Coinage
I like foreign coins, most of this lot were picked up at a coin place in town with a huge bucketful you can paw through. I use a US quarter as a size reference in some spinning photos, but it's not my only option.
The coins on the
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Discoveries
Made an astonishing discovery this week: spinning when I get a little spare time makes it go a lot faster than saving it up for bi-monthly sessions. I started the project that's been taking up all the space in my fibre box, 8oz of Crown Mountain Farms superwash
Fusion by laser
BBC News: Laser vision fuels energy future.
Researchers from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, working with partners from 14 countries, have tabled a proposal to use lasers to recreate the physical reactions at the heart of the Sun.
Harnessing nuclear fusion, as the process is known, would offer
Spinning FO: Water Nymph Merino/Silk
Spunky Eclectic's merino silk is great to spin, much easier pre-drafted though. It feels more solid than either merino or silk, and I was careful when I plied it. This skein is balanced, no excess twist here, that's a first. 276 yds of beautiful yarn, I&
Everyday history
BBC News: A
study of life in the 1930s
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From the soup-eating habits of the middle classes to the application of face cream - a pioneering study of everyday life in Britain is celebrating its 70th birthday... and was the inspiration for Victoria Wood's double Bafta-winning drama. A
Knit and spin
The first Panda Monkey sock is complete, second in progress. Really pleased with how the heel and toe turned out, I've never done a multicoloured sock before. The yarn splits horribly, but I think these will be good socks.
Got a bobbin and a bit spun from 4oz
Scriptalicious
Script Frenzy starts in a few days, the goal is to write a 20,000 word screenplay in 30 days. It's a production of The Office of Letters and Light, the people behind National Novel Writing Month. Hubby is writing a script and I'm not going
Raising Atlantis
BBC News: The wave that destroyed Atlantis.
The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami. Until about 3,500 years ago,
Shawl and sock
Swatched for the Forest Canopy shawl at knitting morning on Saturday and got gauge with the needle size in the pattern. I'm usually wildly off, could have been the cookie-and-hot-chocolate breakfast that day. Messed up the second pattern repeat and had to rip out and restart on Sunday
Loopy Ewe Sock Club #1
The first package for the Loopy Ewe Sock Club arrived on Tuesday.
It was nicely put together in a zipped plastic Loopy Ewe Sock Club bag. The yarn feels soft, slippery, and it looks shiny. The colours are great, but my skein has a knot join in it. Hopefully it