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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Milestones and inchpebbles

This is my 1500th blog post. I started on January 10th 2002, using Blogger and free hosting on a site long gone. These days I have WordPress and my own domain name on paid hosting. It's time to make a new blog theme. Some elements will stay the

Tweets for the week of January 22nd

* Second best music video ever http://bit.ly/8DdLUc * The Traveling Shovel of Death will be appearing at the Fictional Authors meetup 2pm @ Crooked Tree. Write, or else! * 2 skeins of handspun drying in the bathroom, Gotland wool DK weight and suri/bamboo laceweight * The definition of squee: when the

Spinning FO: Gotland and Suri/Bamboo

It's difficult to take pictures because St Louis has been living under thick fog all week. After a couple of weeks of -15C weather, it's nice to be above freezing but we're definitely missing the sun. Desktop wallpaper on my computer is a desert

Pyroclastic flow

When you're in the lobby of the karate school waiting for group class to start, you can't knit lace with charts, or anything big, so I started a sock with a hemmed top from Shelridge Farm Soft Touch Ultra in Green Apple. I got this yarn

Tweets for the week of January 15th

* Going to see Eddie Izzard at the Fox tomorrow night! Woo! * I have mink cashmere yarn to play with, from sheared minks. Weird mental image of mink shearing. * Writing creepy fiction for next week's Fictional Authors meetup, unplotted and scary. * My cat has expensive taste, he ignored all

Cowl'd over

I was warned about the addictiveness of knitting cowls, but it was too late because these are next in line: Alexstraza cowl (Ravelry pattern) This could be the perfect pattern for a skein of my handspun yarn. It's pink merino/bamboo 2ply, 198yds of mostly sportweight, and the

Distaff's Day spinning

January 7th was Distaff Day, or Roc day, traditionally the day that housework started after Christmas, and women got down to spinning again. It was the day I pulled out my spinning wheel after work and spun a bobbin of Gotland wool. I'm aiming to make 4oz of

Tweets for the week of January 8th

* Eris cardigan has eaten dining table, finally working on cabled hem corner. The end is nigh! Then the sleeves. * Only one thing in my Ravelry "in progress" list, feels very odd. Need a portable project for work on Monday. * St Louis is so cold this week, a cold

Eris is back

Way back in May 2008 I started knitting a cardigan. I worked on it from May to October, then shelved it. I couldn't figure out how the stitches at the bottom got cast off. I wanted to wear it, but I was stuck. This year I resolve to

Top 10 physics stories of 2009

New Scientist's Top 10 Physics stories of 2009 * First black hole for light created on Earth * The perfect way to slice a pizza * The math of gambling * What the Large Hadron Collider is really looking for * Rainbow trapped for the first time * Super clocks - More accurate than

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