a book – Papermaking and Bookbinding: Coastal Inspirations by Joanne B Kaar who lives over the Pentland Firth from me. This book is both more and less than I had hoped/expected – but very inspirational and extremely useful and I am now fired up to do something other than knitting A circular knitting needle size …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Yarny goodness
The basket of cone ends, all finished off. Merino/Silk/Cashmere in a 70/20/10 blend; 2/28NM laceweight. An array of neutral shades, collected with red tones and an apricot shade. A real treasure trove. There are two 300g collections here and each cost circa £11. The yarn will go a very long way, even if knitted double …
Moving on
After winding all that 2/28 yarn I disappeared into a deep hot bath with a long drink and a spouse. Then knitted on ‘is sock in bed for a while. I am about to begin the toe shaping. It makes progress but does not enthral me. This however, does. Isn’t it gorgeous? Woken by Nell …
And other really useful stuff.: Caesium.
Now, this truly speaks to the geek in me. Genius! I could have a whole wardrobe of different elements… And other really useful stuff.: Caesium. What’s your favourite emission spectrum? Closer to home Seriously late night last night and feeling v sluggish today. Don’t even feel like knitting. I’d like to spin though – and …
Random Genius
Knitty: Summer 2008 I find this v exciting – the notion of a randomly generated pattern. One that changes each time you open it? And it doesn’t matter that it changes? Absolute genius – and the ultimate in the idea of knitted garments being unique to the maker. A shame that the pattern isn’t ideally …
Doing anything this Saturday?
PuzzleCrunch 2008: Welcome This one is 24 hours only, beginning 10:00 Central Time… that’s 4pm BST, for the Brits amongst us. Twelve puzzles and a meta puzzle. This one has PRIZES! PuzzleCrunch is sponsored by Amazon and Microsoft. Prizes include copies of Halo 3, Microsoft hardware, hats, shirts, and a Kindle! (And CISRA puzzles, start …