Sep 12th, 2007
Free lunch
I love how the Internet makes it possible for me to meet and communicate with people all over the world. I adore its usefulness as a research tool, such as when watching a movie and having a “Hey, it’s That Guy” moment, then opening tabs to Wikipedia and IMDB to find out exactly who he is before wondering drives me nuts.
But it’s when I come across oodles of free knitting-related patterns, advice, and reviews that I really feel like thanking Al Gore for inventing the Internet.
Need a way to corral your DPNs when they’re involved in a project–and a way to keep your knitting on those needles? Make some point protectors for ‘em. These consist of two pieces of felt (one for each end of the needles) connected by a piece of elastic to hold everything snugly together. If you want to crochet–then felt–a set, try these instructions.
Felting requires wool, however, which vegan knitters avoid. One just posted a fabulous tutorial for making DPN holders out of rubber pencil toppers! (As you can see, we non-meat-eaters have no problem stabbing holes in plastic ducks.) I just hope all the back-to-school shoppers don’t deplete the local supply of these things before I get to the store…
More hats! Over at Men Who Knit you’ll find a pattern for a cute little baby hat. It’s not earth-shatteringly original (as the author himself points out), but it’s a nice write up, and it uses sock yarn. In fact, it uses the same sock yarn that I’ve twice used to knit socks. The pair I’m working on now is barely underway, and I’m just not feeling excited about it. So maybe I’ll frog it and whip up some of these hats.
I’m a geek, and I knit. So you can imagine my job when I stumbled across Thomasina’s Guide to Geeky Knitting, a incredible compendium of links to science- and math-related knitting projects. Here you’ll find all sorts of gifts to knit for the geneticists (double-helix scarf), topologists (Klein-bottle hat), and paleontologists (dinosaurs), among others.
More geeky knitting: a Space Invaders Hat for babies!
