Happy new polyhedron

Because Kenny asked me to, I made a non-stellated dodecahedron:

The coloring is the same as for the great stellated:

Another star

It’s been over a year since I made a paper small stellated dodecahedron, and at the time I figured I’d soon also make a …

… great stellated dodecahedron, but I didn’t even start one until a day or two ago. I guess I can blame moving and Real Estate Hell. Why not, I blame them [...]

Santa, down under

Over on Ravelry there’s a group doing a Secret Santa yarn swap. My package arrived today, nine days after leaving Queensland, Australia, home of I believe the only Australian (indeed, I think, the only resident of the Southern Hemisphere) in the swap, MissVicki. She sent this:

What have we here? Have a look:

Colorful darning needles, [...]

Stegosaurus

I started knitting the stegosaurus (from the Prehistoric Pals pattern) last month, but put it on hold to finish the projects that need to be mailed. Which I have (finished) and they have been (mailed. I woke at 7:52 this morning, which is way late for me, and cursed because I wanted to be at [...]

Bush asks for more car wash

Well, that’s what I thought it said.
I think he should wash his own damn car.

Or maybe not

I signed up to bring bread to the band dinner. Sunday night I fed the sourdough starter. Monday it was not looking especially lively, though not dead either. Monday night I made up bread dough with the starter and some yeast…
And it didn’t rise.
Tuesday morning I stopped in at Columbus Bakery and bought two loaves [...]

One size fits mice

No, you have not see the last of those three skeins of Super Saver:

The pattern calls it a brooch, but I made it as a Christmas tree ornament. I knit it in the round, using slightly larger needles than the pattern called for — I thought 3.75 mm (US 5) was small enough for the [...]

Reversible two-color coasters

So here we are… six coasters. I made the first back in October; it started off as a swatch, just trying out the “Reversed Stripes” pattern from Jane Neighbors’s Reversible Two-Color Knitting, and by the time I finished a square of it I decided it was a coaster.

Then later I decided one coaster is a [...]

Not with a fff

Monday evening Kenny kept saying Tuesday would be a snow day, and I kept telling him I didn’t think so. Tuesday I got up and found out it was a snow day. We got 8.4 inches, or rather, the airport, where Syracuse’s snowfall is measured, did. Then again, the airport got 5 inches Saturday and [...]

Blog move

I’m going to try blogging here and see how it goes.
I’ll continue to read my friends and communities on LJ, though.