Really, I must be some kind of saint. I’ve gone and knitted something for someone else again. And not only that, I did it so that playing WoW would be more comfortable for him…

A few weeks ago, when I’d just cast off the blanket, Mr C asked for a pair of fingerless gloves that he could wear at the computer to keep his hands warm while retaining dexterity. He wanted something with separated fingers, and chose some plain green yarn from a selection I offered. He mentioned that he liked red too. I agreed, went in search of a pattern, and ended up here.

I found the Hexagloves pattern on Ravelry and couldn’t resist. The mittens were gorgeous, used interesting construction and were loaded with wordplay potential (WoW, hex, casting and so on…) and I just happened to have some Noro Kureyon sock in my stash. In my defence, I did try making them with separated fingers but the number of stitches available just wasn’t enough to comfortably fit big man hands. The gloves themselves (I made the M/L size) are a perfect fit though and I’m really happy with how they turned out.

Find the Ravelry details here.

Rabbit and the Moon from Leonie Connellan on Vimeo.

Back in March, I was part of a wonderful group show called lots of people have what you have, curated by Anusha Kenny at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University. The show has recently been reviewed in Un Magazine. You can download the PDF and read the review on page 42 (listed as page 79 in the actual magazine.)

Considering that I had a dream about Neil Gaiman last night (no, not that kind of dream), and you can’t actually see the full embroidered Sandman: Endless Nights quote talked about in the article from any of my text book pictures, I feel compelled to post it:

He did not create the path you walk. But the movements of atoms and galaxies are in his book, and he sees little difference between them.
It is all in his book. One day he will lay it down, when the book is done, and what comes after that is still unwritten.

Destiny continues to walk.

He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.

This one’s courtesy of PZ.

I’ve once again entered the weird and wonderful world of podcasting. I must say, it’s a helluva lot easier and more enjoyable with a bunch of other (enormously fun) people in the room.

This one’s all about our fair Melbourne town. Check it out — Macabre Melbourne.

What’s your irrational fear? I’m kind of repulsed by stickers, especially on fruit.

DIY: El-cheapo macro ring light

A couple of weeks ago, Jenny Hart posted a challenge on the Sublime Stitching blog to make a micro-monogrammed cushion. As I was thinking about what thread I could use to make the Smallest Monogram Ever, I figured the finest available was my hair. So I pulled out the longest silver bits* I could find and got started. I was looking at the Coraline film website around the same time, getting inspired and simultaneously freaked out by all the ridiculously tiny knitting. I suddenly knew this had to be a Creepy Coraline Cushion. I like to think she made it from scavenged scraps while locked up by Other Mother.

(For size reference, see my Twitter365 pic from yesterday.)

*Oddly, for a 29 year old, finding hairs that were long enough was much harder than finding silver ones. I think I’m well over 50% grey at this point. Luckily it suits me well — sometimes customers at work ask me how I got my hair to look like this so that they can replicate it… I tell them I grew it.