You may have noticed that I’ve put up a little doodad on my sidebar that indicates the number of days since the beginning of the New Year I’ve gone without ‘buying’ sock yarn. (See the following paragraph for the reason I’ve put buying in single quotation marks.) The best thing is you can reset it to 0 anytime you like.
I bought sock yarn last night. But I’m going to it away on my birthday coming up mid-month or I’ll give away a different skein. I think that entitles me to a net purchase of 0. Anyway, if you want some numbers for your own blog, I’m working on cranking them out. Check them out on flickr. I’d also love it if anyone wants to upload some of their own. Preferably in yarn!
You could post knitted numbers (a fun thing to do in a swatch to tell what needle size you’ve used), rearrange your roving in creative shapes or use digital yarn.
Digital Yarn Numbers
For this project you need a few photos of skeins of yarn that you like.
1. Open your first photo in a painting program you have. I used MSPaint.
2. Use cut, copy and paste tool to create your background out of different shapes of yarn. Then use the eraser tool or the font tool to create your number! This is actually how I created the Yarn Diet 2007 buttons and the header for this page. I used the reflection tools to make a picture out of the skeins.
3. Upload the picture to your favorite storage site.
4. Here is the code that I put in my wordpress text widget, although you could put it anywhere if you use a different type of blog program.
<p align=”center”>Days Since Last Sock Yarn Purchase
<img src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/346819707_d4d52d6509.jpg?v=0″ width=”150″>
</p>
If you want double digits without creating a new number, just add another imgsrc line for the second number and set both widths to 75 (i.e. half of the original).
If you upload them to flickr, I recommend tagging them with the tag “yarn numbers.”
Please download the images and upload them to your OWN site if you want to use them. Feel free to change adapt or otherwise mess around with them in a non-commercial manner. (Although, who would want to make money off these! LOL!)
