Delurking Day Contest

Today is Delurking Day, please leave a comment so I know you've been by, even if it's not today anymore, and especially if you've never commented before.  Pretty please!  This blog has had about 490 comments since I switched to WordPress in November 2004,

Kool-Aid final

This is positively the last post on this, until I start knitting it and go "squee!"  Finished, dried, and wound: I love how this turned out!  In summary: soak, zap, rinse, wash, rinse, dry, wind.  Easy peasy. Update: I did a little research, and yarn dyed with Kool-

The Tardis rides again

BBC News: Third series for Dr Who and Rose. Doctor Who is back for a second series and the Time Lord will be around for a while, because star David Tennant has signed up for a third.  Billie Piper, his assistant Rose Tyler, has also confirmed she is on board

Kool-Aid continued

I used lemon, orange, and cherry Kool-Aid for the sock yarn, divided the yarn roughly into three chunks, dumped it into the drink and popped it in the microwave.  Three two-minute zaps on high power, and the water was clear, and the yarn definitely coloured.  I left it

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

Rox gave me KnitPicks dye-your-own yarn and some Kool-Aid for my birthday, so I picked up canning jars for a yarn dyeing experiment.  I was aiming for an orange sock yarn and a green worsted weight, somewhere between variegated and self-striping.  While the yarn was soaking

Left vs Right

BBC News: Sinister secret of snail's escape. Snails with left-handed shells can have a big advantage in life - predators may find it impossible to eat them.  That is the conclusion of research just published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters. Scientists from the US

An almost FO and a dilemma

Finished knitting the Bittersweet mittens, now comes the hard part: putting the decoration on.  The pattern came with directions for chain stitch embroidery, I used to be good at this.  There is a definite left and right mitten, which had to be marked.  It snowed yesterday, so it is still

Frankenstein's Mac

This is so very wrong.  BBC News: Hackers get Mac running Windows. Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer.  The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used

Mail with added fibre

Two parcels in the mail on Wednesday and one on Thursday from Norma.  I love getting mail. From left to right, the big bag of roving is Dark Coopworth from Copper Moose, and the label says it's from New Zealand, which makes me very happy.  It's

Big Cat Sightings

BBC News: SW claws to top of big cats list. The numbers of big cats being seen roaming the countryside around Britain is increasing, a report says, with South West England being a hot spot.  Devon, Cornwall and Somerset feature in the top 10 locations, according to the British Big