Quantum Tea (Page 113)

Sign in Subscribe

More issues

Jayne hat

Started the Jayne Cobb hat for Hubby to wear to the opening night of the Serenity movie on September 30th. I like the Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, the Carrot and Daffodil colours are perfect. Unfortunately the Tomato I ordered with them was a little too radioactive red, so

Canterbury Rap

Chaucer's tales become rap songs . A rap artist has translated some of the best known works of poet Geoffrey Chaucer into hip-hop to make them appeal to schoolchildren. Canadian Baba Brinkman wants modern teenagers to warm to the 14th-century Canterbury Tales. He is to tour English

Doctor, is that you?

Doctor Who, fashion icon. My first look at the new Doctor He's been a dandy, an Edwardian cricketer and most famously wore a long scarf. Doctor Who's togs change as he regenerates. So what are the fashion tips from everyone's favourite Time Lord? Flamboyant.

All grown up

It finally happened: I know this isn't exactly new technology, but I have avoided getting a swift and winder for ages. Didn't think I needed one, and besides, Chris at the yarn store would wind things for me for a small fee. There's stuff

Faina-along!

Who's up for a Faina's Scarf knit-along? You need 450 yards of sportweight yarn and size 4US needles. This is the scarf: It's a gorgeous scarf and I don't want to mess it up. I need a support group! I have

FO: Summer Purse

Finished the Summer Purse: I really don't like sewing things together. Attaching the strap was hard, it's a canvas webbing belt, and I doubled it at the ends to keep it from fraying. The button is a wooden octagon I picked up in a fabric store,

The Great Unknown

I am going to try knitting Faina's Scarf by Fiber Trends. It's a geometric lace scarf, to be knit with Elsebeth Lavold's Silky Wool in Dawn Rose (colour 12), which is a dusty pink colour. I was planning to knit the Koigu Patch of

Life and knitting

On Monday I discovered the cure for the common cold, it works almost instantly. Struck oil in the back yard on Tuesday and invented a car engine that runs on cold fusion lunchtime today. My cat Quantum got nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics and the novel I wrote

Skydiving

No-one ever told me before today it is possible to lose a shoe while skydiving. I was with two other first timers, and all three of us immediately tightened our shoes. "If you lose one, just kick the other one off so you don't look like

Wow!

Weekend to do list * Finish sewing up Summer purse (half done) * Collect Harry Potter book (probably Sunday afternoon) * Drive out to Vandalia IL, watch training video, spend some time with instructor, put on harness and jumpsuit, fly up to 14,000 feet, exit plane strapped to tandem skydive instructor, do

Follow me on Mastodon

← Fediring →