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That's as cheap as it gets. |
If you *do* teach him to knit, you'd better post pictures. Burly male knitters are always fun to see, especially when they're knitting socks. |
Sorry, I wish I could help with the software, but I opened the comments to see what other people were recommending, myself. Let us know what you come up with! |
People are always 'asking' me to make them stuff as soon as they hear that I sew, knit, spin, and find other ways to make tiny knots. I used to try to explain - back when I still had compassion. Now, I've moved onto complacency at best and just ignore, ignore, ignore - you know, the grown woman's version of 'la la la, ... |
I'm de-lurking on this one - I resent when people say "Well, you knit, make (fill in the blank) for me." That's when I tell them how much the yarn would cost, and how much I would charge per hour to knit. They get kind of sick looks of horror on their faces and drop the subject quickly. I think it's because they're use... |
I have a very dear friend who, every time she sees me knitting something, says that I could knit one of those for her. I laugh, as if it were a joke, because I just don't have enough time and money in the world to knit doubles of everything! (I did knit her a scarf for her birthday, I'm not evil, but socks frankly are ... |
I'm with the teach him to knit crowd -- that'd get rid of him fast enough! |
I used to use the "I'll teach you how..." line when guys would ask me to knit something for them, but then 2 of my male co-workers came in with yarn and needles and I had to make good on my word. One of them made his girlfriend (now wife) a scarf, and now she knits. The other makes hats and scarves for his family for H... |
I don't have any software, but I really like Maggie Righetti's Sweater Design in Plain English. |
I also checked out Aran Knitting (the Alice *more one) from the library once and it had good design-your-own stuff for cables. I ain't paying $200 for it, but the library was free and I could have it for 3 weeks. They might have the Righetti book too. |
you might check out janet szabo's books-she has excellent aran stuff. |
when i've had people tell me, 'you should knit me a sweater', i offer to teach them to knit, and only rarely does the person take me up on my offer. i once told someone, 'what do you think i am, a common knittitute?' i only knit for love... |
Eeeshta! Large, too. Bog. Does he want it when he's 40? Oh yeah. Teach him to knit...uh, if you had the time. ;) |
The Wool Works site has links on knitting software of various types (some dead): |
Lot of price ranges; first one listed, for instance, starts at $200! ::thud:: Cochenille is $165. Fortunately, there are two others listed that'd do what you want: |
Knitware Design, near as I can tell, is the cheapest of the "will actually design sweater" software; $50 if you d'load direct from their site. Then there's the one I have: Knitting Software's Sweater Wizard 3.0 (and two version upgrade d'loads you should also get from their site, free); $89. While I've never actually k... |
Then whatever you get, grab a used copy of the Harmony Guide's 220 Aran Stitches and Patterns, which not only has scads of cables, etc., in chart and written form with excellent photos, but a fairly decent overview on how to put 'em together in a sweater. |
Knitting fonts, both free: |
Aire Design |
Knitter's Magazine symbols font - also the key, separate d'load - find at very bottom of this page: |
Hmm, I commented on a hat a customer was wearing yesterday, a nice handspun, hand knit simple hat. She somewhat apologized for the fact that she paid $20 for it. I told her that she got a bargain, just the yarn for the hats I am making my family is almost $6 each, plus my time (which as a student/fulltime worker is eve... |
Just say no. |
This is exactly why I live in FL. Well, I like to think it was so conveniently planned that way... |
Grrr....I know he meant well but...grrrr none the less. I find it really irritating when people assume that my time is worth less than theirs. |
I am with the I'll teach you to knit crowd also. I have had a few takers (very few) but hey..if they want it bad enough. Most will try a few rows, find out that it actually takes time and skill and give up, but...they never ask me to make them another thing. |
Hon, your young mountainous security guard is totally hitting on you. |
Gawd, he is SO hitting on you. |
I am dealing with a co-worker (who is also a dear friend) commenting recently that she's never received a hand knitted object from me - this came up recently when I whipped out a shawl for another co-workers friend with cancer. |
I just informed her that I have never knit something for another person who was not related to me unless they were dying. |
She shut up. |
I agree that the security guard should be taught to knit - then you could ask him to make YOU something in return. |
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U.S. | Police State and Prisons |
War on Terror Advocate to Head Homeland Security |
by Stephen Lendman |
Friday Oct 18th, 2013 11:52 PM |
police state |
War on Terror Advocate to Head Homeland Security |
by Stephen Lendman |
Obama intends to nominate former Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson as new DHS chief. |
He's responsible for endorsing some of Washington's most lawless policies. His rap sheet reveals great cause for concern. More on him below. |
Post-9/11, police state terror followed. Obama expanded it. |
It's unprecedented in size, scope and ruthlessness. |
DHS is America's Gestapo. The November 25, 2002 Homeland Security Act established it. Twenty-two federal agencies were combined under one authority. |
They include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security, the Secret Service, FEMA, National Protection and Programs Directorate, and the Coast Guard among others. |
DHS concentrates unprecedented executive branch military and law enforcement empowerment. It's a rogue agency. It's insidious. It's a police state apparatus writ large. It's a dagger at the heart of freedom. |
Its four main mandates include: |
• border and transportation security; |
• emergency and disaster preparedness; |
• developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons countermeasures; and |
• centralizing storage and analysis of potential threat information. |
US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) was established months earlier (April 25, 2002). Doing so was unprecedented. |
For the first time, America's mainland, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Gulf waters, Florida straits, and portions of the Caribbean were militarized. Troops may be deployed on US streets. |
Doing so violates core 1807 Insurrection Act and 1878 Posse Comitatus Act principles. |
They prohibit using federal and National Guard forces for domestic law enforcement except as constitutionally allowed or expressly authorized by Congress in times of insurrection or other national emergency. |
No longer. Usurped diktat authority lets presidents claim emergency powers, declare martial law, suspend the Constitution, and deploy federal and/or National Guard troops on US streets to suppress whatever is called disorder. |
Fundamental freedoms are endangered. First Amendment ones matter most. Without them all others are at risk. They include free expression, assembly, religion, and right to petition government for redress. |
Police state ruthlessness defines today's America. International, constitutional and US statute laws no longer matter. They lie in history's dustbin. |
Diktat power replaced them. No one any longer is safe. Doing the right thing is dangerous. Guilt by accusation is policy. |
Anyone can be arrested, held uncharged, and detained indefinitely. Due process, judicial fairness, and other civil rights no longer protect. |
If confirmed, Johnson will replace Janet Napolitano. She reflected the worst of repressive governance. Throughout her tenure, she violated fundamental rule of law principles. |
She terrorized Latino immigrants. She waged war on Occupy Wall Street. She obstructed FOIA requests. |
She advanced America toward full-blown tyranny. Expect Johnson to pick up where she left off. His record gives pause for concern. |
His legal career combined private and government service. From 1989 - 1991, he was GHW Bush's Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. |
From 1998 - 2001, he was Clinton's Air Force Department general counsel. He's currently a Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison partner. |
His former Defense Department responsibilities included legal review and approval of all military related operations. |
An unnamed senior Obama administration official said: |
It includes defending military commission prosecutions. They're for so-called "unprivileged enemy belligerents." Bush called them "unlawful enemy combatants." |
Johnson supports all of the above. Doing so qualifies him to head DHS. He endorses targeted assassinations by drones or other means. |
He defends lawless NSA spying. He champions waging war on terror at home and abroad. |
On November 30, 2012, he addressed the Oxford Union in London. He titled his talk "The Conflict Against Al Qaeda and its Affiliates: How Will It End?" |
He claimed credit for working with Congress "to enact the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2009." It renewed its initial 2006 authorization. |
It scrapped habeas protection. It granted sweeping police state powers. They're unchanged today. MCA states: |
With or without evidence, "Any person is punishable who aids, abets, counsels, commands, procures," or in any way provides "material support" to alleged terrorists. |
Charged suspects are guilty by accusation. Enhanced interrogations (aka torture) are authorized. |
So is denying detainees international law protections. Presidents can authorize military commissions at their discretion. |
Torture coerced confessions are admissible. Hearsay and secret evidence is permitted. Kangaroo court justice follows. |
Johnson vowed to keep fighting Al Qaeda. "(W)e are taking the fight directly to AQAP (Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula)," he said. |
He omitted explaining that Washington uses Al Qaeda and similar groups strategically as enemies and allies. |
He called targeting Al Qaeda "a new kind of war. It is an unconventional war against an unconventional enemy." |
He implied that old rules don't apply. Waging war on Al Qaeda won't "end in conventional terms," he said. |
The most "unconventional" tactics are used. Fundamental rule of law principles are violated doing so. |
On February 16, 2012, New York City Bar President Samuel Seymour wrote Johnson, saying: |
"(W)e write to express our concern with the Order Governing Written Communications Management for Detainees Involved in Military Commissions, dated December 27, 2011." |
"The Association is alarmed at the dramatic impingement on the attorney-client privilege resulting from the procedures set forth in the Order." |
"The sanctity of the attorney-client privilege is fundamental to our system of justice." |
"If the Order is implemented, (it) will be gravely undermined." |
"We urge the appropriate authority to vacate the Order and (replace it with) a (proper) legal framework." |
It's in stark contrast to civil proceedings. It's fundamentally unfair and unjust. |
Seymour's letter was comprehensive. It was lengthy. It ran nine pages. |
He concluded saying "the Association believes the Written Communications Order is problematic because it invades the attorney-client privilege, inappropriately inserts outsiders into the defense team, and reverses the presumption that the privilege should be respected, all on a blanket basis and without any particulari... |
"We believe the Order threatens to undermine the proper functioning of the adversary system and" helps delegitimize military commission prosecutions. |
On March 18, 2013, Johnson spoke at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School." He titled his address "A 'Drone Court:' Some Pros and Cons." |
He claimed "appropriate lethal force" made America's homeland safer. It's never been less safe. |
He advocates drone killings. He asked what about establishing a drone court? He's comfortable about an authority acting as judge, jury and executioner. |
He wants it kept within the executive branch. Targeted assassination authorizations aren't suited for judicial review. Quick action is needed to implement them. |
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