Happy Birthday Hubby!
It's Hubby's birthday today! Hope it's a good one, I love you.
Alison Hawke
FO: Boom socks
Finished the Boom socks for my mother-in-law:
Yarn: Fiesta Baby Boom in Mochachino
Needles: size 1.5 (2.5mm) Addi circular
Pattern: My own (hemmed top, 4 row cables, eye of partridge heel, round toe)
Duration: January 14th to 13th February
This is great yarn to work with,
Sounds of destruction
There have been horrible noises coming from the downstairs of my house since 9am. Today is Door Installation day. The new front and back doors we ordered sometime last year were finished last week and there are three men doing the work.
It's not the first big home
Badgers badger badger
BBC News: Secret lives of badgers revealed.
The subterranean secrets of badgers have been revealed by a BBC film crew. Over two years, tiny cameras placed deep underground recorded the comings and goings of a wild badger family. While the animals have been well studied outside of their setts, until
One handed
One pirate mitten down, one to go. I've been struggling for a week trying to figure out a good way to hold the yarn and it just clicked on Saturday. I tried a yarn guide but it wasn't helping much. The mitten isn't perfect,
Origami in Space
BBC News: Can Japan's paper plane fly in space?
Professor Shinichi Suzuki of the University of Tokyo is the latest slightly eccentric pioneer. His team is testing a paper aeroplane they want to launch from the International Space Station to glide back to earth. The plan is to
"Died in a knitting accident"
Hubby found this on xkcd, which is "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language".
Knitbloggers are living on the edge!
Pirates in Progress
Started a pair of Pirate Mittens for my next colourwork project. I'm using Dale Heilo in mink and light sheep heather:
Slow going, but I love the elegant look of the ribbing and the palm. And there's a skull, right there! Went up a needle size
Quantum of Solace
The new Bond film is going to be called Quantum of Solace, which is the title of a James Bond short story Ian Fleming wrote. BBC News got my old Quantum Mechanics lecturer, Jim Al-Khalili to explain what a quantum is.
BBC News: For quant of a better word.
Mad Hatter
Started the Very Warm Hat on Sunday. My first attempt was ripped out because the floats were too loose, ironic given my normal bulletproof tension. On the second attempt, I wove the carried yarn in every other stitch, and it's going much better. I felt almost obligated to