Molecular Knitting

This has not been the easiest summer. Just when I thought things might ease up a bit at work, I needed to rapidly get some data done to help a labmate get a paper ready for publication. And just as I was getting started with that, I found out my younger grandmother (only 96), Grandma [...]

Read Full Post »

Oy! M and I have been under the gun at work: papers to get ready to submit and data for grants to acquire. Oy! I didn’t mean to be away for so long, but I’m still catching my breath. At least these were all good things to be doing as a research biochemist, but it [...]

Read Full Post »

Before we discuss red, May and jam, I want to tell you that Friday is M’s Birthday! Yay! I won’t tell you his age, except to say that the number is the answer to what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything. If you are inclined, you should wish him a happy day [...]

Read Full Post »

Before we tour my bead room, a note to new commenters to the blog. I love everyone’s comments, except for all the spam I have been getting. Therefore, if you haven’t commented here before, your comment will require my approval before it goes up. If you want anyone else to see your comment, I suggest [...]

Read Full Post »

Mannequin heads kind of creep me out. I learned this about myself while browsing the 100s upon 100s of mannequin heads available on ebay last week. But I wanted a head to model hats. Originally I thought I wanted a glass head, but they were super creepy, and no one listed the head circumference. Most [...]

Read Full Post »

I thought I’d let my sock WIPs do the talking here. Warning: they’re a little disgruntled. Hi! I’m the sock on the left. Aren’t I just a multi-colored dream?! I’m knit out of Handmaiden Casbah in Dandelion, so I’m soft too with 10% cashmere. I’m divine, but I’m a single sock! What’s the problem you [...]

Read Full Post »

This past weekend M went to his first baby shower! He was not sanguine going in. He had heard horror stories of games involving diapers and smushed up candy bars, but I assured him that that would not happen at a co-ed shower, especially one for Meghan and Ben. And I was right. He got [...]

Read Full Post »

Did you know that of the 7000+ colors the human eye can see over 3000 of them are greens? We can see more shades and tones of green than any other color because the wavelengths of greens are in the middle of the “visible” spectrum. I put the visible in quotes, because many insects and [...]

Read Full Post »

My sporadic blogging means I have been wearing FOs out and about without ever blogging them. Very bad form, I know. But let me show you one of my favorite FOs of the more recent past, the Milkweed Shawl designed by Laura Chau of Cosmicpluto Knits! I wore it on a blustery day this past [...]

Read Full Post »

I just cast-off a top-secret knitting project, which I can’t as yet show you. So, I thought I’d share some photos I’ve taken with the small Canon ELPH camera that I keep in my purse. I bought it with some birthday money last fall, when I realized that out-and-about I often wanted to take a [...]

Read Full Post »