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Month: August 2015

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Big Cake Bake for the Red Cross! I made a pseudo-cherpumple with apple and berry pie insid… http://t.co/EI1T6Bnow9 http://t.co/9xgsE23InD

    And @TheRealBnut and @Astarael made the human hearts, which were delicious!

    RT @canva: Catch you all tomorrow at Ultimo! Check out http://t.co/S6fiknW7QA for more details! @SydneyGA @web_goddess http://t.co/xrN59YIa…

    Thankfully we pass this test at @canva every day! 🙂 https://t.co/TDZflOBd47

    My latest geek knitting creation: The Wow! Scarf. http://t.co/4cUmsEoaQW http://t.co/zBvqtoLPTB

    Thanks @TheRealBnut! https://t.co/wfgw54t4zx

    RT @TheRealBnut: Had fun on the weekend baking with @Astarael for The Red Cross Big Cake Bake at @canva HQ!
    http://t.co/Ruv1RXDjLC http://…

    Nintendo fans, get your sewing machines ready! Official fabrics now available http://t.co/7FYCsrY5OQ MUST HAVE NOW! http://t.co/5ZPFOcRD8J

    @shanicegarcia Super cute!

    @slace Everything hinges upon how much I can get my Mom to actually ship to me here in Australia… 🙂

    @slace That’s adorable!

    New sheepskin rugs from @templeandwebster. They really go nicely with my Darth Vader patch… http://t.co/hUEGzcpDtb http://t.co/GvDhAYIT1P

    Sony’s latest smartwatch doesn’t have a display http://t.co/TigpokbNY0 Ooh. This is something I might actually wear. http://t.co/4XWZjxFrOI

  • New sheepskin rugs from @templeandwebster. They really go nicely with my Darth Vader patchwork quilt, don’t you think?

  • Nintendo FABRIC?!

    Nintendo fans, get your sewing machines ready! Official Nintendo fabrics now available to buy | RocketNews24

    THIS IS SO AWESOME. Here’s the full range. I want the original Donkey Kong to make a dress, and I reckon the checkered Mario Kart would make a sweet Hawaiian shirt for the Snook.

  • I Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe

    If there’s no afterlife or reason for the universe, how do you make your life matter? Warning: The last answer may break your heart.

    Source: I Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe

    Wow. Yeah, the last one did make me tear up. That’s probably the one I identify with the most.

  • The Wow! Scarf

    The Wow! Scarf

    As you may have gathered from my Twitter or Instagram accounts this past weekend, I attended the 2015 Knitters Guild NSW Camp at Stanwell Tops. When I registered for the Camp earlier in the year, the confirmation message invited me to enter the Mystery Scarf Competition. The details were very vague–basically, you were supposed to knit a scarf of a certain size out of black and either white or cream. Inspired by my Ignite talk, I thought it would be fun to try to knit an actual mystery into the scarf. So I started doing research, and I came up with several interesting possibilities:

    • The Beale Ciphers – Very National Treasure, right?! And they could literally point you to an actual horde of gold!
    • The Kryptos Sculpture – Bonus points because it actually looks kind of like a scarf.
    • The Phaistos Disc – This would look better as a circular shawl, right?
    • Tamám Shud – *shudder* Too creepy.
    • Rongorongo – I feel like this would be neat as fairisle motifs.

    In the end I settled on the Wow! Signal. This was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. When he saw the spike on the printout, Ehman circled it and wrote “Wow!” in red pen in the margins. The signal lasted for 72 seconds. It came from globular cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius. It looks pretty much exactly like what we’d expect an interstellar transmission to look like. It’s never been repeated, and we don’t know what it means. I like to think it’s an alien civilisation saying “Hello!”. So I knitted it into a scarf.

    The scarf is knitted as a tube out of Morris Norway 10 ply in Cream using a 5mm circular needle. Starting from the left edge of the printout, I incorporated about 15 columns of numbers by duplicate stitching them on as I went. Once the scarf was long enough, I stopped the numbers and knitted in plain white to leave a space for the “Wow!” which I embroidered with red wool. I also embroidered on some additional pen marks, like the circles around the signal itself and some of the other numbers. As a final step, I added some tassles out of the remaining black wool.

    I’m really pleased with how it turned out! I didn’t end up winning the contest, but that’s okay. I took the “mystery” aspect more literally than most of the other contestants did. (The winner did an amazing double-knitted scarf with a photo of her cat on it.) My scarf is exceptionally warm and nerdy, and I had a lot of fun making it.

  • Big Cake Bake for the Red Cross! I made a pseudo-cherpumple with apple and berry pie inside. It weighed a ton.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Fantastic preso on digital knitting tools from Joyce! #knitcamp2015 http://t.co/mxbSpDpbfX

    Home from #knitcamp2015. It was so nice meeting @annbuddknits! See you all in two years… http://t.co/nkhqbmYBXi http://t.co/iB9bdQmWAG

    @Alegrya You’ll have to come to the next one in two years!

    @randomknits AWWWWWWW

    @conniecodes I mostly suck at crochet. I just can’t grok it. I’m great at knitting though. 🙂

    Engineering at Canva: How We Get Things Done https://t.co/mFEEr3seeg – My first contribution to @canvatech blog!

    @nessloch76 Hi Vanessa! I LOVED your TMNT blanket. So clever!!

    My “cakes” for the Red Cross Big Cake Bake tomorrow. http://t.co/BB88RD6DAA http://t.co/F6WWjRZ3Jn

  • My “cakes” for the Red Cross Big Cake Bake tomorrow.

  • Home from #knitcamp2015. It was so nice meeting @annbuddknits! See you all in two years…

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Tea time rush! #knitcamp2015 http://t.co/7rnVndCSxx http://t.co/igflXy8WRa

    Inner City members considering some beautiful Debbie Bliss tweed! #knitcamp2015 http://t.co/ZSKXbye7QU http://t.co/qGcpeElvAE

    You can smell the serenity. #nofilter #knitcamp2015 http://t.co/lggKstnbKz http://t.co/Ekfmo65PMY

    I won Silk & Yak wool in the #knitcamp2015 lucky dip! http://t.co/fsVM4124Y7 http://t.co/1paN0kSLR4

    RT @KnitGuildNSW: Merrin’s Volcano shawl #knitcamp2015 #showandtell http://t.co/6SkIkM2exx – I love this.

    RT @KnitGuildNSW: Shar and Elvis #knitcamp2015 #showandtell http://t.co/b2T23JY4Tx

    WTF @gilmae. Where is the #dailyharley? You have a responsibility in @randomknits’s absence!

    RT @KnitGuildNSW: What happens at Knit Camp stays at Knit Camp . #knitcamp2015 http://t.co/YBkCky7DAI