Here’s the Mark III Gnome Hat:
On this one, I was trying to make the back faux seam a little narrower. I wanted the decreases to be on either side of a single column of stockinette. Well, as you can see, I kind of got that, but the single column is a little jagged [...]
Here’s what all the fashionable young Whos in Whoville will be wearing this holiday seasion:
Kelly’s doing a ropes course someplace really, really cold this Winter and she wanted a very warm and stylish hat. I belive I’ve provided that.
I am really pleased with the way this came out. It’s knit in some insanely [...]
Several weeks back I put up a big batch of beef broth in preparation for the upcoming flu/cold season. I always forget to make get-healthy-quick soup until I actually come down with something, but not this year! It’s ready to go and chilling in my freezer.
Unfortunately, this year the first one of my [...]
For years, researchers have known that gorillas in captivity will use tools. But they have always assumed that this behavior was learned from their human captors. But researchers in the Congo have finally observed wild gorillas using sticks for tools. The article calls the find ‘important, but not surprising’.
You realize this means [...]
While clearing off a bookshelf this morning, I ran across this:
I think this was supposed to be one side of a rectangular hat, but the gauge was all wrong. I should probably make a backing for it and find someone who is going to have a small baby who needs a headwarmer this winter.
I [...]
Some stormy weather has swept through my chunk of Texas, and I’m using it as an excuse to make some soup. Soup for me is decidedly cold-weather food, and every year I find myself chomping at the bit for autumn and winter to come around. I know my friends farther north don’t share [...]
It’s back. With more cowbell.
I am spending my Labor Day weekend at home with a cold. Curse my very un-Scorpio-like immune system. We’re supposed to be quick healers. Evidently I didn’t get that memo.
I cleaned up my kitchen a bit, did a lot of laundry, and am now getting ready to [...]
I don’t want to be a dance remix
I’m a big fan of the scientific method. Great stuff. Better than Cats. And as such, I’ve been wracking my brain during non-peak cycles to try and figure out if Intelligent Design is falsifiable.
Quick explanation for those who aren’t down with falsifiability: a philosopher by the name of Karl Popper came [...]
First, there was pie.
Now, there’s pie 2.
When does it end? Dear god, when does it end?