Looking for something to ward off the evening chill? Or to keep you warm in ridiculously over-air-conditioned offices, restaurants, and stores?
If you’re feeling ambitious, try your hand at knitting this stunning Moebius wrap. The pattern is in German, but the author has very kindly provided an English translation.
The evening shrug at the Purl Bee takes simple stockinette and jazzes it up with some lacey trim at the wrists. The bamboo yarn originally used has a lovely sheen that definitely dresses up this piece.
The typical scarf shape (long, skinny rectangle) gets some texture in this gathered scarf. I’m not sure if my mother-in-law would be keen on it, but I think the bumpiness has definite appeal for lots of other people.
If you prefer a scarf that’s more wispy than substantial, look at the Nymphadora Scarf.
I’ve knit the Irish Hiking Scarf three times. The cabling isn’t challenging—just three easy ones that run the length of the scarf—so doing it without a cable needle sounds like something I could handle. Grumperina has lovely photo tutorials on it, for both the right-twisting and left-twisting varieties.
Thanks to a friend who was working as a research scientist at HP in Palo Alto and had very good connections in the tech-geek community, I was lucky enough to get a Gmail account shortly after the beta was opened. (This was in the days when you had to be invited by a current Gmail user, and some unscrupulous folks were actually selling Gmail invitations on eBay for scads of money! Gah…) I don’t put much stock in Google-as-Big-Brother paranoia (after all, keep in mind that nothing of an especially sensitive nature should be sent via e-mail, regardless of what client you’re using) and think that Gmail is in the same category of Great Things as pirate music for kids. I used to be a hardcore Yahoo user but abandoned that account for personal mail once it got all spamified. But I still use it for Internet orders and website registrations, so I check in on it every once in a while.
I popped into Yahoo today and found a link to this amazing video (it has music, so be sure your sound is on):
Yes, that’s right: it’s a grown-up playing in a sandbox. Obviously, she’s moved way beyond the shovel-and-pail techniques employed by toddlers. It’s neat to see how one image unpredictably segues into another. I didn’t spot an overarching narrative theme here (maybe “Happy, peaceful world”?), though, and the lack of narrative means that something like this won’t really keep my interest for long periods of time. (Pretty pictures are nice, but I do want a story that goes somewhere.) The length of this video is just right for me.
Like it? Want to see more? Check out the artist’s website.
