The pattern I’ve been throwing my heart and soul into this year is up on KnitPicks.com! link And coming soon… photos of the wedding, and all our DIY efforts.
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Quick Update- Pattern Available on KnitPicks!
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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The BP Spill and Why It’s Worse Than We All Think
July 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I promised myself that I would steer clear of politics on this blog, but when it comes to the BP disaster, it seems to have nothing to do with political alignments. I think everyone on the planet should be equally outraged, no matter what their beliefs. To me, this situation is on par with watching [...]
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knitting graffiti
June 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
First of all, good news- my Hanami pattern was accepted KnitPick’s IDP project. They will send me the yarn to knit another, and then it’ll go on sale for $1.99 in their patterns section! Huzzah! I had to pick a new name for it though, as Sakura, Hanami, AND Yoshina are already patterns in wide [...]
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Hanami Stole
May 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Springtime in Portland, Oregon is simply magical- the streets are lined with trees brimming with blooms of different shades of pinks. On a day in March, I slipped into my local yarn store, hoping to find a yarn that would draw me out of my knitting funk. Enter Malabrigo Twist in Sotobosque: a hand-painted yarn [...]
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Wilhelm Reich and Alternative Psychology
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
(this article was also submitted to fuckyourbrain.com, soon to be featured in the 3D magazine) The underpinnings of the human mind and our behavior as an extension are naturally fascinating. It’s no surprise that Sigmund Freud caught on fast in the 1940′s and was a household name by the 1960′s. But what once held so [...]
Mind-Altering Parasites
April 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
(this article was also submitted to fuckyourbrain.com, soon to be featured in the 3D magazine) The Cruel World of Mind-Altering Parasites A bullet ant (genus Campanotus) begins to twitch around and wiggle its antennae in a very strange way, and its tail end tucks up conspicuously against its body. Its companion worker ants take careful [...]
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Bridesmaid Upcyclery
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Do you have a bridesmaid dress that you know you will never wear again, but paid so much money for that you can’t part with? Sounds like the perfect fodder for craftiness, and Samantha Baldwin has a great idea for one: How to make a ruffled pillow from an old dress: (link and photo via [...]
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A shout-out to Regretsy, for brightening my world.
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I one posited that there are two kinds of people in this world- ones who think mean people suck and ones who think mean people rule. If you happen to side with the latter, then, boy oh boy what Regretsy has for you. (Listing above is for “regurgitate after opening”) For those of you who [...]
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Technoccult on Boing Boing!
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
My husband’s interview with punk-mathematician Tom Henderson is being featured on Boing Boing. This interview has been getting a lot of attention, and rightly so. Tom has a much more engaging and practical approach to the type of abstract mathematics 99% of people struggle with (not me, though, I’m one of those jerks who always [...]
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I’m sorry I ever doubted you, granny square…
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’m sure we all know and fear the granny square whether we consciously know it or not. It haunted the 70′s with atrocities like this: When I learned to crochet, I learned on flowery lace motifs, and simple block stitches. I have been avoiding granny squares like a plague. I came up with the idea [...]
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