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Sunday, August 15th, 2010I was looking for a sewing project to create a sunglass case for my clip-on sunnies but couldn’t find anything I really liked. Until I serendipitously came across this owl sunglass case at the Style Crush blog:
Cute, eh? Turns out that Amy had been inspired by the vintage projects on this page at Cathy of […]
Dr Who knitting
Monday, June 15th, 2009When André informed me that he really wanted to go to the Dr Who Convention in Toronto, I admit I was surprised. I had never pegged him as the kind to go to a Dr Who convention. Star Trek? Definitely. Dr Who? I didn’t realize he was that big of a fan.
Now, personally, while I […]
Excuse me while I squee
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Found this during my lunch break: Australian-themed crochet patterns. I am particularly fond of the Rainbow Lorikeet - one of my favourite birds while I was living in Australia.I don’t know that I want to do this as a project, though. I’ll have to think about it.
Found via Wee Birdy.
Quick knitting note for myself
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009I’m knitting a dish towel with the horde symbol on it. Actually, it’s a test towel - I just want to see what it will look like when it’s finished. Anyway, I got diverted from my stats analyses to look at some WoW-related website and stumbled upon this description of how to create a cross-stitch […]
I frogged it
Monday, January 12th, 2009I’ve started filling out my information in Ravelry, but then I got distracted by an old knitting project I’ve had around for what feels like years. I had started a kitchen towel of my own design but I made it so huge it could have become a towel. It was too big and too boring, […]
Ravelry
Sunday, December 28th, 2008Liz Lawley has written up a very interesting analysis of why social network sites are successful. In short, it has to:
meet its target group’s needs
add value to the individual user first
increase its value as it expands
have critical data points that are relevant to the users
She gives as an example Ravelry, a social network site for […]
Cool warcraft craft
Friday, August 29th, 2008Turn your WoW toon into a phone charm? Hells yes!
I need to look into this when I get back from the conference.
