Diverted

There just happened to be this sock yarn in my knitting bag along with Eris, Mama Blue BFL semi-solid in Beekeeper, which reminds me of the inside of a Cadbury's Crunchie bar.  Plus my sock needle, and the yarn I use for provisional cast ons... BFL (Blue Faced

Le Tour De Fleece 2008

I signed up for Le Tour De Fleece!  This year is a "spin from your stash" event, and purely by chance, I just enhanced my stash with some Wensleydale and Gotland from Copper Moose and some Lincoln locks from sheepsandpeeps on Etsy, both of which are still en

Adipose

In the first episode of season 4 of Doctor Who, there's a creature called an Adipose, made from living fat cells.  The Adipose isn't a bad guy as such, and they're cute little blobs.  Mazzmatazz wrote a pattern for a knitted Adipose and posted

Snapshot - State of the Onion

Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts.  Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others). It's been a

Snail mail, for real

BBC News: 'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail Muriel, Austin and Cecil are snails for the electronic age.  The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website.  Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph

Ladytron

Back in March, Hubby surprised me with tickets to see one of my favourite bands, Ladytron.  They were at the Pageant on Monday night with Datarock.  We arrived at the Halo Bar early and were rewarded with first access passes, which got us to the front of the line when

X-Com Apocalypse

Hubby managed to give me my all-time favourite PC game back, X-COM Apocalypse!  It's running in a VM Ware install of MS-DOS, on the Mac Mini, which is contrary to all nature, but I don't care.  It's one of the few games I completed

Ongoing with Eris

Still in the raglan increases.  Counted nearly 300 stitches to make sure I was on track, and everything's fine (though my interpretation of "repeat twice" needs a little work).  Really looking forward to getting the arms and body divided!  Each row is taking an ice age

Someone stole my blog post

It's been an interesting week.  As in the curse May you live in interesting times. Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads.  They were stealing content from

The Eris Chronicles

Finished the yoke in 11 days, and it looks fantastic, I love how the neckline stitches are curled in to make a collar seam.  Picking up stitches around the yoke was less arduous than I expected.  You practice the picking up method with the centre back join.  I cheated and