LindyBeir

Author: LindyBeir

And finally…The Third Hat: Beret in Bee StitchAnd finally…The Third Hat: Beret in Bee Stitch

March 27, 2011 | LindyBeir | 0 Comment | 10:15 pm

As you know from my previous post, I have been side-tracked with switching to a new computer and then finding that my blog had been hacked. Well, I think I have recovered from the hack and I have all of my pictures and files transferred to my new computer — so, now to catch up and post about the third hat I started in January and finished in February.

My third hat is a beret knit in Bee Stitch.

This hat was also inspired by the thread about Hermione Granger’s hat in the Deathly Hallows, Part I, in the Harry Potter Lover’s group on Ravelry. Again, I think the beret is fairly close to the original hat.

Details: Hat was knit with Stitch Nation Full O’ Sheep (100% Peruvian Wool), using US Size 7 (4.5 mm) needles. This yarn is very soft, aran weight, though I did find it a bit splinty. The color is Passionfruit. Stitch Nation is manufactured by Red Heart (Coats & Clark).

When increasing for the beret, I basically doubled the number of stitches and it created a very slouchy beret, so if you’d like it a less slouchy, I’d only increase by 50%. I converted the Bee Stitch so I could knit it in the round and I wrote up the pattern to share with others, so here’s the link: Bee Stitch Beret.

To see my notes on Ravelry, use this link.

OMG – I was hacked!OMG – I was hacked!

March 20, 2011 | LindyBeir | 0 Comment | 2:44 pm

I haven’t posted for several weeks because I was busy transferring files from my old computer to my new one. You know — it takes awhile whenever you switch computers.

So yesterday morning I was at a point where I thought I should post something new to my blog — and when I attempted to login and do so — I got a really nasty surprise. When I typed in my url — what came up was this very blunt warning message that my site had suspicious activity and was now considered a dangerous site. OMG — I’d been hacked! 😮

And that ominous warning page wasn’t going to let me get anywhere near my login page. A bit of a problem, since one of the things I needed to do was go in and change passwords and update WordPress. So I started by notifying my Webhost that I had been hacked. I use IX Web Hosting and I have to tell you their response was great! By this morning, they had located the malware and removed it from my site. I was not expecting this because everything I had read about how to clean up your site after a malware attack indicated that I would have to do this myself. Thanks, IX Web Hosting!

So then the challenge was to get Google to remove its warning page — and to do that you have to go to Google Webmaster tools and request that they re-review your site. It took an hour or so — but then my site starting coming up without that dire warning. Whew!

I’m still having issues with Firefox on my new computer — it pulls up the warning page every time I try to access this site, but Internet Explorer and Safari are fine. I can access the site using Firefox on my old computer — so it has to be something with Firefox on my new computer.

In the meantime — if this ever happens to you, dear reader, go immediately to Google Webmaster Tools — it will tell you what the problem is. Then go to your Webhost and alert them to the hack. May this advice never have to be used…