Zoo Along!

Just finished making Yertle the Turtle: I caught Quantum snuggling with him before he was all sewn up: Tomorrow I give Yertle to Roxanne.  Happy Easter!

Supersonic Mini

Radar clocks Mini at Mach 3 speed A Belgium motorist was left stunned after authorities sent him a speeding ticket for travelling in his Mini at three times the speed of sound.  The ticket claimed the man had been caught driving at 3380 kph (2,100 mph) - or Mach 3

Garden vs Yard

Some people have gardens, others have yards.  I tried to call my non-built-on green space a garden, but it just isn't working.  There is no garden to it, except for the flower bed with the crocuses.  The rest is a weed-infested jungle that I want

Yarn Dreams

Started Sarah's other sock twice on Tuesday night, and my purple New Zealand Wool one once, messed both up and frogged (*) the whole lot. Depressing.  I have one sock to do for each pair and they refused to cooperate.  Then I dreamed I saw a ball of yarn,

Yertle the Turtle

Made some Zoo-Along progress on Yertle the Turtle.  The shell is made, all I need to do now is make the limbs and head, then it's just stuffing and assembly.  This is fun!

Geek code

Kate Pickering wrote a Knitters geek code for the new edition of Knitty.  This is mine: KER Exp++ SPM+ Steel Wood++ Bam+> Syn Cot++ Wool++ Stash+ Scale+> Fin Ent?> Flat++ Circ++ DPN++ Swatch KIP++ !EZ Blog++ SNB EZ? GaugeF+S++DK++ FO++ WIP+ Which means: KER = Knitter,

Zoo Along!

My first ever knit-a-long and I don't have to break my yarn diet to do it!  Kitten Avec Whip! and the knitlette are hosting a Zoo along You have to knit a toy.  Perfect timing, I just got Kath Dalmeny's World of knitted toys

April Fools?

The BBC has a round up of almost but not quite April Fools stories.  But this one just had to be quoted:  Cold war bomb warmed by chickens. Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War.  Civil servants at

Out of focus?

So is this a techblog, talking about Java software development?  Or is it a knitblog, with pictures of work in progress, and finished objects?  Or is it a news blog, or a links blog, or a writing blog, or a religion blog, or a journal, or a commentary blog, or

Yarn Diet

I'm going on a three month yarn diet, April through June.  I have a yarn store trip planned for 4th of July weekend, going to teach Sehlat how to knit a funky little item, probably a summer scarf from eyelash yarn, and I'd like to pick