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oh brother!

look what was gifted to me today. I have no idea what I’ll do with a knitting machine, or how to work it, but I have a pile of instruction manuals and the thing is just so cool that I’m sure I’ll do something fun. Thank you Mhairi.

Except that I am not allowed to play: [...]

cute cabled yoke cardigan for a girl without shoulders

I had this with me on Sunday, and sometimes people would ask me what I was making. The response that it was a cardigan for me was universally met with perplexed looks and ‘isn’t it a bit small?’ ‘oh no,’ I replied, patiently ‘it just looks small because it’s bunched up on the circular needle.’ [...]

happy pancake day!

I made myself pancakes with chocolate spread and greek yogurt. Although I only made a small bowl of batter I still had to eat 6 pancakes all by myself, so full. I really related to Emily’s post today. I like cooking, and bake almost more than I can eat (don’t worry, the 6 pancakes isn’t [...]

Silent poetry reading

I read about this on both Anna and Bekki’s blogs. A poem that needs to be read visually seems appropriate.

scanned from the People’s Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Tenniel, 1887
(click to enlarge so you can read it)
I love the idea of a vast web of poetry spinning [...]

feminist utopia

I totally don’t have time to do much research on this subject, but if you’re interested this site looks like it might be a useful resource: http://feministsf.org/