I’m sorry to have to go this route but I’ve installed a spam filter with word verification on the blog. It was suggested to me by Restless Knitter (thanks!) and it lets me pick my own words… so you’ll never know what you’re going to get! Its also not one of those with the dark background and cryptic letters so it shouldn’t be too obnoxious.
My spam filter works well in keeping spam from showing up in my actual approved comments but my filter is FULL every day from all sorts of long-assed p8rn links.. and I’m getting tired of cleaning it out all the time. I’m also missing some peoples comments because it gets caught in my scrolling screens of ads for various drugs and all sorts of other things that I have no interest in what-so-ever.
I’ve been doing some knitting lately on UFOs and am trying to get at least one project completed before I cast on for anything else. Right now I’ve joined on the third ball of Kureyon for the entrelac scarf I’ve been working on (Danica from Knitty) and have been knitting a bit every day. I’m sure that I’ll need all four balls of Kureyon to make the scarf a decent length and I don’t know what I’m planning on doing about fringe yet.
I also ripped back the purple Trekking sock that I started ages ago because it was too tight in the instep and was stretching the stitches. I frogged the entire foot portion and got it back to the heel where I added more rows so that the gusset would be larger. It was really aweful to see all of that work torn out but it would also be miserable to realize that I’d knit an entire sock that was uncomfortable.