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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Knitfail

Utter loss of my knitting skills last week. Two projects started, two ripped out: Pyroclastic socks and the Ivy Vines cowl. My Pyroclastic sock is gone. I got through the cuff, heel, and started the arch shaping, then it all went wrong. I believe I followed the instructions for marker

Kakapo given NZ Government job

The Telegraph: Parrot that tried to mate with Mark Carwardine is given a government role. The New Zealand prime minster has given the country’s most famous parrot a job in his government, it has emerged. An endangered kakapo parrot, named Sirocco, which rose to fame last year after it

Tweets for the week of January 29th

* Everything aches after kata class, can't believe what I've got myself into! Going to IL for a tournament in March * Karate lesson + gym = wipeout. No brain left. Send more brain plz. Brains.... * Sun! First time in 2 weeks I saw the sun for more than a

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

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