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Smart kitty
Last night I needed to clear some remaining (and unusable) yarn off two bobbins. I put them on the lazy kate and started pulling the yarn off onto the floor. While I was doing this, Bengal came in. OMG MOVING STRING. He tried to go after it as I took it off the bobbin. I pushed him back and said NO very firmly. He tried again. NO, BENGAL. ( Read more... ) -
Knitting with my handspun: first attempt
I knitted these fingerless mitts with some Corriedale two-ply I'd spun. They came out meh. The Corriedale wasn't really soft enough, and in places I'd overtwisted enough that it was practically barbed wire. HOWEVER! Knitting with my own handspun taught me a hell of a lot about what to do (and not do) to get the yarn I want, so I'm really glad I ( Read more... ) -
Pacific Rim: awesome.
Saw this Tuesday, and wow was it good. I love how it kept making me think it was going to do something typical for an action movie, but then would go completely the other way with it. Also, the fight scenes were great fun. The internet tells me there are plans for a sequel. I hope it's as good as this one. -
The sweater from a minor hell
I'm currently knitting a top-down cardigan for my sister. I altered the original pattern a bit, and... I swear this sweater is evil. I've had to restart it three times. This time I had to rip back because somehow it was ten inches too big. I ripped back to the point I'd marked as the right width, and remeasured... and it was four inches too ( Read more... ) -
That goes rather quickly...
Franklin Habit had said that long draw gets a lot more spinning done in a shorter time, and boy was he right. I've almost completely filled up a bobbin with a fairly thin singles, and I only spun for maybe 2 hours in total this evening. Wow ( Read more... ) -
Spinning wheel, revisited
I started spinning again! I haven't touched my wheel in a few years. I got sick of not being able to draft worth shit and always fighting the wool, and it just wasn't fun.
Franklin Habit's newest blog post has him trying long-draw spinning and really enjoying it. so I figure, WTF. If he can like it, I'll try too. I opened a browser tab to ( Read more... ) -
TOO MANY BOOKS
I used to be a serial monogamist with books: read one until finished before starting the next. In the last month, though, I've been experimenting with polybibliophily. I think I've taken on too many at once. I have five going right now, and I just simply don't have the time to make each feel properly loved. So this leaves me with a quandry: whom do ( Read more... ) -
Mississippi Personhood Amendment
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Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in ( Read more... ) -
Breakfast Casserole
I made up this recipe, basing it loosely on one I found on SparkPeople ( Read more... ) -
The history of the future
Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century by Paul Milo is a very cool book. It's funny in a lot of places, and thought provoking in others. My favorite funny prediction is one from the 1950's that nuclear bombs would be used for things like blasting tunnels or demolishing ( Read more... )