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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

FO: Elfine Tofutsies

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit. And it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either. Elizabeth Zimmerman Pattern: Elfine Lace socks (PDF pattern file) Yarn: SWTC Tofutsies colour 728 ("Three Feet Short") Gauge: 9 st/in on 2.5mm needle, using Magic Loop technique Modifications: Sherman

Recipe: Comfort Food

It's been a long time since I posted a recipe. This one doesn't have a name beyond "that chicken bacon peanut sauce thing," but it's good comfort food and we get four meals out of it. Ingredients * 1 packet of chicken breasts

Projects in all directions

The second Elfine lace sock is coming along nicely (though you can't see the pattern on sock #1 in the photo), and I'm planning something different for the next pair: Sweet Georgia yarn in Slayer red from The Loopy Ewe. I'll be putting slow

Cheese mines of Wales

BBC News: Cheddar matures 300ft down mine. Big Pit, Wales' working mine museum, is lending its mine shafts to a firm creating a Welsh cheddar cheese. A Blaenavon company which makes four types of cheddar says the temperature 90m (300ft) underground is ideal for its 40kg (90lb) blocks of

Upcoming yarn

I was prowling the SWTC website, and they have a whole bunch of interesting looking yarns coming out besides the Tofutsies. These ones caught my eye: * Craft, 35% milk Fiber, 65% organic cotton, 5.5 sts/in on US 6 needles (4mm) * Rock, 40% soysilk, 30% wool, 30% hemp, 5

Finding history

BBC News: School wall yields historic items. A unique piece of local history has been discovered in the wall of a local primary school in Gravesend, Kent. A bottle containing artefacts from the day in 1893 when building work on Wrotham Road School finished was dug out by workmen building

Second Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading

I missed this last year. More info here. A Martian Sends A Postcard Home by Craig Raine Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings - they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain. I have never seen one fly,

Neolithic Henge Fest

BBC News: Stonehenge builders' houses found. A huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge has been found, archaeologists have said. Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses. People seem to have occupied the sites seasonally, using them for

Handspun secret pal!

Came home to find a parcel from my Handspun secret pal waiting for me, and I'm blown away: That beautiful skein of yarn was spun on a drop spindle, then hand-dyed in my favourite colours! It came out gorgeous, spun thick and thin, "poor woman'

Chitin socks

For Susan at Myer's House, I have this picture: It's the Tofutsies yarn (wool, cotton, soy silk and chitin from crab and shrimp shells), with the Elfine Socks pattern (PDF). The yarn label says: Chitin is fiber from shrimp and crab shells! It's naturally

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