr. Anklet," she greeted me.  "I heard terrible screams coming from the Drawer last night, is everyone alright over there?"

            It's that time of year again.  Its the 5th annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week.  It starts tomorrow!  Time for me to get planning.           I have unblocked pictures of the shawl I finished.  This was the pattern I won by naming it; Phoebis by Laura Patterson of Fiber Dreams.  I thought that the yarn overs and cables of her green version looked like a butterfly.  So I picked out a green butterfly, Phoebis Sennae as my name choice.  Laura liked it and now the pattern is called Phoebis.  Since I made mine with purple yarn, I named this shawl after a purple butterfly Apatura Iris.  The yarn is Manos del Uruguay Maxima.  It is amazing to work with, soft, squishy and has great stitch definition.  It is also a fair trade yarn produced by women in Uruguay.  I think that I'm going to block at least the lace section of this one, so that those butterflies show up better.  The pattern list four sizes I made the third one based on the yardage I had.  It is ni