Chemo Caps

I wish I'd made something else, but  my sister started chemo recently, so this is what I made for her. I wanted to knit a Shedir, but was unable to find a soft cotton yarn at the right gauge. And so I modified the Shedir pattern using five repeats around the hat instead of eight. I wrote my modifications on ravelry.



That's the spouse, kindly modeling for me. Please say a prayer for my sister if you read this.

I want one!!!

I am talking about this gorgeous R2D2 sweater. It's so wonderful that I am shamelessly stealing the picture:

I know, that's really bad and one should not do it... but I guess it's better than linking to the image itself, no?

The link is from boing boing, but the seller is, of course, on Etsy.

I don't have 450 dollars. I don't have 70 or 80 hours to spare. But, deep down, as much as I like the sweater, I don't think I have the guts to wear it in public either!

Nano

I had a physics teacher that hated the use of the term "Nano" to refer to tiny things, when they contained no parts that were actually sized in the nanometer scale, or had nothing to do with nanotechnology. He always gave as an example the iPod Nano.

Well, screw that. This shawl was a disappointment in that it turned out too small. So I'm calling it Nano. I actually finished it in July, blocked it and stashed it away immediately. When winter comes, I might pull it out and use it as a scarf.



This is Wendy's Summer Mystery Shawlette, which contains no gauge information. In fact, I remember she said that gauge does not matter with shawls. Well, I proved her wrong :)

By the way, I used my Serratia marcescens yarn, the one I dyed with bacteria.