Babies for Obama

In line with Yes We Can (Hold Babies), I made this hand-stenciled Obama onesie for my nephew.



Because it turns out a) the Obama onesie you can buy that gives money to the Obama campaign is lame, and b) any and every home craft project should involve bacon. Which is to say, I forgot that we needed butcher's paper to make the iron-on stencil (I substituted in 'waxed paper' in the Ye Olde and Decrepit Mental Archives). Luckily, we'd had bacon with dinner - delicious bacon wrapped in bacony and not so delicious... butchers paper.

Approximately 13,000 Stitches of Love

In January, as a belated Christmas/birthday present for my mother, I finished my first knitting project. It's a scarf made from slightly less than 3 skeins of Manos del Uruguay wool (Granite, #108), worked on Size 9 bamboo needles in a basket stitch with a cross motif in reverse-stockinette on the middle section. The pattern grid size is 6x6 stitches, and each section is 7x17 squares (and the middle section is 7x19). Prime numbers... you know, for luck.

Happy Halloween

(1 x red LED + 2 x AA batteries + 100 ohms + wire + electrical tape) = fuse.



Spy vs. Spy - the game is on.