True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 117 Powered by RANDOM.ORG As you can see, 117 turned out to be the lucky number. Oh, the hideousness! First, the runner-up (drum roll, please): Dawn, who chose #115. Dawn said she would give the socks to her mother, who has such cold feet that she wears two [...]
I have had so many suggestions, requests and even pleas that I not overdye the Socks of Hideousness that I had to sit back and re-think my plan. On the one hand, what level of spiritual negativity would I be drawing to myself if I went ahead and brazenly put my own desires for good-looking [...]
…when I bought this yarn? It’s Yarn Treehouse Melody, a 100% wool sock-weight yarn which I’ve used before and quite like. However, this melange of icky green and over-cooked orange — I can only say that it must have been cheap, and it must have looked better in the photo I ordered it from. It [...]
These are the Mockery socks, by Katie Grady (a free pattern on Ravelry; it used to be available at live2knit.com but seems to have disappeared there). Lovely, easy pattern with enough interest to keep one going. I knit them in some beautifully soft and cozy hand-dyed superwash merino that never found a buyer on eBay [...]
In last Friday’s painting class I worked some more on my mostly-knife painting of the Mississippi River near Carleton Place. As you can see (if you compare it to the first picture of it in a previous entry), most of what I did was in the trees at the back. Slowly but surely, it’s moving [...]
This is a digital painting I did, playing around with colours and skin tones. In Friday’s painting class we were doing a portrait that emphasized natural skin tones, and I wanted to see what I could do with some not-so-natural tones. It’s turned out not too bad — I think the negative space on the [...]
