In the spirit of actually posting stuff:

Geeky things I've made lately! Apologies to Twitter and Ravelry friends who've seen them before, I'm rather proud of these and like showing them off :)


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I saw Coraline with nupatinga on Sunday. It was fantastic. I want to see it again, but I don't know if I can find half a day free in the next two weeks.

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Oh my goodness, I'm tired.

I spent today at the Spinners stall at the Textile Arts Fair. It's a new show on at the convention centre, and I must say it was pretty fantastic. Shows like Stitches & Craft are good fun, but at this one there was no beading, no scrapbooking, just textiley goodness. Don't get me wrong, beads and paper are wonderful too ( Read more... )

The first two weeks of uni are going pretty well. It took until Tuesday afternoon to get my timetable all finalised, but things are all good now. I have no classes Mondays and Wednesdays, which is nice. It looks like my three linguistics courses will be tremendous fun, though they'll have constant work for me to do. I'm still not as clear as I'd ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon Mom and I played with dyes.

I dyed 118g of wool/silk (15% silk) sliver for a fibre swap, and 68g of kid mohair to keep for myself. I'm really happy with how they turned out!

Wanna see?


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My parents and I are sitting in the airconditioning, watching the Australian Open. I'm reading stuff in the Ravelry forums in between points, and working on my circular shawl:


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Shortly after I woke up this morning, I was sitting on my parents' bed talking to Mom when we heard this splashing in the pool. We assumed it was a bird having a bath - we've watched kookaburras swoop down, splash, and fly away several times in the past. I went to have a look. It was a bird, and it may have intended to have a bath, but it'd ( Read more... )

'Cause it takes me at least two weeks to get a photo off my camera and onto the internet.

Back in early December, if I remember correctly, nupatinga, Miss B. and I spent a lovely day putting this together:


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I've been browsing craft websites, so I felt I needed to make a couple of lists. Not counting spinning and dyeing here, only knitting and tatting.

What I'm (actively) making now:

- Tatted belt/whatever
- Shawl

What I want to make ASAP:

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Since I'm in the middle of exam season and birthday season, as well as the beginning of Christmas season, I've been doing a bit of tatting lately. Actually, I've mostly been working on one thing. And I've been working on it slowly for about a month, then spent a lot of time last week finishing it up. I'm rather proud of it!


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