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Pocket change

BBC News: Brass in pocket. The backs of the one, two, five, 10, 20, and 50 pence pieces and the pound coins have been redesigned. The main change in the design of competition winner Matthew Dent is that the coins all feature different parts of a single image, the Royal

FO: The Hooded Bun

Yarn for my Eris cardigan will take a week or so to arrive, so I made a bunny with a hoodie. Pattern: Fuzzy Mitten Bunny with Hoodie Yarn: Morehouse Merino 3-ply and Reynolds Odyssey Duration: 31st March to 4th April The Fuzzy Mitten pattern is great. I couldn't

Chocolate and vanilla

I'm spinning about two feet of Jacob each session (one of each colour) and this stuff is fun! It's going to be self-striping three-ply yarn, hopefully around sport weight. The roving smells a little sheepy and it's very easy to spin, I love the

A Challenger to Quantum Theory

New Scientist: Quantum randomness may not be random. At its deepest level, nature is random and unpredictable. That, most physicists would say, is the unavoidable lesson of quantum theory. Try to track the location of an electron and you'll find only a probability that it is here or

Climbing Everest

That big project I mentioned last post? Hubby suggested I knit a cardigan. It's been years since I knit something of that magnitude, and there's the small matter of the Eternal Sweater still hanging around (13 years in, half a sleeve to go). We looked at

FO: Vinnland Hill socks

Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Solids Pattern: Vinnland with Sherman heel and toe, and decrease cast off Duration: 15th February to March 20th 2008. Dark yarn when the skies are grey does not brighten my mood, but it wasn't my place to choose for this pair. The pattern

Beta readers needed

I've been working on an urban fantasy story for our post-NaNoWriMo group. I'm looking for constructive criticism. "This stinks" is not constructive criticism, it's just rude. "This stinks because of X, Y, and Z" is better, but still rude. "

Travelling bugs

One of my geocaching travel bugs landed in Africa this week! Coco the Koala has clocked over 68,000 kilometres (42,000 miles) travelling from America to England, Scotland, back to America, then Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, and now Tanzania in a national park on Zanzibar, which is

Squee! Alpaca!

I'm going to visit an alpaca ranch! Knitty Couture has set up tours of Prairieland Peruvian Alpacas and I'll be going with a friend on April 19th. There will be yarn and roving, and a one hour road trip with people who know about such things.

Yak, Jacob, and a small rant

Found a great spindle box for my Tudor Rose spindle and started spinning some grey yak down. The box is a birch wine bottle box with a leather tie, it holds the spindle and a good lump of fibre. The yak is from Crown Mountain Farms, very soft and fluffy,

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