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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Looking for the Holy Grail of cardigans

Looking back through my past knitted projects, there's a few things I need in a cardigan that are not easy to find in combination: * Knit in pieces, then seamed, for project portability * Set-in sleeves look better on me than raglan ones * Worsted weight * Can be knit in less

Moved in

The DNS change has propagated, the blog survived the export/import process, and all is well. Feedly has no idea where this is, which may be a problem, but I think I can live with that. I've added the links to relevant RSS feeds in the sidebar.

Wordpress ate my website

I'm in the process of converting my website to be entirely managed in WordPress, both posts and pages. That will allow me to easily migrate it from one host to another and move it up to the root directory of this domain. It should be transparent to any

DEFCON 3

The United States Armed Forces has various states of readiness, the defense readiness condition (DEFCON) ranges from 5 (lowest state of readiness) to 1 (nuclear war is imminent). The highest state of readiness to date was during the Cuban Missile crisis, DEFCON 2 (Armed Forces ready to deploy and engage

Second Artist Date - Shapes

I created another set on Flickr for photos from my second Artist Date, this time I was looking for shapes. I found these during the Maplewood Sweet Tooth Tour, which was a self-guided tour of local shops all offering a sample of their wares. Husband and I spent a couple

The Artist's Way - first Artist Date

I joined a group on Facebook going through The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron over the course of a year. The book is written as a 12 week course on creativity. Two of the practices introduced in the first chapter are the Artist Date, and Morning Pages. For

Back and forwards: 2014 resolutions.

I knit thirteen hats this year. Wasn't intending to make 2013 the year of the hat, but when you have a small amount of yarn, a hat is a good project. One of the hats was made with my first 3-ply handspun yarn, a deep red Falklands wool.

Crafting explosion

After a month of virtually no crafting, it seems to be Big Projects month. I finished a Little Waffles shawl/scarf with some handspun Organic Polwarth from Corgi Hill Farm. I'd spun a 3-ply sportweight and got 328yds that just kept on going. It got big when I

NaNoWriMo 2013 Week Five – Plowing on

Slowing down but still plodding on. Must finish the story! (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 29th 54689 words, 1883 today. Black Friday, thankfully an office holiday. My task for the day is to caramelise condensed milk to make a banoffee pie for dinner with friends tonight. And write more

NaNoWriMo 2013 Week Four - Rounding the bend

I usually find week four hard, especially once I make the official NaNoWriMo winning word count, because my story usually isn't done. I have promised myself a bribe for finishing the story. (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 22nd 47303 words, 2221 today. Management book club at lunch,

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