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Eternal Sweater progress report II

This is the end of my second week knitting just the Eternal Sweater. Today I got to the neck divide, which means I am 10 rows and one sleeve away from finishing a project I started in 1994! I'm pretty confident I have enough yarn left now. That&

Pet Shop Boys!

Hubby got us tickets for the Pet Shop Boys concert at the Pageant last night, part of their Fundamental tour. It was fantastic! Felt more like a party than a concert, and we met some interesting people. They played old stuff and new stuff, and some really old stuff, and

Cloak of invisibility

BBC News: Experts create invisibility cloak. A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory. The device hid a small copper cylinder from passing microwaves in tests at Duke University in North Carolina. It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and restoring

Eternal Sweater progress report

Finished the trailing fuchsia lace scarf on Weds 18th, and put the front of the Eternal Sweater in my backpack for lunchtime knitting. This is now my sole project in progress, I'll post next Friday how I'm doing with it. Each row is 118 stitches and

Blog the Country II

BBC News: Blog project reveals daily lives. More than 30,000 people across Britain have recorded a diary of their day as part of a project to create an online snapshot of life in the country. The National Trust said the entries - which range from the mundane to the

Progress at last

Did 11 rows on the Eternal Sweater on Saturday, which completed the second pattern repeat on the front, and some more tonight. Feels good to pick it up again, I think the last time I worked on it was December 2005. The double moss stitch wasn't so bad

Blog the Country

BBC News: 'Mass blog' to capture UK Tuesday . People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an "ordinary day much like any other of no particular

Shannon Okey and the spinning questions

Spin to Knit, written by Shannon Okey, came out in October 2006, and Shannon agreed to do a beginning spinner's question and answer session on Quantum Tea as the last stop on her blog tour! Some of these are my own questions, some were submitted by people reading

Stranger danger

The BBC ran a series this week about internet crime to see what the average net user is up against, and it's a good read. In the first article, they logged what tried to attack a honeypot PC. They had to wipe the machine after the second article

Spin to Knit Friday

We have a date! On Friday 13th October I'll be posting Shannon Okey's answers to your spinning questions! It'll be the last stop on her blog tour. My copy of her book, Spin to Knit, arrived today from Amazon. The really quick micro-review: The

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