Hi, I'm Bex. For the past 4 years I have been developing and running one of the best yarn shops in the country. I no longer have any affiliation with that shop, so I suddenly have a lot of time on my hands and a lot of knitting friends who don't have anyone to go to with their questions. I hope this site will be fun and interactive for everyone. Those who know me personally will agree that I am adventerous in my persuit of knitting...always trying new techniques and figuring out how to make old techniques easier or more efficient. I have helped many a student or customer change a pattern or gauge or whatever to make their project more personal. My favorite designers are those who are as adventerous as I like to be, ie. EZ, Anna Zilboorg, Cat Bordhi, Norah Goghaun, Debbie New, Merike Saarniit... but I've often been heard saying "a pattern is just a good suggestion."
This web site is obviously still under construction and I am certainly no "techno geek" so please check back for pictures and projects coming soon. I am currently knitting on a "labarynth" sweater adapted from Debbie News' book Unexpected Knitting. I started it three years ago and have completed @20 projects since then. I think it's time to finish! You'll have to wait until after the holidays for details (pictures) of the other three projects I'm actively working on (gotta have one or two in the car and one in the diaper bag so I never get caught with time and no knitting!) My family will probably read this and I can't be giving anything away.
Comments
happy new year!
I'm glad to see your site up and running. I'll probably be posting questions to the forum soon, as I am making a resolution to try some new techniques this year!
Accessiblity
Bex,
Thanks for having the navigation links appear so early in the sidebar! This makes the site extra accessible with a screen reader or for those who use the keyboard to navigate rather than the mouse. There's nothing more frustrating for those of us using adaptive tech than a header or a left sidebar with lots of content and no way to skip through or past it! (think of amazon.com's header being read out and described to you at high speed in a computer voice - I've been driven to excessive coffee consumption from this alone!) Yours is great! Once you get the hang of adding pictures and stuff, let me know, and I'll show you how to add descriptive "alt" tags for those who are totally blind.
yeah! great start!
--Christy
Drupal for accessibility
Accessibility is one of the things I love about Drupal as a content management system.
I'm experimenting with several different options on uploading images. It needs to be easy to use and accessible. The image on the first blog entry didn't get the tag, but the one on the "About Me" page did. Please let me know if it shows up correctly with your screen reader.
Now I just have to figure out how to edit the program to get the image uploader to automatically enter the code needed to get the text to wrap around the image. I don't want to have to hard code it with each image.
I'm glad to see you found the site, Christy! And glad, of course, that it was assessible to you.
--Kirsten