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Alison Hawke

FO: Dew Point Shrug

This is the first non-accessory garment I have knit entirely on my own. I had help from my mother to make the two cardigans and two sweaters I produced in the 1990s. I've knit plenty of socks, hats, shawls, and scarves since then, but no garments. Until

Recipe: Coconut Ice

I remember my mother making this when I was a child. It is so sweet! * 350g (¾ pound) of sugar, preferably fine baker's sugar * 150ml (¼ pint) milk * 125g (4oz) coconut * 1 or 2 drops of vanilla essence Put the sugar and milk in a saucepan on a low heat

Tour de Fleece 2011

The 2011 Tour de France is coming up, which means the Tour de Fleece is also soon! I didn't do this in 2010, but I think it will be good to attempt this year. I have some gorgeous blue fibre on the wheel, and it would be nice

FO: Appletini socks

I have stripes! And while they don't match exactly, they both look good. I wanted to avoid an out-of-sequence stripe of pink or green after the heel turn, and both socks managed that. Pattern: My own (picot hem, ribbing, eye of partridge heel, grafted toe) Yarn:

Tweets for May 16th to May 31st

* SO freaking COOL and I want one! DIY Lasers Are Irresistibly Dangerous | Wired.com * Unexploded cow / Baked sweet things from three kitchens / A great night with friends. #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * The most terrifying word to hear in karate: "Review". Reviews lead to pre-tests, pre-tests lead to a test,

Choose Your Own Adventure

Something sparked an old memory of reading Fighting Fantasy role-playing game-books when I was a teen. The game-books are "choose your own adventure" stories written in the second person ("You walk through the forest" etc.). The story is broken up into numbered paragraphs

Tweets for May 1st to May 15th

* Self-striping yarn should come with an addiction warning label, must get to the next stripe! And the next one! And the one after that! * Self-striping sock has sapped my will to stop, or do anything else but knit more stripes. Someone stop me! #halp * No car coming home

Shrugged

I'm working on a Dew Point shrug (pattern by Laura Chau, Ravelry link) using madelinetosh Tosh DK yarn in a colour called Violin. The pattern is interesting. You take a measurement, then fill in the blanks through the rest of the pattern from a table, so that you

Flying with needles

It's not quite running with scissors, but I flew from St Louis to San Francisco on Friday with a set of five Colonial Rosewood US1 double pointed needles (2.25mm diameter, 5.5in long, why are we mixing units here?) in my carry-on luggage. I flew back

FO: Unspun silk neck cozy

You don't need fibre to be spun before you knit with it: Pattern: Koigu neck cozy (Ravelry link) Yarn: Unspun silk hankies (one and a bit hankies) Needles: US7 (4.5mm) Duration: 9th February to 28th April Ravelry project: Unspun silk neck cozy This is the oddest thing

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