This is a little silly Christmas ornament I made for my chosen son in England. The pattern is Little Birds from a book called 30 Minute Knits: 60 Quick and Easy Knitted Projects by Carol Meldrum; he bought me the book as a surprise gift with his birthday money, so I wanted to knit him something from it. And f curse I improvised a little. :)


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And now you get to know what the ball with feet from the Strange World of Unfinished Toys really is. :P

From this pattern, with a lot of modifications because fluffy yarn makes everything much more difficult, and don't even get me started on sewing him up (his face and ears took me three or four days to align properly because I couldn't see the ( Read more... )

I now offer relationship advice for gay male teenagers or young adults. It's typically some version of "Run away from that guy as fast as you can". :P

Alas, contrary to popular conspiracy-theorist beliefs in my country, George Soros doesn't pay me anything for my services.

It's already official: this bunny is going to be a LGBT youth support group's mascot ( Read more... )

So, I was asked to knit three rainbow-coloured bunnies, for my sins. :) And I had to make do with whatever yarns I can find locally (or have left at home), so it wasn’t easy to get the right colour combination.

The red yarn is some terribly old leftover acrylic thing we have at home, the same that I used to knit the red bunny. Here are the other ( Read more... )

So, I finished my second bunny yesterday. And yes, it is yellow with green eyes because this is what my other "adopted son" chose out of the leftover yarns and beads I had at home. :)

I hadn't managed to deliver the first bunny yet (in person!), so I had a chance to take a photo of the two of them together. I don't know if you can see from it that ( Read more... )

... Because he is no longer a Secret Surprise. But he's staying with me for now because my young friend wants it delivered personally by me, and I'm not going to make it to Sofia any time soon.

So some of you have already seen some of these photos (sorry).

Here is Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer’s pattern again. I used some leftover yarn that I had at ( Read more... )

This little book completed its epic travel from Russia to my home on Monday. :) It's a present from Ivan ivansim, postal expenses and all, for which I'm very grateful. He saved me a lot of logistics - and all the possible extra costs of paying from abroad and in a foreign currency.

It's The Jester's Cap by Daria Wilke villlka. Alas, there is no translation of ( Read more... )

My friend Kalin Penev undertook to translate into Bulgarian Making a Man out of Me, an essay by Richard Blanco (President Obama’s inauguration poet), and it even turned out that there was somebody interested in publishing it.  Alas, I found out that the Huffington Post has removed the original “due to the terms of the republishing agreement” so you ( Read more... )

This is a Russian campaign against Article 6.13.1 (of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation), the federal bill which is to ban the “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”. You can enjoy the full insanity of the bill in English here. It was already approved by their Parliament in its first reading, and has two more ( Read more... )