Priceless

You’ve heard of the beer goggle effect, yes? So some social scientists with rather too much time on their hands (don’t they all…?) have come up with this:Beer goggle calculator to explain how it works.
And very pricey indeed:In the mean time, the explanation for the lack of knitting photos can be seen below.This is [...]

Inspiration

When I was small, and lived in a much warmer country, we used to go swimming in the rock pools. Often, we would see these little creatures:
With the discussion on Jean’s blog about scarves, I was inspired to make this:From here on known as the ‘nudibranch scarf’ cos that’s what the little beasties are [...]

Devan: final installment

Thanks to my very good pen-friend Jean in Canada, Devan has been posted off to my cousin. I couldn’t find buttons to suit, and Jean very kindly sent me a card full of shirt buttons in various colours….
The buttons were duly attached.and after a quick blocking the little cardigan was boxed up ready to [...]

Chantelle: re-released

Apologies to everyone who has been waiting patiently (or otherwise) for me to email them a copy of the amended Chantelle pattern. The .pdf has now been fixed, I hope, and should be winging its way to you asap.
If you have an older version, and would rather not just correct the pattern, please drop [...]

Distractions

Armistice day, and although I’m wearing my poppy I was sadly too busy cleaning and making up bedrooms to notice the 11 am silence.
Reading through my favourite blogs a while back (see sidebar) I stumbled upon this Sunday Afternoon Amusement.
Unlike most of these ‘what kind of **** are you?’ quizzes, this one appealed [...]

Normal service resumes

Well, normal knitting service anyway.
My thanks to everyone who wrote in with sympathy or suggestions, particularly those who suggested I knit something ‘just for me’. So, I am.It’s the “e/f/g/h* scarf” from the now-defunct OzYarn website. As you can see, I made a fair amount of progress with the first end of this [...]

Ho (bloody) hum

Well, the Hallowe’en party was a complete damp squib. I’d forgotten two very important things:

this is a very conservative town
most of our regulars are over 40, and hence even more conservative
I had a bit of fun making interesting food for the party:

dog-bone shaped breadrolls with shrimp & cream cheese piped [...]