Pudgy hedgehog

BBC News: Atkins diet hedgehog slims down. An overweight hedgehog has shed nearly a quarter of its body weight after adopting a high protein diet similar to the Atkins plan.  George the hedgehog weighed 2.2kg (4.8lb) when staff at the Wildlife Aid Centre in Leatherhead, Surrey, discovered him

Alpaca heaven

I think there's an unwritten rule that says spinners need to draw others into spinning, and help them get started.  Drove out on Saturday to Worden IL with Anna and a group from Knitty Couture for a visit to Prairieland Peruvian Alpacas and had a fabulous time!  The

Earthquake

There was an earthquake in southern Illinois this morning, about 140 miles away.  I woke up around that time and the wardrobe was rocking slightly.  I thought it was an act of cat, but maybe it was the earthquake.  I couldn't get back to sleep afterwards.  A friend

Impending sheep fest II

Got my plane ticket, got the Friday off work, Rox has the Friday off work, and I'm going to Maryland Sheep and Wool!  The festival website has been updated with this year's logo and the mammoth vendor list. The ones I really want to see are:

When gauge attacks

Clementine's Baltic Socks betrayed me.  I was knitting with Tempted yarn, did the cuff and heel, tried it on, and it's too tight over my ankle.  Ripped it back, wound up the yarn, and it's sulking in the yarn box on time-out.  I

Writing Rituals

BBC News: ' Writuals' - scribes reveal daily routines. Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden.  Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light.  Dahl even had

Colourwork class

I've been having a hard time with the Pirate mittens.  My motivation's in the ditch and it feels like I'm chewing through a haystack in a pair of false teeth.  So I took a colour knitting lesson at Knitty Couture.  I was planning to

Declarations of intent

A friend at work sent me a copy of this: John Cleese's Letter to the USATo the citizens of the United States of America, in light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of

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'