I am knitting a scarf with my son’s initial on it in a contrasting color. I am already past the initial, but I didn’t do a very good job–I just carried the yarn across the back of the scarf, which doesn’t look particularly attractive, but I figured carrying the yarn would look better than a million woven-in ends (two to four per row of knitting).

I pulled the carried over yarn in the back too tight, though, and the initial part of the scarf is a little bunched up. Also, the red initial legs are bunched up because they are essentially just sitting on top of the charcoal grey yarn that is the main scarf color. Is there a better way to knit another color into something? Is there a tutorial somewhere? I suspect there is a better way to do this and I am just not able to picture it mentally.

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Next: many thanks to the intrepid Front Porch Studio for updating my blog in two ways. She put in a working RSS feeder (I still do not use an RSS feeder myself, but I understand it’s a thing of beauty and efficiency) and she updated my wordpress dealie to modern ages so that I can blog from my phone (who knew this was possible?)

Ms. Front Porch Jessica is best known for her graphic design and her fantastic blog headers are what drew me to her via twitter (yes. I tweet. I am semi-embarrassed to admit it, but I do.) I didn’t change up my header (and she didn’t make my dorky header–it’s just a photograph I took one day with some fabric I like and a clicky pencil. It’s me. Dorky and a mess. She definitely wouldn’t want credit for that. But she made things work properly behind the scenes for a good price and for that I am grateful and well-pleased. Jessica also has a blog, The Love List. Check it out.