SQL for Knitters is basically a database design and SQL tutorial aimed at knitters and using a knitting-stuff database for the example project. One of the geekier knitting-related projects I"m aware of.
I code Perl[1]. (and I like it!) Reading the vast majority of crochet and knit patterns seems easy to me, either as a result (skills learned in one realm transferring), or for the same reasons (underlying abilities making both simpler).
My current works in progress are:
- crochet Aran vest, in dark green cotton
- the Haight Street sweater from BH&G Simply Creative Crochet, in Plymouth Encore Colorspun DK, purple/blue/white (the first from the left)
- Needle Beetle's Tiger Swallowtail Shawl. I wanted to use the colors of the actual butterfly, so I'm using Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Bee Stripe.
Upcoming is the Great American Aran Afghan. I'm doing this one in heathered green and fisherman Wool-Ease, as an afghan this size requires rather a lot of yarn, and my budget is not unlimited. I plan to checkerboard the colors, probably expanding to a 5x5 afghan, and do the border in green. The yarn for this hasn't arrived yet.
[1] Programming language whose motto is "There's more than one way to do it!". Its detractors tend to refer to it as "line noise". By comparison, the multiple ways I've seen equivalent concepts expressed in patterns is trivial.
clark said: too few seem to read the works of dead authors.
It's not that simple. I read living authors and dead authors. I've read several works by Poul Anderson, novels and short stories. I haven't read that particular story, though, at least not that I recall. There just isn't time to read everything. There isn't time to read all the good stuff. There's not time to read all the famous good stuff, even. Not if you have a full time job doing something besides reading, anyway.
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