Sisters of the Holy Fiber -Episode 36- Knit it to Get It

RS – Finished the Linen Stitch Scarf and Tarragon, the dinosaur/dragon (Free pattern!). She also did a little DIY to recover a piano bench and she and her partner made an under the shelf cutting board holder. Below is a picture of RS’s FOs from 2014.

2014 KnitsPlans Ensue! (Slytherin Break Month Activities)

RS’s plans for the next three months include Dryer Balls, Toe Up Socks using the Sherman Toe and Heel Method, more Care of Magical Creatures stitch markers, Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman, and a scarf to match a hat she made for a friend. In detention she will be working on a Hitchhiker, a top down raglan sweater, and another pair of Pieces of Eight mitts.

TK’s plans include some Caliometry for classes, Socks and the Jane Hat for detention, and the  Roselein Hat or a Capelet for Order Mission projects.

BBC Pride & Prejudice Miniseries – What we watch when we’re sick.

Brainy Moments

Needle stash on Ravelry. My Notebook -> Needles/Hooks

Books to Stick Your Nose In

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts by Robert Williams Wood. (Free copy online from Gutenberg)

Butterflies in Flight by Roger Camp

Hyperventilate

RS has been watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

TK is playing Magna Carta: Tears of Blood made by TK’s favorite, Atlus. She is also playing Darkened Skye. She has found Devil Summoner 2 and loved the first one.

Sisters of the Holy Fiber -Episode 35- When Your WIP Bag is Bigger Than Your Stash

RS – Still plugging away on the Linen Stitch Scarf. Making limbs for Tarragon, the dinosaur/dragon (Free pattern!).

BBC Pride & Prejudice Miniseries

Slytherin Break Month Activities

FlyLady‘s Five Minute challenge. Pick a place in your house that needs cleaning, set the timer for five minutes, get going! RS has found it very helpful and read about it in the book Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

 

Sisters of the Holy Fiber -Episode 34- Monitor Issues & Reading Rainbow

“The Random Christmas Episode”

Reading Rainbow

RS – Plugging away on the Linen Stitch Scarf.

The Totoro Blanket has been finished and a pic with baby is now up on RS’s Rav.

Screen Apnea

The book RS was talking about is actually called Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Made to Stick is another book of theirs.

Video game talk abounds. RS talks about an iPad app which is actually called Highrise Heroes.

TK has been playing Drakengard on the PS2.

Best things about the holidays:
– Egg nog lattes
– Looking at the Christmas tree without your glasses on

TK is joansing to play Epic Mickey 2 for the Wii.

We discuss the pros and cons of signing up for Harry Potter Knit Crochet House Cup on Rav. We successfully talk each other into signing up again. 🙂