Day 11 of Hadrian's Wall Walk

And that's supposed to be green?

The News
Last week I said I had some news.Well, it's official. Today Jessamy got her contract for her first paid post-graduate job!And, it's in Edinburgh, my favorite city!It's a contract job, for ten months, which is a pretty decent chunk of time. I'm moving there in January, after my trip home for Christmas.And I've heard there's a great yarn store there! Yay!

Girly socks?
What do you think?I'm going to knit some socks for my brother for Christmas, and I showed him this pattern as an example of cables, and he said he liked the pattern.Soooo. Do you think it would be too girly if I used this yarn?It's one of the ones I dyed with black bean.So far two nice twitter folks said no, one said it wouldn't be "to

Swirly hat
I decided to take a break from the gloves and work on a simple project, the swirly hat. Might not have gotten a great picture of the hat, but at east it's an interesting picture.

Where are all the feminist Romantic Comedies?
Jessamy and I watched the movie Wedding Planner last night (nothing else was on) and despite some big news (which I'll share about soon ...) it was all I could think of this morning. Despite the two main characters being together in the end (big surprise), it's not actually a happy ending. The J.Lo character is a nice person, the M.M. character is not.So instead of trying to go back to sleep this morning, I was analyzing the love interest's faults, which goes as follows (hope you're not going to see the movie as I'm going to spoil it):1. He's wasteful. He throws out all the MnMs, except the brown ones.2. Not only does he throw them out, but he throws th

From sock to glove
Way back in September I had started a sock from Cookie A's Sock Innovation book. It's a 37 pattern repeat, but I had been amused by it for the few hours I had managed to actually work on it. It being a sock, I had decid