OK, I feel awful that this poor plugin got such neglect, but turns out it still works, so thats a plus. I just wanted to drop a note letting anyone who still uses this plugin know that I am updating it right now. Hopefully will have a release by the end of the week. Combing through comments from while I was away these are some of the changes I am working on:
Back soon….
Now that the server is up and running again if I don’t do this now I will sit and play and never re-open the site till it’s perfect (or I think it’s perfect). So this is my blissfully broken and imperfect website, but I don’t care. I still need to fix quite a few things up, but I will do that as I go. I am happy with the way it looks now (this theme by press75.com is perfect), and I’m feeling rather impatient today. I also need to get moving updating my plugin so I can put that back up here. If you see anything that is painfully broken let me know so I can fix it right away. Otherwise I will get to it when I get to it. 
I LOVE to read! A good book can seperate me from the rest of the world for weeks. On top of that I love to share what I’m reading and talk with others about what they thought. I have been looking for a way to easily display a list of the books I’m reading for a while now. There are plugins that can connect your WordPress blog to any number of social networking site. I can display what music I’m listening to, articles from my friends blogs, everything I tweet, and plenty more. The only thing I could not find was a plugin to import a list of books from Goodreads. For about a year now I’ve been telling myself I’m going to just do it myself, and I’ve finally done it.
Bookshelf allows you to display a custom list of books from your Goodreads shelves anywhere on your site that PHP is allowed. If you want to try it out read on…
11-11-21 - Going for a larger shawl than what the pattern makes. She also wants a heavier yarn so I went with a DK. I plan on adding at least one extra pattern repeat, and omitting the frilly stuff on the edge of the leaves.
11-11-23 - Yeah the yarn is here! I wasn’t expecting it till after Thanksgiving. Getting started will have to wait though.
11-11-26 - No problems with the garter tab. This yarn is so nice to work with. Making pretty good progress.
12-1-7 - OK I hadn’t abandoned this project, just got busy during the holidays. I am done with the standard number of chart A repeats I am buying another skein of yarn JIC and going to see what happens if I add 2 more repeats. I’ve placed a rescue line at this point and will leave that one in. I also plan to put in another rescue line after the next repeat. I know excessive, but the video gamer in me keeps saying “save often” so I feel like this is a good idea :P
12-1-25 - Coming along nicely and so far it looks like I will have enough yarn to finish it (maybe even some left over :) ) I’m going to try to buckle down and power through the last few rows. Long rows make this feel like it’s taking forever.
12-2-4 - I am finished! Well knitting @ least. I still have to block it, but I am so relieved that the knitting is done and without any mistakes as far as I know. So happy that got through the whole thing without needing any major frogging. I didn’t use either of the bind-off methods mentioned in the pattern, because the person I am giving this two would rather not deal with all the loopy stuff on the edge. So I just used a Lace Bind-Off and when I got to the 3 stitches @ the tip of each leaf I slip 2 together knitwise pass next stitch to right needle then slip the first two stitches over the third, then pass that stitch back to the left needle and carry on with the bind-off I tried carrying out the sl2 k1 psso (like what was used in the pattern) and I also just tried the k3tog, but this caused the tip of the leaves to slant in the direction of the bind off. I wanted them to come to a nice straight point, and while my method took a little fidgetting it gave me the look I wanted so it was worth it. Blocking soon, and then I’ll update the pictures.
Hard to part with this one, but I am in love with these little guys. They are so much fun to make :) My youngest calls this Katchow’s little sister.
Little Bo helped me out of a funk ;) Borrowed the book, used gifted yarn that has been screaming @ me since I got it. She did her job and I love her! These monsters are so much fun!
(Yarn amounts are estimated)
Just a quick and easy brain break from my current project he LOVES it I’ll post pictures later.
