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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Eris, and realisations

Cold weather is very motivating when you have an almost finished and definitely gorgeous cardigan on the needles. My Eris has been waiting for me: Between knitting morning and quiet evenings, I'm making progress and I've finished and grafted the hem. I have sleeve decisions to

Tweets for October 16th to October 31st

* Cotton candy for breakfast. Being an adult does have some benefits. * Might have designed a knitted hat pattern worthy of official release, my first design. * 12 days till NaNoWriMo and I don't have my plot sorted yet, not sure what crises I need, who does what, & how

NaNoWriMo 2010!

This is my seventh year doing National Novel Writing Month, I couldn't think of a November without it! The Kick Off party on Oct 24th at Fitz's on the Loop was the biggest I have ever seen, with over 70 people attending. There are write-ins scheduled

The English Language

Telegraph News: Hunt for 100 events that shaped the English language From the Anglo-Saxon invasion of the fifth century to modern-day waves of immigration, the English language has been shaped by countless episodes in history. Now The English Project, a charity dedicated to promoting the language, is compiling a list

Making glass beads

Went to Third Degree Glass Factory for their Third Friday event, which was also their eighth anniversary. I made six glass beads, and we watched them put a molten glass pumpkin into a tank of water and dry ice. It lasted a few seconds before exploding, tossing pieces of glass

FO: Landguard Hat

I got an experimental skein of Peace Fleece to see if it would be soft enough to make a wrap-front cardigan. I gave up searching for the perfect hat pattern and made my own, the first project I would consider releasing as an official design. Pattern: My own (my precious!

Tweets for October 1st to October 15th

* There is a perfectly rational explanation for why my TV turned itself on, with sound and no picture, while I was in the basement. Right? * Love the moment when the brain clicks, plot crystallises, and NaNoWriMo 2010 is suddenly, gloriously possible! This one's going to be good. * I

I knew him, Horatio

I love 3-D jigsaw puzzles. Four pieces live on my shelf at work, a sapphire, a green apple, a heart, and a crescent moon. At home I have a red apple, a rose, and a four-leafed clover. This week I picked up a new one, meet Yorick the skull: Alas,

10/10/10, 10:10am

Today is the tenth of October, 2010, at 10:10am. We will not see this for another hundred years, and we only have two more days like it this century, 11th November next year, and 12th December 2012.

2010 Ig Nobel Prizes

I love the Ig Nobel prizes, the Peace and Management prizes are awesome this year! Engineering Prize Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a

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