National Spin More Month (NaSpiMoMo)

Happy New Year! Margene has declared January 2008 to be National Spin More Month. There's a Ravelry group for NaSpiMoMo with over 50 members already.  I'm planning to join a monthly spinning group this month, so there should be regular spindle spinning going on throughout the

Spinning FO: Wild Thing Merino

Finally finished a spinning project: Superwash merino from Crown Mountain Farms 182 yds, 3 oz 2 ply, wheel spun, sock weight ish This has been sitting on a bobbin for months, and I was tired of it.  Plied it with way more twist than usual after reading Abby's

Signing off for 2007

Merry Christmas! I'll be back in the new year.

The Great Charter

BBC News: Charting out the  Magna Carta. The latest chapter in the history of the Magna Carta is the sale of one example of it,  sealed by King Edward I and dating from 1297, which has been sold at Sotheby's in New York  for £10.6m ($21.

On a cabling kick

(Record-breaking snow on Saturday 15th December in St Louis.  We're fine, it's melting  today.) All I want from a hat is that it keeps my hair dry and doesn't make me look like an  idiot.  Making a Shedir hat (from the Knitty Breast

Time shifts

My laptop is back!  It got done early, I'm really pleased.  The space bar doesn't squeak and the keyboard feels totally different and much nicer. BBC News: Venezuela and the politics of time. The move to put the clocks back half an hour adds Venezuela to

FO: Doomed to Comfort Socks

Finished the bellamoden socks on Thursday 6th.  It took 3 days for each sock, and they feel  wonderful on!  Put them on at home on Thursday after driving home in sleet and ice. Yarn: bellamoden sport weight in The Colour Purple Needles: 3.25mm circular Pattern: International Socks of Doom

Down for repair

My beloved MacBook Pro is in the Apple Store getting a replacement keyboard under warranty.  I'm tired of the squeaky spacebar and keys that don't always type when you press them.  It'll be gone for a week (they told me), so I'll

Instant gratification

It is a rare thing that I get some yarn I wasn't planning to get and start using it straight away.   The purple bellamoden sport weight just sucked me in and it looks fantastic knitted up.  Cast on Friday and finished the first sock on Sunday, three days

After the ball was over

After the ball was over, she took out her glass eye, Put her false teeth in the water, hung up her wig to dry; Placed her false arm on the table, laid her false leg on the chair; Then what was left went to bye-byes, after the ball. NaNoWriMo