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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Knit up the ravelled sleeve of care

Cabled waist shaping on Eris is mostly done and I'm on the fourth skein of yarn. I'm going to adjust the decreases on the sleeves because I have teeny wrists and hate floppy sleeve cuffs. Might lengthen the body a bit too because my row gauge

Shamu the mysterious whale

BBC News: Police top misheard lyrics chart. Rock band The Police have written some of the most commonly misheard pop lyrics of all time, a poll suggests. Two of the band's songs feature in a top 10 of misunderstood tracks. A line from The Police's Message

Trailing the crowd

I finally caved and got a Facebook account. Found a few people I know, a herd of people from church found me, looking for a few friends from school and university. A lot of the people I knew are only on Friends Reunited, I hadn't been there in

Alternative comics

Everyone reads Dilbert and Garfield. My favourite alternative comics are: User Friendly Tales of from the trenches of Columbia Internet. Also features a Dust Puppy, the Elder God Cthulu, and the battle between geeks and marketing. xkcd "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." These are a

Snapshot - August 2008

It's been a while since I did one of these. September and March in 2007 were the last. Similar to phoeknits weekly thing but a lot less frequent: Knitting Eris is back in the lunchtime knitting slot, which is pretty much the only time I knit. I have

FO: Honeycomb Diamond socks

Yarn: Mama Blue Simple BFL in Beekeeper. Pattern: My own. 12st easy toe from Knitty, panels of Diamond Rib from Sensational Knitted Socks, Sherman heel, rolled top. Needles: US0 40in Addi circular, with US1 dpns for cast off. Duration: 11th July to 11th August 2008. These socks suffered several mishaps

A Tale of Two Hats

My beloved husband wears a hat, a baseball cap that has seen better days. He loves that hat, and it gets comments because of the Linux penguin, Tux, on the front. I got it for him from ThinkGeek at least three years ago and I've been bugging him

Lucky 13

August 5th is our 13th wedding anniversary. I love you Hubby!

Yarn Tasting

I attended the first ever Yarn Tasting at Knitty Couture on Saturday 2nd August. The yarn was from Imperial Stock Ranch in Oregon, who have a herd of Columbia sheep, a cross of Lincoln and Rambouillet breeds. There were different wines to try, chocolates, fruit, cheese and crackers, and three

Tortoise and Hare

Last knitting morning I got Eris to the start of the waist shaping and the end of the third skein of yarn. The pattern says I only need eight skeins, but I have two in reserve just in case. I'm using the cabled waist shaping to match the

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