janedavitt

I come from a long line of knitters. My mum and granny could whip off an insanely complex Aran sweater while reading a book.

The gene passed me by. They tried to teach me, but I never got beyond four inches of tight, grubby wool intended to be a Doctor Who scarf (all the rage when I was about 13; we wore them to school, long enough to brush the floor, and then they got banned in case we tripped on them or something.)

Still, I have enough appreciation for the craft to ooh and ah over the projects my friend does and my jaw dropped when she showed me her latest one, a pair of socks she's very kindly knitting to send to my dad in England.

Did you know that they sell wool now that's self-striping? So you have a ball of multicolored wool, all messy looking and random, and as you knit with it, the stripes appear as if by magic?

That is awesome. I am awed. I don't have a clue how it works, but that is very, very clever.

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Just saw this linked on TWoP; it's a minute of the orchestra recording the theme tune and Mark Valley trying to play it on a trumpet and being pretty cutely earnest about it, I have to say.

http://vimeo.com/10904724

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We have a large swathe of blue/purple in our grass in the top corner. I went to investigate and it's wild violets, hundreds of them.

I picked some to sniff and was taken straight back to childhood, eating a tube of Parma Violet sweets. Anyone from the UK remember those?

I don't know where the flowers came from; this is the first year they've appeared. So pretty.

I just had to mark the date. Gosh, they were so baby faced back then! I remember when this show started and we weren't sure it'd get renewed and it wasn't even all that big or cool a fandom, but it just took off...

This is the picture that my icon is made from; always loved it. It's by

moosewizard