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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

State of the Spin

My goal for spinning is to follow the Yarn Harlot and use Tuesdays for spinning. I have a chunk of time between work and karate group class that can be spent in the front room with wheel, spindle, and NCIS re-runs on my laptop. Right now I have some

State of the Knit

My knitting goals are to finish the Eris cardigan before autumn and make another fingering weight shawl this year, probably Sivia Harding's Waves in the Square. Ambitious goals, given my usual level of output. Lunchtimes are for knitting now the citizenship revision is over. There needs to be

State of the Union

NaNoWriMo has proved I work better with goals and a deadlines. I'm looking at the state of my knitting, spinning, and writing for the next few days and thinking about what goals I want to achieve. Passing the citizenship test was a huge personal goal, thank you for

Civic duties

On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point

Architectural Lego

Wired: Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy - making awesome product after awesome product. Now it is releasing the almost ridiculously

UK Internet Censorship

(Link via Random Acts of Reality.) Wired UK: The hidden censors of the internet. Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group

Catch up

It's been a busy month. Knitting Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'

Cod moves in mysterious ways

Back in Guildford I wanted a t-shirt with a picture of a running chicken and the caption "Poultry in Motion". It was a Simon Drew design, I love his sense of humour and drawing style. These are links to some of his designs on coasters available from

Ungrateful cat is ungrateful

Brand new squishy cat bed vs. free cardboard box. Even sprinkled with catnip, she prefers the box. You snooze, you lose.

The historic influenza panda mix

There have been four flu pandemics so far, named for their country of origin: * 1889 Russian flu, estimated one million deaths, possible H3 strain * 1918 Spanish flu, estimated 20 to 100 million deaths, H1N1 strain * 1957 Asian flu, estimated one million deaths, H2N2 strain * 1968 Hong Kong flu, estimated one

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