fourth edition

Today we went to the Doctor Who exhibition at Kelvingrove. I had my photo taken with a rather short reincarantion of the Fourth Doctor (and Other Half rather worryingly said he fancied a Doctor Who scarf clearly not knowing how long it takes to make) as well as a very cute K-9. Loads of things [...]

Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers have teamed up to make an adaptation of the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are. Growing up in Scandinavia, I confess I had never heard of this book, but the trailer looks stunning (and turn the volume up – the chosen song fits perfectly).
Via John, aquarists at the Blue [...]

Suffice to say that I did not appreciate Let the Right One In. Despite liking little nasty books, I am definitely not a horror reader. It was also very, very wordy.
From one of the programmers behind Etsy, I give you Orbital B. It is “a collection of particles operating on one simple rule: choose another [...]

I know I said I’d never knit a sock and suddenly I’m sitting here with the first twelve rows of Cookie A’s Marlene socks knitted in The Yarn Yard’s Bonny on Knit Pro sizes 2s. Gosh, just typing that made me feel like a real knit blogger.
Honestly? I love the intricate nature of the [...]

It is fair to say that the last week or so has been a bit of a blur. I spent it recovering from two days in Kraków(!) which meant painkillers, getting up only to need a long nap two hours later, and spending my awake hours on the sofa either looking out on the sunshine [...]

Dudes, I am torn.

This in warm harvest yellow wool with red 1960s buttons
This in either aforementioned harvest yellow wool or teal/turquoise tweed (buttons undecided)
This in aforementioned teal/turquoise tweed. Selection of vintage buttons from button boxes.
This in a dark  purple cashmere/silk/wool blend with slightly more waist-shaping

I also have 1200 yrds of dark lime green tweed (aran [...]

Denmark is the oldest kingdom in Europe with a rich history of conquest, trade and culture. Regrettably, being lower even than the Netherlands, Denmark will be the first to disappear as the waters rise.
The 5.5 million people of Denmark speak a language they themselves do not understand, with a numbering system that contradicts all laws [...]

Many years ago I read A.S. Byatt’s The Game – a novel about two sisters and the rivalry between them. The book asked questions about the rights of a writer to blur the line between fact and fiction: when could you use your family in your book and when did you have to start inventing? [...]

Kraków is not a great place to shop if you are into your crafts. I managed to track down a couple of pasmanteria (I have no idea how to pluralise the word – it means “haberdashery”) on Ul. Karmelicka, but the best one I found was on the corner of Ul. Królewska and Aleja Juliusza [...]

This is one of those sneaky knitting projects that I have been working on but not really mentioning.
My heritage shawl.
My paternal grandmother is from the Faroe Islands. I am using Faroese wool. I now live in Britain. The wool has a touch of Britain’s Falkland Islands wool mixed in with the North Atlantic wool. [...]