When life hands you lemons…
Me: Hey! So I’m on the Kinokuniya mailing list, and last month they announced a contest they’re running with Lonely Planet. You’re supposed to send in your travel disaster stories. I sent them our story about missing the goddamn flight, and we won Runner-Up! They’re sending us a coffee-table book.
Snook: Cool. We can call it our $1300 coffee-table book.
Month: June 2007 (page 6 of 7)
Huh. So that “Fin” guy from the really annoying iiNet ads? Just an actor. Not really an employee of the company. He’s still annoying.
Isn’t that so cool? This image comes from a poster that was created by my co-worker, Devvy Leys. (Thanks, Devvy!) You can see the poster and a small version of the Opera House image after the jump. If you’d like to download a printable-version of the poster itself, it’s here (PDF). Spread the word, folks!
If you’d like to use any of these images, please right-click and save them to your own server. It’d also be nice if you credit Devvy!
City 2 Surf… with Charity!
Registration is now open for this year’s City 2 Surf, and I’m officially signed up. The Snook and I will be once again pounding the pavement for 14K all the way from the city to Bondi Beach. For the first time ever, this year racers have the opportunity to raise money for the charity of their choice. The City 2 Surf is already the world’s largest timed fun run; now they want to become one of the biggest fundraising events as well. I’ve decided to run in support of Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick. I’ve created a fundraising page to track our progress. Please consider donating if you can!
Woohoo! Sydney has finally been added to the Official World Wide Knitting in Public Day site.
Cat Cam. Awesome! A guy rigged a tiny camera to his cat’s collar and had it take pictures every so often. It looks like cats spend a lot of time hanging out under cars. (Poor Dr. Amy Jones. I’d never bother doing something like this since her day is so boring! She just sleeps.)
The Top 10 Geekiest Yarn Creations on the Web. I was actually expecting #10 to be: “Pathetic Harry Potter fan knits entire outfit; ends up being only person at theater.”
It was a very productive Saturday!
First up was the Snook’s cotton jumper, which you may recall I finished over a year ago. Yeah, it’s taken me that long to put buttons on the thing. I just forgot! They’re lovely round carved horn from the button shop. Doesn’t it look nice?
Next is the Snook’s offering for dinner tonight: Seafood Gumbo. The recipe came from Herbie’s Spices and we picked up the seafood at the Fish Markets this morning. It has scallops, prawns, and crab meat. It was delicious! Just the thing for a cold winter night.
And lastly, those are some socks I just finished for my Secret Pal. The pattern is “Uptown Boot Socks” from Interweave’s Favorite Socks. Yes, this is the third pattern I’ve knit from this book. It has a subtle cable twist down the leg and the top of the foot that this photo really doesn’t do justice. (You can see it better here.) The yarn is Heirloom Jigsaw colour 37. (One ball was more than enough.) I hope my Secret Pal likes them!
Oh, and what’s that you say? One of those socks appears… blockier than the other? That would be because Snookums has completed the prototype of my very own Sock Blocking Forms. This is basically a flat wooden foot in profile that you use to stretch the sock into the correct shape. I’ve wanted some for ages but I’ve never seen them in Australia, and I can’t be bothered paying to get them shipped from overseas. Instead I traced my own in Illustrator and made a resizable template. The Snook cut this one for me out of plywood. He still has to drill holes in it to allow the sock to dry faster, and then give it a coat of varnish so it doesn’t get moldy. I’ll be sure to show you the finished product though!
Knitting trivia: Every cardigan Mr Rogers wore on his television show was hand knitted by his mother (scroll to #15). Isn’t that lovely?
I’d heard of making “duct tape mannequins” before (so people who make their own clothes can have a dummy with their exact measurements), but this photo tutorial really demystifies the whole process. Cool!