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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Shawl and sock

Swatched for the Forest Canopy shawl at knitting morning on Saturday and got gauge with the needle size in the pattern. I'm usually wildly off, could have been the cookie-and-hot-chocolate breakfast that day. Messed up the second pattern repeat and had to rip out and

Loopy Ewe Sock Club #1

The first package for the Loopy Ewe Sock Club arrived on Tuesday. It was nicely put together in a zipped plastic Loopy Ewe Sock Club bag. The yarn feels soft, slippery, and it looks shiny. The colours are great, but my skein has a knot join in it. Hopefully it

Maryland Sheep and Wool 2007

I had a fabulous time in Maryland with Rox and Eric! We found fossilised shark teeth on the beach, ate fish, and visited the Sheep and Wool Festival. There were sheep and rabbits and llamas and alpaca and goats There was more roving than I have ever seen in my

Project planning: Forest Canopy Shawl

Happy Star Wars Day! (May the Fourth Be With You...) Maybe it's because I've knit three pairs of socks this year. Maybe it's because of the purple wrap I wore to Sehlat's wedding. Maybe I'm going slightly mad. Whatever it

FO: Martha's Orchard socks

If they were purple, they'd be Martha's Vineyard socks, but she prefers red. Got this yarn on my birthday excursion to The Loopy Ewe. Yarn: Apple Laine in Red Delicious Pattern: Mine (2x2 rib and braided cable, Sherman toe and heel, picot cast-off) Gauge: 9st/

Novelling alone

BBC News article about novel writing: Your Name Here. Even in the age of MySpace and blogging - where innermost thoughts can be made public without the help of an agent or publishing house - every year thousands of people in the UK start writing a novel. It is a journey few

Eight Rules for Writing Fiction

Found on Merinda's blog: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even

WordPress theme: Henge

Hubby created a new WordPress theme: Henge, which I am currently using. The theme is released under a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license, it has a widget-ready right sidebar, and absolutely no sponsored links. I love it! Sponsored links are a nasty development

Nice day for a white wedding

Huge conga rats to Sehlat on her wedding this weekend!

Impending sheep fest

Three firsts in one weekend: first solo plane trip, first visit to Maryland, and first Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival! My best friend Rox moved out to Maryland in September and neither of us have been to a fibre festival before. Both of us are knitters and spinners (although that&

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