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Continue reading →: Q & A!
Oh, wow! I actually have enough people with questions that I can do a Q & A session! Laura: I had been wondering what you’d do about dyeing once the sun heads south for the winter. Stove? The variegated and multicolored ones will go in the oven instead of the…
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Continue reading →: Ravelry contest
By popular demand (by which I mean incessant nagging from Tamie), one last Ravelry update: * You signed up on August 30, 2007 * You are #29977 on the list. * 12947 people are ahead of you in line. * 5471 people are behind you in line. * 47% of…
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Continue reading →: Invisible cheese
Today was a day for doing stuff. I cleaned the house. (And by “cleaned”, please realize that I mean that the house is no longer scary and coated with dog fur, rather than that any particular room is actually clean by any standards including my own. Mom, please pretend you…
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Continue reading →: Weaving 101: Warping
[Edit: Rewrote the first two paragraphs to make it clear that you need warping posts AND some kind of loom-equivalent.] Okay, you’ve all got string and pencils, right? You will also need something to wind the warp around to measure it – two chair backs, a couple of c-clamp –…
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Continue reading →: The structure of things
In which Phiala talks very little about string. You can pretty much all skip this (except for the last paragraph). I spent the entire day wresting with structural equation modeling (SEM). Now, don’t get me wrong – I actually like statistics, and computer programming stuff, and have an R package…
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Continue reading →: Big News!
I have a whole bunch of things to cover, since I’ve been slack about actually posting here. Ya know, thinking about what I’m going to write, planning what I’m going to write, and making detailed outlines in my mind of what I’m going to write are just no substitute to…
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Continue reading →: 50 books
Finished Philippa Gregory: Earthly Joys No string, but lots of plants. This novelization of famous botanist and gardener John Tradescant’s life emphasizes his interactions with the rich and famous of his day (the end of Queen Elizabeth’s reign in England, through James and Charles). It seemed kind of light to…
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Continue reading →: Weekend of color
I spent my weekend in the dye studio doing sock yarn. Lots of sock yarn. Mostly variegated, but also one batch of self-striping. It was a three-day weekend here (there should be more three-day weekends in my life) so I had some extra time to play with string. I got…
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Continue reading →: Moving up
Ravelry sez: * You signed up on Yesterday * You are #29977 on the list. * 18765 people are ahead of you in line. * 256 people are behind you in line. * 36% of the list has been invited so far I’ve advanced, and the line has grown behind…
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Continue reading →: Not last!
But also no closer to the front. # You are #29977 on the list. # 18923 people are ahead of you in line. # 51 people are behind you in line. # 35% of the list has been invited so far Those numbers say something about the wild popularity of…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
