- Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Fucking Losers – Harsh, but true. I can’t believe how many people I know jumped on posting those images on LinkedIn. So gross.
- How to make a book – Another great post from Mike Monteiro’s Good News. I immediately sent it to my sister, who is a freelance editor. It also made me think about whether I have a book in me.
- Michael Shannon Loves Music Like We Love Music – As a card carrying member of the R.E.M. fan club (not kidding), I unabashedly love this. I wish they would tour Australia!
- Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But Here They Are Anyway) – LOVE this! I really need to get back to the project I started to knit a modern fairisle that incorporates the DOCOMO emoji.
- South Korea releases long-awaited report into overseas adoptions of thousands of children – I’m glad that some of these kids are starting to get answers. Heartbreaking, though…
Tag: knitting
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Links I’ve been reading lately
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Sydney Royal Easter Show 2025
Three Craft competition entries delivered – two knitting, one quilting – and my volunteer uniform picked up. April’s going to be a big month!
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Knitting the gut-brain connection
The Darling Square library is hosting a special event in April and May: Crafting wellness: exploring gut health through knitting. Huh. I’ve seen a lot of random fibre projects in my time – coral reefs, breast prostheses, neurons, bunting with knitted leaves on it – but never a knitted gut biome!
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Google are breaking my mittens
Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post where I talked about making the mittens, I said:
I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)
You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available as of August this year.
Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery.
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Heart Warmer Cowl
I’m making progress on this cowl, getting through the lace and cable section tonight. I’m pretty sure I somehow inserted a row in the last repeat though, probably due to excitement watching the Shoresy Season 2 finale. I reckon I’ll leave it though…
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Nine years ago…
I was doubtful whether my project to import all my old tweets to my blog had any real value. But through them I just remembered that 9 years ago today, I got to meet and teach knitting to women and children in Manila who had been rescued from human trafficking. Canva supported the organisation and a whole group of employees went. It was one of the most worthwhile things I did in my whole tech career, and it had nothing to do with computers.
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Open Source Knitting Machine
This is so freaking cool. Someone designed and 3D-printed a knitting machine!
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New skillz
Learned a new knitting trick today: the German twisted cast-on. Biggest challenge is that the long tail needs to be about twice as long as I normally estimate, so I had to do it twice. But I figured it out!
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Non-Cooperation Brick
A knitting pattern for when you really feel the urge to throw something against the wall, like when the supposed leader of the free world sides with dictators and fascists and insults a brave man fighting for his people’s freedom.
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Random links I enjoyed recently
- Meet the adorable mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics – STOATS!
- “The closer [to] the railway station the less tasty the Kebab is” – A Study – SCIENCE! (tl;dr – hypothesis is disproven.)
- Chris Kluwe ‘figured’ he would get arrested for protesting MAGA — and he’d do it again (exclusive) – HELL YEAH. (Not gonna lie; I immediately looked up whether this guy is single. He’s not.)
- Knorts – LOL, Kat knitted shorts! Having flashbacks to that time I knitted a bikini. (It was Not Good, and I never did wear it.)
- Darlington Stitch Club – Ooh, a monthly sewing/knitting/crafting club within walking distance of my house! Considering it…